How to Prepare Your Home for Life With A New Baby Making Simple Smart Changes

By Elmer George, Contributor For expecting parents, especially first-time families and those balancing older kids, work, or limited help, home preparation for a baby can feel like one more item on an already packed list. The hard part is that postpartum home challenges rarely announce themselves: moving through dark rooms while half-awake, newborn care clutter…

Baby Proofing – Holiday Edition

I’m actually shocked how many potential baby safety issues can arise during the holidays, especially as we put up more decorations and trimmings that are not necessarily baby or toddler proof.  It all depends on the type of decorations you ultimately use but in general here are standard things to keep an eye out for…

Stress-free Baby Proofing

New parents can easily go overboard in trying to protect and control everything around their new baby, and that is understandable.  This still applies to those who have other children but maybe to slightly lesser extent.  It is hard to know when it is enough or slightly overboard when it comes to protecting or childproofing…