Tag: infant

How to Help Your Baby Adjust to a New Home

How to Help Your Baby Adjust to a New Home

Just like adults, babies can get nervous and overwhelmed when things change. Everything to babies is new, and moving to a different home can quickly become overstimulation central. The last thing you need during a stressful move is a fussy baby who won’t seem to 

15 Helpful Items to Pack When Traveling with a Toddler

15 Helpful Items to Pack When Traveling with a Toddler

Traveling with a little one is no easy task.  After surviving over 15 flights with our one-year-old, I have come up with a list of 15 items to pack when traveling with a toddler that have made our trips more comfortable, efficient, and enjoyable.  I 

Flying with an Infant:  15 Tips to Make It Easier

Flying with an Infant: 15 Tips to Make It Easier

Preparing to take a flight with an infant is no easy task.  Chulengo joined us on over a dozen round-trip flights in his first ten months of life.  Because we moved when Chulengo was only seven months old, we took many trips to our new 

Freebie: Travel Packing List For a Baby

Freebie: Travel Packing List For a Baby

Getting ready to take a trip with your infant? Time for a vacation? Use this packing list to help make preparing for your trip a breeze!

15 Baby Registry Items That Have Lasted Beyond The First Year

15 Baby Registry Items That Have Lasted Beyond The First Year

When we were expecting Chulengo, we lived in a small apartment.  So, when we put together a list of baby registry items, I focused on tools that were going to help us out in the long run.  Lucky that I did, because although we have 

6 Books You’ll Love to Read to Your Toddler

6 Books You’ll Love to Read to Your Toddler

Have you ever read a book to your child and they prompt you to read it again?  And again?  And again?  If you get lucky, your little one picks a book that is enjoyable to read over and over.  But, what happens when the book 

Review:  Ikea Antilop High Chair

Review: Ikea Antilop High Chair

I stumbled upon this high chair during a late night online research session to find something for Chulengo to sit in during meal time.  I had initially put a $300+ high chair on my registry and had it fulfilled.  But I returned that high chair 

Crucial Breastfeeding Advice for Expectant and New Mamas

Crucial Breastfeeding Advice for Expectant and New Mamas

Let me preface this note with this:  when it comes to feeding your baby, you have to do what is right for you.  If breastfeeding works for you, Great!  If formula feeding works for you, Great!  There is no shame in doing what you feel 

5 Essential “NON-BABY” Items You Need for Your Baby

5 Essential “NON-BABY” Items You Need for Your Baby

I love to find multiple purposes for items in my house.  I use a vase under the kitchen sink to store dishwasher pods.  I use binder clips to keep food items fresh.  I even have a bean bag chair in Chulengo’s playroom that is full 

Review:  Dock-a-Tot Deluxe

Review: Dock-a-Tot Deluxe

Pros Lightweight, breathable fabric that comes in fun prints. The cover is machine-washable. Provided an environment where Chulengo slept through the night. Customer service is excellent.  One side of our dock-a-tot seemed a little squishy, compared to when we had first purchased it.  I contacted