Topics relevant for parents (foreign or not) living in Denmark
Garden leave is a strange concept. For those unfamiliar with it, it’s a period between jobs where you either remain employed by your previous company but don’t work (usually where you receive severance), or where you are paid not to…
Before I got pregnant, I already knew the Danish health system decently well, having lived here for close to 10 years. However, navigating pregnancy in this system is a whole new ball game, with a well-defined but, at times, rigid…
When our twins were born at 35 weeks and 4 days, we already knew there was a very good chance we would spend time in the neonatal unit. Any baby born under about 2.3 kg is typically admitted to the…
I call this a “planned” c-section because, although it had already been decided that I needed to give birth via c-section due to growth restriction in our Twin A, the timing was not planned. I had fallen and landed on…
Last fall, I ran a stand at Børneloppen Vanløse for two weeks, and I wanted to share my experience — both to reflect for myself and to help anyone else considering doing the same. Overall, it was a positive and…
There are so many baby products out there, so as a first time foreigner parent in Denmark (to twins no less), it felt like a huge task to figure out what I needed, how many (do I need 1 or…
Although my children are just turning 2, I have thought a lot about their language development. Being raised multilingual is a huge gift, but learning all 3 languages doesn’t come for free, even if they are learning them from birth.…
When I first moved to Denmark, I never imagined I would one day start a blog. At the time, I came for what I thought would be a temporary chapter: a two-year master’s degree supported by a Fulbright scholarship. My…