HOW TO SAFELY ADMINISTER NASAL SPRAY TO YOUR CHILD Advice from an Expert Picture your child running . . . . to get away from you . . . the nasal spray wielding, well-intentioned Mom!!!!! Nasal congestion is making him or her miserable, and all you want to do is help. Here’s how to do it [...]
We had a Monster bash, Monster’s Inc . It was so nice out we had the whole party outside so some of the decorations were discarded because we didn’t need them outside but it was so fun putting this together anyways. Check out our cute costumes for our party as well! How cute are the [...]
Bellybar Prenatal Vitamins is currently offering a 9-month supply of prenatal vitamins to one lucky mom each week for the next nine weeks (8/17-10/12) on Facebook. Super easy to enter and I love these, so yummy!! Here is some info about them: Prenatal Revolution Ditch the “horse pills” of the past and get your complete pregnancy nutrition from the first ever chocolate prenatal vitamin, with DHA. By women, for women, they’ve got everything your doctor recommends. Delicious chocolate packed full {Read More}
How cute is this book?? Mommy Mixology, I love it! The names of the drinks alone are so funny and now I can make one too. I am the worst on making drinks, I just throw things together and hope they come out. Now I have a cute book with fun drinks just for moms!! And i have a great group of mommy’s to share it with too!! What I love is that Janet is a blogger too!! Check {Read More}
I recently planned my sister’s baby shower, and her theme is OWLS and forest as well!!! I have to say I am a bit jealous. I really love the owls and so I went with it and a little crazy if I might add. I love party planning and am very happy to share and please pin if you like I love my Owl baby shower and I hope you do too! We did a candy bar with chocolate dipped oreos and {Read More}
Should pregnant women sleep on their left side? Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway—a board-certified ob-gyn, an advocate for quality healthcare and patient safety and author of The Smart Mother’s Guide to a Better Pregnancy says that sleeping on the left side or right side is fine, but that sleeping on your back should be avoided. “Our organs and tissues require oxygen to function. Without it, they essentially die. Blood from the lower part of our body flows back to the {Read More}
About the time my wife and I learned we were pregnant with our third child, I realized that my pregnancy threat level—or how panicked I felt internally about having additional children—was only canary yellow instead of Creamsicle® orange. (Or was it the other way around? I was never quite sure which threat level was more, well, threatening.) I wasn’t overwhelmed by that mixture of panic, joy, and bile, and I even skipped my ritualistic calculation of how many years this {Read More}
Don’t you love comedy movies involving being pregnant. Like anyone can really know how we mama’s feel but they try! I have to say I loved the movie and there is a star studded cast with Cameron Diaz, Chris Rock, and Jennifer Lopez, along with some familiar faces too like Elizabeth Banks, Matthew Morrison, & Rodrigo Santoro. I love all the different areas of the movie, it’s like mini movies in a larger overall picture, small overlaps throughout. I love {Read More}
Milk Banks face unprecedented crisis Pauline Sakamoto will forever remember the anxiety she felt last Christmas when, for the first time in her Milk Bank’s 37 year history, she turned away mothers seeking human donor milk for their infants. Demand for mothers’ milk continues to rise nation-wide as supplies remain inadequate. At the Mothers’ Milk Bank, based in San Jose and serving hospitals in much of the Western US, mothers’ pleas for milk are, in some cases, going unmet. In {Read More}
What is going on today people? We live in a society so crazy about safety but there are too many people that have their kids in ill fitting car seats. I mean it!! When you have a 2 year old child in a infant car seat there is something wrong!! Here are some guidelines from HealthyChildren.org! So what is wrong you ask? I went to the zoo today and I was appalled by the amount of (okay, a few people {Read More}
