New Baby Archives - Meraki Lane

10 Tips to Survive Sleep Regressions | Whomever coined the phrase 'sleep like a baby' did NOT know what they were talking about, am I right? This post is a great intro to baby sleep regressions, outlining the ages they occur (4 months, 8 months, and 18 months) plus 10 helpful baby sleep tips to help your little one get a good night of sleep and get back onto a predictable sleep schedule as quickly as possible. If you're a sleep deprived new parent, this post is a great resource!

Surviving Sleep Regressions: 10 Sleep Tips for Tired Parents

15 Meaningful Gender Reveal Ideas | Whether you're looking for unique and simple gender reveal ideas for you and your partner, or you want fun and creative ideas to surprise your guests at a gender reveal party, this post has lots of cute and easy DIY ideas to choose from. Whether you're organizing a theme party or a quiet celebration at home, we've included food ideas, games, and everything in between. Enjoy these inside or outside in fall, winter, spring, or summer!

Boy or Girl? 15 Creative and Meaningful Gender Reveal Ideas

45 Babymoon Ideas For Soon-To-Be Parents | If you're looking for a list of the best babymoon destinations and staycations, this post is for you! From inexpensive weekend getaways, to simple beach vacations, to romantic winter spots that don't require you to ski, to extravagant international babymoon ideas, to a list of things you can do at home to help you spend quality time with your partner, this post has a mix of cheap and affordable ideas and lavish, once-in-a-lifetime destinations.

The Calm Before The Storm: 45 Babymoon Ideas For Soon-To-Be Parents

9 Natural Colic Remedies | If you're a breast-feeding or bottle-feeding mama looking for tips, tricks, and remedies to help you and your newborn survive colic, this post has lots of helpful information, including the signs, symptoms, and causes of colic. From holding and swaddling, to dietary and formula changes, to movement and noise, we're sharing the best ideas to try for quick relief, allowing you and your babe to return to a place of calm asap.

Surviving Colic: 9 Natural Colic Remedies that Actually Work

5 Postpartum Pelvic Floor Exercises for New Moms | If you're looking for exercises you can do post-baby to help strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, treat incontinence, and close a diastasis recti, we're sharing 5 workout videos you can do at home. There are tons of benefits of doing pelvic floor exercises after natural childbirth, a c-section, and a hysterectomy, and these are helpful for prolapse as well. From kegels, to postpartum yoga, to exercises with weights, give these a try!

5 Strengthening Postpartum Pelvic Floor Exercises for New Moms

27 Labor and Delivery Tips for New Moms | Hello first time moms! Whether you’re planning a natural delivery or accepting all forms of pain management (lol), you probably want to know what to expect when your sweet baby is born. From knowing which things to pay in your hospital bag, to mentally preparing yourself for what the doctors and nurses will need to do to get you through labor and delivery, to what to expect post-birth, we’ve got you covered! #laboranddelivery #laboranddeliverytips

27 Practical Labor and Delivery Tips for First Time Moms and Dads

How to Lose Weight While Breastfeeding | Postpartum weight loss, exercise, and diets should not be an immediate concern for a new mom, and if you’re breastfeeding, weight loss too fast and too soon can decrease your milk supply. Of course, many women are eager to get back into a workout routine after pregnancy, and we're sharing 9 of our best tips to help you get back in shape without losing your milk supply! #breastfeeding #postpartumweightloss #increasemilksupply

How to Lose Weight While Breastfeeding: 9 Tips for Postpartum Moms

Baby Led Weaning for Beginners | Starting baby with his or her first foods at 6 months can be scary, especially if your babe has no teeth! It used to be that starter foods consisted only of purees - baby oatmeal and mashed banana and sweet potato – but many moms are opting to go straight to table foods. If you want to know how to get started with BLW, as well as the best beginner foods and recipes to start with, we’re sharing 25 tips and ideas to inspire you! #babyledweaning #BLW #starterfoods

Baby Led Weaning for Beginners: 25 Tips and Recipes for New Moms

27 Tips for Flying with a Baby | Baby’s first flight can be overwhelming if you’re not prepared – especially if you’re a new mom traveling alone! From packing lists and travel products for your carryon luggage, to travel tips to avoid ear pain and how to survive flying with a baby on your lap, to our favorite travel toys for babies age 6 to 12 months, this post has everything you need to make traveling on airplanes with little ones as easy as possible. #babytravel #momhacks #babysfirstflight

Baby’s First Flight: 27 Sanity-Saving Tips for Flying with a Baby

24 Must-Have Baby Gadgets to Make Life Easier | Looking for the coolest high tech gadgets for moms and dads? Whether you’re preparing for life with a newborn, need tips to make parenting twin babies easier, need products for traveling with baby, want to know the best and modern safety gadgets on the market, or you just want to be an awesome millennial mom with the latest tools for sleep, bath, feeding, and more, we’re sharing 24 of our favorite baby products! #babygadgets #babygear #babytech

Modern Parenting: 24 Genius Baby Gadgets to Make Life Easier

How to Create a Stay at Home Mom Schedule | Whether you have a newborn baby, toddler, school age kids, or all 3, the key to parenting like a boss while still having time for organizing, cleaning, housekeeping tasks, meal planning, a daily workout, kids activities, and self-care is proper time management. We’re excited to share 21 tips to help you create a daily plan as well as sample morning, afternoon, and evening stay at home mom schedules! #stayathomemom #stayathomemomschedule #momschedule

How to Create a Stay At Home Mom Schedule to Save Your Sanity

18 Finger Food Ideas for Baby | Introducing solids to baby can be both exciting and stressful. If you want to signs of readiness, how and when to introduce solids (is it 4 months or 6 months?!), if baby led weaning is for you, which foods to avoid, the best beginner finger foods to prevent food allergies, and yummy finger food recipes the whole family can enjoy, this post has it, all including other tips and ideas to help you get started! #introducingsolids #babyledweaning

Introducing Solids 101: 28 Tips and Finger Food Ideas for Baby

13 Unique Gender Reveal Ideas | Throwing a gender reveal party? Need creative games and activities to help surprise your guests about whether you’re having a boy or a girl? These DIY ideas will inspire you! From food and decorations, to balloons and party favors, there are so many gender reveal themes you can create on a budget, and we’re sharing 13 of our favorites for a simple, classy, and memorable celebration you’ll never forget! #genderrevealparty #genderrevealideas #genderrevealgames

Boy or Girl?! 13 Creative and Unique Gender Reveal Ideas

41 Uncommon and Meaningful Baby Names to Consider

41 Uncommon and Meaningful Baby Names to Consider

36 Diaper Bag Essentials | Trying to get organized for the arrival of your first baby? Already brought your newborn home from the hospital? This diaper bag checklist outlines what you will need at each stage of your baby’s development while you’re out and about. We’re included essentials for newborns, babies aged 6-12 months, for 1-year-old toddlers, and more! We’ve even linked to 8 stylish bags for mom, including options daddy won’t mind carrying! #diaperbagessentials #diaperbagchecklist

New Mom Tips: 36 Diaper Bag Essentials for Every Occasion

25 Baby Registry Checklist Essentials | Whether you’re pregnant with your first, second, or fifth baby this collection of minimalist must haves is for you! Check lists for new moms can be overwhelming, and this post breaks it down to the minimum – a simple list of the essential items you’ll need when baby arrives. We’ve done all the research for you, with links to the best brands and products on Amazon so you can create your baby registry from the comfort of home! #babyregistry #babyessentials

Baby Registry Checklist: 25 Must-Haves for New Moms

21 Non Traditional Baby Shower Games You’ll Love | If you’re looking for fun baby shower activities the mom to be and her friends will enjoy, we’ve got 21 ideas to inspire you! With options for large groups and small groups, co-ed baby shower games, and even minute to win it baby shower games, these suggestions are equal parts awesome and creative! Perfect for families with kids, or an intimate affair with your besties, these games will not disappoint. #babyshowergames #babyshoweractivities

21 Non-Traditional Baby Shower Games That Are Actually Fun

17 Postpartum Recovery Tips for First Time Moms | Healing after birth is no walk in the park. From stitches, bleeding, and perineum pain to all of the body changes that occur after a C section, the days and weeks after pregnancy can be an emotional and painful rollercoaster! These postpartum care truths and tips will help you heal faster so you can care for your baby, get back into a healthy diet and fitness routine, and feel more like you. #postpartum #postpartumtips #postpartumrecovery

Healing After Birth: 17 Postpartum Recovery Tips for New Moms

20 Weaning Tips for Breastfeeding Mothers | If you want to know how to stop breastfeeding a baby, one-year-old, or toddler, these tips and ideas for mom is a great place to start! Whether you want to stop nursing at night, you need to stop nursing cold turkey without pain, or your little one is showing natural signs starting solids is the way to go (hello, baby led weaning!), this article has it all! #weaning #stopbreastfeeding #selfweaning

How to Stop Breastfeeding: 20 Weaning Tips for Breastfeeding Mothers

34 Breastfeeding and Pumping Tips for New Moms | If you’re looking for breast pumping tips and hacks for beginners, this post is for you! We’re sharing everything you need to know, including how to choose a breast pump, the best portable manual and electric pumps (and don’t worry – we go above and beyond Medela and Haakaa!), 16 breast pump accessories, how to increase your milk supply, and how to get on a pumping schedule! #breastfeeding #breastpumping #milksupply

Pumping 101: 34 Breastfeeding and Pumping Tips for New Moms

17 Natural and Safe Pregnancy Insomnia Remedies That Work! | While there are heaps of funny memes out there about pregnancy and sleep, it can be hard to find the humor in pregnancy insomnia when you’re in the thick of it. Whether you’re suffering with morning sickness in the early first trimester of your pregnancy, or you can’t sleep due to discomfort (hello heartburn!) during your third trimester, these sleep products and remedies are sure to help! #pregnancyinsomnia #cantsleep #insomnia

Wake Up Refreshed: 17 Natural and Safe Pregnancy Insomnia Remedies