As if someone breaking into your home isn’t enough, imagine discovering a strange woman breastfeeding your child. Yeah. You read that right. As Huffington Post reports, a South Dakota mom was startled to find a woman she didn’t know breastfeeding her child in her bedroom. Um WHAAAA? I think I’d prefer to be tied up [...]

I know firsthand the fear of becoming pregnant at 17-years-old. Except I didn’t keep my baby. I had an abortion It’s something I don’t think I’ll ever come to terms with. Especially now that I have children. And honestly, in a way, I kind of think what I did was worse than what a teen [...]

Introducing a newborn to The Dog Of The House (yes, all caps) is a tricky business, at best. Try introducing a newborn baby to two frisky Labrador Retrievers used to running the show. Yikes! A new video of an introduction between baby and dog is making the internet rounds. Although, unlike my dogs, who were [...]

I was watching my sweet two-year-old Violet read a book to herself today.  Well, her version of reading, anyway.  I watched her babble nonsense words while turning pages of her little book and just broke down bawling. Henry is just over a week old, and so far, fingers crossed, everything is going great.  With Henry.  [...]

Dr. Susan Hyman, a pediatrician and autism expert at the University of Rochester Medical Center, says that it is becoming increasingly clear that autism and related disorders are not one disease but a collection of “similar symptoms caused by different things, stemming from a complex interaction of environmental and genetic factors.” And the more researchers [...]

If you’ve got a newborn, you know parenting isn’t always a dream.  A recent study by Iftikhar Mirza, sleep scientist at Silentnight bed company, says that parents of infants miss out on 912 hours of much-needed sleep, based on a minimum of 5 hours a night, before their child turns 2. Effectively, that’s six months worth [...]

Babies tend to spend a lot of time with their faces just inches from the floor. Whether they are scooting, crawling or just hanging out on a play mat, a baby placed on the floor is a baby who cannot fall to the floor.  But while floor play may indeed be the safest play, it [...]