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Babble.com's Top 100 Mom Blogs Announced

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First Posted: 12/13/11 06:20 PM ET Updated: 01/13/12 10:51 AM ET

Babble.com has just released its list of Top 100 Most Influential Mom Blogs, and the size of the list (which first appeared three years ago) has doubled.

As it turns out, even 100 is just a microslice of the whole Mom Blogosphere. Groups that measure online growth estimate that there are about four million mom blogs just in North America, though Babble Co-founder Rufus Griscom guesses that only 500 of those reach an audience of any size. Speaking of audience -- that too is growing, with more than 30 million moms going online each month, and more than half of them visiting parenting blogs.

The Babble list reflects the range of subjects that can be grouped under the heading of “Mom Blogs.” (Babble’s companion list, of 50 Top Dad Blogs” was released last month.)

At the top is Rebecca Woolf, of Girls Gone Child, who this year chronicled the birth of her very unexpected twins. It ends with Leticia Barr of Tech Savvy Mama, whose very practical focus is family, technology, and internet how-tos. In between are women who cover everything from A to Z, or conception to graduation, as the case may be.

HuffPost Parents sends our congratulations to them all.

LOOK: The Top 10 Mom Blogs Of 2011
(Rankings and text by Babble.com)

Girls Gone Child, Rebecca Woolf
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Rebecca Woolf of Girls Gone Child is cooler than you, and us, and pretty much everyone else out there, but hers is the kind of cool that so warm and friendly that you can't help but love her. Equal parts hip and down-to-earth, Girl's Gone Child has been named to this list every year, and rightly so: Rebecca's richly photographed and beautifully written blog is must-read for moms of all stripes. And the birth of her twins this year has done nothing to slow her down; if anything, her work at Girl's Gone Child (to say nothing of the great stories that she produces at Gone Childssss, her Babble Voices blog), has gotten even more compelling.

How she ranks:
#2 in Best Written
#5 in Best Design
#8 in Most Confessional
#9 in Funniest
See the complete list of Babble.com's top 100 mom bloggers here
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10:33 PM on 12/19/2011
i'm shocked to not see Kandee Johnson on this list- but excited to see some of these blogs. not a mom myself, but i'm a college student who thinks mom blogs are fun and plans to make one someday! (far, far in the future!)
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Joanne Bamberger
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11:44 AM on 12/14/2011
Honored to be on the list again this year with so many amazing women writers online, who just HAPPEN to be moms!