A few weeks back, I had my worst diaper disaster with Noah ever… and after getting over the trauma of it all, I shared my tale on Facebook; Okay… So I think I have a contender for worst mommy day ever: My husband is out of town, my mother-in-law was supposed to move in and…
➠ Continue ReadingAs you all know, I started this blog because during my pregnancy I could barely find any blogs written by black mothers. Well, I’m almost a year into doing Baby and Blog, and I’m still having trouble finding you guys! So I decided to start a blog roll! If you are a black mommy blogger,…
➠ Continue ReadingI’ve shared before that I started this site because, during my pregnancy, I was surprised at how few black mom blogs existed. Now that I’m in the mommy blogging game, I realize that that wasn’t entirely true. I really wasn’t looking hard enough, because there are quite a few awesome blogs out there written by…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Alicia Barnes, liciabobesha.com Two years ago I was just getting to know this squishy face. Today, I have thousands* of photos documenting from then to now. I have him taking his first latch. I have him before his first bath. I have him discovering his hands. I have him sitting up. I have him…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Jenn Jackson My husband and I have three gorgeous children. Our oldest will be six next month. Our youngest just arrived last month. We were married in 2006 after dating for three years. We are college sweethearts. Next spring, we will celebrate our eighth wedding anniversary. And, if you did the math, that means…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Kim of During our season of having just two children the celebration and congratulatory responses were “on and poppin”! We were treated ‘normally’, received smiles and given friendly comments. According to society and cultural standards, WE FIT IN! By the time our children increased to four, the opinions, comments, and judgments were shot at…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Didan Ashanta I am a stay-at-home-mommy, a full-time/executive homemaker, a domestic logistics engineer, a housewife. Yes, I resigned from my middle management position in the food production and service industry to ‘stay home, keep house and mind baby’. No, we are NOT rich. No, we do NOT have a trust fund account to live off of….
➠ Continue ReadingI am used to excelling at school and at work. I am used to being the one who figures it out early, who is ahead of the curve. But when it comes to motherhood it seems the only thing I’ve done exceptionally well is design my son’s nursery — which would mean something if he…
➠ Continue ReadingThat braid sticking up vertically from his head was a definite fail… When I was pregnant I did intense research of all the incredible things I could and would do for my new baby: cloth diapering, breastfeeding, reading, infant swim classes, sleep training, organic homemade food. I would be a progressive mama, giving my son…
➠ Continue ReadingIn February 2012 I found out that I was pregnant. It was totally unplanned and took me by surprise, and it seemed that a lot of my friends were getting pregnant around the same time. As I prepared myself mentally for a baby I scoured sites like BabyCenter.com for information and advice. And I found…
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