Posts from ‘November, 2006’

Okay, so, I’m not sure what to make of this. It’s called the Babykeeper and is basically a carrier type of contraption that you put your kid in and hang on the bathroom stall while you use the toilet. Maybe I’m just a naive first time mother who can’t appreciate how wonderful and useful such [...]

Have you ever tried working at your computer while holding your baby? I have, and it’s not easy. The problem is that Pooky loves to bang away at the keyboard, which is disruptive to the workflow. Luckily, there’s a great way to harness that energy. The other day I downloaded a free application called BabySplat [...]

I don’t necessarily want my diaper bag to scream “diaper bag.” A casual, non-diaper-bag-looking diaper bag is always a great thing to have around because it’ll blend in better with my wardrobe and make me feel like it’s “my” bag and not just the baby’s bag. Blingybaby diaper bags come in 6 colors, 2 sizes [...]

This dialogue exchange occurred yesterday between two 8 year olds in my family:
Kid 1: I believe in God
Kid 2: My mom believes in monkeys

There’s been a lot of stir around the Gillette incidence on a Delta Airlines flight (kicked off for not covering herself while breastfeeding). It’s prompted the declaration of a National Nurse-In Day, which is today by the way. All around the U.S., women are sitting in front of Delta Airlines airport counters nursing their babies. [...]

I’ve always been a difficult person to shop for. When people ask me what I want for the holidays, I don’t know what to say. Or, I didn’t, until Pooky came along. Now I just tell people that I wear size 6-9 months and hope they get the hint. A present for Pooky is really [...]

Babywearing is all the rage with celebrities these days. Angelina Jolie, Gwen Stefani, Brooke Shields - they’re all wearing their babes. I delved into the world of babywearing soon after Pooky was born (and not because of the celebs’ influence). It wasn’t a foreign concept to me. I grew up in a culture where babywearing [...]

Grace Welch is the Founder, President, and Mom Inventor of the Patemm Pad, a diaper changing pad unlike other changing pads - it’s round, beautiful, and acts as an all-in-one changing station. Grace lives in San Francisco where her company, Patemm and Company, has been in business for 2.5 years. She started out as [...]

Pooky was born with a full head of hair. Since then, she’s shed quite a bit of it from the back of her head, but the front and sides have been growing quite long. We received these teeny tiny snap-on hair clips that worked okay but were a pain to snap and always fell out [...]