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Hayden turns 8 months old tomorrow and I can't believe how fast it's going the third time around. Having 3 kids, especially 2 older kids with lots of activities, is keeping me more busy than I ever thought possible. Many days go by like a blur between taking care of baby, working, homework and cooking dinner, that some days I find myself standing for all my meals, and I can barely remember drinking a cup of water all day. I'd like to take better care of myself, because a healthy and happy momma makes for a healthy and happy family. Here are 3 simple things I can do to take better care of me, and I'm going to start tomorrow!

Caffeine Fix
Caffeine Fix
It's really no surprise that caffeine is many a mom's best friend. And while I don't usually have more than 1-1.5 cups of coffee a day, I do find myself going to coffee first, before breakfast and water, first thing in the morning. Many times it's 11 am before I realize all I've had is coffee, and I haven't eaten a thing or taken one sip of water.

When I was pregnant with my daughter, my husband and I discussed our timeline for having future children. At the time we both kind of decided that her first birthday would be a good time to start trying for baby #2. Well, Fern's first birthday has come and gone and now that she's 15 months old, I'm realizing that if we want our children to be close in age, we should probably start thinking about our plans for the next one. I don't want to make a decision based on an arbitrary time line of course, but I'm also not sure I'll ever feel fully "ready" to have another baby (I didn't the first time around), so I'm not sure the "when" really matters all that much. So I'm making a list of pros and cons and finding that there really are quite a few good reasons to have another baby - here are a few of them. By Lauren Hartmann

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10 Things I Can Do One-HandedIt's no secret us mamas have to do it all - multitasking is an art form, one that I know my husband could not master! When people who do not have children say, "I don't know how you do it" or "I couldn't handle that" my response is "You JUST DO IT." And you do, all moms know that.

A few weeks ago my brother came over and I was in the kitchen, holding Little L. She has moments when she only wants to be held and just won't stop crying when she is put down.

I was getting M's dinner ready so I reached up to get a cup, walked to the fridge, opened it, reached in, got out a gallon of milk, unscrewed the cap, poured the milk, capped it, grabbed a straw from the cabinet, and then gave to my son. My brother stared at me in absolute amazement saying "That is crazy! How did you just do all that with ONE HAND?"

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I looked at him and said "Anything you can do, I can do one-handed. I don't have a choice!" and we both just laughed. But naturally that

Our middle child is named Sydney. Not necessarily after the city in Australia, although he does consider himself quite famous knowing that an entire city shares the same name as he. While we named our son after an uncle, it is neat to know that we could travel halfway around the world and find a place with a name so familiar to us. It got me thinking about all the city-inspired baby names, and so I searched to see just how many names have been inspired by cities, and it turns out there's quite a lot. Here's 10 of my favorite city-inspired baby names I found. By Andrea Howe

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5 Reasons I LOVE Being an AuntI already knew that I loved babies - especially babies from my genetic pool - but man, you guys. I had no idea how much I'd love being an aunt. Of course it doesn't exactly compare to the primal love of a mother and child, but there's a very special and unique bond between an aunt and her nephew.

1. I get to experience all of the best parts of babyhood, namely the way they feel when they fall asleep on your chest - with those soft, deep breaths that can calm the most high-strung nerves. And the smiles and the laughs and the hugs and the OH MY GOODNESS YOU'RE SO CUTE I CAN'T STOP KISSING YOUs.

2. And then I get to hand him back, namely for the feedings and the poops and cries.

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3. I get to do a two-baby test run without the commitment. Benjamin has shown me what an incredibly nurturing and helpful Big Brother my son will be, and it's been awesome practice for the living-with-two-kids lifestyle.

4. It gets my son

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Everything changes when you become a new momI found this buried under pages of unpublished writing from the first few post-baby months as a new mom, and I think it perfectly sums up the unique and unexpected ways that a baby can change you…

It's the mantra of motherhood, echoing through the decades: "Everything changes." I've even said it myself because, really, those two words about all a new mother can muster when faced with the enormity of her new life. Fear mongers warn of being awake for 56 consecutive hours, screaming cries that last for three months straight, and breasts that whither from a D cup to an A cup. I was warned, "You'll have empty tube socks in your bra."

Lovely.

I was expecting the physical changes and an increase in daily responsibilities - like, I'd have to pack some diapers before I left the house, and I'd have to put little locks on my kitchen cabinets. But those weren't the real changes. Here are 10 ways my life changed in the first few months as a new mom:

1. When I pass a horrific car accident, I

Wondering what to get the mom in your life for Mother's Day? It might be easier than you think! I asked real moms to tell me what they *REALLY* wanted for Mother's Day. The responses are sweet, simple, and have very little to do with extravagant gifting. Click through to learn what moms really want and get inspired to pamper the mom you know and love this coming Mother's Day! By Becka Robinson

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