When I told my parents I was expecting, I didn't tell them I was expecting. I told them we'd done some interesting sightseeing, and did they want to see pictures? And then I gave them my ultrasound photos.
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There's so much advice for moms to wade through, and after being pregnant and told you can't eat spicy tuna rolls or a good brie for ten months, it would be easy to throw up your hands by the time you get around to choosing the safest fabric softener for all those onesies.
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After researching my proposal for my own parenting book (Ahem, Sleep Is for the Weak, shameless plug, shameless plug) I thought I'd read every baby handbook on earth. And, I admit it, I became really jaded and snooty about them.
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We love Melissa Conroy's Wooberry dolls. The originals are not only designed from her child's sketches, they're also handmade. And beyond adorable.
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It's not like we needed any sort of excuse to tell you about all the amazing breastfeeding products out there, but since it's World Breastfeeding Week, we figured we'd celebrate by picking our all time favorites. Go Boobs!
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Linda Rosenkranz and Pamela Redmond Satran raised baby naming to an art form with their original 1988 baby-naming book, Beyond Jennifer & Jason - names that practically seem pedestrian with today's Talullahs and Artemises.
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Fellow blogger and Vanity Fair contributor Brett Berk has unleashed on the world his parenting perspective with The Gay Uncle's Guide to Parenting: Candid Counsel From the Depths of the Daycare Trenches. Berk obviously has no uterus and no children.
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The funniest thing I've seen in a good long time is the new website, Let's Panic About Babies! which just launched today.
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You know who you are, you design-crazy parents: You scour flea markets looking for vintage picture books to turn into nursery art, you spent more time picking paint colors than pediatricians...
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Obviously the greatest Father's Day gifts are the ones that actually come from the kids. But when you've got ones who aren't even old enough to sign their names to a card yet, check out the personalized Daddy and Me books from iseemyface.com
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Anyone with a kid over about 18 months knows that cupcakes are essentially crack for children. I could get my daughters to clean every room in the house with a toothbrush if they knew there were a cupcake in it for them at some point. (And, ahem, so would their mother).
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