As a first-time parent with a obsession with product ratings that I realize should be questioned, I spent an absurd amount of my pregnancy researching baby gear. I needed the most reliably secure swaddles, the perfect newborn bathtub and a musical mobile that was guaranteed to change my life.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
In this episode, we’re talking with Angela Garbes, the author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy. Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
If you’re a parent, you’ve been there. All the rocking, patting and rounds of “Old McDonald” in the world won’t stop your baby’s misery. After weeks of sleepless nights, you think the child might need to be exorcised, but then it turns out she’s just getting new teeth.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
If your baby has a diaper leak in the middle of the night, the traditional options have been to 1) replace the crib sheet with a clean one in the rare case your sleep-deprived brain has remembered to keep a spare, or 2) do laundry and sob. (You can’t just drape any old blanket on […]
I loved singing lullabies to my daughter. As a musical theater geek who suddenly had a captive audience (one that was physically incapable of walking out on me), how could I not? At nap time, bed time, really any time, I’d croon my own renditions of familiar classics. A couple standouts: “Don’t Cry For Me […]
Recently, I talked to women about what it was like to be pregnant and uninsured. Shortly after my story was published, Reyhan Harmanci, an editor over at Topic, mentioned that she was billed a little over $6,000 for services rendered during her hospital stay. The bills were in her recently delivered infant’s name: Read more… […]
If you have a baby, and if something is wrong with that baby (something always seems wrong), somebody will suggest that you take your baby to a chiropractor. Perhaps you will hear this recommendation even when nothing is wrong. Friends, do not take your baby to the chiropractor.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
Small amounts of peanut protein can stave off peanut allergies, according to a landmark 2015 trial that found this approach reduced allergies by 80 percent in susceptible kids. You can now buy expensive peanut powders for your baby, but you know what works at least as well? A 99 cent snack called Bamba.Read more… Continue […]
It would be terrifying if baby wipes caused food allergies, right? Good thing we have zero evidence of that (phew). A recent study was reported as if this is the answer to why everybody’s allergic to peanuts, but guess what? The study didn’t prove that. And it didn’t involve baby wipes. It didn’t even involve […]
What’s better than getting to see incredible animals up close? Getting to see incredible, adorable baby animals up close! These little bundles of joy, which can be found in zoos all over the country and world, have got me singing like K-Ci & JoJo, “Baby baby, baby baby, baby baby, baby baby, baby baby…”Read more… […]
I used to do the ninja escape. Sitting on the glider in my baby’s room, I’d nurse her until her eyelids slowly shut, and then I’d carefully, carefully place the time-bomb of a child into her crib and creep out the door. I’d exhale in relief and give my husband a silent high five, holding […]
In movies, immediately after a mother gives birth, a nurse places a pristine newborn in her arms. In real life, however, babies usually look more Alien 3 than Pampers ad as they enter the world—their heads are misshapen, their faces resemble grumpy old men, and they’re covered in a white film. The traditional protocol…Read more… […]
New parenthood comes with an endless list of things you never would have imagined to be cause for panic. Honey. The kitty litter box. Soft bedding. Baby monitors used as spy cams. Here’s one more to add to the list: Your own hair.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
It seems like a parenting rite of passage: Trimming your baby’s nails for the first time, and failing at it.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
New parents hear the advice often: You need to talk to your baby! A lot! The book SuperBaby proclaims 30,000 words a day is the magic number for optimal language success. One landmark study found that kids who heard 45 million words by age three later scored the highest in reading and math. There’s even […]
I won’t sugarcoat this. Trying to work while taking care of a baby is usually a mess. You’re exhausted. You can’t formulate coherent thoughts. You feel guilty all the time because you’re thinking about your baby while you work, and your work while you parent. You rely on that Almighty Nap, but it’s unpredictable, and…Read […]
The bun has been in the oven for nine months, and now it’s toasted golden brown. Time to get it out!Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
In science, replication is important. One experiment can be a fluke, but if you get the same results over and over, you know you’re getting close to the truth. So when a DNA app called BabyGlimpse said it could predict what my children would look like, I was ready. I have three children, so I […]
I do not have a baby, but I have a sous-vide circulator (the light of my life), and I assume that other people who own sous-vide circulators might one day procreate. (Or maybe they already have!) For these offspring-having, sous-vide-savvy home cooks, I have great news: you can use your sous-vide setup to warm breast…Read […]
In those early days of new parenthood, a trip to the doctor’s office for a baby check-up can feel like a grand occasion. Aside from giving you a reason to put on pants and interact with real-life adults, it’s an opportunity to finally get some quantifiable data on this tiny being whose existence of eating, […]
