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How to Have a Healthy Family During a Crazy Germ Season

How to have a healthy family during a crazy germ season: Not to brag, but I was a germophobe long before being a germophobe was all the rage. You could call me a pioneering germophobe. Our family socially distanced before it was cool. We lived like hermits and rage cleaned things normal people View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Life Style, Motherhood Tagged With: germs, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, review, special needs

The 10 Must Have Items For Your Baby’s Medicine Cabinet

The 10 must-have items for your baby's medicine cabinet. These supplies will get new moms and veteran moms through baby's first colds and fevers with ease! The 10 Must-Have Items For Your Baby's Medicine Cabinet Whether you are an expecting mom, new mom or one who has trudged through the trenches View Post

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Health, Parenting, Pregnancy, Special Needs Tagged With: Baby, health, Heart, Kids, Pregnancy, special needs

The right things to say to special needs parents. Words for comfort for special needs parents. How do you comfort someone with a newly diagnosed child? These words of comfort are great! #SpecialNeeds #SpecialNeedsParents #thingstosay #wordsofcomfort #comfort #specialneedsmom #heartmom #MamaintheNow

Words of Comfort for Special Needs Parents: (What to say and NOT to Say!)

What do you say when your best friend's child is sick? What words of comfort do special needs parents need to hear? What do they NOT want to hear? Words of comfort for special needs parents: I received a text message from my best friend. Her daughter was admitted to the hospital (again) last View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, friends, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, special needs

How do you comfort a grieving moms. Learn the words to say to comfort a grieving parent. Words to comfort special needs parents. Words to comfort a special needs mom. #RightWords #WordstoSay #ComfortingaGrievingMom #SpecialNeedsMom #ComfortingWords #mamainthenow

How to Comfort a Grieving Mother

What do you say when your best friend's child has been diagnosed with cancer? I didn't know how to comfort a grieving mother. But these tips helped... What do you say to a mother, your best friend, who’s 4 year old was just diagnosed with Leukemia? What do you do when you live several states away View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: friends, health, live in the now, special needs

Breastfeeding supplies every new mom needs. Set yourself up for breastfeeding success with this comprehensive breastfeeding supply list. What to buy to prepare for breastfeeding. New mom breastfeeding supply list. #Breastfeeding #Breastfeedingsupplies #BreastfeedingAccessories #BreastfeedingTips #MamaintheNow

Everything You Need to Breastfeed, in Addition to Breasts

Starting to breastfeed can be overwhelming. Get these breastfeeding supplies and you will be off to a wonderful breastfeeding journey. As a mother of four who breastfed for a total of 90 months over the span of 10 years, I found that being prepared for the “unexpected” gave me an advantage when View Post

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Breastfeeding, Motherhood, Parenting Tagged With: Baby, Breastfeeding, health, Marvelous Mammary Memories, Motherhood, Parenting Shortcut, Pregnancy, Pumping

Breastfeeding support for breastfeeding moms. Breastfeeding advice for new moms. Breastfeeding tips for nursing moms. All the breastfeeding support you need to get through your breastfeeding journey. #Breastfeeding #Breastfeedingsupport #BreastfeedingAdvice #NewMom #MamaintheNow

Breastfeeding Advice From 67 of Your Breast Friends

Where do you find your breastfeeding support? I recently reached out to YOU (aka my readers/ friends/ fellow moms) to hear the best breastfeeding advice you ever received… and now i have bundled this fantastic package of 67 estrogen-filled, supportive hugs into one big article!  Bookmark View Post

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Breastfeeding, Motherhood, Parenting Tagged With: Baby, Breastfeeding, friends, health, Kids, Marvelous Mammary Memories, Motherhood, Pregnancy

The 100 best random acts of kindness for kids. RAOK for kids. Random acts of kindness for families. 100 ways to spread kindness. Teach your kids kindness, empathy and generosity with these 100 awesome acts of kindness. #RAOK #RAOKForKids #RandomActsofKindness #Parenting #TeachingKidsKindness #RaisingKindKids #mamaintheNow

The 100 Best Random Acts of Kindness for Kids

Random Acts of Kindness for Kids “Mama, do you know what day it is on Wednesday?” Jansen, with his toothless grin looked at me with suspense in his voice. He’s our first grader. Our old soul. He’s the kid who gives me a well-timed hug when I am having a bad day or he picks yellow flowers on the View Post

Filed Under: Hygge, Life Style, Motherhood, Parenting Tagged With: friends, Happiness, health, live in the now, special needs

Tips for special needs moms. Tips for newly diagnosed medical moms. How to adjust to your new normal when your child has just been diagnosed. Help for heart moms with heart warriors. Learn how to find your happiness again as a medical mom, special needs moms. Find your happiness after a medical diagnosis. #MedicalMom #HeartMom #HeartWarrior #SpecialNeeds #SpecialNeedsMom #MamaintheNow

5 Important Things Every New Medical Mom Should Do

New Medical Moms, Listen Up! I am the mother of four boys ages 8 and younger. One of our little ones is medically complex and was diagnosed a few days after his text-book-delivery via scheduled c-section. He spent the first two months fighting for his life in the PICU, in a medically induced coma View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Motherhood, Narcolepsy, Our Life, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, Guest Blogging, Happiness, health, Heart, live in the now, special needs

When should you introduce the bottle to your breastfed baby? (Don't do what I did!) Bottle-feed a breastfed baby with ease. Right timing for introducing the bottle. Pumping and bottle feeding tips for breastfeeding. #MamaintheNow

When Should You Introduce The Bottle? Don’t Do What I Did!

The key to bottle-feeding success is planning! As a breastfeeding mom it is very easy to feel like you will forever be walking around with a baby hanging off your breast, especially in the first couple of months. Your life is full of cuddling, nursing sessions, diaper changes and smelling the View Post

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Breastfeeding, Parenting Tagged With: Baby, Breastfeeding, health, Pumping, work life balance

Get rid of pinworms (almost) naturally. Cure pinworms, find best solutions to your child's itchy bottom. Natural pinworm or threadworm cure for kids and adults.

How to Treat Pinworms (almost) Naturally – FOR GOOD!

How to Treat Pinworms (almost) Naturally If you've found this post, first and foremost, please know that I am sorry. But also know that I am here to give you hope, tips and tricks of how to treat pinworms - all the information I am sharing here worked for our family. You have not been properly View Post

Filed Under: Health, Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Popular, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: germs, health, Kids

10 clever solutions to stop bedwetting in kids. Enjoy waking up to dry mornings. Now that your toddler is potty trained, wouldn't it be nice to be done with diapers once and for all? So which strategies work to stop bedwetting? These tips are from a mother of four boys with lots of bedwetting experience. These tips will give you encouragement and the tips you need to help your child overcome bedwetting. #Bedwetting #nocturnalenuresis #PottyTraining

13 Clever Solutions to Stop Bedwetting

No matter how many sticker charts you have, incentives and even bribes, you STILL need to put him in diapers at night. Here's your help to stop bedwetting! Congratulations! Your toddler is now potty trained. The little cherub happily wears big-kid underwear throughout the day, and proudly and View Post

Filed Under: Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Potty Training, Toddler (2-5 years) Tagged With: Cloth Diapering, health, Toddlerhood

Medical moms and special needs moms find their happiness again. Empowering and encouraging story for moms with sick children, kids with medical conditions and special needs children. Happiness in motherhood IS very possible. #Motherhood #SpecialNeeds #MedicalMom

Happiness is Being a Medical Mom! Really – It IS!

It was a pretty normal Tuesday morning. I was on my way to work, dressed in my standard navy business suit with a few snot stains around my knees and some crusty baby food over my left shoulder. The two oldest kids were in school, while our youngest was at home with our nanny. (At the time, we only View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Parenting, Relationships, Special Needs Tagged With: family, Happiness, health, Heart, live in the now, special needs

Everything you need to know about hurricane preparations and hurricane safety. Prepare your home and family for a hurricane and keeping your family safe during and after a hurricane. This is a complete guide!

Hurricane Preparation and Safety! Everything You Need to Know!

Hurricane Preparation and Hurricane Safety! If you lived in the South during the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons you already know more than you ever cared to about hurricanes, how to prepare and the damage they leave behind. In case you are new to the area or just need a reminder, this is a View Post

Filed Under: Health, Life Style, Printables Tagged With: Guest Blogging, health, Printable, safety

Four words that will change the way you parent - for better. Positive parenting, intuitive parenting encouragement. Special needs mom, medical mom, heart mom encouragement. Parenting with love and intuition. Mindful parenting mantra.

Four Words That Will Change The Way You Parent

In hindsight, we all have defining moments in our lives that changed, molded and shaped us. Either we were changed against our will, improved after careful planning or shaped through serendipity. Before this experience, I considered myself a pretty good parent to our two young boys. But I View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Our Life, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, family, Happiness, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, work life balance

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