Spanx for Women has paved the way for so many other great products, including Spanx for Men and now a new one designed to hide those unsightly baby bulges.

No this is not for postpartum women. It's for fat babies.

Are you screaming yet?

OK, breathe now. It's a joke. A Saturday Night Live skit that has turned viral. In it a family sighs over their "roly poly" and "pudgy" baby. Using the baby Spanx, they are able to get the svelte baby they always wanted. And while it was hilarious, there actually are people who worry quite a bit that their baby is getting too heavy.

Here is the video:

Sleep issues are a strain on any household, not just that of a sometimes single mom. Whether it's teething, a development-related sleep regression, or something completely unexplainable by anything but just a bad sleeper, dealing with kids that aren't sleeping can be one whopping pain the butt.

But when you're dealing with them mostly alone, it really adds in a whole set of complicating factors.

For the last few weeks, my youngest daughter Margot, by far my best sleeper out of all my kids, hit the dreaded 18- to 22-month sleep regression, along with a big whopping bout of separation anxiety. On one hand, it's exciting to hear so many words flowing out of her, especially since she's been pretty silent for a very long time. And I know that I will, at some point, miss her crying for me and only me almost every second of the day when I'm home.

But I haven't seen my own bed or a full night's sleep in over a month now.

As a new first-time mom -- yes, I'm typing this with one hand -- I'll be exploring the often stressful, always magical first six weeks of little one's life with the scoop on things like car seats, cradle cap, cuddle time, and other newborn issues in CafeMom's Baby Boot Camp.

One of the first big challenges I had to take on as a new mom was cutting little Kavya's fingernails. Her hands and feet were beautiful, long, and lean like her father's. And yet they were so tiny and completely delicate -- lovely in a way adult hands could never be.

As a new first-time mom -- yes, I'm typing this with one hand -- I'll be exploring the often stressful, always magical first six weeks of little one's life with the scoop on things like car seats, cradle cap, cuddle time, and other newborn issues in CafeMom's Baby Boot Camp.

Cloud B Sleep Sheep; Amazon.comBefore Kavi was born, I read all about baby sleep solutions, thinking I was going to sleep train my little one early.

I know now that I was dreaming, but one of the things that I investigated that did help in those early weeks was a noise machine.