If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In America, President Bush and the Congress have decided to boost the economy with a tax rebate to all tax-paying Americans. While the details of the “economic stimulus package” aren’t finalized yet, the current amounts bandied in range from [...]
Tags: college fund, college savings plan, tax rebate
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Remember Julianna’s character on ER? Carol Hathaway was the love interest of George Clooney’s Doug Ross. Their story line was quite the buzz on ER at that time. Towards the end of her tenure on the show, she had TV twins. Well, now she is a Mama in real life. [...]
Tags: ER, Julianna Margulies
Posted in: Birth Announcement, Celebrities
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Has your obstetrician talked to you about cytomegalovirus? This infection, also known as CMV, is a member of the herpes family and causes birth defects in thousands of babies each year. Infection occurs from contact with saliva or urine of another infected person. Frequently, this contact comes from a preschool-age child. The problem is that [...]
Tags: birth defects, Cytomegalovirus
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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.Name of Product: Heart and Car Sterling Silver Teethers
Units: About 200
Importer: Elegant Baby and Baby Needs Inc., of Burlington, N.C.
Manufacturer: [...]
Tags: choking, danger, hazard, Heart and Car Sterling Silver Teethers, recall, teether
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If you feel that washing your vegetables with plain water just isn’t good enough, you could buy a produce cleaning solution at your local grocery store. Or you could save a few bucks and try this recipe for creating your own veggie wash[...]
Tags: fruit, Recipeaar, vegetable, Veggie wash
Posted in: Frugal Living, Health
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Ask your baby’s doctor if Enfamil A.R. LIPIL is right for your baby.
Spit-up is the #1 most common feeding problem. It can cause anxiety for you and your baby. Enfamil A.R. LIPIL is designed to help. It’s specially formulated with an easy-to-digest rice starch that slightly thickens in the stomach to help baby keep down [...]
Tags: Colic, Enfamil, formula, Lipil, reduce spit-up
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Breaking news on Associated Press reveals that 37-year old Ethan Hawkes has confirmed through Hawkes? publicist Mara Buxbaum that he and girlfriend Ryan Shawhughes are expecting their first child. Shawhughes used to be the family nanny while Hawkes was still married to actress Uma Thurman, with whom he has two children, Maya, 9, and [...]
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Physical activity keeps you young while sedentary lifestyle shortens your life. This is the result of a UK-based study on aging. Basically, they compared the lengths of telomeres in active and sedentary individuals. Telomeres are found at the ends of a person’s chromosomes and they help protect the DNA from wearing down. They become shorter [...]
Tags: aging, physical activity, telomeres
Posted in: Current Events, Health
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Toddler looks supremely worried to see two exuberant people with manic grins bearing down on him. It’s OK, I tell him, this is your Grandma and Granddad. They haven’t seen you for six months.
We’ve just got off the train to see my in-laws. They have come to the train station to meet us, and Toddler [...]
Tags: Candy, Families, In-laws, Toddler Goes International, Travel
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You have it all planned out. You are going to have this baby naturally. No pain relief for you-you laugh at the thought. You tell your husband, no matter what I say, DO NOT let me get any pain medication. Then labor hits-you have been in labor for 12 hours and only [...]
Tags: Demerol, epidural, Local anesthetic, Nitrous oxide, pain medication, Paracervical block, Pudendal block
Posted in: Baby, Pregnancy
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