My son RJ turned one year old a couple of months ago, so this list of the best toys for one-year-olds is inspired by the many new toys that have been brought into his play space. I’ve been slowly introducing birthday gifts to his environment and rotating them weekly to keep him engaged (and to give my brain a break…
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When I first dove into the online parenting world with my first pregnancy, one big thing I noticed was the abundance of negative rhetoric around c-sections. It was so normalized to talk about c-sections in a negative way that it worked on me – when I thought about childbirth, the last thing I thought about was having a c-section. Just…
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Before I became a parent, I always struggled with what to bring my friends and family when visiting after they had a baby. I’d always do the obvious “what do you need?” ask, but more often than not, they’d do the midwestern “no need to bring anything” that, in hindsight, was probably due to the decision fatigue I know I…
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As someone who loved jumping in a ball pit at Chuck E Cheese as a kid, I am now an adult who’s very excited to make a chickpea sensory bin for my kid. It’s like a mini ball pit for your hands, and I’ve been so excited to make one that my son can play with now that he’s in…
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The first month of parenting a newborn was one of the most surreal and clinically insane things I’ve ever dealt with. It had me thinking of the various circumstances parents find themselves in and how on earth they can accommodate any of this in the United States. I could come up with a whole list of accommodations we’re lacking for…
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