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valplowman

Valerie, also known as The Babywise Mom, is the mother to four children. She has been blogging on Babywise and general parenting since 2007. She has a degree in technical writing and loves using those skills to help parents be the best parents they can be! Read her book, The Babywise Mom Nap Guide, to get help on sleep from birth through the preschool years. You can also find her writing at Babywise.life, Today Parenting, and Her View From Home. Read more about Valerie and her family on the About page. Follow her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram for more tips and helps.

How to Create A Strong Family Culture

August 10, 2020March 12, 2018 by valplowman
How to Create A Strong Family Culture to keep your relationship with your children strong

How to Create A Strong Family Culture to keep your relationship with your children strong   We have a new principal at school this year. Change can be scary and …

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Categories Family Tags family relationships, family time, traditions Leave a comment

How to Be Successful at Breastfeeding

October 15, 2024March 7, 2018 by valplowman
How to Be Successful at Breastfeeding

How to Be Successful at Breastfeeding If you start breastfeeding, you probably want to succeed at it. Despite that initial plan and desire, you may run into difficulties and road …

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Exploring Your Prejudices About Breastfeeding

August 10, 2020March 6, 2018 by valplowman
Exploring Your Prejudices About Breastfeeding

Exploring Your Prejudices About Breastfeeding. Is fed best? Breast is best? What is true? Have you ever stepped back and honestly evaluated how you feel about feeding babies? Do you …

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I Breastfed For 12 Months Even When Everything Went Wrong

May 2, 2024March 5, 2018 by valplowman
How to breastfeed through obstacles and difficulties. Breastfeed even when it is hard.

How to breastfeed through obstacles and difficulties. You can breastfeed even when it is hard. Encouragement to push through and how to make it work. Breastfeeding didn’t start out anything …

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Categories Breastfeeding Tags nursing 2 Comments

The Babywise Mom Nap Guide: How to establish successful naps from birth through the preschool years

November 20, 2024February 26, 2018 by valplowman
Baby sleeping

The Babywise Mom Nap Guide: How to establish successful naps from birth through the preschool years. Of all of the questions I get on my Babywise Mom blog, the topic …

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Categories Babywise, BabywiseMom, eBooks, Naps, Sleep Problems Tags 45 minute intruder, baby sleep, chronic short naps 6 Comments

6 Simple Ways to Naturally Prevent and Treat a Cold

August 10, 2020February 21, 2018 by valplowman
How to Prevent and Treat a Cold Naturally with 6 Simple Steps

In this post: How to Prevent and Treat a Cold Naturally. Natural ways to prevent getting a cold. There are much worse sicknesses to have in life than a cold, …

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The Best Ages for Dropping Baby’s Naps

January 23, 2025February 20, 2018 by valplowman
The Best Ages for Dropping Naps | baby naps | baby sleep | #droppingnaps

This post discusses the best ages for dropping naps for your baby or child.  Dropping a nap is always a little bitter sweet (along with a bit scary–are you doing …

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Categories Baby, Naps Tags dropping naps 3 Comments
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Valerie Plowman

Valerie Plowman, known as "the Babywise Mom", is the happy mother of four children. She has been helping parents with their parenting concerns since 2007 and loves helping others absolutely love being a parent.

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