Tuesday, October 16, 2012
All parents know that "sleeping like a baby" means that you are grumpy and tired, and that you sleep in 90-minute chunks of time. It's too bad sleep issues don't disappear when cribs do.
If you've ever had a conversation with a new mom, chances are probably about a hundred percent that you talked about how the baby is sleeping and how tired the new mom is. This is because newborns are jerks and can't sleep through the night and new moms are exhausted and just want to take a nap. Next time you start talking about sleep to a new mom, stop yourself, ask if you can take her baby, and tell her to go take a nap instead of telling you how much she wants to go take a nap. Wake her up as soon as the baby gets annoying. (That's the great thing about not having a newborn.) The thing is that once babies leave newborn stage, moms don't stop talking about sleep. My kids are 7, 9, and 11 and I still think about their sleep skills all the…
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
April 18th baby makes 100,000th delivery for the hospital.
Holy Cross Hospital reached a milestone on April 18, delivering its 100,000th baby since 2000. “This is a great, great day for the hospital. This is an amazing accomplishment,” President and CEO Kevin Sexton said in a videotaped speech to medical professionals, mothers and their children, who were born at the hospital since 2000. “All the people who have worked to get people prenatal care when they need it and couldn’t afford it, and to get them the best possible care when they came to the hospital are the reasons why this hospital delivers one out of every eight babies” born in Maryland, he said. During the 1990s, birth rates were falling “by 2.5 percent in the state and 3.5 percent at Holy Cross,” Sexton said in the video. Hoping to …
Monday, April 16, 2012
Amy Creel of Silver Spring is head of Smart Mom Jewelry, a company that sells the first and original line of baby teething jewelry.
It was a typical day at church. The priest was giving his sermon while the parishioners listened intently. Eighteen-month-old Alice was fiddling with her mother’s necklace when all of a sudden, the necklace snapped. “A bunch of the pearls went bouncing under the pews. It was kind of an embarrassing moment that became a little bit of a light bulb,” Amy Maurer Creel, Alice’s mother, said. “I thought there’s got to be some way to wear some kind of jewelry that isn’t going to end up getting broken or ruined. I was certain that the idea must already exist.” Creel, a Silver Spring resident, was surprised to find that there was no baby-safe jewelry on the market in 2002. That light bulb would spark the idea for Smart Mom Jewelry, a company that …
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
When it comes to sex education, my kids have two questions: Where do babies come from and when can we get another one?
My three kids and I operate on a democratic system. When we get stuck on a decision, we vote on the outcome. They each get one vote...and I get four. That's right. I've stacked the system so that not only do I never lose, but we never tie. I'm the mom. I'm allowed to do that. Recently, my oldest son has been making noises about evening up the votes. He thinks we should have another baby and give that kid a vote, creating the possibility of a tie. I told him that we have to vote on whether we want to have another kid and, oh, hey looky here, MY VOTE WINS. For the record, there will be no more babies in my family, but that doesn't stop my kids from occasionally bringing up the subject. The last time this happened, we were in a restaurant. …
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
It doesn't have to be scary talking to your children about sex and babies.
Little Miss S wants another sibling. Both my husband and I repeatedly tell her that it’s not in the plan to have a third child. Her optimistic response: “Well you never know, Mommy. There could be a baby growing inside you right now!” After hearing this response numerous times, I figured it was time to explain to her a little bit about the birds and the bees. I’ve never shied away from teaching Little Miss S about her body. I taught her all the correct (non-slang) terms for her body parts. We don’t use the word va-jay-jay in our household. In fact, it makes me cringe when I hear grown women use that term because they’re not comfortable saying the word vagina. When I was pregnant with Baby J, I did explain to Little Miss S how babies grow …
Jean Winegardner
11:06 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Oh, Gayle, that sounds horrible. Not being able to comfort your child sounds so, so traumatic. Your poor girl. And poor you. more ›