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How To Expertly Manage Disruptions to Your Baby Routine

August 14, 2023January 15, 2020 by valplowman
Mom and baby

How to deal with disruptions in your daily schedule and routine. Learn to expertly manage disruptions in your baby’s routine and adjust the schedule for baby. When we were brand …

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Categories Schedule Tips, Sleep Problems Tags disruptions, flexibility 20 Comments

How To Maintain a Schedule When Your Little One is Sick

October 20, 2022January 14, 2020 by valplowman
Mom comforting a sick baby

How to maintain your routine when your little one is sick. When your baby or toddler is sick, you can comfort and offer relief and still preserve the schedule you …

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Categories Schedule Tips, Sickness Tags flexibility 29 Comments

Let Your Schedule Serve You: You Don’t Serve Your Schedule (Don’t Stress)

February 24, 2021November 12, 2019 by valplowman
Mom feeding her baby on a schedule

Tips to have a schedule but not be a slave to your baby’s schedule. How to let your schedule serve you and examples of how this looks in real life. …

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Categories Schedules Tags flexibility 8 Comments

Adjusting for Context Using Babywise

January 23, 2025January 9, 2019 by valplowman
Smiling baby lying in a bed

How to be flexible when using On Becoming Babywise. Eleven examples of a Babywise Mom adjusted for context when the situation needed. On Becoming Babywise II reminds us of the …

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Categories Babywise Tags Babywise II, church, CIO, context, flexibility, why vs. how 2 Comments

Flexibility in a Time of Crisis

October 7, 2022July 17, 2017 by valplowman

Babywise has been a huge blessing to my family! We have one son, Beckett, who will turn 2 in a few weeks.    I could go on and on about …

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Categories Babywise Benefits Tags Babywise Success Stories Week, flexibility Leave a comment

Going to Church Without Ruining Your Baby’s Sleep

September 7, 2020May 8, 2017 by valplowman
Going to Church Without Ruining Your Baby's Sleep

I love church. I really do. But when you have a little one, you often spend so much time in the hall with that baby that you wonder “What is …

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Categories Sleep Tags church, disruptions, flexibility, sleep disruptions 2 Comments

How to Have a Routine for Baby and Still Have a Life

May 28, 2021February 1, 2017 by valplowman
How to Have a Routine For Your Baby and Still Have a Life

A huge struggle many moms who like to follow a routine or schedule with their children have is knowing how to balance that schedule with living life. You don’t want …

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Categories Schedule Tips Tags flexibility, routine Leave a comment
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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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