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Losing It, With Your iPhone
Like practically every other human being on Earth, I own an iPhone. It’s helping me get into the best shape of my life.Now: I also own a very dusty and neglected Wii Fit — a thing I wanted so badly to...
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Leaving You
I’m typing this on a train (please to blame any and all typos on a particularly bu-u-u-mpy stretch of tra-a-ack), on my way to a conference in another city, trying to count the number of entire nights...
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Breastfeeding & Dieting
So. I get a lot of email from Alphamom readers suggesting topics for the postpartum set, similar to the email I get for the Advice Smackdown only a little more “please don’t actually use this letter...
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The Politics of Pajamas
I used to wake up every morning for work, before my husband did. I would shower and get dressed in suits and heels and I wore makeup and blow-dried my hair every day.And then I had a baby and went on...
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Morning Tips For Working Moms
I decided on this week’s topic while writing last week’s topic: Mornings are tough enough during maternity leave or for a stay-at-home-mom, but for the work-outside-the-home-mom? Oh, my lord, it’s a...
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The Lazy Mom’s Guide to Baby Books
Hi, Amy! I need your help. I’m having my second baby in October, and I need to find a book for “baby’s first years”. For the first, my mom asked if she could buy me one and I said, “Sure, as long as...
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New Mom Toolkit: How to Use Dry Shampoo
Oh, dry shampoo. You are the savior to tired, rushed women everywhere. A new-mom essential that I continue to use well past that new-mom stage because WHO HAS THE TIME, some days.But here’s the thing:...
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When It’s NOT Because You’re Postpartum
So I think we’re already established that I get a LOT of questions over at the Advice Smackdown — way more than ever possibly can get answered — and some of them can be kind of bizarre. These bizarre...
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Newborns & the Great Outdoors
You know what? This writing-columns-on-the-train-thing is getting old. I am ready to get back home, so I can get back to being a REAL PROFESSIONAL. Who writes columns in bed, before showering. IT IS...
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Workplace Breastmilk Pumping Laws
If you’re a nursing mother returning to work after maternity leave, does your workplace have any obligation to give you pumping breaks? If so, how many? How long? Can they dock your pay or make you...
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Sex After a C-Section: What’s “Normal?”
Hello Lovely, I hope you and the boys are well. My question today is regarding sex after c-sections. I’m three months out from having an unplanned c-section. There were no complications. It took me...
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When Weaning is Drawing Near
I can see, not far in the distance, the last days of breastfeeding my last baby. It is as if a large, friendly vessel is making its way toward us, and we wake each morning and say farewell to each day...
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Bounce Back: Must-Have Healthy Postpartum Snacks
Following the births of my three children, there was one thing that consistently did not happen: Me sitting down, at a table, for a meal. That I actually got to eat. With both hands. After getting home...
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Morning Tips For Working Moms
I decided on this week’s topic while writing last week’s topic: Mornings are tough enough during maternity leave or for a stay-at-home-mom, but for the work-outside-the-home-mom? Oh, my lord, it’s a...
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The Lazy Mom’s Guide to Baby Books
Hi, Amy! I need your help. I’m having my second baby in October, and I need to find a book for “baby’s first years”. For the first, my mom asked if she could buy me one and I said, “Sure, as long as...
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New Mom Toolkit: How to Use Dry Shampoo
Oh, dry shampoo. You are the savior to tired, rushed women everywhere. A new-mom essential that I continue to use well past that new-mom stage because WHO HAS THE TIME, some days. But here’s the...
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When It’s NOT Because You’re Postpartum
So I think we’re already established that I get a LOT of questions over at the Advice Smackdown — way more than ever possibly can get answered — and some of them can be kind of bizarre. These bizarre...
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Newborns & the Great Outdoors
You know what? This writing-columns-on-the-train-thing is getting old. I am ready to get back home, so I can get back to being a REAL PROFESSIONAL. Who writes columns in bed, before showering. IT IS...
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Workplace Breastmilk Pumping Laws
If you’re a nursing mother returning to work after maternity leave, does your workplace have any obligation to give you pumping breaks? If so, how many? How long? Can they dock your pay or make you...
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Sex After a C-Section: What’s “Normal?”
Hello Lovely, I hope you and the boys are well. My question today is regarding sex after c-sections. I’m three months out from having an unplanned c-section. There were no complications. It took me...
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