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So, you scored a positive on your pregnancy test? First of all, congratulations! Having a baby is incredibly exciting, stressful, and every emotional color in between, especially if this is your first one. A common concern is being adequately prepared. Well, we've done the leg work for you so you can have peace of mind knowing you're fully prepared and ready to welcome your little one into the world. Swing baby, swing 4moms mamaRoo 4 Bluetooth-Enabled High-Tech Baby Swing Staff Favorite This high-tech baby swing features five unique motions and speeds designed to mimic your soothing movement, four built-in sounds,...

Hope you've had a good week. It was the first week of our summer holidays and we embarked on a big job - sorting out Pierre's bedroom. He's about to turn eleven and I don't think we've had a big clearout and redesign since he was about five, so it was long overdue. We've been pulling out bags and bags of toddler toys and dropping them off at a local toy store who gives them away to charity. It's pretty much operational now but still needs a good hoover (another one !) and there are a few cupboards and boxes...

Make Your Children Feel Better About a Move by Designing Their Room Moving is a big change for kids and adults alike. Children may not always be excited about moving. Change is a part of the moving process. Your child will need time to process that their life is changing before the move begins. You may want to sit down with your children and explain why you are moving.  Keeping your children involved in the moving process will make them feel better about the move. Some kids need an incentive to get excited about moving. Allowing kids to design their...

Before I get started on this post I want to preface it by saying it does not bother me at all when people ask me if we are going to have another child. I choose to look at it from the standpoint people must think we’re doing a pretty good job with Otto that we should have more. I’m writing this from the perspective of when we answer maybe not. We sometimes get one of the following responses:don’t you want to have friends for Otto? don’t you want to experience a normal pregnancy? what if something happens to Otto then...

It's no secret that hearing our kids cry makes us uncomfortable. Just think about how anxious you feel when your little one tears up without an obvious reason. We know that a newborn's main way to communicate is to cry, yet we still look at it as something to be "fixed." Once that infant becomes a walking, talking toddler, we sometimes expect them to process emotions the way we do, rather than the way they have always done: through crying.In fact, studies have found that our brains are hard-wired to have an instant reaction to a crying child, making us...