As a new parent, date nights can feel like a long-lost luxury. Reconnect with your partner using our simple date night ideas for new moms and dads.

Struggling with body positivity postpartum? Read more.

A split night is when your baby is up for a long time in the middle of the night and has a hard time falling back asleep. It usually has to do with a sleep imbalance during the day and can usually be easily fixed.

Making a pregnancy to-do list? Here are the things I wish I did.

If sleeping next to our babies was inherently dangerous, many species, including humans, would have gone extinct long ago. Parents and babies have slept in close proximity since the beginning of time; only in fairly recent years have parents been encouraged to distance themselves from their babies during the night.

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How are your new year’s resolutions going, mama? Read more.

Given all of the persistent medical advice that was emerging in the mid 1900’s, parents came to see feeding as the enemy of sleep and were encouraged not to respond to any hunger cues given by their baby at any time the parent defined as nighttime. This ultimately led to a decline in a breastfeeding mothers’ milk supply, thus prompting the need for formula supplementation, and eventually exclusive formula use.

Have you ever thought about where it all began? The pressure to sleep train, and all of the guidance that you receive from your pediatrician to avoid night feedings and other “sleep crutches?” This two-part blog post looks at where it all began and provides some historical context for how and why sleep training became a highly sought-after technique in infant care. 

How Can Bedsharing Be Protective against tummy sleeping? Read more.

Around four months is when your baby’s sleep cycles change. However, this can happen anytime between months 2-6. First, a basic explanation of sleep architecture. Why does the 4 month regression happen at all?

A shower in those newborn days was not helpful or relaxing for me. If my child wasn’t screaming because he was legitimately starving, I was taunted by phantom cries. Getting into the shower led my heart rate to increase and it was a mad dash until I was out. No amount of breathing exercises made a shower enjoyable. What was relaxing for me was holding my baby, getting outside, and being in absolute silence.

If you follow the world of crunchy moms and Montessori babies on social media it’s hard to have not stumbled across the Pikler Triangle. It’s neutral colors fit stylishly into many a playroom- but are these climbing frames really worth the hype and the price tag? 

One morning I decided to give an episode of RHOP a try and was instantly hooked. I immediately binged and what I didn’t know was that this show was exactly what I needed to start healing the pieces of myself left wounded by pregnancy loss.

One morning I decided to give an episode of RHOP a try and was instantly hooked. I immediately binged and what I didn’t know was that this show was exactly what I needed to start healing the pieces of myself left wounded by pregnancy loss.

How many of you thought you had to swaddle your baby? I was definitely under the impression that swaddling was standard practice for babies. I assumed it's just something you do and that all babies love it. Of course, I learned early on in my parenting journey that those types of sweeping generalizations are not realistic or helpful.

One morning I decided to give an episode of RHOP a try and was instantly hooked. I immediately binged and what I didn’t know was that this show was exactly what I needed to start healing the pieces of myself left wounded by pregnancy loss.

There’s nothing wrong with a pacifier in my opinion. It provides one of the best forms of sensory input and soothing mechanisms for a baby: sucking! Many lactation experts will say that it’s best to wait until breastfeeding has been well established until introducing a pacifier, which can be up to 3-6 weeks, so always follow the advice of the Lactation Consultant you’re working with.

When a new baby is born, so is a new set of parents. And along with the bliss and excitement of a new baby also comes the exhaustion and huge adjustment period for the parents. Before you run over to meet a newborn baby or bombard the new parents with lots of questions, read this handy guide to discover how you can best support new parents.

Baby showers place so much emphasis on material things for baby, which is wonderful and needed, but we all know new moms need some love as well. Did your friends or loved ones get anything just for you? 

Why are open-ended toys the key to independent play, and how do you choose the best toys for each age group? I’ll show you all my favorites and explain why less is more!