Parenthood Archives - Mommy Shorts

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.

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.

05/20/15

28 Hilarious, Beautiful, Happy, Exhausted, Proud Mama Selfies

Since moms are usually the ones taking all the family photos (and leaving themselves out in the process), I asked moms to upload selfies with both themselves and their children. Smiles optional.

05/06/15

An Ode to my Old Baby Carrier

I have never been a very confident mother, but when I was out and about with my babies safely nestled against my chest in the Ergo, I felt like I was doing something right.

05/04/15

10 Ways to Take Advantage of the Newborn Phase

Newborns are small, sleepy, immobile and highly portable. Here are 10 ways to take advantage of the newborn phase plus a huge giveaway from Diapers.com and Pampers.

02/13/15

The Stages of Parenthood as Told By Your Laundry

Parents do a TON of laundry. Besides professional mud wrestlers and the people who clean up elephant crap at the circus, I’m willing to bet parents do more laundry than anyone else on earth.

02/03/15

9 Words that Mean Something Very Different Now that You’re a Mom

When the baby comes along, not only do you get to learn fun, brand new words like “meconium” and “lochia,” you get to relearn words you thought you already knew.

01/23/15

This Awesome Video Should Put an End to the Mom Wars

For all the debate about bottle feeding vs. breast feeding, most mothers I know did a combination of both. What were we fighting about again? This video is a must-see.

10/02/14

Sarcastic Captions on Stock Images of Moms is Magic

“It’s Like They Know Us” is a brilliant new site that mocks moms in stock photos to let real moms know it’s okay not to be perfect.

09/07/14

Monday Morning with Anna

“Monday Mornings” aims to prove there is beauty in every mother’s morning, even if we need an outsider to see it.

08/25/14

Monday Morning with Adriana

"Monday Mornings" aims to prove there is beauty in every mother's morning, even if we need an outsider to see it.

07/27/14

Monday Morning with Sara

"Monday Mornings" aims to prove there is beauty in every mother's morning, even if we need an outsider to see it.

06/23/14

The Benefit of Lazy Parenting

Lately, I’ve been noticing people are way more concerned about the safety of my 18 month old than I am.

02/18/14

11 Events that Should Be in the “Mommy Olympics”

Two weeks ago, I went up against Winter Olympian, Noelle Pikus-Pace (congrats the silver, Noelle!) in the "Mommy Olympics".