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I felt lost as a new mother— babywearing helped me find myself again

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My first baby and I were alone in our Brooklyn apartment during a particularly cold spring with yet another day of no plans. My husband was back at work after a mere three weeks of parental leave (what a joke!) and all my friends were busy with their childless lives—which kept them too busy to stop by or check in (making me, at times, feel jealous). It was another day in which I would wait for baby to fall asleep for nap number one so I could shower and get ready to attempt to get out of the house together...

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67 Creative Baby Costumes for Halloween and More

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Whenever a family has a new baby, it’s almost a must that the parents take hundreds of pictures of them to have some form of remembering them by, and this includes photos of them in creative baby costumes. Because of that, the holidays are an excellent time for taking pictures and dressing up your little angel as something cute and creative, especially during Halloween. Well, parents want the best for their children, and if you want to be very creative in 2021 when it comes to your baby’s Halloween costume, we went ahead and compiled a list of over 70...

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The Best Baby Gifts, According to Child-Development Experts

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While developmental milestones vary wildly, from the moment they’re born, babies are learning about the crazy, bright, loud new world around them. They focus their vision and track objects. They reach out. They touch and grasp things. They coo and repeat sounds. So when choosing the best baby gifts, pick ones that that aren’t merely cute but help babies make sense of what they see and hear. The best newborn gifts and baby gifts aren’t dry clean-only cashmere receiving blankets, but everything from rattles and teethers to board books — whatever encourages babies to learn about colors and sounds and...

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What to do when your baby or toddler hates being in the car seat

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When my daughter was a baby, every car ride ended in tears—hers, and often mine. She could only entertain herself for a few minutes before starting to wail. It was so bad that for a while, we tried to just stay close to home, going to local playgrounds instead of meeting friends across the city. Unfortunately, some kids just hate their car seats. “My daughter screamed every time she was in the car as a baby,” says Toronto parenting coach Sarah Rosensweet. “I remember her screaming, and then I would get so upset, I was almost sweating.”  But we can’t...

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These aren’t the Fisher-Price Little People you grew up with–they’re much cooler

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Move over Old MacDonald. There's a new batch of Fisher-Price Little People in town and we love them so much we might just keep them for ourselves. (Sorry kids!)After successful launches of pop culture icons like Run DMC, Ralphie and fam from A Christmas Story and Dunder-Mifflin all-stars from The Office, Fisher-Price is making all of my lady power dreams come true with two new sets that I'm trying very hard to not write about in all caps because THAT'S HOW EXCITED I AM. Just in time for the holiday season, their Inspiring Women set includes the heroes Amelia Earhart,...

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