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Basics for Childproofing Your House
Somewhere on all parents’ seemingly endless list of things they must do for their new baby is childproofing the house. You know, this is where you go around the house and safety-proof every sharp...
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Make Time for a Pre-Baby Getaway
If you’re expecting your first baby in a few months you’re probably in the middle of a to-do list that is a thousand items long. Between preparing the nursery and getting an endless list of supplies...
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Parents Returning to Work After Baby
Having a newborn is an amazingly happy time, of course, but it can also be exhausting and overwhelming. And if you’re two new parents who usually work, you may find that you finally get into a workable...
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Rehab Used Baby Furniture for a Fab Nursery on a Budget
If you’ve begun making preparations for a baby to enter your lives then you are becoming well aware that the list of things you’ll need is seemingly endless. If you’re on a budget and you don’t have a...
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Handling the Return to Work After Maternity Leave
There are a lot of major challenges during the first few months after having a baby, including getting no sleep and your entire schedule being turned upside down. And even though you cherish every...
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Future Mothers’ Day Luncheon
If you’re a newlywed and expecting a child you’re most likely looking forward already to next year when you’ll be able to celebrate Mother’s Day as an official mom. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make...
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Deliver Good News to Family With a Reveal Gift
Having a baby is one of the best reasons in life to celebrate. People will pour into your house to see and hold your new bundle of joy and to share in your happiness. Before the little guy or girl...
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Some Facts on IVF
When a couple first decides they want to try to get pregnant and start a family, no one is prepared for that to be a potentially long, arduous and difficult process. Sadly, though, getting pregnant is...
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Is a Home Birth Right for You?
While many expectant mothers are anxious to head off to the hospital at the first sign of a contraction, other pregnant women relish the thought of delivering their baby in the comfort of familiar...
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Start a New Parents Club
When you’re going through a new experience it’s always helpful to surround yourself with people who are going through the same thing or who have gone through the experience before. And when the new...
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Can Your Family Handle a Long Road Trip This Summer?
There are several rites of passage when you first have kids. Some of these rites are monumental and celebrated such as baptism, first steps, first day of school and so on. Others are not talked about...
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Getting Prepared for Twins
Getting ready to welcome one baby into your lives is overwhelming enough, can you imagine getting the news that you’re having not one, but two babies? Twins obviously means double everything in your...
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Cherishing Your ‘No-Kid’ Friends
If you’re a parent now this scenario might sound familiar to you – you’ve been waiting weeks and weeks or maybe even months and months to get to spend some time with one of your very best friends whom...
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Perfect Time for Baby? Never Fear, Life Will Adapt
Knowing when it’s time to marry that special person may be a tough call to make, but once you’re married and settling into your new lives together you realize that decision was nothing compared to the...
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Tips for Choosing a Good School District
There are a lot of factors that go into choosing the house where you’re going to settle down and live once you’re married. In the beginning stages of love and marriage you may not be thinking of all...
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Is an Epidural Right for You?
When you talk to a room full of women who have all given birth, very few topics will divide the room faster than one four-syllable word: epidural. An epidural is an injection of drugs into the spinal...
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Registering for Your Baby Shower
If you’re starting your family and you’re pregnant with your first child, you’re going to be heading back to the stores again, just as you did for your wedding, so that you can register for baby shower...
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The U.S. Has Paltry Parental Leave
When a couple has a baby, it is pretty much a given these days that mom is going to receive some sort of maternity leave from work in order to stay home with the baby for those first crucial bonding...
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Playing the Name Game
Being pregnant can be a very confusing time, when the mom-to-be is undergoing constant changes within her body and both mom and dad-to-be are undergoing changes to their entire lives as they know them....
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Accept Family Help When Baby Comes Home
After a couple goes through nine months of waiting for their baby to arrive, followed by the complete chaos of being in the hospital for the birth, many people can’t wait to get back to their quiet,...
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Helping Your Twins Sleep at the Same Time
If you’ve ever been a new parent you know all about the difficulties that come along with those sleep deprived early days of trying to get your baby to sleep according to any discernible schedule. And...
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Could You Use a Surrogate?
It can be absolutely heartbreaking when a couple desperately wants to have a baby and they simply can’t make that happen. Some couples have trouble getting pregnant and they might need some intravenous...
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Don’t Enter the ‘Baby Contest’
Doesn’t it often seem like certain life events occur within your group of friends in massive waves all at once, and suddenly everyone you know is getting married right around the same time? It only...
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Bathing Tips for Newborns
Many parents say that following the excitement and chaos of the birth of their baby, they then finally get their little bundle of joy home, set her down in her bassinet and look at each other as if to...
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How Young is too Young for Electronics
It seems like the age at which a child has used a smartphone, tablet or some other sort of technological device just keeps getting younger and younger. Recently there was a rather astonishing study...
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Is One the Loneliest Number?
Deciding when to start a family is one of the most important decisions ever made by a couple. Some couples wait to have a baby when their lives, careers and savings are right on track (although most...
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Should Kids Share a Bedroom?
When many of us were kids, it was absolutely the norm for four kids and two parents to live together quite happily in a three-bedroom house. Somewhere over the years, though, our houses needed to get...
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Tips for Getting Good Santa Photos
Okay, granted, when you look back on those photos of you sitting on Santa’s lap and just bawling your eyes out, all red faced and miserable, it’s more than just a little funny. But, those are certainly...
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Should You Announce Your Pregnancy on Christmas?
If you and your partner or spouse just recently found out that you’re pregnant you’re probably chomping at the bit to share your incredibly happy news with your families. And if you’re heading off to...
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Give Each Other the Gift of Time Off
One of the biggest adjustments when you have a child is the very obvious fact that your time is no longer your own. That sounds like such basic knowledge that you think you’re fully prepared for that...
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Ask Sick Friends to Skip the Baby Visit
As soon as you get home from the hospital with your little bundle of joy everyone is understandably going to want to visit you as soon as possible so they can congratulate you new parents and, of...
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What to Tell Your Adopted Child
Much of the time parents feel like their main job in life is to answer questions. The questions begin when our kids are toddlers, and for many kids those questions continue right up into the tween...
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Fertility Problems After First Child
While many couples struggle to conceive or to carry their first baby to term, other couples are very fortunate to become pregnant easily when they first begin trying. In fact, some of those fortunate...
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Is Your Child an Advanced Learner?
If you’re in the process of getting your child ready for kindergarten or you have a child who is already in school and you’ve noticed some signs that your child may be an advanced learner, you might...
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Making a Baby Game Plan
You and your spouse might be all settled in after getting married and thinking to yourselves that you’ll let life take its natural course as you move forward. When it comes to starting a family, for...
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Why We’re Having Fewer Kids
Taking that “big step” of marriage in your life inevitably often leads to other big steps, and starting a family is pretty much the biggest step of all. So many questions must be answered and issues...
View ArticleHow Much Sharing Is Too Much on Social Media?
Thanks to social media sites we’ve become a world over-sharers. You may well have posted a pic recently to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, and depending on what stage of your life you’re in at the...
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Balancing Baby and Working From Home
Many parents who work full-time jobs outside the home and who have to deal with the sadness, guilt and cost of being away from their babies all day may well think that working from home sounds like the...
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You’ll Be Glad You Have Monthly Birthday Photos of Baby
Thanks to social media sites like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, whether you have kids or not you’re probably well aware of the trend of taking baby photos every month for the first year. We all know...
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Do Prestigious Preschools Really Matter?
It used to be that new parents had to almost instantly begin to worry about their child’s college education. What school will he go to? Will he get into the school he wants? And the biggest question of...
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Introducing Your Dog to Your Baby
If you’re getting ready to have your first baby then you’ve no doubt got an endless list of adjustments that need to be made within your life. But, this may not be your first baby after all, you may...
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Handling the Disappointment of Not Getting Pregnant
Deciding when to start their family is one of the most important decisions a couple can make. And when they finally decide the time is right (if there is ever a perfect, ideal time) to start, every...
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Stress Can Interfere With Conception
It can be an extremely stressful time when you really want to get pregnant and it just isn’t happening. And then the grand irony is that stress can actually make it harder to conceive. Once you realize...
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Don’t Obsess Over Baby’s Milestones
The baby books will fill your head full of details about all of the milestones your baby will go through, especially during the first two years of life. And your friends with children will make it even...
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Baby Before Marriage?
You know the old childhood sing song – “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage!” Well, these days many couples are deciding to take those steps out of order and they...
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Sacrificing for the Summer Schedule
Summer is upon us and the kids are getting out of school to enjoy their break and the lovely weather. But while this summer break in your kids’ schedule means utter joy for them, it can mean worry and...
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When the Marriage Bed Becomes the Family Bed
It’s so lovely when you’re first married and your newlywed bedroom becomes a favorite room in your house (and for more than just the obvious reasons). Many couples find their bedroom is a comforting...
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Baby Means the End of Work? Not Necessarily
When a couple finds out they’re going to have a baby, after the initial joy and excitement sink in, their minds naturally begin to focus on just how much their lives are going to change, not only their...
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Classes Are Great For One-on-One Kid Time
Parents of multiple children know how important and challenging it is to spend some quality one-on-one time with each child. Family time is terrific and that dynamic of everyone being together and the...
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Baby Before Marriage? Handling the Rude Comments
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage? Cute song, but it is certainly not always the way things are done in the modern world. Many couples have decided that...
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