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They grow up so fast. Don't take bad pictures.
Forget the baby monitor or motorized swing, what I really could have used when my kids were little was photographer and dad Nick Kelsh's entertaining and smart new DVD, How to Photograph Your Baby, a companion to the book by the same name.
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Our favorite dolls get ink
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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Our Top Nursing Picks for World Breastfeeding Week - Let's hear it for the boobs!
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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You say Maria, I say Mariah. Or, nah. Let's stick with Maria.
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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Childrearing advice for when you've misplaced your gay uncle
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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Let's panic about babies! (You know you want to)
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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Design for Children. And of course, their drooling parents.
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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An awesome Father's Day gift from the kids, no glitter glue required
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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Take that, Magnolia Bakery.
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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Edible Schoolyard - Because mystery meat isn't good for anyone.
A few months ago, my daughter came home from school crying hysterically. A little boy in her class had tried to steal her lunch.
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Momnesia - Yes, there's actually an official word for "mommy brain"
I reaped so many giggles from If These Boobs Could Talk that I couldn't wait to read Shannon Payette Seip and Adrienne Hedger's follow up book Momnesia. The title alone was enough to make me nod my head in total agreement.
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