Tag Archive: baby

Family Bed: How to Make It Stop

For years, my kids shared my bed. When my oldest was a baby, I was working a graveyard shift, so my wife was alone with the baby at night.    It was easy to keep a couple of bottles in a cooler by the bed and not have to get out of bed to take…

Mistakes Made

Image by K. Sawyer via Flickr My wife and I started dating when we were 19.   We married shortly thereafter, and–at 31–we have 3 kids. Now, most of a decade into my career, with a dozen years of experience as both a husband and an adult, I think we make decent decisions. When we were…

10 Tips to Help Parents Stay Out of Debt

People say that when you have a baby, your world gets flipped upside down.    That’s not true.  Your world gets dropped in a martini shaker and left to the whims of a sadistic bartender with a shaking fetish.  Everything changes.    That sounds like an exaggeration and nobody believes it until it happens, but it’s true….

Babies Are Expensive

From the comments here.  The discussion is on how much it costs to have a baby.  Edited for clarity. Actual birthing costs vary. We’ve had three kids over ten years and birthing costs have varied from $250 out of pocket to $8500.   Our highest and lowest price births were 20 months apart. The highest price…