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🍋The Solid Food Saga 🥑 🍌 🍠

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Markey Battle
October 11, 2023

Happy Wednesday, Mommas! You made it through half of the week! And it was a holiday week too, which means that you envied the majority of America, as they had a day off of work, while your unpaid, full-time job of being a mother shockingly didn’t give you the day to rest. But that’s life, isn’t it?

We hope this newsletter brings you a bit of rest and inspiration for the week ahead. Here’s what you can look forward to:

  • Small Lemons: How to Introduce Your Baby to Solid Foods 🥑 🍌 🍠

  • Prime Days are Here! These are the Best Deals We’ve Found 🛒

  • Boss Mom: How to Make Money as an Instagram Parent 🤳

Small Lemons: How to Introduce Your Baby to Solid Foods 🥑 🍌 🍠

If you have a little one who has started sitting up, holding their head steady, and showing a growing interest in food, it might be time to introduce solid foods into their diet. Parents are encouraged to start this process at six months.

There are several methods to introduce your little one to solid foods, but one of the best is baby-led weaning. According to Malina Malkani, author of Simple & Safe: Baby-Led Weaning, this process means serving your baby food that their little fingers can pick up, rather than having the parents spoon-feed the child.

While the parents provide the food, the baby controls what they eat, how much, and how quickly. There are several benefits of baby-led weaning, including:

  • Earlier involvement in family meals

  • Exposure to different foods

  • More opportunities to practice fine motor skills

  • Less stress and pressure on parents during mealtime

  • Less anxiety for mothers

Parents still need to monitor their babies during this process to make sure they don’t choke or eat anything they might be allergic to.

8 Best Baby-Led Weaning Foods:

  • Avocado 🥑

  • Banana 🍌

  • Sweet Potato Sticks 🍠

  • Sautéed Spinach 🥬

  • Toast 🍞

  • Pasta 🍝

  • Banana Pancakes 🥞

  • Meatballs 🧆

🍋Lemon Deal: Prime Days are Here! These are the Best Deals We’ve Found 🛒

Prime Day is here and we are celebrating by sharing some of the best deals we’ve found so far. Prime Day only lasts for 48 hours and this is the last day, so go get your deals!

4Moms MamaRoo Baby Swing with Bluetooth - $175% from $269(reg.price) - 35%

MomPush Wiz 2in1 Baby Stroller - $154 from $229.99(reg.price) -33%

Baby Cam HelloBaby - $67,99 from $99,99

🍋 Lemon Boss Mom: How to Make Money as an Instagram Parent 🤳 💸 👩🏽‍💻

Have you ever been scrolling through your Instagram feed, seen a famous mommy vlogger or Insta-famous family, and thought, ‘I could do that’? That’s because you can. Currently, the internet has over 4.2 million mom influencers who are making a living filming their struggles, solutions, and lives.

In the age of all things digital, it’s no wonder why mom influencers are taking over social media. There’s something simultaneously unique and authentic about the content mom influencers create. They show the mess of their real life, all while offering solutions in an easy-going chat.

And while real life is never as polished or editorial as social media might make it seem, mom influencers break down the fourth wall and bring us into their homes, lives, and messes. And it works.

So how can you make that work for you? The key is to be authentic, while also providing easy and actionable advice. We love mom influencers because they’re our wise best friends. It’s not that they don’t face problems, it’s that they’ve faced most of the problems we’re dealing with and found solutions.

If this sounds like something you could do, here are a few ways moms are making money online.

Brand Deals

Once these moms hit a certain amount of followers, they start making big bucks off brands who want to work with them, pay them for content, and send them free products. Nice work if you can get it.

If you’re a DIY momma, you might be interested in selling your products online. You can truly sell anything on the internet, from knitted hats to baked goods to candles, there’s a market for it and there are people who will want to buy things from you!

Affiliate Programs

Affiliate programs and links aren’t as lucrative as brand deals, but they’re still helpful. Look into setting up an affiliate program with certain stores, like Amazon, and then linking products to your story or posts. Every time someone purchases from your affiliate link, you get paid!

Keep Growing!

No matter where you are with your Instagram followers, it’s important that you keep growing. Focus on creating quality content, finding your niche, and catering to your audience.

Lemon Shots 🍋 🥃

🇮🇱 Israel is still under attack after four of the bloodiest days any nation has seen. At least 11 Americans have been killed in this crisis, making the U.S. more likely to get involved. Over 1,600 people have been killed in this war and another 2,500 wounded.

🇺🇸 The House has yet to find a new speaker to replace formerly outed Kevin McCarthy. With Israel at war, the need for a new speaker has escalated, as many are unsure what can happen without a sitting speaker in the case of an international emergency.

💊 Walgreens employees add to strike news, as over 500 pharmacy staff members in roughly 9,000 locations throughout the United States locked their gates and walked out of work on Monday. The employees blamed their harsh work environments as their reason.

🧬 Hackers have breached 23andMe’s database and compiled a list of users with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. A 23andMe spokesperson said the website wasn’t hacked, but several other sites leaked their passwords, allowing hackers to log into the ancestry database.

💔 Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas have reached a temporary custody agreement. Turner and Jonas will share custody of their children, switching off weeks, for the remainder of the year.

🔴 🔵 RFK Jr. has dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary and is now running as an independent. During his livestream announcement, he said that this decision doesn’t mean he’s against either party, he simply believes this move was the best choice for his success.

🍕 🚒 Domino’s combines National Pizza Month and fire safety this week. Customers might get a special visit from a firetruck when they order a pizza this week. If firefighters see your smoke alarm is working, your order is free. If not, they’ll replace it for free!

Wednesday Word of the Day 📚

Rizz (noun)

  • Romantic appeal or charm

  • Sentence: Gary, the Golden Bachelor, said his daughter thought he had rizz.

Rizz (verb)

  • To charm or seduce

    • Usually used with ‘up’

  • Sentence: Gary has successfully rizzed up most of The Golden Bachelor contestants.