I’ve written a ton about car seat safety. Many people do. This device is the only device you absolutely have to buy for a baby or your child can die. You can rig random things to function as child-proofing at home or pick up things from a garage sale, but when it comes to your [...]
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My husband came home from work and told me about what he witnessed on the subway. We live in NYC so we do see lots of freaky things but we often don’t think twice about it and stick our nose back into our book or in his case, the insert name of game he is [...]
Who reads it? A LOT of moms, apparently. And to be completely honest with you, that scares me. Before you point out the obvious here (“YOU’RE reading it!), the entire reasoning behind my reading of this magazine begins with guilt. My grandpa, who has since passed away, felt it necessary for me to have a [...]
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One-year-old Boo Boo is starting to build his little vocabulary. There are a few words that he says pretty clearly, but the word we hear most often is a unique one. It has a variety of meanings, which The Man and I get to interpret. The word is “DZZ!” and he says it with great [...]
I can’t stop thinking about my Ina May Gaskin experience and of course it’s all the more in my head because I am reading her book, Birth Matters. And the more I think about certain points she brings up, the more I understand, the more I realize how some of us are overly-sensitive and missing [...]
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I want to create an altar to worship the great Ina May Gaskin, mother of midwifery, right now, but I’m going to try to compose myself to write about my experience seeing her at the Warsaw in Brooklyn, sitting in the front row, center. She was there promoting her new book, Birth Matters: A Midwife’s [...]
About 6-1/2 years ago, some girls on my April 2004 baby group on BabyCenter talked me into trying out FuzziBunz with my son, Rowan. I’d been using disposable diapers, and cloth was really, really foreign to me. I really didn’t understand it very well, but I really liked the girls who were suggesting it, and [...]
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Most often, your cheap car seat will be manufactured by Dorel Juvenile Group. Dorel creates Maxi-Cosi, Costco, Safety 1st and Eddie Bauer car seats. And I wouldn’t trust a single one with my child’s life, and here’s why…
“…the federal standard for car seats is so narrowly defined that seats passing the toughest of the tests–simulating a front-end collision at 30 miles per hour–can have serious problems at just a few miles an hour more and yet still meet the standard. We had seats where, if you turned [the test sled] up 5 miles an hour, the seat would disintegrate.”
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What is Attachment Parenting? Right now, AP has become more widely known, more vocal, and is somewhat ‘trendy’. The unfortunate misconception is that AP parenting is only for infants and toddlers. After all, the most heard about AP practices involve things like breastfeeding, baby-wearing, and co-sleeping! And as much as we love them, after a [...]
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