Since we’ve had kids, we have been to plenty of hotel rooms with them. We’ve had crawlers, walkers, and full blown toddlers in rooms with us as we are travelling, and let me tell you – it can be interesting. It’s one thing to be in your own home with your baby, knowing where all of the potentially dangerous spots are. Thanks to baby gates, plugs in outlets, and table bumpers, we can usually keep our little ones out of harms’ way. But what about in a hotel room?
I’ve always been jealous that men are able to have children without handing their bodies over for ten months (or longer, if you count nursing). They find out they’re expecting a baby, and life pretty much stays the same – and so do their bodies. We moms, on the other hand, don’t have it so easy. Morning sickness, heart burn, and aching backs are rough, but at least they go away once the baby is born. So what about the baby weight?
Have you ever considered hiring a “mother’s helper?”
If you have not heard of this sort of help before, I’ll fill you in. A mother’s helper is usually a pre-teen girl who comes over to your house to help out with the kids. She can be an extra set of eyes, ears, and hands [...]
Don’t you love it when it’s 2am, your baby is up with a cold, and you are trying to give her medicine in the dark? She gags, isn’t sure what to make of the dropper, and then the infant Motrin is all over you instead of in her. So you start over, hoping [...]
When a friend has a new baby, friends and family usually sign up to bring her meals for a couple of weeks. This is a huge blessing to a new mom, because cooking is the last thing she’ll want to do! Since I have brought many meals to friends, as well as received [...]
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