Maternity

How Stress During Pregnancy Effects Baby

May 21, 2013
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Even when we plan to get pregnant, we all experience levels of stress during pregnancy. I thought about my job and whether or not I’d quit or return to work, and the financial implications. Little things can become bigger like what to wear to a wedding, not feeling attractive to our husbands, and some of [...]

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Lotus Birth Trend – Don’t Cut the Umbilical Cord

May 17, 2013
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I had both of my kids in a hospital. As a person who tends to want to do things naturally, I probably would have considered home birth, except that a friend of mine lost her baby boy because she had him at home. Baby Adam was their first. His parents hadn’t planned to have a [...]

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Duchess Kate Shows Off Baby Bump in Mulberry Coat

May 10, 2013
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Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is in the Royal Baby Watch news and like always, she’s doing it in style and class. Unlike other celebrities, the Duchess isn’t in the news every week, so her fans, including me, are hungry for Kate Middleton baby bump pictures. When it comes to style, she did not [...]

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Painting the Town… Blue? Pink?

May 3, 2013
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Gender reveal parties have gotten to be a very big deal in the last few years. The concept is that after an ultrasound, the baby’s gender is revealed in a fun way. Some people serve cupcakes that reveal pink or blue when you bite into them; some people release the proper color balloons – and [...]

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Did You Wear Heels When You Were Pregnant?

April 30, 2013
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Heels and pregnancy go together like oil and vinegar; it might look good, but it don’t mix. I was recently reminded of this when I saw a photo of Princess Kate with her high heel stuck in a grate. She was lucky, only her heel became stuck, but she could have easily taken a tumble [...]

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A Conception To-Do Checklist

April 29, 2013
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It took us years of marriage to finally agree on when to start our family so when we were ready, we were ready. We knew we wanted a year or two to be just a couple. I had taken a sociology of marriage course in college and the two things that our professor beat into [...]

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What’s the Best Age to Have a Baby?

April 22, 2013
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Drew Barrymore just had her first baby at 37 and this stirred some conversation the other night when my girlfriends and I got together for our Girl’s Night In. One of my friends just had her fifth child at 43. We talked about the best age to have a baby, and decided it depends on [...]

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Perks of Pregnancy

April 15, 2013
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Oh pregnancy, my old friend. I fear we will never meet again and I’m finally okay with that. When we conjure up mental images of being pregnant, we automatically think of all the negatives – like morning sickness, giving up sushi and vodka, crazy mood swings, bouts of exhaustion that leave you praying for bedtime [...]

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Is the Duchess of Cambridge Having a Girl?

April 8, 2013
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Keeping baby secrets isn’t always easy. After my first pregnancy, I learned not let everyone know I was pregnant until I was at least three months along. All the how are you feeling, and how far along are you kind of questions kind of made me feel like my pregnancy was longer than 9 months. [...]

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