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Selecting the Best Childcare Center: A Guide for Parents

Parents will agree that selecting the right childcare can be an agonizing decision. Research tells us that children’s brains are rapidly developing between infancy and age five. A child’s healthy...

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Cloth Diapers

Children inspire a series of discussions, sometime debates, and OK, face it, occasionally heated arguments between the most loyal and loving life partners. Luckily, some decisions are easy… like...

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Benefits of Cloth Diapers

Cloth diapering is the natural way to diaper your child. Over 27 billion disposable diapers are consumed every year in the United States. What used to be a product that was used sparingly is now...

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Diaper Service Is Back: A New Convenience For Moms

Each one of us, from time to time, sits down with our parents and reflects on our childhood. The conversation usually turns to how easy it is nowadays to run a household or raise a child compared to...

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Top Financial Mistakes of New Parents And How to Avoid Them

As first time parents, your day consists mostly of caring for your newborn and trying to catch up on sleep whenever you can, therefore financial issues aren’t given as much thought as they should be....

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Life Insurance Protect Your Family’s Future

Do you know if your family would have the financial resources to maintain their standard of living if something happened to you? According to the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association,...

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Newborn Photography

So you just recently had a baby, and you want to capture these fleeting moments in photographs. Babies are really only “newborns” in their first two weeks of life and documenting these early days is so...

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A New Way to Celebrate Your Child’s Milestones

Congratulations on becoming a first time mother! But now what? Where to start first? Everyone has different advice and it could become very overwhelming, especially when you are the sole person in...

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Digital Cameras: Tips to Help Preserve the Memories

Being pregnant and having a baby are life-changing events. Taking photographs will capture moments that you want to remember forever. These moments cannot be re-captured: they live only in images and...

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Photographing Your Children: How to Capture Meaningful Images

There is a certain quote by Gretchen Rubin that I feel sums up motherhood quite well. It states, “The days are long, but the years are short.” I am both a mother and a professional photographer and...

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Loving Hands

The Traditional Art of Baby Massage There has been a recent explosion in popularity of infant massage among today’s mothers because of the physical and emotional benefits massage offers to a developing...

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Toddler Bed

By Jim Dodge “My Little Bed” by the Newborne Company was the first commercially successful toddler bed for the juvenile furniture market. The concept of a toddler bed continues to be a much needed...

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Cord Tissue Collection

Parents now have the option of collecting a piece of the umbilical cord after their baby’s cord blood is collected. The umbilical cord contains mesenchymal stem cells that give rise to muscle,...

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How to Choose a Cord Blood Bank

Many parents believe simply deciding to bank their baby’s cord blood is the end of the process. In actuality, cord blood banking requires all the research and decision making of monetary banking. All...

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Early Signs of Autism

Having a child diagnosed with autism can be a difficult time. As a parent or caregiver, one of the most important things to do is to educate yourself and become familiar with the developmental...

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Baby Journaling – It’s Easier Than You Think!

“I don’t have time!” “I don’t know what to write!” Do you find yourself saying this when asked if you have a baby book or journal for your child? You are not alone. Many moms and dads feel the same...

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You Were Built to Nurse

(And Other Breastfeeding Truths) I have been a Certified Lactation Counselor for seven years. During that time I have enjoyed helping thousands of mothers and babies meet their breastfeeding goals....

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Help Your Pet Adjust to Your New Baby

You don’t have to choose between them! Helping a pet adjust to the arrival of a new baby is much like preparing a young child for the same event. Handling the “child’s” curiosity, anxiety, and...

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…You Heard What About Pregnancy?

Myths About Pregnancy & Babies There are many myths surrounding pregnancy that are heard by those planning a pregnancy, or are already pregnant. There may be a very slight truth to some of these...

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The Mouth of Your Infant

When you look at your newborn, trying to figure what is going on in her cute little head and what might drive her behavior, you will probably realize quickly that everything seems to revolve around the...

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