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Posted by: MariaRose on 03/14/2013 It was a can of the good stuff.
After a few hours sorting through donations in my community’s food shelf and finding a dishearteningly high number of expired products, that can of Enfamil lifted me up. It’s always exciting when someone donates baby formula –it’s something our clients need and we never have enough of. But snuggled near the bottom of a pile of canned tuna, macaroni and cheese and jalapeño Ramen noodles, this can seemed to be buried treasure. It was for babies whom ev...
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Posted by: Megan_R on 02/05/2013 At my last check-up at the OB-GYN practice I had been using, the midwife I was primarily working with told me that she wouldn't be there for my delivery.
"Vacation?" I asked. She shook her head. No, not vacation - she was leaving the practice.
"Why? Where are you going?" She explained that she was leaving to work at a more midwife friendly hospital. More midwife friendly? I immediately started asking question.
The practice I had been using consisted of four mi...
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Posted by: Collette on 12/10/2012 As a StageofLife.com Editor, I wanted to create a little awareness about the GIVE IT UP TO HELP campaign. This holiday it’s not about what you give, but what you give up. "Give It Up To Help" asks people to give up little luxuries this holiday season and donate the savings to Be The Match®, an organization that connects patients with their donor match for a life-saving marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant. Contributions will help run the Be The Match marrow registry, fund research and hel...
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Posted by: Megan_R on 09/28/2012 When I was pregnant with my daughter, I had already established a relationship with a certified nurse midwife and OBGYN. They both worked out of an office conveniently located in the hospital. I had wonderful care during my picture-perfect pregnancy. They were open and receptive to my desire for an all-natural labor and birth. I wanted to be intervention free, because I trusted my body to do what it was made to do.
However, as I continued to be pregnant after my "due date", the m...
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Posted by: Megan_R on 08/07/2012 Trying to conceive is a tricky business - or so I've heard. I've read instances of women trying for YEARS and not being able to make a baby without the help of outside forces. Studies say that there's only a 15% chance of getting pregnant each month. The odds are NOT in your favor.
When we decided that having a baby might not be the worst thing in the world, I stopped taking birth control and let nature takes it's course. Well, nature must have been on the Autobahn, because two w...
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Posted by: Penelope on 05/18/2012 My husband bought me an incredibly thoughtful "push" present two months prior to the due date of our daughter. It was a personalized pendant necklace that had the first initial of our daughter's name.
I wore it everyday...until the baby came.
It turned out that during breastfeeding, my little girl loved to reach out and PULL on this gorgeous necklace. I had to take it off for about a year, but I recently started wearing it again.
I'm glad I did. Everyday ...
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Posted by: NicPenningtonSmyth on 05/02/2012 Your little bundle of joy is adorable, and of course you'll do anything for her. In the early days, you'll wake frequently to change the diapers. When she's 13, you'll drive her to soccer practice and mall meet-ups. When she starts to date, you'll interrogate several sweaty young men in your finely furnished den, knowing that this room, in their eyes, is made of cinderblocks and lit by a single hanging bulb. You'll laugh inside at this game. You'll do more than all this, though. You'll put your...
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Posted by: Penelope on 04/10/2012 The Hunger Games are trumping Twilight this year when it come to baby name choices. Check out this lHollywood inspired list of names getting the most attention for the first quarter of 2012, according to Nameberry.com
Girls
Rue
Adele
Ivy
Aria
Cyrus
Estelle
Blythe
Boys
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Posted by: jasoncaleb on 02/13/2012 After taking a semester off from college, I started again this semester, and one of my classes is General Psychology. I sort of took the class thinking it would be interesting and it goes toward the general education I'm required to take. But today, I am amazed by all the things I get to learn from it. Really practical things.
I like the fact that I'm required to take a class like this, so I'm paying a lot of money for one class, but I'm getting solid information about how human...
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Posted by: jasoncaleb on 01/04/2012 There are common phrases that get tossed around when you are near a baby. It's typical for people to stop and gawk all gooey eyed and say things like "you're baby is so adorable, so well mannered." They can't help themselves. Especially if they're older people. But then I also see plenty of young people, kids, teenagers, or young couples who can't resist staring at a baby. And there is a fascination we human beings have when it comes to age. We're always curious how old a person is, and w...
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Posted by: jasoncaleb on 01/03/2012 So when my wife and I were first married, we didn't intend on having a baby right away. So moving to a different state and not having very many friends and with it only being the two of us, she felt lonely. So on one of our trips to visit her family in North Carolina we found out about some kittens that needed to be adopted, we ended up adopting a brother and sister pair of kittens. For the few months that we had the cats, it was great, and they weren't a problem. And then we got pregnant. ...
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Posted by: Penelope on 12/01/2011 Today, while listening to the radio at work they read the top ten baby names for 2011. As an expecting mother, I thought it would be great to share the list with other moms too! Take a look...
Girls
1. Isabella
2. Sophia
3. Emma
4. Olivia
5. Ava
6. Emily
7. Abigail
8. Madison
9. Chloe
10. Mia
Boys
1. Jacob
2. Ethan
3. Michael
4. Jayden
5. Willia...
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Posted by: jasoncaleb on 09/06/2011 Something my wife always says to me when I get angry or upset, and I show that emotion and we're in front of our baby girl, is that I have to be careful not to let her see that. I don't always pay attention to it. And sometimes, I don't even feel that agree with my wife when she gets on me about blowing up in front of the baby. But lately I've been thinking about my actions, I've been thinking about the kind of father I am and the kind of father I want to be. And I'm beginning to feel that ...
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Posted by: thiegsr on 05/18/2009 I’m officially at the end of my pregnancy. 39 weeks. That means any day now I can have a baby. Each week, I get a call from my 90 year old grandmother who lives in inner city Baltimore. She calls to “check in” and see how I am feeling. When I explain to her that waiting at the end of pregnancy for the baby to arrive is frustrating, her aphorism of choice for me is “Hon, when the apple is ripe, it will fall from the tree.”
And that is what I am waiting for . . . my ripe apple to...
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Posted by: Penelope on 12/06/2011 As we all know, each month has a birth stone. I was doing some research into birthstones, for a gift I'm planning, and figured I would share...
January Gemstone: Garnet
February Gemstone: Amethyst
March Gemstone: Aquamarine, Bloodstone
April Gemstone: Diamond
May Gemstone: Emerald
June Gemstone: Pearl, Moonstone, Alexandrite
July Gemstone: Ruby
August Gemstone: Peridot, Sardonyx
September Gemstone: Sapphire
October Gemstone: Opal,...
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Posted by: jasoncaleb on 08/31/2011 A while back I wrote a similar post about what every woman should know about their man during pregnancy, and so I thought it would be interesting to put together a similar piece about after the pregnancy.
My wife and I welcomed our daughter into our lives back in February. She is now nearing seven months and there are a lot of things I've discovered being a father in that time.
1. My wife had a c-section. And I think that changed a lot of things that I thought would have...
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Posted by: Megan_R on 09/22/2011 Who is that sexy momma strutting her stuff in those nice khaki pants? Oh, yeah, it's me! It's only taken me 18 months to get back to my pre-pregnancy pant size, and I'm gonna milk it for all it's worth! Granted, I don't totally look like I did before Little Toots started growing in my tummy; my hips are wider, my feet are bigger, and my boobs are, well...let's just say they look like they had been feed bags for a year. But, today, alleluia , praise be to the treadmill! Today, I bravely stepped ...
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Posted by: Penelope on 08/02/2011 If you're pregnant or recently had a baby, you've probably found out by now the importance of wearing the right sized bra during your maternity period.
But what is the right bra to wear during or after your pregnancy? With so many companies and choices, where do you start in finding the right fit?
As an Editor at Stage of Life, we did some looking around and ended up talking to our friends at Bare Necessities...
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Posted by: jasoncaleb on 02/18/2011 I have always thought that C-sections were crazy. I think my wife and I both thought it would never happen to her. We were both pretty confident that with our first baby, she'd be able to push her out fine without having to depend on much medicine to intervene the process. But as many mothers and fathers out there probably know, we can't always get it the way we want it.
Our story is that we began the labor process around 8 on a Tuesday morning, and my wife laid there in that hosp...
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Posted by: shamaker on 03/01/2011 The Wall Street Journal has an article entitled "Push for More Pregnancies to Last 39 Weeks." A must-read for any expectant mother, it details the reasons why scheduling an induced or C-section delivery for no medical reason prior to 39 weeks can cause harm to the baby. And they do mean 39 weeks exactly--even 38 weeks and 6 days is not long enough for some babies, who need that extra day ...
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Posted by: jasoncaleb on 02/15/2011 As I now write this, my wife is hooked up to machines, she is all drugged up, and we are waiting for our baby to escape the womb. I have this feeling of being just another father, another husband, to go through this experience. I do have to say though, that for each man, it must feel very unique, the first time. We can't all look at this situation lightly, and leave it at that, that if thousands of other men and couples can survive this, then we all can. Though this is true, it can never di...
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Posted by: jasoncaleb on 01/24/2011 In a matter of weeks my wife and I will be welcoming our child into the world. We have been getting the house ready, and we are trying to be as prepared as we can. We live in Illinois, and we all know what the weather has been like in this part of the country this winter. Her greatest concern is that with having the baby in February, we are in the middle of flu season. So this means that if anyone is remotely sick, or if they've come in contact with anyone that has been or currently is sick...
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Posted by: jasoncaleb on 01/13/2011 So my wife is about eight months along in pregnancy, she is due in the middle of February. We're excited, and the baby is excited also appearantly because she's constantly kicking her mother, like she's saying " I want out, I want out!" This past weekend we got the crib put together and the changing table, and so we're basically done getting the baby room together, just some odds and ends now. So I wanted to share some insights perhaps, on what you should know about your male partner during ...
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Posted by: Penelope on 12/29/2010 Expecting and New Parents...I wanted to share Stage of Life's free, universal goal setting worksheet for new parents or anyone who recently had or is about to have a baby.
Whether you use it as your "New Year's Resolution To-Do" list or as a tool to kick off fresh start with your new baby, this 10-step worksheet will help get you proactively thinking about the goals, possibilities and opportunities ahead.
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Posted by: christinalouise on 11/03/2010 Entertainment Weekly recently reported that Lionsgate is planning to adapt the bestselling book "What to Expect When You're Expecting" for a movie.
EW says Lionsgate intends "to give it the 'Love Actually' and 'Valentine's Day' treatment," which means it will...
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