Making and preparing baby food that is safe for your baby is no different then preparing the food for the rest of your family. Not only can you save money from buying expensive baby food, you also get to choose exactly what ingredients your baby is eating.

Safety Tips – Always have clean hands by washing your hands with soap and warm to hot water. Wash all your cooking utensils prior to cooking your meals. Then wash your raw foods.

Below are some resources we recommend checking out if you are wanting to make your own baby food.

• RecipeSource Baby Food Recipes – A variety of recipes for homemade baby food.
• Organic Baby & Toddler Cookbook – 70 recipes for babies and children from four to seven months up through preschool age.
• Baby Food Recipes – Choose recipes by types such as meat, fish, fruit, pasta and more.
• Wholesome Baby Foods from Scratch – Some helpful information on making baby food along with a few easy recipes to try.

When your child shows the signs of potty training readiness, it’s time to begin introducing them to the potty. Most children are ready to begin potty training between the ages of 18 and 24 months but every child is different and will begin on their own. Below you fill find some helpful potty training resources.

Potty Training Resources

• Free Potty Sticker Charts – Sticker charts can help motivate toddlers to use the potty. Colorful sticker charts are free! Print them out from your computer.
• Potty Training Tips – Tips on helping the child that won’t go.
• Quick Potty Training Readiness Checklist – A simple checklist that gives you a snapshot view of your child’s potty training readiness.
• Potty Training Boot Camp for Twins – Potty Train Your Twins in Four Days before the Age of Two

Looking for more resources? Below are some great articles published by mom bloggers that might help with your potty training journey!

• Twice The Mess, Potty Training Twins With Love – The Reality of Potty Training Twins.
• Potty Training 101: Is Your Prince or Princess Ready For The Throne? – Find out if your little one is ready to be potty trained.
• Potty Training Made a Little Easier -Different ideas you might want to try to make potty training easier.
• My 3 Year Old’s 10 Potty Training Quirks
• Tips To Potty Training A Toddler – A list of tricks that you can use to help train your toddler.
• Nighttime Potty Training – A post about potty training during the night.

Are you a mom that wants to meet up with other moms like yourself? This is great way for moms to meet other moms to make new friends as well as find playdates for your children. You would be surprises just how many mommy meetups there are that taking place each and every day.

We have compiled some resources for you to find other moms who want to meetup with other moms and their kids for fun playdates.

Want to find more groups than those listed above?

There are tons of additional playgroups and meetups that are not list above. These are just some of the popular mommy meetup sites that are available to you that we recommend.

Another way you can find playgroups in your area is to go to a search engine and type in any of these keywords (mommy meetup, moms meetup, mom playgroups). You can also add your city when using these keywords which might give you better results.

If there are no playgroups in your area, it might be fun to start your own!