
Mommy Vomitpants What are you thankful for?
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I read a story today about a couple here in Texas whose little baby developed without eyes. She literally has no eyeballs. She will never ever see. She will never see her parents or herself. She will never see clouds in the sky or sunsets. This makes me want to cry. It also makes me so very grateful...

Mommy Vomitpants A great article about first-hand experience with wieght issues in children. It's sometimes hard to believe the things they pick up on that we don't think we are teaching.
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When my daughter was in fourth grade, it seemed to me that she and her little munchkin girlfriends were firmly enmeshed in childhood. So that same year when my daughter announced to me that one of her close friends - a classmate- refused to eat and my daughter referred to this refusal to eat as ano...

Mommy Vomitpants Please take some time today to remember why we are free and thank a Veteran for helping to keep up that way.
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Thank you to the Veterans, and current service men and women, who have helped keep my family, and my country safe.

Source: www.cdc.gov
Controlling diabetes before and during pregnancy will help prevent birth defects and other poor outcomes, such as miscarriage or stillbirth.

Mommy Vomitpants In case you have one...
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When you unfold your swanky Maclaren umbrella-style stroller, you don't expect to sever a child's finger. But a dozen kids reportedly lost fingers that way, prompting the maker of upscale strollers to recall about 1 million of them.

Mommy Vomitpants Is there ever a bad time to start a new tradition? I am always looking for ways to spend time together as a family that don't involve the television...
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Can you think of any Thanksgiving movies? Christmas has a ton and even Halloween has "The Great Pumpkin", not to mention your run-of-the-mill horror stories. My husband likes to point out that his favorite Thanksgiving move is "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" (hence the lovely graphic at the beginn...

Mommy Vomitpants If you love Christmas like I do, the Elf on the Shelf is a Christmas Tradition that you'll want to get in on.
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As the Holidays are fast approaching, new families (like mine) may be on the lookout for some new traditions to start. My daughter is only 2 years old and doesn't really understand the concept of Christmas. But, that hasn't stopped me from buying (when I was on maternity leave because I am slightly ...

Mommy Vomitpants I know I have been slaking in the post department. I am really and truly going to try and remedy that. :-)
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As a mother, I think about the things that I am "passing on" to my daughter. I see every day the personality traits she gets from her father and I wonder what I can offer her. You know, aside from the whole "giving her life" thing.

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Halloween is creeping up on us -- and as kids anticipate the occasion with excitement bordering on mania, parents often express concern.

Mommy Vomitpants I know we have at least 1 Baby Einstein DVD that we'll likely turn in...
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A chastened Disney is offering refunds to consumers who own copies of the company's Baby Einstein videos, bowing to pressure from a parents group that says the video is more likely to turn children into Baby Alfred E. Neumans

Mommy Vomitpants This is why a multivitamin is so important. And the very best source of Vitamin D? THE SUN!!!
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At least one in five U.S. children aged 1 to 11 don't get enough vitamin D and could be at risk for a variety of health problems including weak bones, the most recent national analysis suggests.

Mommy Vomitpants And I thought the 20 minutes I let my 2-year-old watch every night was bad.
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The Nielsen Co. says in a study released Monday that children ages 2 to 5 watch more than 32 hours of television each week.

Mommy Vomitpants This is totally me. I try so very hard to check myself when I want to yell, but it comes out anyway.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Many in today’s generation of parents would never spank their children. But, incongruously and with regularity, this is a generation that yells.

Mommy Vomitpants Quite honestly I don't know why you'd want to get rid of your car seat. And I wonder if the "study" that was done only performed frontal collision tests? Side impacts are the most deadly for children, from what I have read.
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Authors of 'SuperFreakonomics' claim that for children older than 2, there is no significant difference in the fatality rate between car seats and seat belts.



















