Tis The Season
Christmas is just around the corner and I am looking forward to it! Not only are we expecting our little boy New Year’s Eve but my little Princess is of an age now where Christmas is even more exciting. She is...
CelebrityBabyScoop Talks to The...
Dr. Jim Sears is an Emmy-nominated co-host of the award-winning talk show The Doctors. Dr. Sears has co-authored several books, including The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood, Father’s First Steps — 25 Things...
Smells Like Teens Dispirited
I recently engaged in a debate online with other parents about whether they thought the Teen Years or the Toddler Years were harder to survive. Depending on the age of your children, opinions vary, although I think that...
Adventures in Food: The Strawberry
Me: “Look at this delicious, red, fresh strawberry.” This piqued my son’s interest enough to come over to where I was standing in our kitchen. Me: “Do you want to try it?” Son: “No.” Me: “Why...
Guilt is a funny thing
Just recently I had a "girls weekend". We get together twice a year. Once at our girlfriends cottage (Thanks Stella) and in the fall we get together at a beautiful hotel in Niagara. We all get a spa treatment, we hang...
CelebrityBabyScoop Sits Down with Ricki...
Executive Producer Ricki Lake and filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary, The Business of Being Born, with an all-new, four part DVD series that continues their exploration of the modern maternity care...
Getting back to Normal
For the first week after delivery try to rest whenever you can. Don’t be tempted to try to catch up on everything you have not had the time to do. Call your doctor if you have any problems before your postpartum...
A new mom's secret: I'm jealous of my...
Lauren (not her real name) was blissfully pregnant with her first child, enjoying her growing bump and attention from well wishers. But right after her daughter Emma was born, Lauren began to feel an overwhelming sense...
A Mother's Instinct
While in NICU the twins received the standard hearing screen tests as do all newborns. They passed, they continued to thrive, they came home, I moved on best I could as a mom to 8 children. As the twins were...
The Real Truth about that darn Mummy...
Moms of all shapes, sizes and nationalities can relate to the loving term, “mummy tummy”. You know what I mean - the pooch, pouch, bump, whatever you want to call it, that never seems to go away no matter how many...
Your baby and the common cold
As your baby get’s older and starts to become mobile, she will start putting things in her mouth or touching new things that may not pass your ‘clean’ test. Those curious little fingers will almost always end up...
