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Better Beginnings

February 9, 2009 By Rebecca Lehman 2 Comments
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Today I have thoughts running through my head.  Memories, and feelings all jumbled together, so bear with me.  I'm adopted.  My parents adopted me when I was six years old, though I lived with them since I was four.  I remember before I was adopted.  I remember the different families that took care of me.  I remember my Birth Mother.  I remember she loved me.  I love my mom and dad now, they are the only family I could ever want.  But I know they had it rough with me.  Many people adopt, very few adopt a child who is older than 1 year though.  Once a child reaches 1, the chances of them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Encouragement & Faith Tagged With: adoption, baby, children, family, mother

Helping Dry Hands

February 9, 2009 By Rebecca Lehman 1 Comment
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Here's a great little tip for mommies on the go.  My hands are always dry now.  With winter wind, all my bodies water going toward milk production, and constantly using baby wipes on just about everything these days, my hands are more dry than normal.  If you're out and about, and realize you didn't pack lotion, I found a great solution is to wash your hands!  The soap in public restrooms usually have moisturizers in them.  I'll wash my hands and I'll be good for at least an hour or two, maybe more depending on how dry my hands are that day.  Really useful for when you're on the go and don't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health & Beauty, Mommy Tips Tagged With: baby, dry skin, lotion, mommy, mother, motherhood, on the go, tip

How Much Should Babies Sleep

February 7, 2009 By Rebecca Lehman Leave a Comment
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I've noticed that the older my son gets, the more time he spends awake during the day.  We've been really fortunate with his sleeping patterns so far.  He sleeps soundly though the night, from about 10pm to 9am, waking up about every three hours to eat.  It's like clock work.  He normally sleeps most of the day too, but the pattern varies more.  Three hours here, an hour there.  If a car ride is involved he might sleep for four or five hours before waking up to eat.  Yesterday he spent most of the day awake, which prompted me to do some research on just how much sleep he should be getting, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Infants Tagged With: baby, bed, bedtime, hours, infant, mother, sleep, sleeping

How much should babies eat?

February 2, 2009 By Rebecca Lehman Leave a Comment

I've noticed, now that my son is three weeks old, his feeding habits have started to change.  He's hungry more often, and will eat more in one feeding.  For the most part I've been sticking to the basic guidelines he had in his first week.  Feeding at the breast for at least 20 minutes on each side, or eating 3-4 oz in a bottle feeding.  Where it used to be a challenge to get him to feed the entire forty minutes, or to finish that last oz in the bottle, now he will go an hour or more at the breast, and will still seem hungry after gulping down the entire 4 oz from a bottle.  This is becoming … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Infants Tagged With: baby, breast feeding, diaper, eating, feeding, infant, mommy, motherhood

The Great Diaper Experiment: And the winner is. . .

January 31, 2009 By Rebecca Lehman 4 Comments

Okay, so lets recap a bit.  We reviewed four different brand of diapers over the past 36 hours.  The test subject being my 2 1/2 week old son, whom I might add bore the extra diaper changes, close observation, itchy bum like a trooper!  He wore each brand for at least 2 diaper changes each and we observed how each did in it's absorbency, leakage, comfort level, fit, and cost.  Here are the brands we tested: White Cloud Huggies Luvs Pampers We preformed a liquid pour test to see how well and how quickly each brand absorbed moisture.  Be sure to check the video if you haven't seen … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mommy Gadgets Tagged With: baby, Baby Care, diaper, diaper change, diapers, dirty diaper, infant, mom, mommy, motherhood, parentling
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