Babies

As a toddler mom, I LIVE for nap-time each day. After dealing with milk spills, epic tantrums, and super smelly diapers, it is the time each day that I have EARNED. Time for me to work, eat, sleep, or...

Breastfeeding didn’t come easily to me. I fretted about everything: Is she getting enough milk? Why is she nursing so often? Why does it hurt so much when everything I’ve read told me it shouldn’t hurt? Am I eating the right things? Are my boobs destined to look like missiles from now on? In a fit of defeat, I contacted a lactation consultant, and that decision made all the difference in the world.

The amount of shame I felt about breastfeeding was intense. Not only did I feel like I failed her (I had postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety, as well), I also felt shamed by my husband's family.

What is babywearing? Let’s face it moms.  Between the dishes, dirty diapers, laundry, cooking breakfast/lunch/dinner/ snacks, errands, running to the post office, grocery shopping, full/part time jobs, shopping on the internet, keeping up with fabulous blogs such as this, and...

Everybody loves moving, right? Oh, come on, sure you do! It's expensive, physically draining, and somehow always ends up happening on a 100 degree day. It's a ball. All right, no one likes moving, but we've all done it, and...

I’ll be the first to admit these guidelines may seem extreme, but 3,500 infants die each year in the United States due to sleep-related deaths -- many of them related to unsafe sleeping situations, resulting in unintentional suffocation. 

Before you take a stab at finding the right daycare, consider these factors to help you narrow your search to the perfect place.