Preparations continued the next day for the celebration of our daughter's upcoming baptism in the evening. I woke earlier than normal in anticipation for all that needed to take place.
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06 Feb 2012 04:10 PM
Another recall on a popular baby product happened last week. Did you hear about it? Johnson and Johnson recalled Aveeno baby lotions. You can find the source for my information here.
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02 Feb 2012 10:49 AM
You forget. You really do. When you start thinking about wanting to have another baby you forget how hard the sleep deprivation is. You forget how it's impossible to get anything accomplished other than baby holding.
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30 Jan 2012 08:10 PM
This past weekend my husband and I had our six week old daughter baptised. As parents, baptising our children as infants comes from the promise we made in our marriage vows to raise our children in the faith.
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29 Jan 2012 02:18 PM
These days I spend a large portion of my day (and night) nursing my daughter. Sometimes I find myself getting a little frustrated when I have to stop to nurse her when I am in the middle of doing something else like cleaning, cooking, or writing etc.
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28 Jan 2012 09:05 PM
The days following the birth of a baby are exhausting. The days also go by so fast that you hardly blink and the newborn phase is over. It is such a precious time that I want to encourage you to enjoy it and make it last as long as possible.
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27 Jan 2012 07:29 PM
I can hardly believe that it has already been five weeks since my daughter was born. The anticipation built for nine long months and now that she is finally here, time is flying even more than it was before she was born. Many things have changed in these five short weeks.
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26 Jan 2012 04:52 PM
I learned later from other first time mom's that the first few weeks of breastfeeding can be quite painful. Cracked and bleeding nipples are not uncommon for first timers or in the early days of post-partum with consecutive babies.
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25 Jan 2012 02:50 PM
There was never any question in my mind whether or not I would breastfeed my babies. Being the second oldest out of nine children, not only were we all breastfeed but I grew up around lots of breastfeeding mom's. Breastfeeding was a very normal occurrence.
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24 Jan 2012 08:58 PM
Burning calories is some what intangible. I really have no idea how many calories I am burning each day by breast feeding my daughter. I would like to give credit to a healthier diet and a commitment to long term exercise for my seemingly quicker come back from having my daughter.
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