"Down" With The Green's

  As a mom of two kids under the age of 3, I am no stranger to being woken up in the middle of the night by my kids. In the early months of my kids’ lives, I spent countless nights getting up 3, 4, or even up to 5 times a night to soothe a baby back to sleep. So today I’m going to give you a little background on my sleep training journey with my kids and the steps I have taken to get my kids to sleep 12+ hours through the night.  It wasn’t until my first baby was 6 months old that I finally hit my breaking point and decided I had to do something to get him to sleep through the night. He was old enough to where I knew he wasn’t waking up because he was hungry, and that it was simply because he didn’t know how to put himself back to sleep if he woke up in the middle of the night. This is when I began my search for sleep training methods. Sleep training is very important for getting your child to sleep through the night. The sleep training method I used was a modified version of the F

When I started making my baby registry with my first child I was instantly overwhelmed with the amount of baby products on the market. It’s so easy to fall for all the marketing tactics and thinking you need the best and newest things, but that’s not always the case. With my first kids I registered for every gizmo and gadget there was and soon realized that I didn’t need half of it. By the time I had my second kid I knew what I needed and what I didn’t.  There are so many great products that I could go on for days but I will keep this short and sweet with just the top 5 baby products I own that I couldn’t live without. Sound Machine The first baby product I couldn’t live without is a sound machine. Get them, get them all! I specifically use the Skip Hop brand sound machine but there are so many great ones for every budget. I have one for both kids rooms, portable ones for the car seats and strollers, ones for the grandparents houses, I have sound machines everywhere. Getting your babi

If you have just received a Down Syndrome diagnosis and you’re wondering what resources to look at and how to get connected with others in the Down Syndrome community, I have been in your shoes and I am here to give you some pointers on what helped me in the beginning stages of my journey.   After receiving our Down Syndrome diagnosis I felt so lost. I felt like I knew absolutely nothing about Down Syndrome and that scared me. My anxiety level was at an all-time high, I was being thrown all these pamphlets, statistics, and other information from doctors that just seemed to confuse and scare me even more. This is when I began my nosedive into google searches.     While there is so much good and useful information online, it can be overwhelming to try and read it all at once. I finally decided that I needed to get connected to other parents in the Down Syndrome community for support and personal answers. During my searches for Down Syndrome organizations, I found the Down Syndrome Associ

In a split second, my life changed forever. The moment I got that phone call, nothing would ever be the same. “Hi Mrs. Green, I hate to be calling with this news but your test results came back showing that there is a high probability that the baby has Down Syndrome”. These are the words that would be replaying in my head for weeks to come. That single sentence changed my life forever. How does it feel to get a Down Syndrome diagnosis? It feels like your world just got flipped upside down. It feels like you just got punched in the chest. It feels like there is no oxygen left in the air. It feels like crying so hard your body can’t produce tears anymore. It feels like someone robbed you of your happiness. It feels like you don’t know anything. Getting a Down Syndrome diagnosis feels like pure fear . Fear is the best word I can think of to describe it. To give a little background on me, I was a healthy, 23-year-old woman, with a 6-month-old son and my second baby on the way