Erin Whitehead, Author at Fit Bottomed Girls

When You’re Bad at Goodbyes, You Say ‘See Ya Later’

Erin Whitehead — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:00:07 +0000

I still remember sitting in my apartment in California, on the phone to Jenn, brainstorming about a site that would become Fit Bottomed Girls. What started as a fun little side project while we both had full-time jobs grew and grew. Thousands of posts, four websites, two books and a Today Show appearance later, I’m stepping away. As I mentioned yesterday on Fit Bottomed Mamas, it wasn’t a decision I’ve made lightly, but sometimes the right decisions are the hard decisions. I’m not entirely sure what the future will hold for me. For now, my three little kiddos are content to…

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Time to Say Bye-Bye

Erin Whitehead — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:00:26 +0000

When you’re saying goodbye to something that’s been part of your life for more than eight years, it’s hard to come up with just the right title. So when this children’s book title popped into my head, I wrote it down before realizing that it’s actually the perfect title for this post. In the book, which is one of those we’ve checked out so frequently from the library that all of my kids have memorized it, a child is playing at the park. Of course the time comes when she has to leave the park: “I don’t want to leave,…

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A Birth Injury Article Every Mom-to-Be Should Read

Erin Whitehead — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:00:10 +0000

When I was pregnant, I was determined to have an unmedicated birth. I thought that would be best for the baby and best for me. I felt that anything else would be a failure of some sort. Of course, now I realize that it really doesn’t matter how your baby gets here and long as he or she eventually arrives (even after 42 weeks, right Jenn?). I’m still waiting for my unmedicated childbirth medal. (They don’t exist.) But when I was pregnant, my focus was on what I could control about my experience, and I wanted to control unnecessary interventions.…

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Know Your Dose as Cold and Flu Season Hits

Erin Whitehead — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:00:14 +0000

This sponsored post is brought to you by the Acetaminophen Awareness Coalition’s Know Your Dose campaign. The first time I ever really thought about acetaminophen dosages was probably around midnight on a cold winter night several years ago. My oldest kiddo was just over a year old, feverish, miserable and not sleeping. I grabbed the bottle of children’s acetaminophen I had on hand and looked at the label: Under 2 years, ask your doctor. There we were with our sick kiddo, calling the doctor’s answering service on a Friday night, waiting for the call back so we could make sure…

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Surrounded By Kid Germs

Erin Whitehead — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:00:03 +0000

Sick of being cooped up and facing a three-day weekend, my husband and I loaded up the kids yesterday and took them to the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. We’d kind of been homebodies this winter and once we were out and about in a very kid-centered location, I remembered why we hadn’t been sick very much this year and why it’s sometimes a good idea to stay home a lot during the winter. via GIPHY I’m not a total germaphobe, but when you can look around and see the drippy noses, it’s hard not to feel like you’re…

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Surprising Lessons from the Weight Room

Erin Whitehead — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:00:46 +0000

I recently wrote about my experience hitting the heavy weights at the gym. How I got fed up with feeling intimidated and outnumbered over there and vowed to get comfortable with the heavy stuff. If you’re looking to do the same this year, may I also recommend my accompanying post with tips on how to feel much more comfortable among the big dudes and big barbells. Like I said in those posts, I’ve done pretty much everything in my fitness life. From yoga and Pilates to a Tough Mudder and a half marathon, I’ve dabbled in everything. I’m a dabbler.…

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Kids That Go Bump in the Night

Erin Whitehead — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:00:11 +0000

My overnight life improved dramatically last spring when I weaned my youngest. She has basically slept until 7 a.m. every night since, save for the rare overnight peep or 6:15 a.m. wake-up. I thought I was in the clear. I thought I was home free. I thought I was going to be sleeping through the night from then on. Go ahead and laugh at me. I’m laughing at myself. Because as we all know, the only thing that’s constant in parenting is change. And of course, once I got used to my new amazing sleep schedule, it all went kaput.…

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The Hotel Chain That Should Be On Every Parent’s Radar

Erin Whitehead — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:00:31 +0000

When it was just me, my husband and our pug, we were really loyal to Best Western when traveling. Whether we were going skiing for a night or two or moving across the country twice, we got to know Best Westerns all over the country because of their pet-friendly policy. They were one of the few hotels that didn’t charge a million dollars to have your dog with you, so we stayed there a lot. Now that we aren’t traveling with a pet anymore (sadly), we’re much more open to different hotel choices. We usually go by convenience and location…

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What I Learned From a Facebook Fast

Erin Whitehead — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:00:06 +0000

A few months ago I was on Snapchat all the time. I would take short videos of my kids to post to a personal account so that family (mostly the grandmas) could see. But then I felt sucked in. I constantly had updates from friends to view and it was time consuming to keep up. So I quit. Unintentionally, really. I just stopped posting so much, which meant that I wasn’t there to see updates from other snappers. Eventually, it felt kind of foreign to get on and post or view snaps. However, even though I’m much more addicted to…

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Resolutions by Numbers

Erin Whitehead — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 12:00:27 +0000

Recently, I logged into online banking and noticed that our credit card was over the limit. Well over the limit. More than crazy Christmas shopping over the limit. I pulled up recent purchases and saw the culprit: A $1,600 charge to a PR firm I’d never heard of in California. I started wracking my brain and asking myself ridiculous questions: Did I spend $1,600 and forget about it? Did I need a PR firm for any reason? The conclusion was that no, we didn’t employ a PR firm for any reason, let alone pay them on a credit card the…

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