Two geeky girls’ guide to the first year of motherhood.
From the category archives:
My friend Deb is due to have a baby next month. It’s her first; she will be a rookie mom.
Since the gender of the baby is a surprise, shopping was more challenging than I had imagined. I settled on a Bumbo Baby Seat because I think it’s a clever invention, and because I appreciate that [...]
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DIY mamas-to-be and wannabes: This is one easy project that will give you bang for your $5.
When shopping for receiving blankets, it seems that there are 3 kinds of totally WRONG kinds of blankets: cute but stretchy, too small, or not square. Uggh! For a true Harvey-Karp-style swaddle, you need a biggish piece of flannel [...]
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How cute is this series of photos from Hey Jen Renee? She created a printout for each month of her daughter’s first year and took a photo of her baby girl “holding” it.
At the end of the year, she printed the twelve photos and placed them in an accordion fold-style photo album so that they [...]
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Did you know that you might have a puppet theater in your child’s room already?
Materials needed:
Crib
Sheet
Dolls or stuffed animals
Preschooler with a repertoire of songs
Any combination of parent, baby, and toddler to serve as audience
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Scrounge around for some pictures of you and your mate together from when you first started out dating and wooing. Make a collage and put it on the fridge to remember your pre-baby lives.
It can be as easy as tacking up a few old favorites that have been sitting in a drawer (bungee-jumping, [...]
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This sounds like a self-help suggestion, but it’s actually really fun and the best part is trading your list with your friends and/or spouse if you can convince them to do it.
Heather challenged me to do make a list of 50 things I like to do, and then she went all over-achiever on [...]
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‘member those candy hearts that say “Me Too” or “Love Ya”? They’re called conversation hearts. A few years ago, Rookie Moms reader, Veronica, suggested that we use our babies to make cards with this Valentine’s Day theme for our family members this year:
Pay homage to the throwback days when you made Valentine’s for every [...]
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Last week I saw a post with 25 ideas for scrapbook pages for your baby. It reminded me to share three ideas with you for second children. We don’t want them totally neglected in the baby book department.
Holding a framed photo. My friend Emily snapped this picture of her baby boy Desmond at 6 months [...]
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Smart tip from a reader!
Leah from Brooklyn, NY says that her local nursing bra store will convert any bra into a nursing bra. It’s a small local store called ‘Your Top Priority‘ . If you buy the bra there its $5.00; if you bring in from elsewhere its $6.50.
Leah says that she shops at a [...]
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While you are reading this, I am driving from Yosemite back to my house in Berkeley. Therefore, I wrote this post in advance. We bloggers can be sneaky that way.
I’m surely suffering a little case of family-gatherings-mostly-take-place-indoors-especially-when-you’ve-rented-a-cabin-in-the-winter, so I bring you a few thematically linked posts. All intended to help fight the Stir Crazies.
Fussy [...]
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… or How to Host a Clothes Swap Party.
It’s almost January, so it’s time to plan another clothing swap! Whitney totally hates this photo series but I love it. To be fair, she was trying on outfits from the “pass-through” pile.
We’ve mentioned this idea here and there, but maybe it’s time to full-on tell you [...]
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Here’s a gift idea. Make a personalized version of the game Memory. You know, where you turn over two tiles to try to make a match. Each time you make a match, you remove the tiles until you have matched all the pairs.
I made this for my grandparents one Christmas. It [...]
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The Rookie Mom's Handbook: 250 Activities to Do with (and Without!) Your Baby
