Grab your breastfeeding toolkit here! Building Your Breastfeeding Toolkit: What You Need to Know and Buy Breastfeeding is a wonderful way to nourish and bond with your baby, but if you’re unfamiliar with it, especially while preparing to transition back to work, it can feel overwhelming. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help you navigate the process, including key essentials, storage tips, and advice for making breastfeeding and pumping more manageable. Breastfeeding Essentials Here’s what you’ll need to start your breastfeeding …
How to soothe colic in an infant
As new parents, it’s heartbreaking to see your baby in discomfort. Colic, often characterized by prolonged crying and fussiness, can be particularly challenging. This guide will provide you with practical tips to alleviate colic and gas in your baby, ensuring both you and your little one can find relief. Understanding Colic and Gas in Babies Colic is defined as excessive crying in an otherwise healthy baby. It’s common, affecting up to 25% of infants, typically between the ages of 2 …
Essential Newborn Items (With Links!!)
Bringing a newborn into the world is an exciting and joyous experience, but it also comes with its fair share of questions. As a new parent, you want to ensure that your little one has the best of everything, from clothing to nursery essentials. Thankfully, our seasoned postpartum doulas have curated a list for you that offers a wide array of newborn products that are both functional and reliable. Baby Car Seat: Graco SnugRide SnugLock Infant Car Seat is a …
The Best Pregnancy and Infant Stores in Maryland
Welcoming a new addition to your family includes plenty of shopping for pregnancy and infant essentials. If you’re an expectant parent in Maryland, you’ll be delighted to know that the state offers a variety of outstanding pregnancy and infant stores. In this blog post, we will highlight some of Maryland’s top-rated stores that cater to the needs of expectant parents, providing a wide selection of products, expert guidance, and exceptional customer service. Wee Chic Boutique: Wee Chic Boutique is a …
Top Tips for Budget-Conscious Families To-Be
Based in Grandville MI, Jennifer McGregor is a pre-med student who enjoys writing about health and medical topics and providing health and medical resources. She co-created PublicHealthLibrary as a way to push reputable information on health topics to the forefront, making them easier and quicker to find Top Tips for Budget-Conscious FamiliesBringing a baby into the world is such a blessing, and the last thing you want to have on your mind is financial stress. A handful of clever spending …
Baby Proofing Your Home: Protect Your Baby and Your Home at the Same Time
Julia Weaver is a writer on the content marketing team at Redfin. She was inspired to write this article because of her sister, a mother of two trying to keep her home as safe and as clean as possible! Baby proofing your home is hardly a one-time event. As your child grows, so do potential hazards they’ll face and opportunities for your child to dirty and destroy your home that you just spent what felt like hours making spotless. Because …
Five Newborn Essentials
If you are preparing for the birth of a new baby you are more than likely overwhelmed by all the products…There are obvious things that you and the baby will need after birth but there are a few items that can just make life, well, a lot easier. The postpartum specialist at Balanced Birth Support have gathered their top 5 newborn essentials you must buy now! Have you ever tried transitioning a sleeping baby from your arms to another sleeping …
Frugal Baby Nursery – Do It Yourself!
**Throw back blog post! Izzy is now almost 4 years old!!!** Little Izabel came into our lives at 10:41 on February 10th 2013. She was born into my hands in our home. Check out her birth video here! It was beautiful… every little bit of time I get these days I work on her birth story. It is so personal and emotional to me that I am really finding it hard to put her story into words! So I thought …