Leaping leprechauns — it's that time of year again! March is here, and the leprechauns are roaming free. It is your responsibility as a parent to help your child properly trap those little green rascals. Now you may be...
Let's admit it, we've all fantasized about the ideal birth. The moment you find out you're pregnant, you start looking into birthing classes. Will you do it Au Naturale? Bradley? Lamaze? Hypnobirth? There are so many options and so...
Growing up, I had heard of March of Dimes and my family always contributed when the envelope with the dime arrived in the mail. Little did I know that in 2011, my life would change in a way that put...
Leave it to me to find the most obscure and bizarre postpartum affliction available. I hadn’t a clue that D-MER was even a thing until it happened to me. Oh, what’s that you say? You’ve never heard of it?...
Over the last 100 years, immunizations have become one of modern medicine’s greatest success stories. With the introduction of vaccines in the twentieth century that provided protection against some of the most common and deadly childhood illness like measles and mumps, polio, and smallpox, the last several generations of parents in the United...
The March of Dimes was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 in order to raise money to fight polio. The foundation funded research for the polio vaccine, which effectively ended epidemic polio in the United States. With...
I first planned to write this post about four months ago. I had already gone through the process of getting rid of pacifiers with two of my daughters years ago, and I was preparing to do it with my...
Britax knows how to party.
Ok, there's also unparalleled safety and idiot-mom proof installation--but also, yeah, cupcakes. It's Child Passenger Safety Month and, last week, Britax and City Moms Blog Network got together with Jacksonville Moms Blog to introduce a group...
It’s a fact that most of the babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are preemies. In Duval County, 11.4% of all babies are born prematurely. While I’m glad that the NICU is there for all of those sweet...
Oh I know, toddlers can be little jerks. I have two 2-year-olds, and when they are both face down on the pavement screaming in protest over leaving their older brother's baseball practice, there's not much I can do but...
I hadn’t planned on writing anything about pregnancy loss this year. Sometimes it feels like maybe I talk about it too much. Sometimes it feels like it’s not something that people want to be reminded about. (Especially from a...
When you think of prematurity, what do think of? More than likely, you might picture a baby born a few days early. Perhaps a few weeks early. Rarely do you hear about babies being born months early, but it...