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Guess Who Shouldn't Be Coming for Dinner: Etiquette Tips for New Baby Visits

by Mary Beth Sammons, Posted Dec 28th 2010 4:00PM

Make sure a new mom wants visitors before you head to the hospital. Credit: Getty An offer from friends to deliver dinner following the birth of her now 4-year-old daughter sounded fabulous, Jaimie Franchi recalls. But the enticing ...Think you'll just pop in on a new mom and her baby? Know the rules of newborn visitations before you do.
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New Baby Gifts for Dads

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jun 28th 2010 10:00AM

Dads deserve baby gifts, too. Credit: Getty
New baby gifts for moms are no-brainers. Snap up an adorable diaper bag or a pretty baby sling and you're golden. But while there's no shortage of great ideas for new baby gifts for mothers, what ...
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Baby Announcements: The Virtual Welcome

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jun 28th 2010 10:00AM

Celebrate your baby's arrival via a virtual announcement. Credit: Getty Back when our mothers and grandmothers had children, baby announcements had to be written and addressed by hand. More modern parents had the option of printing their baby ...
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Bristol and Levi - Splitting Up?

by Susan Wagner, Posted Mar 11th 2009 5:00PM

It's the news we were hoping not to hear: Rumor has it that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston are splitting up. The teen parents are reportedly going through a tough time, according to Johnston's sister, Mercede. She claims that Palin is refusing to ...
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And Baby Makes 20! Duggars Welcome New Daughter

by Susan Wagner, Posted Dec 19th 2008 11:00AM

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar -- and Joshua, Jana, John-David, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, Jedidiah, Jeremiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah, and Jennifer -- have welcomed a new addition to the family. Jordyn-Grace ...
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Don't put Baby in Corner (or a dirty onesie)

by Angie Felton, Posted Nov 13th 2008 9:00AM

A pregnant friend recently asked whether the layette suggestions from stores and baby books were actually necessary or just another way for companies to squeeze every last dollar from inexperienced and anxious parents. I was happy to do a little ...
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Surviving the day on too little sleep

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Oct 23rd 2008 8:00AM

When you have a brand new baby, everyone tells you to sleep when the baby sleeps. It's important advice, and if you aren't following it, I have just one question: Why not? But once you go back to work, or become a parent of two or more, napping ...
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Siblings: Trying to make life normal after the second baby arrives

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Jul 6th 2008 2:00PM

One of the hardest parts of transitioning from a one-child family to two children is realizing that you have utterly and completely rocked your first child's world. Though you understand everyone is going to be just fine in the end, it doesn't make ...
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Designer mom loves baby, despises baby gear

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:00PM

The arrival of a new baby usually means an arrival of another kind -- loads and loads of brightly-colored, plastic, and usually bulky baby items. Before you know it, your sensibly decorated home has become a circus of primary or pastel colors with ...
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Helping your first get used to your second

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Mar 5th 2008 11:00AM

When we found out that our second child was going to be a girl late in our third trimester, the only person we told was our then two-year-old daughter. She was so excited to find out that she was going to have a sister, and I think that letting her ...
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Linda's baby boy

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Feb 4th 2008 10:46PM

For those of you that don't obsessive-compulsively check in with the Momosphere twenty six times a day, I'm here to tell you: Linda Lee had her squidgy baby boy today. His name is Dylan Emmett and he weighed 7 pounds, 8.5 ounces according to the ...
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New baby? New year's? No problem.

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Jan 2nd 2008 6:45PM

Last New Year's Eve I went out to an early dinner with my husband, ate something I am pretty sure was friend, then fended off a friend who asked us into the city to go home and plop my pregnant self in front of the television to let Dick Clark ...
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Weird Things About Newborns

by Angie Felton, Posted Nov 10th 2007 3:31PM

CNN recently ran an interesting article on common physical characteristics of newborns that can be alarming to new parents. Most people expect the baby to be tiny and red but they don't expect: Giant bellybuttons (due to umbilical hernia, ...
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Do you hate the holidays?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Nov 5th 2007 10:13AM

Well, perhaps HATE is too strong a word. How about "severely dislike?" How about "diametrically opposed to?" How about...just sick of them...already??? About three weeks ago I was walking back to work after running an errand at lunch and I ...
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Enjoy your time with your children

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Jul 12th 2007 10:10AM

Gee, that sounds logical. Like no one ever thought of that. Still, I got your attention, no? I'm writing today because an interesting era of my life, albeit a small one, is about to come to an end. Really, it's more like a crashing halt, and one ...
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