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preparing for baby first time 7 tips

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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Easy Peasy Laundry: 3 Step System to Eliminate Laundry Overwhelm

In this post, you’ll learn the exact laundry system I figured out to the laundry overwhelm for a big family with several small children. I used to be drowning in laundry. With 4 kids under 7, there were clothes everywhere all the time.  Dressup play = clean clothes all over …

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Categories Rhythms For Less Stress
How to Track Your Grocery Spending | 2 Methods That Work Every Time

4 Easy Ways to Track Your Grocery Spending [SPREADSHEET]

Whether your food budget is $100 per month or $1,000 per month, if you want to stick to the food budget you’ve decided on, you have to know how to track your grocery spending. After all, if you have a budget, but don’t know how much you’re spending, then do …

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Categories Meal Planning & Grocery Budget, Organize & Simplify, Rhythms For Less Stress
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Infant Sleep Training: A New Mom’s Guide to Newborn Sleep!

I originally wrote this post several years ago after we got our first two babies sleeping through the night by 12 weeks. Since then, we’ve done the same thing with two more babies and thousands upon thousands of people have read and shared this post. I’ve also written a more …

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Categories Babies, Baby Sleep, Parenting Tips & Advice

Morning Routine for a Stay-at-Home-Work-at-Home-Homeschooling Mom

Before I had children, back when I was a perfect mother, I subconsciously imagined that our mornings would be slow and cozy… I thought it would be fun to have the kids come crawl into bed with me, and we’d all wake up slowly together. There were also unicorns jumping through rainbows in this figment of …

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Categories Productivity, Rhythms For Less Stress
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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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Categories Babies, Baby Sleep, Pregnancy & Newborns
4 month sleep regression

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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Categories Babies, Baby Sleep, Pregnancy & Newborns

70 Aldi Products, Features, Warnings & Hacks: A Complete Aldi Review

Confession: I’ve use to think Aldi was gross. I thought that you would only shop at Aldi if you had to. And if you could possibly afford to shop anywhere else, you obviously would, because ew, Aldi. I don’t know why I thought that, and seeing as how I’ve done …

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Categories Meal Planning & Grocery Budget, Rhythms For Less Stress
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21 Easy DIY Toddler Toys & Activities from Stuff You Have at Home

Our zero-degree-freeze-the-snot-inside-your-nose midwestern winters are in full swing, and we are officially hibernating. I bought 3 months worth of food and we’re not leaving the house until April. The freezing months of winter here cause us to get a little bit creative with our indoor activities. And by creative, I mean, …

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Categories Kid Activities, Recommended Resources & Stuff We Love, Toddlers
Ready to start sleep training naps? Here's a guide to baby nap schedules, toddler nap schedules, and how to help baby drop a nap!

When Do Babies Drop to One Nap? The Best Method for Nap Transitions

If naptime has gone CRAZY at your house, you’re in the right spot! In this post, you will learn: When do babies drop to one nap and how do you know if your baby is ready? What nap transitions look like and some nap transition tips The 2 to 1 …

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Categories Babies, Baby Sleep
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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Categories Babies, Baby Sleep, Pregnancy & Newborns
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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
This post has principles and practical tips to help you simplify your life - ways, simplify your life as a stay at home mom, tips for minimal living.

Simplify Your Life: 9 Tips for Eliminating Errands, Notifications, Clutter and More!

I googled “simplify your life mom” as I was writing this, and got over a million results. So why one more post about simplifying life? Because, I read a few, and they weren’t simple! The top result had 72 tips to simplify your life… 72! 72 isn’t simple. Here’s the …

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Categories Meal Planning & Grocery Budget, Organize & Simplify, Rhythms For Less Stress
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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
Should I move toddler out of crib for the baby? How to transition toddler to own bed; how to transition toddler to big bed; move toddler to big bed

6 Common Problems & Solutions for How to Transition Toddler to Their Own Bed

Okay, are you ready? This is probably going to be the world’s shortest blog post, but I finally decided to write it because I get this question a lot! How do you transition toddler out of their crib? Don’t. There. The end. Just kidding – I’m actually going to give …

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Categories Baby Sleep, Parenting Tips & Advice, Toddlers
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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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