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A little time for my tresses

October 12, 2007

It’s been four months since my last haircut, so yesterday Sarah volunteered to babysit Oliver so that I could get a trim and highlights. It would be the first time I was apart from Oliver since he was born. I’d heard some moms can get terrible separation anxiety. Well, not me! Not that I don’t [...]

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Buying Baby Stuff in Deutschland

September 30, 2007

Here’s a list of websites that are either in Germany or will ship baby stuff to Germany. I’ve put an asterisk behind websites that I’ve used and been happy with (*=ordered once, **=twice, ***=three or more times). As I come across new sites, I will update this list. See also a related post, Buying Maternity [...]

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Buying Maternity & Nursing Clothes in Deutschland

July 17, 2007

At the beginning of this month, I got a reader email question wondering where to buy maternity clothes: I was wondering where you bought maternity clothes in Germany. Thus far I have only been able to find clothes at H&M and I was wondering if any of the other chains carried maternity clothes (or what [...]

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Household and Personal Products

July 15, 2007

Here’s a list with some household and personal products that can be found in Germany. I had three goals in making this list: List American brands that are sold under a different name here List commonly searched for items by expats that may not be easily found And give Stiftung Warentest (a German “Consumer Reports”-type [...]

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Geburtsvorbereitung, Teil 6

July 11, 2007

On Monday night, we had our sixth and final birth preparation class at the hospital. I really, really wanted to skip the class. I was tired and I’d decided that it wasn’t really giving me anything, but I felt bad since it’s covered by insurance and what if this was the one time that the [...]

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Geburtsvorbereitung, Teil 4

June 27, 2007

Another week, another class. On Monday, the husbands made their first appearance in birthing class and we officially crossed the halfway mark, only two more classes to muddle through now. We spent about an hour meditating all together, some at the beginning, some at the end. The instructor played New Agey music and said things [...]

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Geburtsvorbereitung, Teil 3

June 19, 2007

So last evening we had the third and final of the birthing classes for just us women. Next week the men get to join in. We graduated another mommy, Mrs. Too Much Information (a.k.a. Mrs. Have You Never Heard Of The Internet?) gave birth a few days ago to a healthy baby boy. We practiced [...]

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