Wait doctor, could you save that?

Okay, interesting topic, umbilical cord stem cell/blood banks.
Why would anyone want to save it?
If your baby is healthy, you don’t need it.  However, if the blood system has been ravished by disease or by treatments such as radiation or chemotherapy, new stem cells are necessary to rebuild the body’s blood and immune systems. Preserved cord [...]

Coolest Pregnancy Test Ever!

Yes, I know it is a little strange to get excited about a pregnancy test, but I am a geek at heart and can’t help being amazed my technology.
So, normal pregnancy test:  pee on the strip and wait for the chemicals in your body to activate the colors, double lines, happy face, whatever.
The PTeq Pregnancy [...]

Window to the Womb

Royal Phillips Electronics has come out with an amazing new ultrasound where prospective parents can experience the wonder of a view inside the womb! See here!

It doesn’t work much differently than a regular ultrasound, except that the technology reading the black and white images turns it into a 3-d image for you to better [...]

A glass of wine to unwind … while pregnant?

“Nothing makes people more uncomfortable than a pregnant woman sitting at the bar,” said Brianna Walker, a bartender in Los Angeles. “The other customers can’t take their eyes off her.”
Being an avid wine drinker, I read a fabulous article in the NYT about drinking during pregnancy.  As Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a danger for mothers [...]

Cool Birth Announcements

Consumers are never too young for a little gravanity, particularly when proud parents are buying it for them. Enter 5starbaby.com, which offers personalized birth announcements fashioned after movie advertisement posters.
Each movie poster birth announcement from 5starbaby is tailor-made for the new arrival, complete with all the critical “stats” about the baby’s birth and the names [...]

Online Baby Books!

Lilgrams http://littlegrams.com
Baby Chapters http://www.babychapters.com/
Little Chapters http://www.littlechapters.com/

Cell/Mobile Phones Could Cause Harm to your Infant

The Independent reports that a new study has found that using a cell phone 2 or 3 times a day while pregnant is potentially harmful to future child development. The risk level is on par with that of alcohol and tobacco.
They found that mothers who did use the handsets were 54 per cent more likely [...]

The Baby’s Crying!

I was reading one of the blogs I always glance at, Lifehacker, and came across a neat trick to stop your baby from crying. It came from an excerpt of a book by Lisa Katayama called Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan. With no baby yet to test the trick, I [...]

Birth Control and Pregnancy

My husband and I were discussing when I should stop taking birth control before we try to get pregnant so I can get all the hormones out of my body before conception. I realized I wasn’t even sure where I got the idea that I needed to do this, so I tried to [...]