The first time I ever saw a Baby-Sitters Club book, I was 7 years old, browsing the spinning racks at the public library near my house. It was Baby-Sitters Club No. 2: Claudia and the Phantom ...

It’s one of the traditions of modern-day motherhood: the baby book. Mothers document the moment they discovered they were pregnant and carefully fill out the family tree. But one Minnesota ...

Seven months after the celebration that I’d come to call “My Mom’s Party,” I had a baby book shower for my son and daughter-in-law. Guests brought foods that they loved as children or that ...