Tip #44: Make pumping as fun as possible

I know..funny title huh? But, I have found that pumping is a drag. I love nursing, but could do without the hassle and stress of spending about 40-minutes a day (sometimes 60minutes) in a little antechamber off of the women's bathroom in the building next to mine. There's not a lot of work I can do while pumping, so I've tried to make that time as relaxing and stress-free as possible. Here are some of the things I do (by the way I bought a netbook specifically for this):

• Blog
• Watch Netflix streaming
  
• Listen to podcasts (This American Life and Planet Money are my favorites)
• Knit
• Read a book
  

Tip #43: Time medications if they have sugar

I have just learned if you are giving your child a medication that is suspended in a sugary syrup that you should not give it to them just before bed. We just started a course of antibiotics and we have gone from a sleepy baby to a jacked-up-on-sugar baby.

Tip #42: Home daycare age separations

When we started to consider home daycare, I contacted a friend's mom who has run one for a long time. The best piece of advice I got from her was to consider the age ranges in the daycare. Since we would be looking for an infant spot, she recommended infants and 2yrs+ toddlers was a great mix, but not to go somewhere with a lot of kids in between. Kids around 12-18months who are still learning to walk and have no perception of babies underfoot are a bad mix with infants. Since seeing kids this age I highly agree! We found a place with a very good split in ages and a method for separating the older kids so that the crawlers can have a safe space all to themselves.

Source: Friend's Mom