From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Product Review - Epi-no Childbirth Trainer

January 28, 2009

I first head about the Epi-no (pro­duced by Stard­berg Med­ical) dur­ing one of my birthing classes.  The mid­wife showed it to the group, and most of the women in the class dis­missed as an unnec­es­sary expense.  I, on the other hand, was fas­ci­nated! The ‘child­birth trainer’ is basi­cally a vagi­nal dila­tor.  An inflat­able bal­loon is […]

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Splat!

January 24, 2009

It is no secret that I am wait­ing with baited breath for Boon Inc.‘s scrub­bles to hit the mar­ket. So much so that I stopped in to Babies R’Us last night to see if they were on the shelves. I did not see the scrub­bles, but I did see some of the other prod­ucts that […]

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Booster Seat Giveaway Winner

January 20, 2009

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Mary, com­menter #4 in the Mutsy Grow-Up! give­away. She was our big win­ner, and the cool, mod­ern booster seat is on its way to her and her grow­ing daugh­ter. Thanks to every­one who linked and commented.

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Book Review: The No-Cry Nap Solution

January 18, 2009

I’m a fan of Eliz­a­beth Pant­ley and her No-Cry series of books.  Her book, The No-Cry Sleep Solu­tion: Gen­tle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night, helped give me the courage to lis­ten to my heart.  So many peo­ple would ask me if Oliver was sleep­ing through the night, that I started worrying […]

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Rice's Cups Full of Hope

January 16, 2009

While look­ing for cute, high-quality, melamine dishes to use as tod­dler table­ware, I ran across a com­pany in Den­mark not only mak­ing fab­u­lous cups, plates, bowls and more, but that also has a con­science, Rice. Their prod­ucts are designed in Den­mark, then man­u­fac­tured in third world coun­tries by employ­ees who are treated fairly and are […]

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Another baby carrier

January 10, 2009

I know I’ve men­tioned before how much I love my baby car­rier by Hope­diz, but for the past two weeks, I’ve upgraded, so to speak.  As my girl hit about 3.5 months, she wanted to see more while she was being car­ried, and her weight was increas­ing and putting a bit of strain on my […]

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Mutsy Grow-Up! Review and Giveaway

January 8, 2009

Peo­ple always told me I wouldn’t believe how quickly my child would grow, but things are get­ting ridicu­lous around here. My almost-two-year old has sud­denly decided he’s a forty-five-year-old busi­ness­man. While his mis­con­cep­tion can be enter­tain­ing, espe­cially when he demands the car keys and shouts “Bye Mama!” while head­ing for the door with his dad’s […]

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Mutsy EasyGrow Review and Discount

January 6, 2009

Some­where between the ages of twenty months and two years, my son decided that shov­ing smushed-up green peas and sticky banana goo into the vinyl crevices of our high chair was his favorite form of per­sonal expres­sion. We used the Chicco Polly, which served us well for more than a year, but as soon as […]

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Facebook still banning breastfeeding photos

January 3, 2009

Just a few weeks after cre­at­ing our Mamas World­wide Face­book page, I hear that Face­book is still ban­ning breast­feed­ing pho­tos as obscene, and doing it rather often too!  I find it to be a huge dou­ble stan­dard that top­less women, fully expos­ing their breasts, are shown in ads on Face­book, but breast­feed­ing pics are too […]

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