Ages + Stages

After three babies, I still have a lot to learn about parenting. But one thing that I have felt confident in is starting solids from an early age and raising my kids to be open minded about a variety...

You never know what to expect with twins, other than the fact that you need two of everything. A multiple baby pregnancy is considered high risk and at a greater risk to deliver early, so along with my regular...

Alright, so as I usually start, we will begin with a disclaimer. At the moment, there are no plans for a sweet Heid #3 and there are really no name choices in this world that I care to judge...

We see the pictures of babies latching right after birth, of littles with milk moustaches, and bags of pumped milk. We hear that all babies have an instinct after birth to eat and all they need is to be...

The days are long, but the years are short. It’s such a cliché. And in a year when time got turned on its head and seemed to move in the strangest ways – standing still in the first few weeks...

The beginning of February was a doozy for us. We aren't 100% certain where we got Covid seeing that we aren't out of the house much, but we have our theories. It all started with what we thought was...

We are on an almost robotic setting with some things in life, not because we don't care about those things, but because we are just so used to them that we don't think about them each time we do...

I know what many of you are thinking when reading the title: what could we possibly need for a third baby? And all girls?! I thought the same thing, which is why I had not thought to create a registry...

I love a good commercial. I am typically the girl who gets the strange looks because instead of asking about a particular television show, I am asking if you saw a certain commercial. Weird, I know, but stick with...

Amidst all the COVID-19 chaos, one bit of normalcy dominated the fall for my family: the college application process. My older son, a senior at Notre Dame, spent almost every moment of free time writing essays, completing the Common App...