Accidents happen. Even when traveling with babies… Here’s our story of a medical emergency involving our 6 month old. Our commercial flight headed to Aruba, with hundreds of people on board, almost turned around shortly after takeoff. Emergency medical services both back in Toronto and Aruba were put on standby. An off-duty fire and rescue officer and US insured doctor we’re assessing our “little” screaming situation. They’re we relaying information through airplane staff to medical … Read More
Family vacations are awesome, and if you love to travel there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to do so when you have a child. We’ve been traveling with our daughter, Poppy, since she was just a few weeks old. The problem is, when you’re supposed to be vacationing, you don’t have your typical army of childcare options and babysitters. When it comes to carving out some time to relax baby-free, enjoy a date night, … Read More
Maybe you can relate. Ever been jolted out of bed in the middle of the night by your crying baby? You stumble in expecting a quick fix. So for some unknown reason, the crying continues. Could it be something serious like a headache, ear infection, fever, cramps, or trouble breathing? God, wouldn’t it be less nerve-wracking (and scary!) if your baby could just tell you what’s wrong? Enter: Baby sign language book. Already convinced you … Read More
I’ve pumped over 100,000 ml of breast milk over 1,000 pump sessions. I’ve used $2,000 hospital grade pumps (the Medela Symphony), $200 pumps (the Medela In Style) and $35 manual pumps (the Avent Manual Comfort). Poppy was born 6.5 weeks early, so she wasn’t able to breastfeed right away. She had to work on her suck/swallow/breathe reflex, so she was fed through an NG tube and via bottle in the intermediate nursery. That meant that … Read More
In our daughter’s first year, we visited 4 countries, almost a dozen cities, and had been on several flights, and multi-hour, 10-day long road-trips. We’d stayed in campgrounds, hotels, luxury resorts and Airbnbs. And we did it all by traveling with cloth diapers. Why? 27.4 billion disposable diapers are used and added to the landfill each year in the US alone. So to avoid adding to the damage, we cloth diaper. Cloth diapering is also: Much … Read More
