by lcbaker | Jul 5, 2012 | Advice, Breastfeeding, Healthy Food
My baby has started solids, and I’m realizing now why it’s hard for some families to maintain breastfeeding for a year. Both the AAP and the WHO recommend that breast milk or formula be the primary source of nutrition till age one, with solids serving only...
by lcbaker | Jun 14, 2012 | Advice
This is an idea that I observed a friend of mine doing. At first I thought it was kind of crazy. And then I realized it was brilliant. Most toddlers are really picky eaters, right? But they will eat inordinate amounts of weird, unhealthy foods like ketchup. Most...
by lcbaker | May 31, 2012 | Advice, Babywearing, Breastfeeding
This post is the second in a series of quick useful tips for moms. Today’s amazingly auspicious advice is a trick I discovered out of necessity: the trick of breastfeeding in a carrier. While walking around. It can totally be done. My normal way to breastfeed...
by lcbaker | May 24, 2012 | Advice, Breastfeeding
This post is the first of a series I’m starting called “Amazingly Auspicious Advice.” These will be very brief posts with a single useful tip. Most of the tips will be submitted by readers. If you’d like to submit a super-useful, practical tip...
by lcbaker | May 14, 2012 | Advice
Time for a confession. I’ve joined a cult. Ok, not really. Even though we are a secret group that you can’t get into unless you know someone, and we do have a secret language that most people don’t understand. We’re actually just a group of...
by lcbaker | Apr 16, 2012 | Advice
There are a lot of lists out there of things not to say to specific types of parents. But there are quite a few things that people commonly say that you should never say to any parent. Because we’re all in the same boat here. I should give a disclaimer: this...
