What's the best parenting advice you've ever received?
When I was having my first child, someone—and I'm sad to say I don't remember who —said to imagine that I already had a second, older child. So if your infant starts crying, do you drop everything—say, stop taking care of the 3-year-old who also needs you—and race to the newborn's side? No. If you go at your first child like you already have one, it gives you that breath to be like, "The baby is going to be okay. Life is not going to end." Having approached raising my first child like that, I'm not as nervous now that I'm having my second.

Who do you turn to when you need advice?
I talk to my costars a lot: Lauren Koslow, Missy Reeves and Mary Beth Evans, who all have kids. As actors, we're in a unique situation. So I turn to them for things like, "Even if you can afford to buy your child an iPod, should you? At what age is it appropriate to get them a cell phone?" I'm not comfortable with my child having a TV in his room because I didn't have one as a kid. So I ask what do they do.