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Bedtime Stories

It seems lately that I am inspired to write only about my family challenges and most difficult struggles. Tonight my children warmed my heart, and I want to share my experience with you. It isnt often that a10-year-old is moved to tears, but this was my night.We all laid together tonight doing our usual bed time story routine, except tonight we all shared one room. Two kids in each bed because they have …

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Safely Swaddled

When I started writing my book, Swaddle Love, I was set to launch into several diatribes one crusading for “tight” swaddles, another chastising confused parents who swaddle babies in heavy blankets, and yet another that busted all the myths that keep new mums from swaddling their little ones.

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The Year of Baby Steps

A recent study showed that more than 75 percent of respondents will break their New Years resolutions within 3 months and almost one-third will break them by the end of January. Apparently we all have good intentions, but generally poor follow through. Why? Forty-three percent say they are not committed to the New Years resolutions they set and 25 percent say they have too many other things to do, which is really just another way of saying they are not committed to their resolutions. With years and years of abandoned lists to learn from, its time to come up with a new strategy. Lets make 2010 the year of the baby step and beat those dismal New Years Resolution odds.