Finger food eating babies and toddlers love macaroni and cheese, but in many cases serving it means a choice between a self-spoon-feeding mess or hand-feeding your child. Believe it or not, macaroni and cheese can be a finger food. This recipe was gobbled up by my twins, it's healthy and it's fun for them to eat.

Baby's are notorious for crying and fussing for the silliest of reasons. My daughter cried from seven to ten every night no matter what I did. And this went on until she was four months old. If you try learning your baby's cries it can get much easier. There may be obvious reasons and if you can't find a solution quick for hunger, pain, fatigue, discomfort, too cold, too warm, boredom, over stimulation or needing to be held. There are ways to cope with this feeling.

One of the hardest things for working moms can be coping with dropping off your children at daycare. Even though you want to work or need to work, it is no simple matter leaving your children in someone else's care during work hours. Here are some tips to make it easier for working moms to cope with daycare, and the children, too.

Maternity leave can seem oh-so short, but there are ways to extend your maternity leave. Find out some tactics for making your maternity leave last longer so you get more bonding time with your newborn baby, as well as ways to cope with maternity leave issues like loss of income or threats to your job.

Little K has dozed off and it is quiet in the house. Everyone else is still with Grandma after the great househunting expedition. Little K was excited about getting Pizza tonight and even picked up all her toys before climbing up next to her dad, who is also asleep, and drifting off.

Night wakings with baby are easily one of the toughest aspects of life with a newborn. It sometimes seems you no sooner set head to pillow than your baby cries for a feeding. By dreamfeeding, you can help your baby sleep through the night and get your sleep yourself in those early months. Here is a step-by-step guide to dreamfeeding your baby.

The first six weeks after a couple becomes parents are easily among the toughest times in a marriage. It is not uncommon to fight, sometimes even often and viciously. Here are tips to survive your marriage during the first six weeks after a baby arrives.

New moms all want to lose that baby weight, and all are time-strapped to create healthy meals. How many times have you served your baby an organic, nutritious baby food, then turned around and nuked leftover pizza? Well, use the same principles of feeding your baby solid foods that you use on your own diet and you can lose weight with the Like Mom, Like Baby Diet for postpartum moms.

A statuesque piece of plastic sits majestically in TRL’s* garage. Long and tapered at the end, shiny white, waiting for transportation to the dump. Which is ironic. And not like rain on your wedding day. It is TRL’s arch nemesis: the Diaper Genie.

This finger food fruit salad recipe for babies features all no-boil-or-bake fruits that are soft enough for early finger food eaters to handle. It's a great way to provide fresh healthy fruit to babies without spending a bunch of time in the kitchen. It's also great for the rest of the family to nibble on, and makes a nice appetizer that older children and adults can nibble while cranky, hungry babies get some food.