Baby Shower Planning for a Crowd
I just hosted a baby shower with 80 guests. With an hour of game time, I tried to come up with a mix of familiar and new-for-them games.
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Adopting Baby 2: Why Adoption?
Why Adoption? Part one of our family’s process to adopt Baby 2.
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5 Items for Your Geeky Baby Registry
A few of GeekMom Sarah’s very favorite geeky products for the first year with baby.
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13 Things That Change When You Go From Geek Girl to Geek Mom
For geek-girls-turned-geek-moms, there are some unique changes and challenges in store. (But don’t worry — that’s what GeekMom is here for!)
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Babies Learn Food Preferences Before Birth
Do babies learn to prefer junk food as fetuses?
Continue ReadingEven In Utero, Babies Know Native Language
New research indicates babies learn their native language, even while in utero.
Continue Reading4Moms MamaRoo: The Baby Swing to End All Baby Swings
4moms, a small company based in Pittsburgh, are combining technology and baby products in the most amazing ways. One of these tech-babies mash-up items is the mamaRoo.
Continue ReadingBaby Week: My Little Preemies
I didn’t expect anything other than a healthy full term baby. I thought I’d have huge babies, just as my mother did, and I’d have to argue with the hospital staff about not trying to push pain medication on me as I labored for the twentieth straight hour. Ha! As it turns out, my membranes […]
Continue ReadingTips for New Moms From the GeekMoms
Welcome to Baby Week here on GeekMom! This week we’ll be sharing our best advice, tales from the trenches, must-have baby items, product reviews, and more for you GeekMom-To-Be’s out there. Before I became a mom myself, I had no idea what it would be like to have a newborn. Luckily, my friends at my […]
Continue ReadingOn Our Own
It seems like everyone around me is pregnant or talking about getting pregnant. Before I went through a pregnancy, I thought that I wanted at least two kids. But then I had my daughter and went through a really rough first year with her. This made it clear to me that I didn’t really want […]
Continue ReadingLuke, I Am Your Father
Looking for a cute DIY baby gift for that geeky friend of yours? Look no further. Sisters, Sisters blog has created a tutorial for the coolest onesie around. Just gather your supplies and you can have a unique baby gift ready to go in a few hours.
Continue ReadingMusic Week: Baby’s First Jazz
My kids love jazz. We can listen to John Coltrane albums on endless repeat thanks to a single animator, Michal Levy, who explores “the visualization of sound.” When my daughter was a few months old, my husband discovered Levy’s animation for Coltrane’s Giant Steps. She was riveted. We showed the animation to our 1-year-old and […]
Continue ReadingThe Glamorous Life of a Stay at Home Mom
I’ve always wanted to be a mom, which is odd because I never really cared for other people’s kids. But I knew that I wanted my own kids once I was married and such. When I got pregnant with my daughter 3 months after we had started trying for a baby, my husband and I […]
Continue ReadingHow Audio Books Helped Me Stay Sane
When my daughter was a newborn, and nursing what seemed to be all the time, I had a hard time not being bored out of my mind. During the day, it wasn’t as much of a problem because I had the TV and computer to keep me amused. At night, especially when she woke up […]
Continue ReadingThe Importance of Story Time
When I went to the hospital to have my son, I took many things with me; fresh clothes, a cute outfit for him, a loofah, and Slaughterhouse V by Kurt Vonnegut – a girl’s gotta read right? So while I nursed my son I read, I didn’t have the best breastfeeding experience but that part […]
Continue ReadingSecond Generation Lovey
There can become a time when old toys become new again when the next generation discovers them. My daughter has been wanting to watch the Toy Story movies, especially Toy Story 3 where Andy goes to college, leaving the fate of his toys up in the air. It makes me think of my own lovey. […]
Continue ReadingNavigating Your Way through Mommy Groups
I never planned on being a stay at home mom. I was going to go back to work after my maternity leave was up. But I got laid off from my job the day before I was suppose to go back. So, I found myself a stay-at-home mom in the worse job market in my […]
Continue ReadingGeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #3: Small Kids
Regardless of what holidays you celebrate, the end-of-year festivities are right around the corner. If you choose to purchase gifts online, you need to order then in advance to allow for shipping time, backorders, and comparison shopping. We at GeekMom are here to help you with ideas for anyone on your gift list, from babies […]
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