The placenta is one of the most important parts of a woman’s body during pregnancy. It’s what provides their baby with a means to get blood and nutrients, and if the placenta isn’t operating at peak efficiency, that could result in everything from growth restriction to stillbirth. Just recently however, doctors have become able to identify, within the first trimester,
Read moreCarrie Saum, a health care provider in Portland, has created a new sipping soup, great for women who are breastfeeding or even just looking for a fresh start to the morning. The Mean Green is a delicious wake-me-up, and leaves enough freedom in the instructions so that you can add anything you can think of to the mix. You owe
Read moreWhen you’re pregnant, you want to keep everything going nice and well as long as possible. That means watching what you eat, drink, and knowing what to avoid. But some things are more difficult to avoid than just skipping the fast food lane. With flu season approaching fast, it’s time to get an up to date immunization and protect yourself AND your child.
Read moreLynbrook Kindergarten Center in Long Island is currently home to a huge number of twins, and that presents something of a challenge to principal Ellen Postman. She’s a huge proponent of placing twins in different classes, and that means a LOT of shuffling around kids at the start of term. But this way, Postman says, they’ll be forced to make
Read moreTaking children to weddings can be a …difficult affair sometimes. Most children, it turns out, don’t much see the point of wearing fancy clothes that aren’t as totally rad as a dinosaur costume. Joey Lombardi found this out the hard way when his son Ben insisted he should wear a green T-Rex outfit – tail included – to his Aunt’s
Read moreToday, in “Well, That’s Infuriating”, a Chicago mother came to school to find that her son’s teacher had given him a trash bag shirt to wear. Nyesha Terry arrived and was shocked to find her 5 year old son – who suffers from Epilepsy – wearing a garbage bag to deal with excess saliva he physical can’t stop. Learn more about Nyesha’s wrath and rage, and then hear how the teacher made it even worse.
Read moreA recent study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the guys we trust to stop the zombies) has found that 1 in every 10 women has had at least one drink during their pregnancy. That’s not ideal, no, but it’s just a single drink or a simple mixup. It’s okay. It’s the other finding from the study
Read moreSalt Lake City photographer Jonathan Diaz just jumped up the “pretty cool” guy rankings by a few rungs, thanks to starting “Anything Can Be”, a photo service giving children suffering from cancer a chance to have a picture as something else. Like as Batman. Or a mermaid. Or as themselves, but being friends with a badass unicorn. The pictures themselves
Read moreIt can be tough to get children to keep themselves clean, and sometimes things can get straight up impossible. But with these simple tricks and ideas, you can make kids actually have fun while keeping themselves clean.
Read morePregnancy is full of unexpected surprises, some of them small, some of them all of a sudden having the baby four months too early on a cruise ship. But that’s what happened to Emily Morgan after her, her husband, and her daughter went on a cruise, after getting okayed by their physician to go on the vacation. And then, all
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