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Why Women Won't Have Sex With Their Husbands

Limari Colon | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Motherhood, Parents-Newborns, Maternity, Marriage Advice, Parent Advice, Marriage, Sex, New Parents, New Baby, Parents News

Waving your cute butt in front of your wife will not do anything for your sex life. Doing the dishes, the laundry and putting the baby to sleep... Now that will raise more than an eyebrow or two.

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My Yogi Sang Me To Sleep Like A Baby

Suzanne Hegland | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Singing Babies to Sleep, Lullabies, Moms Doing Yoga, Motherhood, Parents-Newborns, Hare Krishna, Moms Singing, Parents-Moms, Mom Lullaby, Hot Yoga, Parents News

On the hardwood floor of the yoga studio I suddenly understood why mothers in all cultures from the beginning of time have known to sing to babies long before their children will ever begin to understand what they're saying.

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Shocking Number Of Parents Regret Their Baby's Name

The Huffington Post | Jessica Samakow | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Bizarre Baby Names, Baby Name Choices, Parents-Pregnancy, Nameberry, Pregnancy, Baby Naming, Baby Name Mistakes, Parents-Newborns, Baby Names, Baby Name Regret, Parents News

While certain parents try to trademark their baby's name, other parents -- about 54% according to a new online survey -- regret their chosen moniker. ...

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9 Funny-Because-It's-True Baby Sleep Positions

Charlie Capen | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, How Babies Sleep, Sleeping Positions, How to Be a Dad, Baby Sleep Positions, Parents-Newborns, Cosleeping, Sleeping With Babies, Parents News

Each of us co-slept to varying degrees but anytime our babies slept on or near us, we noticed how utterly uncomfortable we were. Once, Andy, a designer, thought of doing a birds-eye view, the ideas exploded out of our mouths.

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Why I Don't Love My Daughter Any "More"

Liz Kozak | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Valentines Day, Motherhood, Parents-Newborns, Parents-Babies, Frozen Embryo, New Parents, Parents-Moms, Parents News

Love doesn't leave room for increases based on performance. It's okay to be at maximum capacity right from the get-go.

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A Parenting Mantra That Works

Roma Downey | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Little Angels, Anxious Moms, Perfect Parents, Motherhood, Need Teaches Plan, Parents-Newborns, New Moms, Stressed Out Moms, Parents News

But if parenthood has taught me nothing else, it has taught me that there is no such thing as "perfect" -- but that you always have to make "perfect" your goal.

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The Etiquette of Visiting Parents With Newborns

Reem Akkad | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Etiquette, Etiquette and Advice, Parents-Newborns, Babies, Newborns, Baby, Newborn Babies, Parenting, Parents News

This post is dedicated to the etiquette of visiting new parents. I hope it doesn't offend anyone. It shouldn't. I definitely violated these rules before I had a baby.

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Why We Should Respect Michelle Duggar's Choice To Share Those Photos

Babble.com | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Parents-Newborns, Miscarriage Grief, Dealing With Miscarriage, Michelle Duggar, Michelle Duggar Baby Photos, Michelle Duggar Miscarriage, Parents News

By Katie Granju I freely admit to a certain fondness for the Duggar family. They seem like genuinely nice folks who simply happen to hold different...

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The Drastic Measure One State Is Taking To Encourage Breastfeeding

AP | By DAVID KLEPPER | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: No More Free Infant Formula, Free Infant Formula, Breastfeeding, Baby Formula, Free Infant Formula in Hospitals, Parents-Newborns, Global Motherhood, Infant Formula, Parents News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- New mothers in Rhode Island will no longer leave the hospital with a free goody bag of infant formula. To encourage breastfeeding...

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How Does Pink Get Her Baby To Stop Crying?

EOnline.com | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Pink, Baby Willow, Pink Singer, Happy Feet 2, Parents-Newborns, Singing to Baby, Carey Hart, Parents-Babies, Parents News

Talk about red carpet cuteness! Singer Pink showed up to yesterday's Hollywood premiere of her new movie, Happy Feet Two, with hubby Carey Hart and...

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How To Raise A Punk

Andrea Blaugrund Nevins | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, Punk Parenting, Cbgbs, Toddlers, Raising Boys, The Other F Word, Punk Culture, Raising Kids, Parents-New-Moms, Parents-Newborns, Parents-Newmoms, Video, Parents News

My third child was still a toddler when it became clear he was the punker his older siblings weren't. If they said something that even slightly smacked of pandering to his diminutive size or age, he'd look them right in the eye and tear up the artwork they'd just brought home.

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'Speak To The Baby!' And Other Rules About Speech We Don't Need To Follow

Rhiana Maidenberg | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Baby Talk, Milestones, Babies, Development, Speech, Language Development, Parents-New-Moms, Parents-Newborns, Parents-Newmoms, Parents-Moms, Parents News

During the times I was alone with the baby and the toddler was at preschool, I treasured the moments of quiet, relishing in the child that could not yet talk. As Phyllis Diller so eloquently put: "We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."

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California Conjoined Twins Separated After Lengthy Surgery

AP | By BROOKE DONALD | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Angelina Angelica Sabuco, Video, California Conjoined Twins Separated, Healthy-Living-Health-News, Twins Separated, Angelina and Angelica Sabuco, Parents-Newborns, Conjoined Twins Separated, Parents-Babies, Angelina-and-Angelica-Sabuco-Separated, Healthy Living News

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Twin 2-year-old girls who were joined at the chest and abdomen were separated Tuesday during a lengthy, complex procedure at Stan...

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Just A Mom Talking Trash

Teresa Strasser | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Toys, Youtube Videos, Slidepollajax, Toddlers, Raising Boys, Youtube, Motherhood, Garbage Truck, Parents-Toddlers, Parents-Newborns, Parents-Moms, Parents News

In the vast world of things that were not on my radar before becoming a parent, I'm going to put garbage trucks on top. Not only did I give no thought to garbage trucks; I gave even less to garbage truck toys.

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You Can't Always Get What You Want

Devon Corneal | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Pregnancy, Having Kids, Parents-Newborns, Having Boys, Parenthood, Parents-Babies, Parents-Moms, Parents News

I had lists of baby names when I was in elementary school and dreamed of bringing my daughter home from the hospital and cooing over her every expression. There wasn't a thing about her and her life that I hadn't considered, except the chance that "she" might be a "he."

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Mom on Mom

Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Parenting Tips, Breastfeeding, Baby Formula, Mothering, Mommy Wars, Parenting, It Gets Better, Mommy Bloggers, Mothers, Parents-Newborns, Lactivists, Cyber Bullying, Parents News

New mothers sometimes snark hatefully at each other with the intent to cause pain. It starts with some article about breastfeeding, epidural, c-section, co-sleeping, whatever, and devolves rapidly. Some people call this Mommy Wars. I call this cyber-bullying.

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Namers Remorse: What Happens When You Don’t Like The Baby Name You Chose?

Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Video, Parents-Pregnancy, Nameberry, Pregnancy, Baby Naming, Baby Name Mistakes, Parents-Newborns, Baby Names, Parents News

Some people have baby names picked out when they are just kids themselves. Others don’t decide on a name until two days after their baby is born. Ei...

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Are Breastfeeding Activists Attacking The Wrong Group?

| Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Lactivists, Nurse In, World Breastfeeding Week, Activism, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Babies, Baby Formula, Parents-Newborns, Moms, Lactation, Parents News

By Joanna Weiss (Click here for the original article.) Raise a (nonalcoholic, noncaffeinated) toast! This is World Breastfeeding Week—in Canada, ...

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WATCH: Kourtney K Says Sisters Encouraged Her To Quit Breastfeeding Early

The Huffington Post | Jessica Samakow | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Toddlers, Today Show, Kourtney Kardashian Baby, Parents-Newborns, Kourtney Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian Mason Disick, Breastfeeding, Kathy Lee and Hoda, Video, Parents News

If you've watched even one episode of "Keeping Up With The Kardashians," you know that privacy is a foreign word to that family and that the sisters g...

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Single Moms Are Crazy! (Is This What People Think?)

www.slate.com | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Parents-Pregnancy, Parents-Newborns, Parents News

When I was pregnant with my second child, I was aware that there were ways in which I was not prepared to take care of a baby on my own, but that awar...

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Lisa Loeb's Silly Sing-Along -- A Zany Children's Book and CD

Ruth Gerson | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Children's Music, Lisa Loeb, Disappointing Pancake, Learning to Read, Folk Songs, Children's Books, Lisa Loeb Children's Book, Lisa Loeb Book, Lisa Loeb Music, Lisa Loeb Sing Along, Children's Albums, Parents-Toddlers, Parents-Newborns, Arts News

My kids and I have been listening to Lisa Loeb's new children's album and book, Lisa Loeb's Silly Sing-Along: The Disappointing Pancake and Other Zany Songs, in the car for the last week and we have it fully memorized.

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6 People Who Have Made Work-Life Balance Work

Rex Flexibility | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Work-Life Balance, National Work and Family Month, Workplace Flexibility, Slidefreestyle, Parents-Pregnancy, Parents-Newborns, Parents-Toddlers, Parents-Teens-Tweens, Parents News

To mark National Work and Family Month, we're looking at inspiring people who have successfully reinvented their jobs to make sense with their lives.

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Going Against the Grain: Black Stay at Home Mothers

Kuae Kelch Mattox | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Mocha Moms, Mocha Moms Inc, Black Stay at Home Moms, Black Stay at Home Mothers, Bv-Parenting, Stay at Home Mothers, Stay-at-Home Moms, Parents-Pregnancy, Parents-Newborns, Parents-Toddlers, Black Voices News

If you had asked me as a teenager what I was going to be when I grew up, I might have said Pulitzer prize winning writer or Emmy award winning producer, but stay at home mom? Nope. Never.

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Meet The Single Mom Who Traveled To South America With Her Baby

Marissa Cortes | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Single Parent, Single Mom, Travel, Parents-Newborns, Parents-Pregnancy, Ukwomen, Ukrelationships, Divorce News

I would be damned if I let this tragedy define and ruin me. Not only did the trip turn out to be my opportunity to heal, it also became the chance to create and build a lasting relationship with my only child.

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Why Americans Need Better Education on Allergic Reactions

Susan Weissman | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Food Allergies, Healthy Living Body, Food Allergy Symptoms, Food Allergies and Anaphylaxis, Personal Health, CPR Training, Childhood Food Allergies, Anaphylactic Shock, Parents-Newborns, Anaphylaxis, Parents-Teens-Tweens, Parents-Toddlers, Healthy Living News

As the parent of a child with multiple anaphylactic allergies, I've learned that any delay in treatment of anaphylaxis can cost my child his life. But what if a child shows signs of anaphylaxis and an EpiPen isn't readily available?

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