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Pregnancy & Newborns

5 Comfortable Waterproof Baby Carriers Moms Love

In this post, we will go over the five absolute best waterproof baby carriers on the market. We had 4 babies in 5 years I have learned how vitally important it is to have a great baby carrier. I wasn’t even a wear-your-baby-all-the-time momma, but sometimes you need to just …

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Categories Babies, Pregnancy & Newborns, Recommended Resources & Stuff We Love
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50 Top Baby Registry Must Haves [Printable Checklist]

In this post, you will get all the details on popular baby registry items and learn whether or not it’s a “must have” for your baby registry. Creating a baby registry is understandably overwhelming because, well, you’ve never had a baby before! It’s so hard to know what you’re really …

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Categories Pregnancy & Newborns, Recommended Resources & Stuff We Love
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10 Unknown Reasons to Let Your Baby Sleep in Their Own Room From Birth

In this post, I will explain the problems with the new room sharing recommendation as well as 10 benefits of your baby sleeping in his own room from birth. We had 4 babies in 5 years (no multiples) – all with varying sleep personalities. And all 4 slept (primarily in …

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Categories Babies, Baby Sleep, Pregnancy & Newborns
2 under 2

12 Practical Tips for Surviving with 2 Under 2 [Plus a Big Hug]

In this post I will give you my 12 best tips for surviving with 2 under 2. Our first 2 kids are 17 months apart, and the first few months with our second baby were SO hard. I basically felt like, “WHAT DO YOU TINY PEOPLE NEED FROM ME AND …

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Categories Babies, Kid Activities, Motherhood Encouragement, Parenting Tips & Advice, Pregnancy & Newborns, Toddlers
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20 Must Haves for a Toddler & Newborn {2nd Baby List!}

If you’re going to have a toddler AND a newborn around soon, this list of recommended gear is specifically for you. We’ve had 2 kids under 2… 4 times!! Nothing about having a newborn and toddler is easy. But, a handful of these essential items might make wrangling those little …

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Categories Babies, Pregnancy & Newborns, Toddlers
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10 Specific Questions to Ask Insurance When Pregnant

Wondering what specific questions to ask your insurance company once you get pregnant!? You’re in the right place! Our first pregnancy was the first major health event we’d ever dealt with, thankfully. But, I had NO CLUE how pregnancy & insurance worked. Since then (that was 2012), we’ve had a …

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Categories Babies, Budgeting, Pregnancy & Newborns
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10 Important Things to Do Before Bringing Your First Baby Home

In this post, you’re going to learn most of what you need to know about bringing baby home from the hospital.  We’ve brought 4 babies home from the hospital, and we were definitely more prepared for those first few newborn weeks with the fourth than with the first. The first …

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Categories Babies, Pregnancy & Newborns
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Complete List of Things to Prepare Before Delivery of First Baby

Today, we’re going to discuss all the things to prepare before delivery of your first baby. There are so many things to consider: from knowing a good list of items required during delivery to more mental and emotional things to prepare before giving birth. Not to mention expecting the unexpected …

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Categories Babies, Pregnancy & Newborns
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13 Must Have Items for a Simple, Stylish Maternity Capsule Wardrobe

In this post, you’ll learn which 9 items to purchase in order to build a capsule maternity wardrobe on a tight budget. We had 4 babies in 5 years (no multiples!) while paying off debt AND living on one income. So, if you are looking for some tips on a …

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Categories Organize & Simplify, Pregnancy & Newborns
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7 Top Things to Do When You’re Preparing for Baby for First Time

Let’s be honest. The title of this post is ridiculous. Nothing could ever totally help you with preparing for baby. But, should you find yourself expecting a baby (or hoping for, adopting, or fostering a baby), there are a few things that might make the transition to mommy life just a …

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Categories Baby Sleep, Organize & Simplify, Pregnancy & Newborns
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The New Mom’s Complete Guide to Eat Play Sleep

First of all, if you are a new parent, CONGRATS! Kids are an awesome gift and you will sleep again. I promise!! This post is designed to help you understand the eat play sleep schedule you might have heard about. We’ve had 4 babies of varying sleep personalities and used …

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Complete New Mom’s Guide to Your Baby’s 4 Month Sleep Regression

There is an infamous 4 month sleep regression that happens sometime around when a baby is 4 months old. Coupled with typical postpartum exhaustion and/ or depression, it can be exhausting and overwhelming for even the seasoned mama. You can help your baby through this sleep regression and I plan …

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OMG! If you have a second baby on the way, read this!! Such good ideas for helping older siblings cope with the new baby - espeically if you'll have 2 under 2 or want toddler and newborn tips! #momlife #motherhood #parenting #toddlers #baby #newborn

11 Tips for Helping Older Siblings Cope with the New Baby (from a Mom of 4)

There’s an ongoing poll in my mom-friend circles about which transition is the hardest: Having your first kid, going from 1 to 2 kids, 2 to 3 kids or adding more kids after 3. Each transition is different but going from 1 to 2 kids is REALLY REALLY HARD! If …

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Categories Babies, Kid Activities, Parenting Tips & Advice, Pregnancy & Newborns, Preschoolers, Toddlers
Do you have a fussy newborn who has their days and nights mixed up? A baby schedule will make your baby so much happier? The secret is...

4 Simple Reasons Why Creating a Baby Schedule is Life Changing

After having 4 babies with totally different personalities and varying levels of “easy baby” to “hard baby,” (is that a spectrum??) I’m convinced you can get almost any healthy baby trained to sleep through the night and on a predictable schedule during the first few months (even weeks)… if you …

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34 Simple Ideas for How to Entertain Toddler with a Newborn

In this post, you will learn 34 tricks and tips for coping with a toddler and newborn, especially during baby-feeding times! We had 4 kids in 5 years, and the hardest part of every newborn (after the first) was always the toddler. The clingy, confused, barely verbal, highly active, giant, …

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Categories Babies, Kid Activities, Parenting Tips & Advice, Pregnancy & Newborns, Toddlers
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Sample Baby Schedules for the Entire First Year!

In this post, you’ll get sample baby schedules for various ages from your baby’s first year since it’s helpful to see what most babies need. I’ll also give lots of tips to help you think through how to get your baby on a schedule… ASAP! You can truly start our method from …

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Categories Babies, Baby Sleep, Pregnancy & Newborns
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10 Surprising Reasons to Start Sleep Training Your Newborn ASAP

There are a million articles, books, and blog posts about sleep training on the internet. With a million different thoughts and opinions. Much of parenting boils down to personal preference, and our personal preference has been to sleep train our 4 kids from birth. We recommend sleep training your newborn! …

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Categories Babies, Baby Sleep, Parenting Tips & Advice, Pregnancy & Newborns
Wondering what sleep training method is right for you? Are you pregnant and preparing for baby? These are amazing tips on why and how to sleep train your baby as a newborn.

How to Sleep Train with a Parent Led Method & Teach Your Newborn to Sleep Through the Night

There is a lot of advice about how to sleep train out there… everything from “dictate your baby’s life down to the minute” TO “my baby sleeps whenever they want and I never know what to expect.” We have taken what we call a holistic, parent-led approach in our sleep …

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Categories Baby Sleep, Parenting Tips & Advice, Pregnancy & Newborns
The secret to getting your baby to nap longer is not to keep them awake... it's actually to put them to sleep earlier. A mom of 4 explains why babies need longer naps than you think and how to troubleshoot naptime problems. #sleeptraining #infantsleep #babysleeptipsgetting baby to nap longer | baby cries all day | baby won't sleep | baby won't nap | get baby to go to bed earlier

Wondering how to get baby to nap longer? Your baby is probably over tired!

One of the most common sleep-training problems I encounter is moms wondering how to get a baby to nap longer. I hear a version of this naptime problem a lot! “My baby only naps for 30-45 minutes. And they wake up screaming.” “I try to keep them awake for 2 …

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Categories Babies, Baby Sleep, Parenting Tips & Advice, Pregnancy & Newborns
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27 Proven Pregnancy Tips for Surviving Your First Trimester

In today’s post, I’ll share my best tips for surviving the first trimester of your pregnancy! I have been pregnant 5 times in the past 5.5 years. One of those pregnancies ended in an early miscarriage, but all 5 came with varying degrees of morning sickness. With each pregnancy, I …

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The Internet’s Simplest Baby Sleep Book

All 4 of our kids were sleeping 8 hours through the night by 8-12 weeks and 12 hours by 12-16 weeks.

So I wrote a simple guide about our method.

This short & simple ebook style guide is meant to help you get your baby on a healthy eating & sleeping routine ASAP!!

There are tons and tons of practical tips in here for everything related to those first several months of having a newborn… Check it out here!

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