A step-by-step guide to doing the mommy hustle
When I wanted to get photos of our first baby, then our second and then, our first family photos, I started looking for a photographer whose work was less posed and more photojournalistic. We wanted pics that captured moments and natural expressions – we wanted photos that told our family story and didn’t come with [Read On]
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While finding out the gender of the unborn has become the new norm – 64% of us will learn our baby’s gender at 20 weeks according to a Babycenter.com poll – I encourage expecting moms to take the good, old-fashioned route, waiting. I’ve done it both ways. We kept our firstborn’s gender a surprise and [Read On]
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A recent move by New York City to encourage moms to choose the breast over the bottle has many mamas’ bras in a bunch. According to CNN, Mayor Bloomberg’s voluntary plan, which 27 out of 40 hospitals are participating in, instructs nurses not to give formula to babies unless there’s a medical reason to do [Read On]
I was shocked the other day when, while chatting, I found out that my aunt had never heard of a mom-to-mom sale. It struck me that many moms might not know about these motherhood markets brimming with all the goods a parent could need at less than half the price of retail. If you’re a [Read On]
Once upon a time, there was an evil blight named Malnutrition that ravaged the children of a land called Kenya, leaving them starving and stunted until one day their knight in shining armor arrived. That noble knight, named Future Fortified, was angered by the situation and wanted to rescue the wee ones from the gnarled [Read On]
I had skated by with nary a stretch mark with my first baby. So, I was shocked when six months into my second “tour of duty” stretch marks took roost on the sides of my belly. To my utter horror, those stretch marks were soon followed by the rest of the “forever gang” – hemorrhoids, [Read On]
