Wisdom 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.

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!

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.

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03/21/16

16 Times Parents Needed to Up their Child Proofing Game

Kids seem to go from rolling over to crawling to scaling the walls in a blink of an eye. As a result, every parent has a moment when they find their child somewhere they least expected.

02/12/16

This Dog is Better at Swaddling a Newborn than Most Parents

If you are having trouble swaddling your baby, you should totally train your dog to do it. Or at least, find out if you can hire this one.

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.