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Great tip for expectant parents from mom, Terri Strack: Purchase an eye mask to use in the hospital and when you get home. Hospital staff often have to come in and check you while you’re sleeping. When they turn on the light, it can wake you up and ruin the sleep you desperately [...]

Check out this interview with Kim Raver, an actress from Lipstick Jungle, called, “What Every New Mom Must Know.” It includes four comfort food recipes that Kim’s mother brought her when she came home from the hospital. If you’re due, you might want to let it slip to friends and family that you [...]

Becoming a mother makes you feel so much more empathy for other mothers, including ones you will never know on the other side of the world. My compassion for other mothers and my desire to help someone in distress drastically increased after I gave birth.
That’s why I want you to know how much I [...]

Hi Moms,
Another blog for new moms that I recommend is New Mom Central. Here’s the intro to the site from blogger Cheryl Wenzel:
Are you a first time mother or expectant mother? If so, I hope that this blog will be helpful for you as you transition into your new life role. Becoming a mother [...]

We’ve been upped again in the health care field by the French. Check out this New York Times article on perineal re-education by an American writer currently living in Paris.
Here’s an excerpt:
After a woman [in France] has a baby, perineal re-education shapes up her stretched-out birth canal. It also strengthens her pelvic floor for [...]

I saw The Business of Being Born in December and highly recommend everyone (men too!) see it. It’s one of those movies I wish every American would view so we can start making changes that give women more choices about birth.
Movie Synopsis: Birth: its a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part [...]

This post may sound like an ad, but I’ve recently found two new products that I love and want to share with you. I’m happy to promote both of these products because I think they are great.
1) Neutrogena Energizing Sugar Body Scrub, Fresh Citrus, six ounce jar – I have dry skin, which only [...]

Dr. Shoshana Bennett is a licensed psychologist who founded Postpartum Assistance for Mothers in 1987 after her second undiagnosed postpartum illness. She is also the author of Postpartum Depression for Dummies and Beyond The Blues.
Last Monday, the 14th, she was a guest on the TV morning show The View From The Bay. In [...]

Today we continue our interview with the authors of I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids. Amy Nobile and Trisha Ashworth have written a book that any mom can relate to. From interviews with over 100 women, they uncover the guilty secrets moms hide and provide real solutions to step [...]

Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile are here to talk about motherhood and how to love it as much as you love your children. Their new book I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood is available now.
The book is a great read that exposes the secrets, through [...]