Birth Team 101: Who’s who, because this room is getting crowded!
With all of the options for your birth team – doctors, nurses, labor doulas, postpartum doulas, midwives – it can get a bit confusing for expecting parents. I’ve asked the Northeast Doulas to give us a quick rundown of who can help you give birth so you can make the best choice for your family. … Read the rest
The Huestudio + Company: Favorite Baby Shower Favors
We’re so excited to be kicking off a series of guest blog posts from some of our favorite event planners from Operation Shower. Our first post comes to us from Jeff Hughes, CEO of Huestudio + Company. We asked Jeff to share with us some of Huestudio’s favorite baby shower favors, and we’re loving his personally curated list of precious baby treats.… Read the rest
How to Make Shots Less Shocking for Kids
School is officially back in full swing, and we are speeding towards the holidays, which usually means lots of holiday cheer. It also means a sickness or two, as the sneezing and coughing spreads its way around your little one’s school and into your home.… Read the rest
Nursery Design and the Science of Color in Your Baby’s Room
Colors have a significant influence on our perceptions, even the taste of our food. When choosing the color for your baby’s nursery design, it’s important to take into consideration how these colors might make you and your baby feel. Even if design isn’t your thing, you still have the ability to choose a color based on you and your baby’s emotional response.… Read the rest
Five Ways in which all Parents are Similar, Regardless of Location
Parents From the North to the South and Across the Pond
I’m British and American. I married a man born in the deep South to southern parents who raised him in NJ. We are raising our kids in the Northeast, and all of them were born in New York City.… Read the rest
How to Handle Divorce with Kids: A Post-Brangelina Reflection
The Challenge of Divorce with Kids
With the recent announcement that Angelina and Brad will be officially splitting I am left wondering many things (some far more appropriate than others). Didn’t they just get married? Was the divorce a last minute, albeit misguided, attempt to repair a wounded relationship?… Read the rest
Jocelyn Sokol’s Advice to Young Mothers: The Choice is Yours
Young Mothers and Decision Making
There are people who make decisions quickly, other people who deliberate over every choice they make, and then there is me. I weigh every pro and con, weigh each one again, and then the analyzing really begins. … Read the rest
Five Tips for Preparing for the First Day of School
This post originally appeared on IvankaTrump.com.
The first day of school seems to come around way more quickly than I realized before I became a parent. It seems as though every year the first day is a big deal and the anxiety of it all comes flooding in during the weeks leading up to September.… Read the rest
I’m Home Alone with Two… What Am I Going to Do??!!
Being home alone with a baby is a lot of work – diapers, bottles, crying, etc. Now imagine you were home alone with twins… go ahead… pretty crazy, right?
Yes, being home alone with your infant twins is not easy. It challenges you emotionally, physically and mentally.… Read the rest
Making the Choice to Become a Single Mother
As I write this, I am deep in the trenches of early motherhood as a single mother. My 12-week-old son is sitting in his bouncy chair, finally lulled into some sort of mostly quiet calm, after spending most of the afternoon screaming, crying, and otherwise inconsolable.… Read the rest
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