Todays guest post is from Erin Clotfelter, mom of autistic twins. You can catch up with her www.theslackermom.com and her boys at www.playerstobenamedlater.com“ Because April is Autism Awareness month, I thought I’d share a little about how we discovered our boys had autism. When my…
We all begin in the same place. In this place, we hold a tiny baby in our arms, and hope that they will be healthy, happy, and challenged by only the most manageable challenges in life. We all begin there. From that place, we each…
As April is Autism Awareness month, Welcome Baby Care wanted to make sure to cover this topic, promote awareness, and address some of the questions that pregnant moms and new parents have about autism. We are also offering a free-giveaway this week, so keep reading!…
Today at Keeping Her Cool, Colleen is promoting the ICE (In Case of Emergency) campaign which helps emergency personnel to search your cell phone to find your primary emergency contacts in the event of an emergency (click here to read). If you thought you had…
This week our focus at Welcome Baby Care has been paternal postpartum depression and the often overlooked dad. Today we’re posting a father’s testimony. PostpartumMen.com (included as a resource in Monday’s article on Depression in New Dads, see here), was an important part of his…
By Colleen Lindstrom I have written before about the birth of a mommy (click here). It is a process, and one that comes gradually and with definite hiccups. The birth of a Daddy is a process as well, and one that gets even less attention…
By Jacki Christopher About Dads, For Moms. We talk to moms a lot about postpartum depression and how to recognize and prevent it in themselves. But this week Welcome Baby Care wants to help educate you on a men’s issue that’s starting to gain traction…
By The Welcome Baby Care Doulas Head over to Keeping Her Cool where today Colleen writes about helping her kids understand death. Though as a topic of discussion with your kids it ranks right up there with ‘the birds and the bees,’ it’s unavoidable. Preparing…
By Colleen Lindstrom This is nothing too new or exciting, many families across the nation do this. It is a phenomenon called “breakfast for dinner.” It is most widely used when the process of menu planning gets, shall we say, boring. Or when you are…
By Colleen Lindstrom When I was pregnant for the first time, I remember having a friend to visit before the baby was born. She took a look around our teeny tiny house and said very definitively, “you have a LOT of baby proofing to do.”…