Category: Baby Business

This morning with a mountain of laundry to do, and a ravenous newborn, I decided to let the kids manage the blog.  Here’s what they have to say about their new baby brother: Honeybun: Pipsqueak is very …

According to child psychologist Charlotte Reznick who started an internet firestorm a few weeks ago, it’s apparently no longer appropriate to kiss one’s child on the lips because the lips are an erogenous zone and …

My saga of having too much breastmilk with Doodle and now with Pipsqueak hasn’t really gotten any easier.  I thought I had taken care of Pipsqueak’s troubles with block feeding (feeding twice per side) as …

Well, we survived our first Disney weekend with 4 kids and while hubby did all the “big kid” rides with the girls, I was stuck with a lot of time on my own with the …

Call me crazy but I’ve never let having a baby stop me from going about my life.  Sure, I try to take the time necessary to recover and do my best to take it easy …

This is my diaper bag, my glorious Irish Rugby backpack that we have toted all over since we left Dublin over three years ago (we actually bought it at the airport giftshop the day we …

I’m a half-crunchy mom. I prefer to give birth in my bathtub but am not anti-vax or against mainstream medicine. I breastfeed well past a year but don’t buy only organic or GMO free. I …

It’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed over time: with each baby added to the family, I’m a little later getting places.  Now with 4, I think I’m destined to always be late getting places and it’s …

Doodle was such an easy-going baby, for a while.  And then he became a screaming, raging lunatic like Sugarplum.  Hubby and I often talk about when the switch happened and we aren’t really able to …