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I can’t believe it but I already have to make decisions about Maya’s daycare situation and she’s not even six months old. I’m not going back to work until she’s a year old, but childcare for kids under the age of two is hard to come by in my city, so you have to plan ahead. I thought I had this all figured out because there’s a daycare in the building where I work and it’s a good one, although it’s expensive. Because I work in the building, they’re giving me priority, which means I’m pretty much… Continue

At almost six months of age, Maya’s teeth appear to be on their way, as evidenced by some seriously extreme drooling, as well as some tears and pulling at the gums. It’s pretty obvious when Maya has an episode of major teething pain because she cries suddenly and uncontrollably for no apparent reason, which is very out of character for her. She was experiencing quite a few these teething episodes over the past week, and I was giving her infant tylenol to alleviate the discomfort. Then, my sister… Continue

I learned a few new things about cloth diapers today while I was shopping at Mothering Touch (these facts are primarily for pre-fold diapers, not the 2-in-1 systems like bum genius or baby kangas):

1. You cannot use regular zinc-based diaper creams on cloth diapers. Zinc oxide c… Continue

Okay, I’m ready to talk about it. It was a total accident and I felt absolutely terrible about it, but it’s over and everything’s okay so I need to get over it. What I’m referring to is the fact that… well… umm… okay… here it is: we dropped our baby! We were lucky. She was not hurt. This is how it happened:

I woke-up on my first Mother’s Day with my sweet husband bringing me cards from him and from Maya while I was lying in bed. Then, we decided to take a relaxing Sunday drive out to the Jordan… Continue

Cloth diapers are getting fairly popular where I live. We’re using them… at least we were until I recently fell off the wagon and started using disposables. In the first days and weeks after Maya’s birth I could not have possibly dealt with cloth diapers. I had a tiny new human being to take care of, which was so utterly life-altering that I could do no more than get through the recovery from my c-section, the introduction to breast feeding (which was totally hell at first) and bond with this ne… Continue