What NOT to Say When Your Partner is Pregnant
Thursday May 31, 2012
I was pretty sure I was pregnant when I took my first pregnancy test. We'd been trying for almost a year and my period was several days late and I ... Read More
Did you try any of these fertility aids?
Wednesday May 30, 2012
When you start thinking about getting pregnant, you probably want to be pregnant RIGHT NOW. Even when you aren't on a time table, there is so much information about fertility ... Read More
An Ergonomic Pregnancy Test
Tuesday May 29, 2012
If you've ever taken a normal pregnancy test that requires you to actually pee on the stick, you know that the design is certainly not conducive to actually doing anything ... Read More
Pregnant at the Picnic
Monday May 28, 2012
Yum! This weekend's celebrations certainly open up for the summer food season. There are some great foods that are best found in the hottest months of the year. One of ... Read More
Cesarean Born Babies More Likely to be Obese
Thursday May 24, 2012
A new study suggests that babies born via cesarean section are twice as likely to be obese as their vaginally born counter parts. This was true, even after accounting for ... Read More
Free Printable Birth Announcements & Candy Bar Wrappers
Wednesday May 23, 2012
If you've got a baby coming or are trying to get ready for a baby shower, you've probably seen the adorable candy bar wrappers. I did it for one of ... Read More
Push for Your Baby
Tuesday May 22, 2012
Lamaze International has a new campaign starting today called Push for Your Baby. The idea behind the campaign is that women and families need to know how to get the ... Read More
What's the most popular baby name where you live?
Monday May 21, 2012
It's all well and good to talk about what baby names rank well nationally, but the lists that are by state are a bit ore local and sometimes look vastly ... Read More
How common is your birthday?
Thursday May 17, 2012
Do you know what day of the week you were born on? And did you know that people actually track those types of data. In fact, check out this cool ... Read More
Benjamin's Birth
Thursday May 17, 2012
My son turns 19 today. At this point, I'd been in labor for a very long time, more than 45 hours by the time he was born. His birth was ... Read More
What causes twins?
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Mariah Carey. Jennifer Lopez. Angelina Jolie. Julia Robert. Celine Dion. Marcia Cross. Rebecca Romijn. Molly Ringwald. What do they all have in common? Twins!
I was reading a blog post the ... Read More
Go Ahead, Swear in Labor
Tuesday May 15, 2012
There are a lot of things that you could say in labor to help ease the pain. I spend some time in childbirth class telling my students that vocalization ... Read More
Hyperemesis in Pregnancy
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Hyperemesis is a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy that is diagnosed when a mother experiences rapid weight loss, dehydration, and malnutrition. The Hyperemesis Education & Research (HER) ... Read More
Most Popular Baby Names
Monday May 14, 2012
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has released the top baby names from the 2011 birth certificates across the United States. This year Jacob and Sophia are the winners of the ... Read More
Have you ever had a D & C?
Monday May 14, 2012
A D & C is an surgery that is usually done on an outpatient basis. It may be done after a miscarriage or sometimes for other issues having to do ... Read More
No Mothers' Day
Sunday May 13, 2012
One woman dies every 90 seconds from a complication due to pregnancy or childbirth. That's 358,000 women a year. Christy Turlington Burns started Every Woman Counts as a way to ... Read More
Mothers' Day Pregnancy Announcements
Sunday May 13, 2012
Did you get a big fat positive this morning for Mothers' Day? If so maybe you're looking for some fun ways to announce your pregnancy to others, perhaps with a ... Read More
Text4Baby
Saturday May 12, 2012
Text4Baby is a service designed to help mothers have healthier pregnancies. It is a free text messaging service, even if you do not have a text plan. It ... Read More
Extended Breastfeeding & Extreme Parenting
Friday May 11, 2012
Time Magazine has sent shock waves into the world with the cover story this week on "extreme parenting." On their cover is a nursing three year old, standing at the ... Read More
Celebrating an Expectant Mother's Day
Friday May 11, 2012
Mother's Day is just around the corner. Sometimes, particularly when expecting your first baby, you don't think of it as a milestone. Though I'm seeing more an more pregnant moms ... Read More
Celebrating Your Due Date
Thursday May 10, 2012
It's easy to celebrate the announcement of your pregnancy, your baby shower and even the birth of your baby. But I'd like you to consider celebrating your due date too. ... Read More
National Nurses Week
Wednesday May 9, 2012
The week of May 6-12 is National Nurses Week. It's celebrated now because of the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the mother of modern nursing. There is a really great history ... Read More
Maurice Sendak Will Live On
Tuesday May 8, 2012
You might be wondering what I'm doing talking about Maurice Sendak in a pregnancy blog, but hear me out. When I was pregnant in my first child, it was almost ... Read More
Tips for Pregnant Travelers
Tuesday May 8, 2012
I'm certainly looking forward to summer and with summer comes travel. So if you're planning to travel this summer for various vacations and holidays, here are some things to keep ... Read More
May is Pregnancy Awareness Month
Monday May 7, 2012
May is Pregnancy Awareness Month®. It was started in 2008 by Anna Getty and Alisa Donner. They have a mission! This includes four key initiatives: education, exercise, ... Read More
Getting a Manicure in Pregnancy
Monday May 7, 2012
For those who know me in real life, I'm not a girly girl. I bought my first pair of high heels today for graduation this weekend, but only because a ... Read More
International Bereaved Mothers' Day
Sunday May 6, 2012
Today is a day set aside to think about babies who are no longer with us, but that still make us mothers, International Bereaved Mothers' Day. It's a day to ... Read More
International Day of the Midwife
Saturday May 5, 2012
Every year on the fifth of May we celebrate International Day of the Midwife. There is a lot of attention paid to some aspects of midwifery in the popular media, ... Read More
May Babies
Wednesday May 2, 2012
It's a brand new month and a great spring month to have babies. I personally have one child born in May. I always thought it was a near ... Read More
Jessica Simpson Welcomes Daughter!
Tuesday May 1, 2012
Jessica Simpson has welcomed her daughter. She and fiance Eric Johnson welcomed Maxwell Drew Johnson. Maxwell weighed 9 lbs. 13 oz. and was 21 3/4 inches long. She ... Read More
Sometimes Labor is Boring
Tuesday May 1, 2012
We spend so much time talking about pain in labor, knowing when it's real labor versus false labor and all the things that can go wrong in labor. What we ... Read More