My Traveling Bucket List

Posted on May 9th, 2008

No, I don’t have a bucket I carry around with me while I travel. This is in reference to the movie Bucket List but my list is modified to list the places my husband and I traveled to before we had baby #1, and then a list of the places I would love to [...]

Accidental Deaths in Babies Declining

Posted on April 30th, 2008

While the rate of accidental deaths in children in the U.S. have been declining steadily over the years, there is still room for improvement. Safe Kids USA has recently published the findings on their study. Some of the revelations show that childhood injury deaths have declined from a high of 15.4 per 100,000 [...]

Eat An Apple For Your Baby’s Health

Posted on April 28th, 2008

A new study published in Thorax Online suggests that eating apples while pregnant may help prevent asthmas later for the babies. Researchers in the Netherlands and Scotland tracked nearly 2,000 pregnant women and found that mothers who ate apples produced children who were less likely to develop asthma and childhood wheezing than those who [...]

Rental Discrimination Against…Children?

Posted on April 26th, 2008

A pending class-action lawsuit against New York City rental agency Brown Harris Stevens is the first I’ve ever heard of. They are being sued for discriminating against families with children. Jamie Katz and Lisa Nocera were the first to notice something amiss as apartment after apartment, they heard from their rental broker that the [...]

Baby Announcements Roundup

Posted on April 26th, 2008

Alex Rodriguez, aka A-Rod of the New York Yankees, welcomed daughter Ella Alexander Rodriguez on Apr. 21st. He was a bit late coming from New York for a medical treatment, arriving 10 minutes after wife Cynthia Rodriguez gave birth in Miami. Alex thinks the timing is a sign from God, as he passed [...]

Kangaroo-Care for Preemies Help Their Pain

Posted on April 24th, 2008

It’s long been known that touch is an integral part of baby’s development. For premature babies, it’s even more important as it helps them to recover better from pain. Premature babies are poked, prodded, stuck with needles and generally go through a lot of medical interventions. In a study done by a [...]

Eating More Can Produce Boys

Posted on April 24th, 2008

From the Chinese Gender Chart to fetal heart rate, parents have been trying to predict the gender of their unborn babies for generations. Now there’s new research that show how parents can actually influence the eventual gender of their child.
According to a study done at the University of Exeter and Oxford, women who ate [...]

Diane Farr To See More Numbers In Family

Posted on April 22nd, 2008

The female lead of one of my favorite CBS procedural drama, Numb3rs Diane Farr, 38, is reportedly pregnant for the second time. However, she’ll see the number two, not just one, as she is expecting twins!
Due date has not yet been revealed, and how her pregnancy will play into her TV character has not [...]

Sleeping Battles Redux

Posted on April 20th, 2008

I’ve had to revisit the issue of sleep training again, an issue I once thought of as solved. You see before we left for the greener pastures of California, to start my life as a new SAHM, Mina had her sleeping pattern down to a routine we both could live with. She was [...]

How To Handle Unwanted Advice?

Posted on April 19th, 2008

“Don’t feed her solids yet, she’s too young!”
“She should have shoes on when she goes out.”
“Stop touching her cheeks and she’ll stop drooling.”
“You should supplement with formula, it doesn’t look like you have enough milk.”
Some of this advice comes from well-meaning friends. Some of them come from meddling relatives. What do all these phrases [...]