Well the time has come, my baby took his first steps. I know it's a milestone, yeah for my baby or should I say toddler now, but I was in no hurry. I've seen the parents that have to chase their children through the mall. (I have to admit it cracks me up when the child can outrun the parent.) But soon that could be me. Scary.
So now that he's walking the search for shoes begins. While I loved how cute Robeez were, I only had one pair. Since he was only crawling it was more for fashion so I just kept them in his Trumpette Johnny Sneaker Socks. I love these. They are a must have. They stayed on and they looked like little shoes.
But now he needs support. I didn't realize that there we so many kinds. Robeez, Pedipeds, Preschoolians and great old fashioned Stride Rite. I'm starting with Stride Rite level one which has a little more support than Robeez and then I also bought a level 2 (with a full sole) when he starts to walk more. Which ones worked for you and your little one?
If your on your search for baby's first pair of shoes here are some tips.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
MomLogic.com Guest Blogger
I know there are a lot of Mom focused websites out there, but you need to check-out MomLogic.com
Not only because it's a cool site, but because I'm a guest blogger today. Check it out.
"It's All Chinese To Me"
Momlogic (mom-'lä-jik) n.
The logical (or, at times, logically illogical) thinking patterns
all mothers seem to share.
Momlogic is the ultimate destination for Moms who want to know a little bit about a lot of things, but have very little time. We understand the challenges of keeping up with your family, your home, your world ... never mind finding time for yourself. At momlogic, we believe that being a mother is not an exact science, but a perfectly imperfect experience.
As Moms ourselves, we recognize that while being a mother may be the most important aspect of our lives, it is not the only aspect of our being.
Momlogic is a community where Moms from all walks of life and in all stages of motherhood come together. Whether you are a Mom-to-be or a mother of five, momlogic offers a safe place to get information, join the conversation, and share your own experiences. Come share your momlogic with us.
Not only because it's a cool site, but because I'm a guest blogger today. Check it out.
"It's All Chinese To Me"
Momlogic (mom-'lä-jik) n.
The logical (or, at times, logically illogical) thinking patterns
all mothers seem to share.
Momlogic is the ultimate destination for Moms who want to know a little bit about a lot of things, but have very little time. We understand the challenges of keeping up with your family, your home, your world ... never mind finding time for yourself. At momlogic, we believe that being a mother is not an exact science, but a perfectly imperfect experience.
As Moms ourselves, we recognize that while being a mother may be the most important aspect of our lives, it is not the only aspect of our being.
Momlogic is a community where Moms from all walks of life and in all stages of motherhood come together. Whether you are a Mom-to-be or a mother of five, momlogic offers a safe place to get information, join the conversation, and share your own experiences. Come share your momlogic with us.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
You Know You're a New Mom When.........
My son is now 10 months old and I seem to have the motherhood thing more under control, but I remember going thru the first 4 months going what the hell?
Here are few things maybe you can relate to looking back on your journey.
You Know You're a New Mom When....
-The highlight of your Friday night is watching your baby sleep on the video monitor while eating take out.
-You don't care that the neighbors can see your breasts if you leave the curtains open while breastfeeding.
-The My Breast Friend or other nursing pillow is your new permanent fashion accessory around your waist.
-The most complicated part of your day is no longer work deadlines or spreadsheets, but figuring out when your baby ate last and when he needs to nap.
-You panic if you leave the pacifier at home.
-You really proud of the first time you were able to run and errand get baby in and out of a car seat and get back home all by yourself.
-You're elated to have 2 hands back once you discover the sling or Baby Bjorn.
-You get really good at one handed typing with your baby on your lap.
-Once your baby starts to sleep through the night you can't help but check on your baby and hover over the crib to make sure they are still breathing.
-You no longer blowdry your hair.
-You say do you have a poopy diaper more than 5x's a day.
Are there any you would like to share?
Here are few things maybe you can relate to looking back on your journey.
You Know You're a New Mom When....
-The highlight of your Friday night is watching your baby sleep on the video monitor while eating take out.
-You don't care that the neighbors can see your breasts if you leave the curtains open while breastfeeding.
-The My Breast Friend or other nursing pillow is your new permanent fashion accessory around your waist.
-The most complicated part of your day is no longer work deadlines or spreadsheets, but figuring out when your baby ate last and when he needs to nap.
-You panic if you leave the pacifier at home.
-You really proud of the first time you were able to run and errand get baby in and out of a car seat and get back home all by yourself.
-You're elated to have 2 hands back once you discover the sling or Baby Bjorn.
-You get really good at one handed typing with your baby on your lap.
-Once your baby starts to sleep through the night you can't help but check on your baby and hover over the crib to make sure they are still breathing.
-You no longer blowdry your hair.
-You say do you have a poopy diaper more than 5x's a day.
Are there any you would like to share?
Spring Forward-Time Change Again?
I just got over the Fall time change, now it's time to spring forward. How's the time change going for you? I usually know a few days ahead and start shifting my baby's schedule gradually. This daylight savings time caught me by surprise. In the U.S. and Canada, the time changes on Sunday, March 8, 2009.
So my baby is on 6:30am wake 6:30 pm sleep schedule. So the good news is if I don't do anything with his schedule, I get to sleep in until 7:30am -which is really still 6:30 in my mind since the sun is just coming up. But I'm not sure what I want to do? I kind of like the 6:30 to bed schedule. Which gives me time to have some quiet time and dinner with my husband at the end of the day. While I don't like getting up at 6:30 or even earlier every morning I've gotten used to it.
So I decided to take the middle ground. A 7:00am wake to 7:00 sleep schedule. I just started moving his schedule by 1/2 hour today. So everything is 30 minutes later. In a few days I may move him back to 6:30, but I enjoyed the extra half hour of sleep today. Here are some other tips I found useful on the internet.
Spring Forward Sleep Strategies
Your first option is to not do anything. If your baby or toddler or young child is going to sleep at 7 p.m., he will wake up at 8 a.m. the next day. Yay! You get to “sleep in” and all is right with the world. If you want to keep this schedule, you will put him down at the same times you always do and bedtime will be one hour later.
For some, the first option isn’t really an option because they need their child up by a certain time or don’t want to have an 8 p.m. (or later) bedtime. Maybe your child is already going to bed too late and the time change will make her go to bed even later, which has you wondering just when you will spend any time with your spouse or partner or clean the house or relax or whatever.
If you don’t want this schedule, your second option is to wake your baby one hour early the day of the time change whereby he will nap one hour earlier and go to bed one hour earlier, normal time on the clock. There is only one caution. Some people’s internal clock is so strong that no matter what time they wake up, they won’t get sleepy until their “normal” time. That means even if you wake your child an hour earlier, he might not nap early or go to sleep early at bedtime. Imagine you get up at 5 a.m. one day to catch a flight or to get to work for an early meeting. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you will go to bed at 9 p.m. just because you usually go to bed at 10 p.m.
Your third and final option, just like in the Fall, is to split the difference and wake your child just half an hour early and move his schedule slower over the course of 2-3 days. This is option I'm doing.
Whatever the path you choose to take, some kids will just take a few days to even a week or longer to really adjust. Your best bet is to keep to the schedule you make. The light stimulating our eyes and your morning and night routines will be most what drives your kids’ schedules. The same internal clock that drives our sleep schedules also drives our appetites. If you typically have dinner at 5:30 p.m. and bedtime is 7 p.m., it will probably be difficult to maintain a 6:30 p.m. dinner and 8 p.m. bedtime. Whatever drove you to have the 5:30 p.m. dinner in the first place likely has not changed. Just remember to be realistic and not to just focus on one part of the schedule (i.e. just bedtime or just lunch) and set the whole schedule accordingly. The rest will follow.
So my baby is on 6:30am wake 6:30 pm sleep schedule. So the good news is if I don't do anything with his schedule, I get to sleep in until 7:30am -which is really still 6:30 in my mind since the sun is just coming up. But I'm not sure what I want to do? I kind of like the 6:30 to bed schedule. Which gives me time to have some quiet time and dinner with my husband at the end of the day. While I don't like getting up at 6:30 or even earlier every morning I've gotten used to it.
So I decided to take the middle ground. A 7:00am wake to 7:00 sleep schedule. I just started moving his schedule by 1/2 hour today. So everything is 30 minutes later. In a few days I may move him back to 6:30, but I enjoyed the extra half hour of sleep today. Here are some other tips I found useful on the internet.
Spring Forward Sleep Strategies
Your first option is to not do anything. If your baby or toddler or young child is going to sleep at 7 p.m., he will wake up at 8 a.m. the next day. Yay! You get to “sleep in” and all is right with the world. If you want to keep this schedule, you will put him down at the same times you always do and bedtime will be one hour later.
For some, the first option isn’t really an option because they need their child up by a certain time or don’t want to have an 8 p.m. (or later) bedtime. Maybe your child is already going to bed too late and the time change will make her go to bed even later, which has you wondering just when you will spend any time with your spouse or partner or clean the house or relax or whatever.
If you don’t want this schedule, your second option is to wake your baby one hour early the day of the time change whereby he will nap one hour earlier and go to bed one hour earlier, normal time on the clock. There is only one caution. Some people’s internal clock is so strong that no matter what time they wake up, they won’t get sleepy until their “normal” time. That means even if you wake your child an hour earlier, he might not nap early or go to sleep early at bedtime. Imagine you get up at 5 a.m. one day to catch a flight or to get to work for an early meeting. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you will go to bed at 9 p.m. just because you usually go to bed at 10 p.m.
Your third and final option, just like in the Fall, is to split the difference and wake your child just half an hour early and move his schedule slower over the course of 2-3 days. This is option I'm doing.
Whatever the path you choose to take, some kids will just take a few days to even a week or longer to really adjust. Your best bet is to keep to the schedule you make. The light stimulating our eyes and your morning and night routines will be most what drives your kids’ schedules. The same internal clock that drives our sleep schedules also drives our appetites. If you typically have dinner at 5:30 p.m. and bedtime is 7 p.m., it will probably be difficult to maintain a 6:30 p.m. dinner and 8 p.m. bedtime. Whatever drove you to have the 5:30 p.m. dinner in the first place likely has not changed. Just remember to be realistic and not to just focus on one part of the schedule (i.e. just bedtime or just lunch) and set the whole schedule accordingly. The rest will follow.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
To Pump or Not to Pump?
I know pumping is worth it for our babies, but it can be a royal pain! My son is 10 months old and I'm starting to wean I'm down to two feedings which is good, but I'm still pumping if I'm not around for his feeding. Which was the case last night. I was working all day and went to dinner, but I forgot to pump before I got to the restaurant and I was out town so it would be hours before I got home. So what's a mom to do? Skip it because that's what I want to do or go get my pump out of the car, leave the dinner table and hide in the bathroom for 15 minutes? Of course guilt set in so I did the latter.
So there I am at a Hollywood hotspot catching up with my single friends for the first time in months and I leave to pump. With my Medela Pump in Style in hand, (luckily it looks like a purse). I walk past the singles at the bar thinking, "wow these people have no idea". I open the door to the women's room and it's only a single room, which is great for privacy, but sucks if someone is waiting for you, luckily it wasn't too busy.
So I pull out the tubes and portable charger and I wasn't saving the milk since pumping in a public bathroom sort of grosses me out so I just pumped right into the sink and dumped it. Ahh now that's sexy! I'm in this hip bathroom with crazy art and mirrors hovering over the sink holding my breasts hoping the people outside can't hear the whooshing of the pump and say what is she doing in there? So I rinse everything off, put it back into the bag, put my bra back on, touch up my lipgloss and back to the party. Anyways just another day in the life of a mom.
Where's the strangest place you've pumped? What about breastfeeding?
Check out this latest news headline
"Women Breastfeeds While Driving."
So there I am at a Hollywood hotspot catching up with my single friends for the first time in months and I leave to pump. With my Medela Pump in Style in hand, (luckily it looks like a purse). I walk past the singles at the bar thinking, "wow these people have no idea". I open the door to the women's room and it's only a single room, which is great for privacy, but sucks if someone is waiting for you, luckily it wasn't too busy.
So I pull out the tubes and portable charger and I wasn't saving the milk since pumping in a public bathroom sort of grosses me out so I just pumped right into the sink and dumped it. Ahh now that's sexy! I'm in this hip bathroom with crazy art and mirrors hovering over the sink holding my breasts hoping the people outside can't hear the whooshing of the pump and say what is she doing in there? So I rinse everything off, put it back into the bag, put my bra back on, touch up my lipgloss and back to the party. Anyways just another day in the life of a mom.
Where's the strangest place you've pumped? What about breastfeeding?
Check out this latest news headline
"Women Breastfeeds While Driving."
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