Parenting

by Nancy Johnson Horn posted in Products & Prizes I'm an overpacker, especially when it comes to my diaper bag. I like having it stocked to the gills, when I go out with my two younger kids -- my baby and my middle child (who's newly potty trained). When we go out for the day... Read more » Want to get the full story? Click on the headline above. And thanks for reading Momformation.  

by Erin Lane posted in Products & Prizes I am a HUGE Petunia Picklebottom fan.  I own three of their diaper bags. So I nearly hit the roof when they started selling travel cases, wallets and iPhone covers.  (I have a problem; I know.)  Their style is just fantastic and I think it was super... Read more » Want to get the full story? Click on the headline above. And thanks for reading Momformation.  

“I get a lot of women who come to me looking for ways to lose weight after having a baby,” says Holly Rigsby, founder of Fit Yummy Mummy and busy mom fat loss coach. “I find that new moms benefit best from strength training, which is why I have ...  

Children, especially preschoolers, tend to be very possessive of their belongings, even to the extent of being possessive about the people around them. Teaching them the art of sharing is a big, yet basic step in parenting. This article will aid you with activities to enhance your child's ability to share.  

by BabyCenter Guest Blogger posted in Products & Prizes By: Leslie Newton, Founder of timi & leslie Looking for a new diaper bag can be so overwhelming. There are so many choices out there, how on earth do you figure out which is the right fit for you? Well, the good news is, you no... Read more » Want to get the full story? Click on the headline above. And thanks for reading Momformation.  

by Nancy Johnson Horn posted in Products & Prizes I first saw Warm Milk's Baby Hobo Convertible Diaper Bag in September of 2010 at a Best For Babes Event in NYC. As a breastfeeding mother, who was there with my then 6-week old son, I was intrigued when I saw a woman using her diaper... Read more » Want to get the full story? Click on the headline above. And thanks for reading Momformation.  

A mom and dad in Logan County were arrested Thursday after a daycare worker made a pretty bizarre discovery--on their baby. Guthrie police say they got a call from DHS that daycare workers had found a marijuana pipe inside a diaper while changing the child.  

with her husband, Vyto, and five daughters ages 13 to 2, said her idea for a DadPack, a rugged, leather-look diaper bag for men to carry ... There are other masculine diaper bags out there, but nothing like these.” Gorinas, who graduated ...  

 The medical journal The Lancet came out with a new research study confirms that pregnant women with breast cancer can give birth safely all three trimesters, without having to terminate/abort the pregnancy. Chemotherapy is considered safe because most termination does not improve a woman's chance of surviving cancer and most women don't get diagnosed with breast cancer until late in the pregnancy or after giving birth. According to the study...  

Is this judge out of his mind?? First we have the HHS administration,under President Obama, who thinks pregnancy is a disease and wants all employers, including religious institutions to offer contraception,sterilization and abortifacients, ie: morning after pills, in insurance policies to women who conceive and now a judge in TX thinks nursing/breastfeeding is not a medical condition related to pregnancy and child birth;despite the fact that...  

From KidScreen, the go-to media resource for the juvenile entertainment content and licensing industry comes the phrase, "increasingly influential mom demographic":In its efforts to offer content to an increasingly influential mom demographic, Nickelodeon has announced its development slate for...  

Wow, and I guess at some point you have to recognize the reality that, as businesses parenting blogs have more in common with hair salons than Facebook. And that for every Vidal Sassoon [Dooce] and Supercuts [Babble] there will be...  

Basically, I'll follow Tom Scocca wherever and whatever he writes, so if he's going to do a no-holds barred account of the deeply weird moments of the childbirth process as part of Deadspin's Blood Week, I'm there. He says the...  

I don't know about you, but for me, this week's roundup of headlines from the worlds of science, health, and parenting is a Super Double Big Gulp of freakout. I'd drown my freakout in Diet Coke, but, well: Diet sodas...  

Jenna Gabert's story about losing their baby just shy of 24 weeks into her first pregnancy is pretty straightforward and really well done. Also, very sad. One of those things no one talks about [thehairpin]...