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Surviving

Real Mom Tips for Surviving Witching Hour

February 3, 2025January 26, 2015 by valplowman

When your baby is hard to calm down when crying, it is probably because of witching hour. Get tips for how to help your baby through this. Your days go …

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Categories Baby Tags Surviving, witching hour 6 Comments

Surviving Traveling with Children

December 24, 2024October 1, 2014 by valplowman

Get the tips you need for traveling with kids. Get packing tips, driving with kids, flying with kids, and staying in hotels with kids. The holidays are coming up and …

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Categories Traveling Tags Surviving 2 Comments

Sunburns: Tips for Moms to Prevent and Treat

May 13, 2024June 16, 2014 by valplowman
Family at the beach

Get the tips you need to be able to prevent and treat sunburns for you and your kids this summer. It is summer in the northern hemisphere and that means …

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Categories Summer Tags medical issues, sunburns, Surviving 2 Comments

Surviving Teething: Soothing the Pain

June 28, 2024June 2, 2014 by valplowman
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Get tips from moms on how to help your baby or toddler survive teething pain. Help relieve the pain so kiddo can be happy and sleep well. Some babies and …

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Categories Baby, Pretoddler Tags Surviving, teething 7 Comments

Surviving Bad Weather {With Kids}

January 29, 2025April 16, 2014 by valplowman
Girl building a snowman. She is putting the coal on the snowman

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is quoted as saying, “There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” This quote is also attributed as being a Scandinavian proverb and is …

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Categories Winter Tags Surviving 2 Comments

Surviving an Ear Infection: Treating and Preventing

March 18, 2024March 20, 2014 by valplowman
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Ear infections and interfere with sleep and with language development. Get tips for treating ear infection pain, getting rid of ear infections, and preventing them in the future. One of …

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Surviving Bed Rest when Pregnant

May 3, 2019February 20, 2014 by valplowman
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How to survive bedrest when pregnant. Tips to save your sanity when you are stuck in bed and also take care of your family. Bed rest is one of those …

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Categories Pregnancy Tags doTerra, Surviving 1 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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