Spit-up On My Shoulder

I love these truthful quotes about motherhood from the book Thoughts on Being a Mother. Enjoy!
“One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.” Joan Benoit Samuelson
“I think there should be a compound where they send people who want to be parents. They should have to spend a week there, being pelted [...]

An interesting article came out earlier this week on the importance of bedtime routines for both infants and toddlers. I strongly encourage you to establish a bedtime routine with your baby as soon as possible. Some options to include in the bedtime routine (pick as few or as many as you like, as [...]

Dear Readers,
Thank you for coming back again and again to read my posts. I appreciate your support more than you’ll ever know.
My schedule is very packed and, though I love to write these posts, I need to cut back to once a week to allow time for other projects. Look for posts every [...]

I discovered a new product for parents that I love – the Itzbeen Baby Care Timer. The Timer helps parents keep track of when their baby last fed, napped, or had a diaper change. It can also keep track of things like when the baby last took her medicine.
The Timer blew me [...]

A great book on how mothers can take better care of themselves is Mother Nurture: A Mother’s Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships by Rick Hanson, Ph.D., Jan Hanson, M.S., L.Ac., and Ricki Pollycove, M.D.
Rick kindly agreed to share the list below with you from the Mother Nurture newsletter.
10 Reasons [...]

Dear Readers,
I recently came across some pages I had written when I was in the worst of my postpartum depression. The entry is dated 11/29/95 when my daughters were 3 (Danielle) and 6 months (Linda). It’s still painful for me to read these words, but I’m hoping sharing them will help any of [...]

From 2001-2004, 344 women with gestational diabetes (GD) – high blood sugar during pregnancy – were tracked by Dr. Michelle A. Russell, MD, of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Vermont.
Dr. Russell found that less than half of the women were checked for blood sugar levels at their postpartum visit. [...]

Today I’m launching a new category of posts called What Were They Thinking? When I come across information that relates to new mothers and makes me go, What were they thinking?, I will share it with you.
The first entry is a Washington Post article that was published August 30th. The article shows how [...]