Recommendations

My favorite bouncer.

Yes, it’s another product review.  I just honestly have been so impressed by this bouncer that I had to share.   Someday I’m going to write an entry about pacifiers and breastfeeding, too, and then I think I’ll be all product-ed out. Fisher Price makes “rockers” that convert from a stationary bouncer to a sort of rocking chair for toddlers. …

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Recommendations

On swaddling and swaddlers.

(a swaddled, newborn E) So, I’ve had three little babies so far, and swaddled all of them to varying extents.  I’ve done blanket swaddles, which always make me nervous because it’s a blanket, which everyone knows you’re not supposed to have within 10 feet of a newborn, but I’ve mostly used the different swaddling products. Summer Infant SwaddleMe Microfleece, Green,…

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Mothering, Toddlers

Embrace the Chaos

Julie / February 23, 2011

Embrace the chaos.  I can’t tell you how often I find myself saying that, whether it’s to myself (usually), offhandedly to random strangers who stop me in the middle of a shopping trip to inquire how I “do it,” or to someone who is overwhelmed by children, be they mine or their own: embrace the chaos. Now, there’s a real…

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