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Stay-at-home Mom's Day Out

Get out of the House for a Change of Scenery with Baby

By Laura Cone

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Asea Tremp from Huntington Harbour, Calif., was all too familiar with the colors of the walls inside her home when her 2-year-old daughter, Abigail, was an infant. While some stay-at-home moms don't leave the home often because they feel self-conscious about their baby weight, Tremp wanted to guard her daughter from germs. Abigail was born with a heart condition.

Tremp still found ways to get a change of scenery by walking at the open-air mall. She covered her daughter up in the stroller and avoided other children when they went on weekly doctor visits or to the mall. She jokes about how her family budget suffered the first year since shopping was her only social outlet.

"We did not do much," Tremp says. "I was germ paranoid. I did walk at the beach and we went to the open-air mall. I could not wait to join a club where she could learn social skills. Keeping her at home all day she did not learn to share."

Getting out There with Baby

Tremp joined the MOMS Club of Huntington Beach North Coast. When she did, Abigail had to adjust. "It freaked her out when another child began touching her toys," Tremp says.

Tremp now enjoys spending time with other mothers and infants and toddlers. "I wanted to go out with someone other than myself and have someone to talk to," she says.

Her group visits Disneyland once a month as well as a science center for children and the aquarium. "The kids love the aquarium," Tremp says. "They have so much fun running from tank to tank. They always want to find Nemo. We look for orange fish. They totally love it."

By hanging out with moms with different age or multiple children, new moms can pick up tips.

While visiting the aquarium, Tremp says moms with babies usually push them around in a stroller or use a front carrier. "It's nice for them to hang out and talk even if their child is not old enough to run around," she says. "Some of those babies are in awe of what they see. It's something different. It's the visual situation. Even that young they enjoy colors of the fish."


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