We share all our favorite tips and tricks for taking care of our kids: encouraging healthy eating, happy living, and a love of visiting new places and spreading kindness in the world. All our posts about life with one, two, three, and now four children. Everything from pregnancy to birth, babies, toddlers, and kids in school.
What it’s like to be 29 weeks pregnant. It’s not too bad at the beginning of the third trimester. I’m rewinding a bit, to recap the last couple weeks when we visited the good ol’ USA. First up, we arrive in the chilly north-east. Why this trip is turning into a big shopping trip and …
Week 28 of pregnancy is the prime time to take the gestational diabetes test, otherwise known as the sugar test. The test is a simple blood test to see your blood sugar levels after drinking glucose syrup. This is to make sure your body is metabolizing sugar correctly. But when you’re pregnant, managing your food …
There are so many decisions to make before baby arrives. Once you find out you are pregnant, you will want to consider some big things and some small things. First of all, do you have space for a baby? Will you need to move or can you accommodate where you are? Hint: they don’t need …
I think at a certain point of being pregnant, you start to feel like you really need to get ready for baby NOW. Or like, YESTERDAY. And you start making lists and checking things off. You consider all the different alternative plans for what might happen after the birth and how to guide your loved …
So they say that the only things you need for a newborn are a place to sleep, a carseat and a boob. But we all know that’s a little extreme. So we add some must-haves: diapers and wipes, clothes, blankets, and a place to hang out during the day. But we want to be a …
Planning to Use Cloth Diapers Ok, so I thought I should share practically what I’m thinking of actually doing. I must say that M is still a bit hesitant, but we’re going over to some people’s house that cloth diaper and hopefully seeing them in person will take care of the final convincing (or totally …
So I’m always asked what my cravings are, and honestly it comes down to one thing: SUGAR! Cakes I used to look at or take a small piece of are now mysteriously inhaled. Chocolates I would like to save for a while longer, too bad. Cookies? sure! Pie? ok! Waffles at 10 pm- lemme just …
This is a new thing for me as of the last three weeks. I took a few naps way back in trimester numero uno, but it was kind of an oddity, mostly I just lay on the couch. Now, ever since I started walking morning 5k’s (not everyday), and it started getting really hot here …
