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Choosing A Family Name For Your Baby

Many people turn to their family’s past when they are looking for a name for their baby. Including family names in the names of your children is a wonderful way to honor members of your family both past and present. That said, using family names can be a bit of a tricky situation to navigate. For example, some people are easily offended. If you choose a name from one side of the family and not the other, someone’s feathers may be ruffled. As hard as it may be to deal with the ruffled feathers, the decision about your baby’s name … Continue reading →

Family Baby Stories

Everybody loves baby stories. Whether it is a story about how your brother used to pull you around the neighborhood in a wagon or how you tried to teach the family dog how to read, stories about what you and your siblings and other family members were like as babies and young children are always interesting. If you are interested in genealogy, you may want to incorporate some of your family’s baby stories into your work. To collect family baby stories for use in a family history book or scrapbook, you will want to start by interviewing people in the … Continue reading →

Baby Names in My Family

This weekend, I will be attending my cousin’s baby shower. I am very excited because she is my favorite cousin and she’s the second one of the eight of us cousins to have a baby. I am even more excited because she is going to have a little boy and I have a little boy. Family gatherings are going to be very, very interesting in a year or two as Declan and Dylan get to know each other and play together at family gatherings. The topic of baby names is always an interesting one. One thing that Dylan and Declan … Continue reading →

Getting the Family Dog Ready for Baby

If your family owns a dog and you are expecting a baby, you might be wondering how to prepare your family pet for the baby’s arrival. Here are some tips and precautions for introducing a baby to a home with a dog. Before the baby is born, play some tracks of a baby crying. If the dog starts barking or becomes aggressive at the sound, correct him. You want the dog to think nothing of this sound, because he will be hearing it quite often soon enough and you don’t want it to trigger aggressive (or just plain annoying) behavior. … Continue reading →

Duggar Family Has 18th Baby

By now you may be familiar with the Duggar Family, an Arkansas family with a large number of children. Today it was announced that Michelle Duggar just gave birth to her 18th child, named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar. Little Jordyn weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was delivered by Cesarian. This family has a thing not only for having many kids (obviously) but also naming them with names that start with the letter J. In the family, there is Joshua, 20 and now married; Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 17; Jessa, 16; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 12; Joy-Anna, 11; Jeremiah, … Continue reading →

Yours, Mine and Ours – Having a Baby in a Blended Family pt. 2

Blending families is difficult all by itself, but try adding a baby to the mix and you might just find yourself back at square one with the dynamics of the family. Having a baby is a complex time for anyone but in a blended family it involves to parents and several children who aren’t actually blood related. Here are a few more tips to keep your family grounded during this blessed event, while still handling the issues that are sure to ensue. All Children are Special This is important to remember. While you might be expecting a child of your … Continue reading →

Yours, Mine and Ours – Having a Baby in a Blended Family pt. 1

When you blend a family, you often wind up with a much larger family, because some of the kids are his and some of them are hers. But what happens when you are ready for an “ours”? Having a baby in a blended family can be tricky and being sensitive to all those involved is important. Here are some tips to hopefully help you figure out what works for your family. Give It Time Giving it time works in two ways. The first way is that you try to remember that you have a new family to take care of. … Continue reading →

Ask a Baby Blogger: Our Whole Family Isn’t Invited to the Wedding

Question: A cousin of mine is getting married in a few months and on the invitation she invited myself and my husband but not the baby. My baby will only be 4 months old when she gets married. Isn’t it rude of her not to invite the whole family? So what should I do? Do I tell her that we won’t come unless she invites the baby? (I’m not comfortable leaving the baby as I am nursing.) Or do I go anyways despite her being selective? Since this isn’t the marriage blog I won’t spend a lot of time on … Continue reading →

The Benefits of Limiting Family at Baby’s Birth

In a past blog, I talked about the benefits of including family in the delivery room. Some women view birth as a family event and want a room full of loved ones on the big day. Other women don’t want a crowd watching the birth. These women often view birth as an intimate time that is best enjoyed with only the father of the baby. I fall into this category. When my first baby was born, my mother in law, sister in law and a close friend came to the hospital. This was fine during labor, since they were in … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Welcoming a New Baby

One idea for a family home evening is to plan a special lesson when you are expecting a new baby. This is a great way to help your other children understand the changes that are going to take place. It is also a chance to celebrate the times that they came to be part of your family. You can vary this lesson according to your family’s needs and circumstances. If you have very young children you will want to keep it much simpler. You can open the lesson by reading part of “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” You … Continue reading →