Category: Baby Business

9 Months and Counting

It’s funny how the 9 months baby spends inside your tummy growing, changing, developing, kicking, flailing and getting ready for life seem like an eternity yet those same 9 months making up the beginning of …

Children These Days

I’m sure you’ve seen it.  I’ve seen it many times before and it’s started making re-appearances on my Facebook newsfeed: the “How did we survive childhood?” thing that talks about all the things we used …

Another Day in the Life

I chronicled A Day in the Life of a mommy a few months ago and almost 8 months later, not much has changed in my daily doings: 6:30 Nursing Doodle and checking e-mail 6:45 Making breakfast 7:00 …

Working it Out

When Honeybun (ah, my sweet little Honeybun…) was a baby, the “cry it out” method was a mystery to me.  It wasn’t that I was against it, per se, it was that I couldn’t see …

Teething Troubles

When I was up at 2:30 with my teething monster baby this morning (and 3:00 and 3:30 and 4:00), my mind was swimming with ideas of what to write about.  But now, in my sleep …
Being A Mommy

Being A Mommy

All Beyond Mommying’s posts on the reality of being a mommy: All the mixed emotions of mommyhood: “Sometimes” Ongoing mommy firsts: “Always a First Timer” The weird reality of time as a mommy: “Fast Forward in Slow Motion” …

Finished with Night Feeding

A few weeks ago (before Christmas) this happened: Doodle woke up at 3:13.  Hubby went in to put him back to sleep.  Hubby came back frustrated at 3:35ish.  I went in to put him back …
Learning about Lactation

Learning about Lactation

I took Sugarplum and Doodle out for lunch yesterday.  Nothing fancy, just the type of place where you order at the counter and they bring your food to the table (I had a BOGO coupon, …

No Shame

Something happens when you become a mom: All of a sudden you no longer care about what others think of you.  In a way, you become shameless. In actuality, it starts before you’re really even …
Always a First Timer

Always a First Timer

I know to many people I may look like a mommy expert.  I look like I’ve got it all together and like I know exactly what I’m doing.  Some people may think “she’s on her …