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Use a Kasa Cam to Check Your Baby and Never Disturb Another Nap
It's hard to strike a balance—being properly attentive when you're dead exhausted and also not disturbing your new family member unnecessarily. I'm a first-time mother, so the desire to check on my little Sophia is incessant.
By Alicia Springer7 years ago in Families
10 Reasons Every New Parent Needs an Owlet Smart Sock 2 Baby Monitor. Top Story - January 2019.
It's every parent's worst nightmare. You worked hard to make sure your nursery was safe. You fed your child all the right food. You even bought a baby monitor that kept a good eye on your little one's movements. But then, one night, your child's heart stopped beating.
By Cato Conroy7 years ago in Families
Pregnancy Loss
I remember not so long ago when we were blissfully naive to pregnancy loss, formally known as miscarriage. I bet you didn't know that 25 percent of all medically recorded pregnancies end in loss. I definitely didn't know that until about three weeks ago when my doctor loudly recited the statistics to us over my uncontrollable sobbing. I bet you didn't know that all the well intentioned cliches such as "your still young," or " at least it happened now and not when you knew your baby" and "you can always try again" really make a grieving parent feel like hiding away, never to be seen again. I bet you didn't know that most grieving parents, like any proud parents, want more than anything is to talk about their baby. In this relentless never ending pain, some of the sweetest forms of relief have been saying a babies name, remembering a babies due date or that children are siblings whether everyone is living or not.
By kylie hughes7 years ago in Families
I Don't Want to Be a Mother Anymore. Therefore, I Don't Want to Be a Teacher Anymore
Ever since people started asking me, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I always relentlessly answered back with, "I want to be a mom!" For some reason, I romanticized the idea of being a mother. I don't know if it's because my family was religious, or if it was because I didn't think I'd be good at anything else, or if it was just because I desired to feel that sense of unconditional love for them and their need for me.
By Desiree Stumo7 years ago in Families
10 Ways to Get Your Kids to Enjoy Brushing Their Teeth with the Playbrush
If there's one habit that's always been difficult to get kids to take up, it's getting them to brush their teeth at least twice a day. Children just don't feel like doing it; they feel like it's boring and that they have other things they could be doing instead (like eating candy, gum, or popcorn, for example).
By Mackenzie Z. Kennedy7 years ago in Families
Turn Your iPhone into a Powerful Fertility Tracker with the Proov Pearl Fertility Kit
When people first set out to conceive a child, they soon discover something really shocking. They discover that, contrary to popular belief, having a baby isn't actually very easy to do. Many couples who set out to expand their families will need to attempt to conceive for months before they can actually have a child.
By Iggy Paulsen7 years ago in Families
How to Be a Great Parent?
Love has disappeared and two people have separated. This situation is completely different and harder when children are involved. In the past, parents had an average of four children, today children have an average of four parents. This situation is very familiar for most parents. When parents are arguing, the kids are in desperate. Many parents forget that after their divorce, their love relationship is over, but their parent relationship never ends.
By Thomas Johnson7 years ago in Families
Diary of a Dad Aged 50¾ - Part 11
We have all had that feeling! Either being disturbed from a deep sleep by the alarm or alternatively, as always in my case, waking up every 20 minutes from 3:30 AM to look at the clock to make sure that I am up on time (only to fall into a deep sleep 30 minutes before the alarm goes off!)
By Steve Atkins-Linnell7 years ago in Families
I Love Family Game Night
We never really had family game night when I was younger. Yes, we played the odd game, but it wasn't a full-family occasion. My family has always been close, and with my siblings and I getting older, and myself moving out to go to school, we've become even more tight-knit. It started with quick games of Scrabble after dinner or, every once in a while, playing a game we dug up from the basement or something I was gifted at a birthday party or at Easter or Christmas with our extended family. Now, family game night is common in our household. We all gather around the kitchen table with snacks and drinks and play our favourites: Monopoly, Life, Clue, and my new personal favourite, Bob Ross: Art of Chill.
By Emily Hean7 years ago in Families
Power to the Single Parents
The life of being a single parent can be a hard one. Sometimes it feels like you have to wear a lot of different hats all at the same time. You have to be the mother, the father, the friend, the disciplinarian, the breadwinner, etc.
By Nalana Phillips7 years ago in Families
I Feel Lost Without You
She remembers like it was yesterday. The flashbacks come back little by little, fading in and out, and there is a 16-year-old girl screaming, terrified in the hospital. The place where babies are supposed to be born and people are supposed to be saved. But not today. Not for her. Doctors in their white lab coats are still bustling around, but the rest of the world has just started winding in slow motion. While everyone else is continuing with their day, she is trying to figure out why hers has come to a full blown stop. It can’t be real, right? Other relatives and friends try to calm and hug her, as it feels like her heart got crushed a hundred times over. What happened, what went wrong? Stop saying I’m going to be okay because I’m not! That’s what she wants to say. Instead, she welcomes the tears, hugs, and soft words from others because it’s all she can do. Cry with others and have others cling to her.
By Kate Ylitalo7 years ago in Families
The Forgotten One
You how people say they wish they could remember what it was like to be a baby? I am not one of those people. My parents got into an argument and my father beat my mother while she was pregnant with me. This caused her to go into early labor and she had to be flown from Homer, Alaska to Anchorage Providence Hospital.
By Nalana Phillips7 years ago in Families
