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{photo via iStockphoto} Last week, one of my fellow bloggers here at Baby’s First Year – Rebekah Kuschmider – wrote a post about why she’s getting the flu shot, and while I completely respect Rebekah’s choice, I have to say that I do not feel the same. I have actually never gotten the flu vaccine [...]

I got the flu once in college. It was miserable. I’ve never been so sick. I was out of classes for a week with a fever and cough. I couldn’t breathe through my nose and I had constant body aches. Awful.  Ever since then I’ve gotten the flu shot and I’ve never gotten the flu [...]

I’m leaving Avery for my first real overnight trip next week and I am a total and complete mess about it. I did spend two nights away from her a couple of weeks ago, but I was still here in the city and could have been home in a matter of minutes if she needed [...]

This LUVS commercial shows the difference between a first-time mother and a second-time mother. What’s the difference? Well, the seasoned mom is now “an expert” (and therefore, they claim, more likely to use Luvs diapers). But she’s also more likely to confidently breastfeed in public. Watch and you’ll see the ...

Many new moms taking their first foray into breastfeeding tend to be a bit timid…I was one of them. For the first few months I would only nurse Fern with a full on nursing cover – even at home amongst friends and I would never dream of nursing in public. At church, I would leave [...]

by Jamielyn Nye posted in Life & Home Hi there! This week I was made aware of a new campaign going on during breast cancer awareness month. NUK (the makers of the #1 pacifier) have partnered with the National Breast Cancer Fund to give moms a new way to help fight breast cancer. This is [...]

When I found out this past Monday that I’m carrying twins, I became incredibly excited and filled with joy – and scared. Quite. I mean, I knew it would be a possibility because of our IVF treatments, but, to be honest, I never really suspected that I would actually get pregnant with twins. Any daydream [...]

The second day we were home from the hospital, I was pumping and felt something strange in my right breast. It was like someone had snuck rocks into it. Painful, hard lumps permeated one side and I had no idea what was going on. I went to google and sure enough, they fit perfectly with [...]

There’s a new study in the journal Pediatrics that surveys the amount of exposure that children get to “background tv”. Basically, researchers were trying to find out how often the tv is on while kids are doing other things: Researchers conducted a telephone survey of more than 1,450 parents or caregivers in the U.S. who [...]

This week Suzanne Barston, the writer behind the much-admired blog Fearless Formula Feeder, launches her new book, BOTTLED UP: How the Way we Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why it Shouldn’t. I’ve long followed Barston’s blog, the tagline of which is, “standing up for formula feeders, without being a boob ...