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Nicola Hart, a British design student, has an interesting solution for breastfeeding moms–a chair to facilitate comfortable and discreet breastfeeding. The exhibit of her new chair coincides with the announcement of a new Equality Bill ...

Toddler portraits…tattooed on your arm?
Wow, this takes babywearing to a whole new level. According to this article, hot design trends in tattoos for parents include kids’ footprints, their handprints, their pictures and even, inexplicably, Disney Princesses. ......

Crabby? Near-sighted? Schizophrenic? Blame your mother’s bad timing. Evidence is piling up to reveal a relationship between temperament and the season in which you were born. I’d say that sounds more like astrology than science, ...

Junk food mamas
ice-cream.jpg A post on From Dates to Diapers, and beyond! by Christine, a mommy to six children* ages 7 and under, made my day. In it, she describes what she fed her kids the other day:. Breakfast=doughnuts; Lunch=ice cream sundaes ......

The birthday of an ordinary 8-year-old in Sweden is making headlines across the world after school officials confiscated his party invitations. According to Yahoo! News, the boy handed out his invitations at school but did not give ones ...

Signing with Baby - A Good Idea? ABSOLUTELY!!!
There are many benefits to signing with your baby, but some people have the belief that signing with your infant can actually hamper verbal language skills. This is simply NOT TRUE. According to the Baby Center article referenced above, ......

I’m trying lots of new things in this quest to discover the holy grail of weight loss. As a girl who’s been on one diet or another since childhood (yes, my parents took me to diet programs when I was a kid, too), there’s not much new ...

How’s Johnny doing at camp? Log on and see for yourself
A recent in the Boston Globe paints yet another less -than- flattering picture of today’s parents. The article starts out with an idyllic look into an old-fashioned New England boys camp where the kids live “off the grid” in ......

beat.jpg When I read Betsy’s I Hate Playgrounds post, I was completely intrigued by the book she referenced– A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting. So intrigued, in fact, that I rushed out the very next day and bought ...

Birthday parties and bullies
The birthday of an ordinary 8-year-old in Sweden is making headlines across the world after school officials confiscated his party invitations. According to Yahoo! News, the boy handed out his invitations at school but did not give ones ......

BELLINGHAM — An outpouring of community support has helped the nonprofit Mother Baby Center raise much of the $60000 it needs to bail itself out of financial straits for the short term.

One little lunch, 67 pounds of garbage
I have two or three sets of cloth napkins sitting in my kitchen drawer. They were shower gifts back in the time when I was an energetic young bride eager to prepare meals deserving of special accompaniments. (Though I never did register ......

baby.jpg By all accounts, Tracy Lagundino was a stunning woman — long, silky black hair, high cheekbones, clear olive skin. She was even a finalist for Miss Teen Hawaii. But physical beauty isn’t enough to make you want to stay a woman ...

A changing American Dream?
Most of us grew up hearing a pretty standard version of the American Dream: finding an adequate-paying job with a reliable employer, having a house and a two-car garage, living in a nice neighborhood where our children can safely play ......

I was at Trader Jo’s today (I highly recommend the mini frozen tacos) when I heard this very loud voice. Not behind me. Not an aisle over. All the way across the produce section. It was a high pitched trill. “Ohhhh… ...

What we’re reading: Deciding to Have a Baby on My Own
I’ve just finished the memoir by BabyCenter’s very own writer Alexandra Soiseth: Choosing You: Deciding to Have a Baby on My Own. One of my favorite parts is when Alexandra tries to decide whether Olaf or Boris should be the father of ......

Many of you, (thank you dear BabyCenter mamas!) clarified that this issue is not about “playing” the victim. It’s about being responsible. It’s about telling the truth. Many of us are doing it on are own. ...

Breastfeeding leads to job promotion
(She left her own six-month-old baby with her while she was helping the quake victims.) She also demonstrated what women as public servants can contribute to the world. And I’m not just talking about breast milk here. ......

summer is heating up! it is time to get out and about or possibly across-country for a trip to nana and papa's house. here is a list from baby center www.babycenter.com of all of the must-haves when venturing... Food and comfort ...

Its Potty Time!
June is National Potty Training Awareness Month. I’m not joking–they have a month for everything, now. Why June? I honestly have no idea, but it may have something do with the theory that the warmer months are more convenient for ......