It’s understandable that pregnant women focus their planning on the impending delivery: whether it’s going to be a C-section or vaginal birth, at home or in a hospital, smooth jazz or total screaming shitshow. You might even have made up a detailed “birth plan,” complete with instructions for pain meds, lighting…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
This week’s study on alcohol in pregnancy got spun both ways: light drinking is totally safe according to some some news stories, a definite no-no in others. Sorry, but this one’s a buzzkill. Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
Last week, I saw another furniture recall: Ameriwood Home recalled 1.6 million dressers after a four-year-old child was injured in an accident involving a tippy dresser. Last year, Ikea recalled 29 million dressers after at least six children were killed by dressers that fell over. If you own one of the Ameriwood…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
Feeding a baby small amounts of peanuts may reduce their chances of developing a peanut allergy. The FDA recently announced that peanut-containing foods can trumpet this claim on their labels, and you’ll see it soon on an odd product called Hello Peanut. Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
Childbirth injuries are no fun. For one, these are our tenderest bits we’re talking about here, places we generally want to be treated with kindness and respect. But what do hefty little babies know about kindness and respect? Not much. They’re coming out, by hook or by crook, and it can feel like they actually […]
The neck float is the inflatable swan of the baby world. All over Instagram, you can find infants chillin’ in them (sans the cans of LaCroix). It’s a little creepy, but mostly adorable.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
If you’re pregnant or have a newborn, you’re probably getting lots of advice! What infant straightjacket is best for swaddling, what “drowsy but awake” looks like, why “sleep regression” might be a term invented just to mess with you. Here’s another piece of advice that may or may not make you feel better: Exercise…Read more… […]
Have you ever eavesdropped on other parents on the playground? Don’t they sound, rather, er, wishy-washy sometimes? “Sophie, we don’t throw sand at our friends, okay?” Or, “Declan, it’s time to go now, okay?” Or, “Madge, leave that dog poop alone, okay? Poop is yucky, okay?”Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
“Try not to drop your baby,” said pediatrician Tricia Jean Gold, who practices at Tribeca Pediatrics in New York City, when I call to ask her advice.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
My wife and are I about to have a baby, which is great! But as most new parents quickly learn, modern babies seem to need a lot of accessories—crib, changing surface, diapers, car seat, stroller, and, of course, a baby monitor (among many other things).Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
My wife and are I about to have a baby, which is great! But as most new parents quickly learn, modern babies seem to need a lot of accessories—crib, changing surface, diapers, car seat, stroller, and, of course, a baby monitor (among many other things).Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
My wife and are I about to have a baby, which is great! But as most new parents quickly learn, modern babies seem to need a lot of accessories—crib, changing surface, diapers, car seat, stroller, and, of course, a baby monitor (among many other things).Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
Congratulations, you just had a baby! As you adjust to life with a tiny new being who eats, sleeps, cries and poops on an endless loop, you’re gonna need some reinforcements. Luckily, your hospital may have you covered. Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
You’ve got problems, I’ve got advice. This advice isn’t sugar-coated—in fact, it’s sugar-free, and may even be a little bitter. Welcome to Tough Love.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
“So this happened and it NEVER happens,” Laura Galvin wrote in the Milky Mamas breastfeeding support group on Facebook. The mother of two in Lillington, North Carolina, posted a photo of the T-shirt she was wearing, which was soaked with breastmilk that had leaked through. She’s recently been pumping so much milk that…Read more… Continue […]
When you’re a parent, naptime is the second most-looked-forward-to moment of the day. It’s the hour (or two, or three, if you’re lucky) that you get to eat lunch, check email, do a chore or two, and maybe even rest yourself. That’s what makes the phrase “dropped nap” so horrifying: It means that a day […]
The maddening paradox of child care in this country is that day care and nannies are really expensive—costing at least more than in-state college tuition—and that child-care workers are generally poor. The domestic work industry is largely unregulated, and workers are vulnerable to exploitation, a direct consequence…Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
Diapers are those baby expensive you don’t think about when you have them for you kids, but stress about when you do need them. For Prime Day, Amazon is taking up to 60% off Babyganics and Seventh Generation diapers for newborns all the way up to a size 6. These diaper brands are made specifically […]
I’m from West Virginia, where to get from anywhere to anywhere you need to drive on winding mountain roads that have made generations of children throw up in the back seat. On a recent trip home to see my parents, we got off the highway, where the kids were pretty much okay. As we drove […]
Marijuana has a healthier image than many other drugs (or, depending on who you ask, alcohol), and it can ease symptoms like nausea that tend to crop up in pregnancy. But we are accumulating evidence that marijuana is probably not a great idea to use if you’re pregnant. In particular, the THC component can affect […]
