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Welcome to Baby Espresso!

Child of Michelle Fabio's award-winning blog, Bleeding Espresso, Baby Espresso is a humorous look at motherhood through the eyes of an American expat in her ancestors' medieval, hilltop village in Calabria, southern Italy.

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Charles Dickens: Parenting Expert?

August 30, 2017 by michelle Leave a Comment

Charles Dickens: Parenting Expert?

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . .” I’m 100% certain that Charles Dickens was raising a small human when he wrote those opening words to A Tale of Two Cities. The dichotomy of how ridiculously amazing and how hair-pulling-outingly frustrating it can be to spend all […]

Toddler Travel: 7 Reasons Your Toddler Is the Best Travel Companion Ever

March 1, 2017 by michelle 2 Comments

Toddler Travel: 7 Reasons Your Toddler Is the Best Travel Companion Ever

Does toddler travel terrify you? Well, it shouldn’t and you definitely should not let it stop you from seeing the world, even if you have young children. Not buying it? Challenge accepted. In the spring of 2016, M (then 2.5 years old) and I traveled to Florence and Assisi in central Italy. We live in southern Italy, […]

Professional Baby Name Consultants? Just Say No.

May 20, 2016 by michelle 3 Comments

Professional Baby Name Consultants? Just Say No.

I’m normally good about keeping an open mind, “you do you,” and all that crap. Really, I swear. But then I read an article about professional baby name consultants, and well . . . the WTF is strong with this one, folks. As reported by Polly Mosendz for Bloomberg, business is booming in the United […]

PAW Patrol, I’ve Got a Bone to Pick with You

April 25, 2016 by michelle 2 Comments

PAW Patrol, I’ve Got a Bone to Pick with You

It’s not often I feel the need to take to the Interwebs to rant about an injustice I’ve seen on television,* but a recent experience with one of Marisa’s favorite cartoons has left me no choice. I’m talking PAW Patrol here, folks, and things are about to get serious. For the uninitiated, a brief summary: […]

Conversations with a Toddler: The Bedtime Horror Picture Show

January 13, 2016 by michelle 2 Comments

Conversations with a Toddler: The Bedtime Horror Picture Show

Tonight as the Darling Wee Lass was winding down to go to sleep (read: hopping about the bed like those five little monkeys we’re always singing about), she crawled up on top of me so that we were tummy to tummy, her precious dollbaby face just inches from mine. She proceeded to poke at the […]

My Morning Routine

September 5, 2015 by michelle 4 Comments

My Morning Routine

My friend and fellow expat in Italy Sara Rosso was recently featured on the site My Morning Routine. I loved reading her answers and composing snarky answers of my own in my head, so I thought I’d share my morning routine here. My sympathies to those who can identify. What is your morning routine? My morning […]

The Five People You Meet on a Transatlantic Flight with an 11-month-old: Part II

July 25, 2015 by michelle 2 Comments

The Five People You Meet on a Transatlantic Flight with an 11-month-old: Part II

When we last left off, I was about to introduce you to the five people you meet on a transatlantic flight with an eleven-month-old (or at least the ones we met). Now that the scene has been set in Part I and so much time has passed from the first post that we have actually made *another* transatlantic […]

The Five People You Meet on a Transatlantic Flight with an 11-month-old: Part I

January 24, 2015 by michelle 2 Comments

The Five People You Meet on a Transatlantic Flight with an 11-month-old: Part I

In October, Baby M and I went to the United States, just the two of us (“we can make it if we try!”). The first flight was at the crack of bum from our small airport in Calabria (Lamezia Terme, airport code SUF for the curious among you) to Rome (FCO) on RyanAir. Despite being […]

Babywearing in Southern Italy

September 6, 2014 by michelle 16 Comments

Babywearing in Southern Italy

From M’s very earliest days, she has known the comfort of being snuggled close to La Mommy in a baby carrier. Babywearer and proud right here! Holla! This, of course, has caused much ado in my rural southern Italian village, where babywearing is not the norm, to put it mildly. M was in the Moby […]

Marisa’s Law aka Murphy’s Law for Babies

July 10, 2014 by michelle 2 Comments

Marisa’s Law aka Murphy’s Law for Babies

As every parent learns rather quickly, there is most certainly a baby equivalent to the famed Murphy’s Law, whereby if anything can go wrong, it will. I’ve been compiling what I refer to as Marisa’s Law–and this list will surely be added to as the years go on. By no means, incidentally, do I think my […]

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