mama stuff and kids' clothes
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fleaA couple of links I've been enjoying lately:
Courtesy of a friend, I found: http://moxie.blogs.com/askmoxie/
A very sensible person writing about a lot of parenting questions, very judgment-withheld unlike many parenting sites/blogs.
Courtesy of a vanity google on my nom de LJ, I found: http://babyblogorama.net/
One of the most valuable things I have found as a preparation to giving borth is reading other people's birth stories. They give you a sense of the wide variety of things that can happen and ways that the parents will react to them. This site catalogs a lot, and you can view only, for example, scheduled C-sections or midwife births or whatever. For the gestating, you can also find blogs of people who are expecting in the same month as you.
We went out to the Small Mall last night looking for a cardigan or something for the Dillo - long sleeved and button-up for him to wear in these variable temperature days when at 2pm you want a onesie and pants but it's too cold at 8am for short sleeves. Shockingly, the Old Navy has closed, and Sears seems to have stopped carrying Lands' End for kids (though we did score great Lands' End sport sandals for Casper for $5 on clearance.) Sears' 4-6x section is all hoochie-mama all the time, though we discovered that the newly Macy'd Hechts has a small but okay kids section, and the hoochie doesn't start until size 7 there. Their store brand, Green dog, is pretty basic and nice and reasonably priced. We ended up having to buy a full outfit to get a decent zip-up hoodie fleece for Dillo, but we;ll put the pants to use, too (and he is SO CUTE) in it. There were lots of girl cardies, but almost nothing for boys. I said out loud, "Why are there so many more clothes for girls than for boys? Boys wear clothes too!" and a woman shopping nearby was all, "Don't you know it!" So at least I'm not alone.
Courtesy of a friend, I found: http://moxie.blogs.com/askmoxie/
A very sensible person writing about a lot of parenting questions, very judgment-withheld unlike many parenting sites/blogs.
Courtesy of a vanity google on my nom de LJ, I found: http://babyblogorama.net/
One of the most valuable things I have found as a preparation to giving borth is reading other people's birth stories. They give you a sense of the wide variety of things that can happen and ways that the parents will react to them. This site catalogs a lot, and you can view only, for example, scheduled C-sections or midwife births or whatever. For the gestating, you can also find blogs of people who are expecting in the same month as you.
We went out to the Small Mall last night looking for a cardigan or something for the Dillo - long sleeved and button-up for him to wear in these variable temperature days when at 2pm you want a onesie and pants but it's too cold at 8am for short sleeves. Shockingly, the Old Navy has closed, and Sears seems to have stopped carrying Lands' End for kids (though we did score great Lands' End sport sandals for Casper for $5 on clearance.) Sears' 4-6x section is all hoochie-mama all the time, though we discovered that the newly Macy'd Hechts has a small but okay kids section, and the hoochie doesn't start until size 7 there. Their store brand, Green dog, is pretty basic and nice and reasonably priced. We ended up having to buy a full outfit to get a decent zip-up hoodie fleece for Dillo, but we;ll put the pants to use, too (and he is SO CUTE) in it. There were lots of girl cardies, but almost nothing for boys. I said out loud, "Why are there so many more clothes for girls than for boys? Boys wear clothes too!" and a woman shopping nearby was all, "Don't you know it!" So at least I'm not alone.
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Date: 2006-10-06 03:27 am (UTC)