tips and tricks

My 8 week old has never let me put her down for a nap longer than 12 minutes. Is that even a sleep cycle? We’ve tried in a swaddle on her back, on her tummy supervised, in a swing, in a rock n play. I wait until she’s very asleep and without fail she wakes up after 12 minutes. We’ve just been...

I am on this sub because I have 8 grandbabies (youngest is 4 weeks) and I’m trying to stay up to date with current modern thinking. Allow me to encourage you new moms in this: today one of my daughters (40) was very sick. I took her to the emergency room. We spent the whole day there. On the way...

My 2 weeks old has a lot of trouble burping sometimes and it’s causing her gas and I hate to think and hear that she’s uncomfortable. So I need the best tips n tricks to helping baby burp. I sit her on my knee and hold under her chin while I pat n rub her back. I’ve also done over the shoulder...

Do you know about Dolly Parton's Imagination library ? You sign up and they send you a children's book every month from the time they are born until they're 5 y/o... for free. It doesn't cost anything and it's available to everyone. They just want you to read to your kids. It looks like it's...

1)The basics of alphabet/phonics, digraphs, and blending. 2) The importance of transitions and how to work them and how to contribute in a positive way to the eg,this article was useful to me. 3) Strategies, or just being prepared, for after school restraint collapse. Lmk yours in the...

How are y’all managing to get in tummy time? My son is a month old and his wake windows are slim. Either he wakes up hungry and fussy or we wake him up to eat. We do a diaper change first because if we do it after eating he will just spit up everywhere and want to eat again after anyways. After...

Hi all! I am the FTM of a 4 month old. I never wanted kids, but my husband did. We did the whole IVF process and in December welcomed our Son who is the epitome of an Angel on earth. In any event, we are seeing his family next week and I already know they are going to badger us for number 2...

Update: he’s here!! What a crazy 48 hours it’s been. I’m so in love with him already. Thank you all SO MUCH for all your words of wisdom and advice. I read every single one of them and truly learned something new from each. Tonight is the first night at home… little dude is fed, diaper changed...

help!! im a FTM to an almost 3.5 week old, and he is just SO mucus-y. our ped said to give him saline drops and use the blue balloon dropper thing to suck mucus out of his nose, but it doesn’t sit much it his nose!!! occasionally we will get like a bigger booger out that i can use a q-tip on the...

First of all, we don’t let our kids watch any youtube unsupervised. But we have started running into problems at other kids houses. So our oldest (7) comes home and says he wants to watch Poppy’s Playtime (Five Nights at Freddy’s) and Cartoon Mouse () and similar things, and I am now thinking I...

I enjoyed it, I laughed. No spoilers here. But what you need to know: Save your money if you are looking for a funny summer movie that works for girls of all ages. This is more like an indie film tackling a serious complicated topic. If your kid is too young for “Interstellar”, see something...