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The more I read about sensory integration disorder (also known as sensory processing disorder), the more I’m sure Violet has it. I got the classic book on the subject, The Out-of-Sync Child, and I read through it in two days. Oh my God. ...

How to prepare for parenthood
You are now ready to feed a nine-month-old baby. Lesson 6 Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying ‘mommy’ repeatedly. (Important: no more than a four second delay between each ‘mommy’; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic ......

No, we didn’t really hold my friend down. She stretched out luxuriously, wearing a floral headdress, while an artist drew on her ripe belly. It turned out amazing: Two fish swimming in a vast sea. Each time her baby rolled and kicked ...

Marriage rules
This is how I would summarize the many thoughtful responses from my previous post asking about marriage:. -Marriage is the ultimate voluntary commitment. When you marry you take a vow to love, honor, and obey, in sickness and in health, ......

This is one of the findings in a study about discrimination against overweight people–particularly women—in a report by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. The study revealed that women are twice as likely as ...

Uterine tucks: The hottest new trend
picture4.jpg In the midst of showing off her jungle-themed nursery, Eileen Onloox grabs the back of a newly caned rocking chair and places a hand on her flat abdomen. She is wearing 3-inch turquoise pumps, a short grey skirt, ......

BabyCenter’s Mom Confidential interactive feature asks mamas like you and me: “Do you covertly skip pages when reading books to your child?” Nearly half of you said yes (at least this was the case when I participated in the poll and ...

When did you know he was for you?
Today my husband was home from work, wretchedly sick with the flu. I don’t know if I have Florence Nightengale Syndrome or what, but whenever he’s sick, I think a lot about the first few months of our relationship. ......

I felt compelled to engage and entertain my newborn every minute of his waking hours, and when he slept, I read parenting magazines, or recorded every tiny milestone in his baby book, or organized pictures of him. ...

Would you “donate” your infant to teen-agers for 3 days?
Parents are actually doing that on a new reality show coming to NBC on June 25 called “The Baby Borrowers” which NBC bills as “an intriguing new social experiment based on the hit British program that asks five diverse teenage couples ......

Come on, scoot in a little closer. I have a secret. Actually, I have a bunch of them. Let’s see…I yell too much. I’ve forgotten about a birthday party I RSVP’d to. I have been meanish to the little boy next door because he never seems ...

BabyCenter gives me a false sense of hope
Sometime during the first trimester, I decided to join the BabyCenter message boards. The number of boards over there is pretty overwhelming, so I basically just stick to the one for March 2008 babies. Every birth board will have a ......

I’ma big dumpster diver and make no bones about it. That stroller missing the seatbelt on the corner of the road? Perfect for visiting toddlers. The old toy chest on the corner of DeSota and Paretheniow Ave. that simply needs a good ...

Should anti-vaccine parents be allowed to use a religious exemption?
vlebook2.GIF Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that a growing number of parents around the country are claiming religious exemptions to avoid vaccinating their children. In many cases, the real reason ......

In my previous past about about how environmental noise can damage hearing, I received a question from a mother of a three-year-old who, she said, “has begun asking me to turn up the television when it is at what I think is a reasonable ...

Did Hilary advise Silda to “Stand by your man”?
190_silda1.jpg Silda Spitzer who gave up a career as a corporate lawyer to raise her three daughters and to support her husband’s career, sought advice from Hilary Rodham Clinton, according to an article in the New York Times in 2006, ......

You probably learned about haiku well before you were a mom. You know , the Japanese poetry consisting of three unrhymed lines, of five, seven, and five syllables, each? Like the six-word memoirs, mamaku are a fun way to summarize your ...

What we’re reading: Baking with Kids
I have to say I was a little skeptical about this book, Baking with Kids. Baking is baking, right? How can you really alter the process in a way that makes it more kid-friendly other than pre-measure the ingredients for easy dumping, ......

What was disturbing was not her reaction to the stress of an inconsolable baby, but the fact that women have been going through this tumultuous post -partum period since the beginning of time and still, after all these years, baby books ...

Moms at home: privilege or sacrifice?
Recently, several offhanded comments I’ve heard from my stay/work-at-home mommy friends have really bothered me. They go something like this:. Friend: We have a party to go to tonight but our babysitter cancelled, so it looks like I’ll ......