If you’ve missed the other posts in my Baby Gear series this month you can catch the earlier posts by going to my Series Listing page. I was surprised at the number of people who had no idea that people still used cloth diapers. People who looked at me like I was a purple alien [...]

Crawl around your house on your hands and knees and look at the things you can get into: electrical outlets, cleaning supplies under the kitchen sink, the toilet, the dog’s bowl, the cat’s litterbox…. the power supply under the desk has lots of different colored wires that look like fun to play with, and look [...]

Once babies become mobile we pretty much have to restrict their ability to move within our homes. There are stairs, shelves they don’t need to try to climb, maybe electronic equipment we’d rather they didn’t go poking around on. Eventually they will learn what to stay away from, but when they first become mobile they [...]

We were given a baby monitor at a shower before we traveled to adopt GlitterGirl. The monitor was never used. It turns out there is no reason for a monitor when the child is always in a room with either mom or dad. GlitterGirl slept in our room with us, napped in the same room [...]

Most of the Pack’n Play options include a bassinet at the top. Most of the China adoption community is not going to need the bassinet, as the vast majority of our kids will be too advanced to safely lay in a bassinet by the time we bring them home from China. If the Pack’n Play [...]

  You’ve seen a bunch of people recommend this book, and I’ll give it a recommendation as well. My next long post is going to be on toys. I’m still working on it, though. For discussion today, let’s talk about how we feed our little ones in a restaurant. When GG was too small to [...]