Planes, Trains, & Automobiles: Traveling With Baby

Baby enjoying his first train ride. No way he was going to sleep through this.

  • This is not your Salad Days blog. I don't do paper towel napkins or four liter jugs of wine. No whining about mean boys or boys for that matter. No more eating corn out of the can, hostels, graduate degrees, PBR "beer", etc. I eat, I drink, and I write what I think.

    These are the Saveur Days of my life.

    THIS WEEK:

    Traveling with your baby for the first time? Here's some things I've figure out about how to make traveling with Baby more fun and less stress.

Ferbererer? Is that tasty?

I Ferberized My Kid

I Ferberized my kid. If you’d asked me four months ago what that sentence meant, I would have been clueless. Circumcise, immunize, baptize sure, but Ferberize, no. There’s a lot of new words you learn as a new parent. But by my internal counter, the word that comes up the most frequently is a word … Read more

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The party continues on the inside with little dots of colorful sprinkles.

How To Bake A Confetti Cake Without Dropping The Baby (In Real Time)

8:20 AM Baby wakes up. You wake up. Smile back when he gives you a big, beautiful, good morning smile. Still sleepy and chronically tired, you still feel that Baby is better than coffee. Feed Baby, change his diaper. 8:56 AM Walk around the house with Baby opening one blind at a time saying, “Good … Read more

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The sleepiest newborn. Our biggest challenge during the first month was waking him up and keeping him awake for feedings.

Love Out Of Fear

Before I gave birth to my son Henry, my biggest fear was not bonding with him. The so called maternal instinct–that primal, genetically encoded love and sense of protection for her child–seemed–as far as my Virginia-Woolf-Susan-Sontag-Betty-Friedan-loving-university-literature-educated self was concerned–a convenient myth forged by evolution and galvanized over centuries by sexist patriarchal civilizations meant to ensure … Read more

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Speading on the fillings

Prego Phood #11: Easiest Fruit ‘n’ Cream Cheese Pastry Ever

This past weekend I had my baby shower. Just in time, too, since last Sunday marked the full term date–37 weeks–of the baby’s gestation calendar. That’s right. The kid is now officially fully baked. He is now ready to make his exit any time now. Any time now…. Yup, any day now, he should be … Read more

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