Valentine’s Day is nearly here. If you’re like me, you haven’t sent out one card, bought a single box of chocolates or made romantic dinner plans. But it’s not too late. You can still celebrate February 14 with the people you love, around your dinner table. 

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As a parent you quickly learn how quickly your baby grows. Their newborn outfits that once seemed so big now look like undersized doll clothing.  Their adorable 12-month onesies suddenly fit when baby is only 9 months. You have heaps of mini-outfits that no longer fit your wee one. But what to do with them?

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As a new parent you’re flooded with information and advice. When your baby should nap, eat, poo, start smiling, rolling, crawling, sleeping alone… it’s endless. This month at Montana Parent Magazine and Blog, we hope to condense some of the noise into the most useful bits for you. Today we’ll talk babywearing.

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A friend asked me recently "What's one thing you've learned about being a mom that you didn't know before you had Scarlet?" It's a great question. I'm surprised I didn't answer something like "I didn't know how hard it would be to lose the 50 pounds pounds I gained during pregnancy." Or, "I didn't know how little sleep I could survive on until Scarlet arrived."

But I told my girlfriend that I didn't know how wonderful mommyhood would be. (It's something you can't possibly predict or anticipate.) I also told her I didn't know how FUN parenthood would be. Seeing the world with Scarlet is fun. It gives me an excuse to linger in the kid's room at the library and read children's books aloud to my (semi) interested audience. It gives me an excuse to say totally mundane things as if they were the coolest phrases in the world. ("Yes that is a purple box! Isn't that the prettiest box in the house!? Aren't those light bulbs so nifty? They're bright bright bright." And so on with the parent babble.)

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