MOM OVER: The New Mom’s Guide to Getting it Back Together is the kind of book every woman who is, or planning to be, a mother should read. I’ve long believed that having a baby really changes everything, but this book showed me how true this is. Dana Wood wrote a book that is easy [...]
Every parent has felt that special and unique feeling of indescribable joy when gazing or holding her/his newborn for the first time. And scientists have a word for it – oxytocin. Oxytocin is what makes us parents. That is what scientists are telling us. Over the years, science tried to explain human feelings and emotions [...]
Williams-Sonoma Recalls Baby Bottle Warmers Due to Burn Hazard The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. [...]
Lan Enterprises Recalls Zooper Tango Double Strollers Due to Collapse Hazard WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to [...]
If I was witty enough to compose a clever song about neurons, the cerebral cortex, and monoamine oxidase A then I would sing a little ditty about how much I loved this book. Since I’m not that witty I will just settle on telling you what a pleasure it was to devour this book. The [...]
British researchers at University of Oxford tell us this may be true. It took me 5 years to conceive. During this period, I experienced excitement, anxiety and yes – stress – each month as I waited for my ovulation cycle to be completed. Meanwhile, family and friends and that tirelessly ticking biological clock were putting [...]
I have no idea where summer went. If you find the scoundrel who stole it, point me in the right direction. My kids start school in two weeks. My oldest starts first grade and my youngest starts kindergarten. It seems like only yesterday that I was lugging myself through the hallways of the school, having [...]
The first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF), Louise Joy Brown turned 32 last month. Since then, millions of babies were born worldwide by this procedure. Although IVF is commonplace nowadays, there are still some people who think that IVF babies are “different.” A friend of mine gets annoyed when people ask her whether [...]
My daughter was a toddler when she had an accident in a bouncy house. Another jumper accidentally kicked her in the mouth mid-jump. The other jumper went away with two indentations of her front teeth on the bottom of his foot. My daughter, on the other hand, was bleeding from her mouth like crazy and [...]
Recalled Due to Entrapment, Suffocation and Fall Hazards; One Infant Death Reported The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Baby Matters LLC, of Berwyn, Pa., is announcing the voluntary recall of 30,000 Nap Nanny® portable baby recliners. CPSC is investigating a report of a 4-month-old girl from Royal Oak, Mich. who died [...]
If you are getting ready to enter into the world of New Mommy or New Daddy for the first time, then you probably already know that you are in for a big life change. What you may not know is that you’re about to enter into a world of unwritten rules that include how you [...]
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of Product: Kariño Baby Pacifiers Units: About 44,900 [...]
Any time scientists seek to have any hand in the process of reproduction there are accusations of playing God. The latest reports online are not likely to help much. They indicate that there is now a new way to help determine certain characteristics of an unborn child. No, this time they aren’t dabbling in the [...]
I was cleaning up the cellar the other day and found some boxes of photos from the pre-digital era, including photos from my sons’ first birthday. The photos brought back some memories of that special day. A colleague asked me once whether she should take a day off on her son’s first birthday and I [...]
Recalled to Repair Drop-Side Cribs Due to Entrapment, Suffocation and Fall Hazards The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a [...]
The recent report of the President’s Cancer Panel Report on environmental cancer risks indicated that the role of environmental pollutants in cancer development has been previously been underestimated. Some experts disagreed with the conclusions of the report but everybody seems to agree that we should take precautions. Kids, particularly, are highly vulnerable to the carcinogens [...]
We moms with little ones usually have little time to take care of our own needs. The kids keep us busy and their needs usually come first. Here are some tips for looking your best, including what I’ve learned as a 40+ mom about skincare, makeup, hairstyle and color: Hairstyle Recently, I said “Go ahead” when my [...]
We had a break-through moment last night. Our two-year old said “pee-pee”, looked at his potty, and with a little assistance from me, we had “potty success”! I praised him, gave him a treat, then he watched as I poured the contents of his potty into the toilet, flushed and said “Bye-bye pee-pee!”. I learned [...]
As your child grows out of babyhood they’ll gradually decrease the amount of time in a day they spend sleeping. The average amount of sleep may go down from 16-20 hours a day for babies up to 6 months, to 13 hours a day on average for those 1-2 yrs old, and then 12 hours [...]
The umbilical cord connects the baby to the mom while still in the uterus. This is baby’s lifeline for 9 months as mommy provides everything that is needed. The umbilical cord carries oxygen and essential nutrients from the moms’ placenta into the baby’s abdomen. The location of our belly button marks the spot where the [...]
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