http://www.advicefornewparents.com Practical Advice for New Parents Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:27:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.advicefornewparents.com/advice-for-new-parents http://www.advicefornewparents.com/advice-for-new-parents#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:18:49 +0000 Olga http://www.advicefornewparents.com/advice-for-new-parents I decided to start this blog as a way to document my approach to caring for my first baby.  My husband and I live in Seattle and our family is scattered everywhere in the U.S. and Canada.  We didn’t have a lot of friends with small children so we were left to figure everything out without a lot of outside advice.  From what I heard from other people this could be a good thing, but for us it was definitely a new experience and a challenge at times.   We kept things on the low, without a lot of the traditional hoopla that surrounds the arrival of a baby which is what I prefer.  That means that I did not want to have a baby shower (even though someone kindly offered to throw one for me), nor did I want anyone staying with us for the first two weeks after the baby was born (I know better now but more on that later).  I hope that someone out there will find even just a small bit of my blog useful enough to be of use.

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