Baby Archives - Mommy Shorts

11/22/22

The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide With Ideas for Everyone You Know in 2022!

Whatever holiday you celebrate and whoever you are shopping for, you are guaranteed to find a great gift idea in this crazy extensive guide!

06/24/19

The Best and Most Concise Advice for New Moms

A few weeks ago, Amy Schumer posted a pic of herself lying in bed with her newborn, with the caption “This shit is bananas.

10/09/18

51 Ways Pregnancy Changes Your Body that Nobody Warned You About

I asked my readers to describe any unexpected changes that happened to their body from pregnancy. Like peeing when you sneeze or stretch marks in strange places.

06/14/18

How to Talk to People about Your Baby When They Don’t Want to Anymore

This is an excerpt from Doug Moe’s hilarious new book “Man vs. Child: One Dad’s Guide to the Weirdness of Parenting.”

05/15/18

How to Survive Your First Year of Parenting

Parenthood is a roller coaster and the initiation period, aka that first year, is basically your uphill road to the top. It’s slow, scary, exciting and seems like it goes on FOREVER.

02/15/18

How to Trust a Stranger with Your New Baby

One of the hardest things to do as a new parent is feel confident leaving your baby in someone else’s care. Particularly if you are going back to work and need to trust that person or facility every single day.

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12/12/17

8 Things You Can Expect When Your Baby is 6 Months

This is the phase when you introduce solids and then have to wrestle a dirty diaper with mysterious contents off a baby who just learned to roll over. Have fun!

08/08/17

Kids’ Reception to New Adopted Sibling is a Complete Joy to Watch

The world needs more moments like these.

06/27/17

Baby Conspires with Big Brother for Freedom

You know how we’re always encouraging our kids to work together? Well, you might want to reconsider once you see this pint-sized conspiracy bust out of a crib using a plastic chair, determination, and serious climbing skills.

03/27/17

Do These Babies Look Anything Like These Celebrities??

Recently, a baby went viral for being the spitting image of Ed Sheeran. This caused me to dig up my old baby celebrity lookalike photos and show them to Pam and Allie…who didn’t see the resemblance AT ALL.

02/07/17

Red Wine Beats the Bottle Every Time

Somehow THIS BABY knows exactly how parents everywhere feel about a glass of red.

01/11/17

5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Teething

My niece might look innocent but my sister currently has bruises on her upper arms from her exercising her new chompers. And my nephew Jack once gnawed through his wooden crib!

12/15/16

Baby Trying Sweet Potato Might or Might Not be Most Epic Moment Ever

Here’s a baby trying solids for the first time, filmed by his Grandpa who set it to 2001: A Space Odyssey. I can say with 1000% certainly that this will totally be me as a grandparent.

11/15/16

37 Babies Smashing Cake Like They’d Never Get Cake Again

In honor of Harlow’s birthday, I’m giving out cake smash awards. What’s a cake smash? Babies going to town on their first birthday cakes while their parents wonder how they’re gonna clean up the mess.

10/31/16

14 Things Parents Need to Survive their Second Baby

This month’s swag bag doubles as a “Second Baby Survival Kit” with lots of creative gift ideas for moms and dads about to have Baby #2.