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Eating

Ideas for feeding your baby and yourself… these should be obvious, natural, easy… but they’re not always

Throw a debate-watching party

October 18, 2012

My fellow Americans, history is upon us. It’s an election year. If you have a newborn in the house, it can be like living under a rock for several months. But you can still be in on the fun. I suggest you throw a debate-watching party to reconnect with your childfree friends. You supply the [...]

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Activity #283: Bake a cookie (or three)

October 15, 2012

When Whitney was a brand-new-rookie-mom, I brought over a half-cooked lasagne and a carton of cookie dough balls from a specialty deli. I thought I was pretty darn smart. Unlike most other things I thought I knew before having a baby of my own, I was right about the cookies! You can bake them one [...]

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Ideas for feeding your baby and yourself… these should be obvious, natural, easy… but they’re not always

“I’m Never Going to Nurse Again”

October 11, 2012

Our friend Deborah offered to tell you the bittersweet (mostly sweet) story of weaning her second child minus the part about cabbage leaves. Thanks Deb! “I’m never gonna nurse again. Guilty boobs have got no pumping…” is what I sang this morning, to the tune of Careless Whisper by Wham!, when I nursed for the [...]

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Activity #293: Share a smoothie with your toddler

October 8, 2012

There are a couple things about milkshakes that Julian really liked when he was a toddler. Drinking with a straw is one of them. Watching me make it is the other part. What I liked about the smoothies I made him is that he was getting milk and the magic superfood blueberries at the same [...]

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Ideas for feeding your baby and yourself… these should be obvious, natural, easy… but they’re not always

Makin’ it: “Eat Your Greens” baby food from Weelicious

October 1, 2012

I just spent the last 15 minutes testing out this simple baby food recipe from weelicious: Eat Your Greens baby food puree so I could share it with you with some authority. I first saw it in my bloggy friend Catherine McCord’s new book: Weelicious: 140 Fast, Fresh, and Easy Recipes (which was sent to [...]

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Best meals to bring to new parents

September 19, 2012

When I was a recovering post-partum chick, all food gifts were gobbled up eagerly. Some of my favorite meals were the best just because they showed up hot and I didn’t have to do a darn thing. I can recall the perfectly-timed roast chicken from about a year ago; my mom had just left and [...]

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Ideas for feeding your baby and yourself… these should be obvious, natural, easy… but they’re not always

Checklist for pumping moms

September 7, 2012

Checklist for pumping moms: Pump. Double electric is terrific for daily pumpers; a hand pump might do the trick for occasional pumpers. Know your lifestyle, then choose. Bottles & Flanges. The flange is the funny funnel-shaped thing that goes on your breasts; most allow you to pump milk right into bottles and/or storage bags. Count [...]

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Rookie mom snapshot: Sabrina and Raffi at 10 months

September 5, 2012

My friend and fellow babycenter.com blogger, Sabrina, is the first-time mom to a nearly-one-year old baby boy named Raffi. She writes Rhodey Girl Tests about food, family, and fun. Her nickname RhodeyGirl started as a joke between RhodeyGirl and her husband Trig, AKA PhillyBoy. I caught up with Sabrina a few weeks ago. How old [...]

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Ideas for feeding your baby and yourself… these should be obvious, natural, easy… but they’re not always

Whining about weaning, the weight gain

September 4, 2012

I was kvetching on twitter the other day about how my middle is expanding while my rings are getting loose. What gives? Knowing I recently weaned, Annie from PhD in Parenting shared her brilliantly geektastic assessment of the calories and breastfeeding roller coaster. Though she doesn’t exactly explain why the gut is ample but the [...]

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Healthy snacks for little kids

August 20, 2012

I am sharing my views on healthy snacks for little ones courtesy of Mott’s Snack and Go Applesauce Pouches. Some time between breastfeeding and back-to-school, there’s a transition: a nursing baby can eat up to 12 times per day while an adult human generally has three meals per day with a snack or two thrown [...]

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Ideas for feeding your baby and yourself… these should be obvious, natural, easy… but they’re not always

I give up, whining about weaning

August 7, 2012

There are so many things I want to tell you while they are top-of-mind: how to throw a non-Pinterest-worthy first birthday party without feeling like a huge loser; my thoughts on attending the BlogHer conference; and finishing breastfeeding forever. Since my experience with weaning is a current obsession, I’m going to start there. Breastfeeding goal, [...]

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A highchair worth every penny

July 31, 2012

My red Tripp Trapp seat by Stokke is still being used by my five-year old on a daily basis. We bought it for her older brother, which means we have used it for every meal at home for at least six years. We love this thing. Since it’s the dead of summer for most of [...]

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