Posts by nwatt

I think that my DD is the most wonderful, perfect little girl in the world. With that said, I have had many pangs of jealousy when it comes to sleep. She is much better now, but at about 9 months when she was still up every 45 minutes...

DD eats pancakes spread with peanut butter every morning for breakfast. She has been eating this for months and months, is 14 months old, and just got her first two teeth in the last few weeks. We cut the pancakes into bite sized...

Will she let you put her to sleep somewhere else in the house? What if you moved her mattress into your room? Maybe she is associating something in her room with sleep in a negative way. My only other suggestion is maybe she is...

As soon as DD tried to go up the stairs we started showing her how to go down the stairs backwards, I think that it was when she started crawling at around 7 months. We also showed her how to get of the couch/bed/anything elevated the...

I have never used baby talk, it just doesn't come naturally to me, but I do talk in a higher pitch voice when I am talking to DD sometimes. Baby talk does grate on my nerves a bit, which is probably why it doesn't come to me. I really...

DD is 14 months and has three pairs of shoes for fall/winter: rainboots, brown leather Stride Rites, and grey New Balance sneakers. We spend a lot of time outside and she walks on sidewalks a lot I felt she needed shoes that would last...

I am only 13 weeks. This thread is terrifying me.

My goal isn't necessarily that they all be friends as adults. I just want their childhood to be different than mine. All that I remember is either playing alone or fighting (sometimes physically fighting) with my sisters. I don't...

Ever since I found out that I am expecting twins when my DD is only going to be 19 months old one of my (many) worries is how to raise my kids so that they will be friends. It seems that this should just come naturally as we go about...

I have no problem with the idea of my DC riding the school bus except for when time becomes a factor. Some kids have to be picked up so early and are dropped off so late that I really would feel like a lot of our family time was wasted...