Author Archives: AmyinMaine
Teething Terrors and Other Bedtime Stories
Your baby is finally sleeping more than 3 hours at a time, you’ve mastered diaper changes, nursing and the car seat , and you’ve learned to take a shower, eat three meals and check your email all in one day! You feel energized and are wearing the “I’m a super mom” grin on your face. […]
Deciphering Perioral Dermatitis
Perioral or Periocular dermatitis. If you’ve had it, you just shuddered a little. If you have it, you found this because you are searching for an answer. I don’t have answers, but I do have a story and hopefully mine will help shape yours. It started benign enough. A few spots around my left eye. […]
My Non-Toxic Baby
I’ve always been a health conscious consumer, but never to the extent I am now that I have a toddler running around. Trying to find non-toxic, BPA-free, phthalate free, PVC free, formaldehyde free, organic anything for your child takes a lot of work. Some may say I’m a little obsessive about it, but after reading […]
Postpartum Healing
I’ve come full circle. I was pregnant for 41 weeks and my baby is now more than 41 weeks old. In the last month she’s become hyper mobile, talkative and is on the verge of walking. She turns when her name is called, she hugs and waves and turns the pages in her books. While […]
Natural Remedies for Common Infant Issues
I’ve worked in health care for the past 10 years and ironically I take little stock in what many traditional medicine prescribes. The best medicine is no medicine in my book. Sleep, healthy food, lots of clean water, exercise and sunlight are the best defense and treatment for almost anything that ails you. That said, […]
Go the F*ck to Sleep
In a box full of used baby books and toddler games, a friend gave us a timely read titled Go the F*ck to Sleep (click here for a version narrated by Samuel L. Jackson…no joke). Written and illustrated in the style of a childhood bedtime story, it also illustrates the reality of caring for a […]
What happens when a workaholic, socialite, athlete has a baby?
Pop Quiz. What does having a baby do to an outgoing, scheduled, socialite, workaholic, workout-aholic? A. Turns them into whiny, overtired, frustrated, anxious, lonely wreck. B. Causes a nervous breakdown C. Makes them slow down and reexamine their priorities D. Helps them let go E. All of the Above If you chose E. “all of the […]
Packing for Beach Vacation with an Infant
I was looking forward to our annual beach vacation with a little different sense of excitement this year. Excitement in the more nervous sense of the word maybe. First order of business was packing. Here is what we brought, needed and my list of essentials. Packing: Clothes: Since we were checking bags anyway, I didn’t […]
How I coped with infant reflux
So my daughter had acid reflux. It appeared around week two and was diagnosed officially at her four week appointment. We didn’t figure it out right away because my daughter was not a spitter. Her’s was silent, meaning that it came up into her esophagus but eventually went back down instead of coming up. By month […]
Items I didn’t need for my infant
So there are scores of lists out there of things you need for your newborn/infant. But not as many lists of things that you really don’t need. Leading up to delivery day I was frantically buying everything anyone told me (even bloggers) I needed before the big day. First of all, remember that Amazon Prime […]
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