Here’s a little secret about breastfeeding: Regardless of what you eat, your baby will get all of the nutrients he needs to grow. But that doesn’t mean you should just chow down on chips— make the extra 300 to 500 extra daily calories you need healthy ones.
Read MoreA Bay Area hospital is taking steps to protect newborns after a mix-up involving a preemie. The ABC 7 News I-Team has been looking into what happened and into even more serious issues at the hospital. Imagine you're a young father coming to the hospital, excited to see your son.
Read MoreA mother who returned from deployment surprised her daughter at school Tuesday during a Veterans Day ceremony. Petty Officer 2nd Class Laura Endicott serves in the Navy. She was deployed for five months aboard the U.S.S. Battan.
Read MoreA new study reports that nearly half of U.S. moms are their households’ main earners. Breadwinner moms in the United States make up nearly half of households’ major earners or are on par income-wise with their significant others, according to a new study.
Read MoreI have a love-hate relationship with seasonal trends. On the one hand, I really want to know what's hot and happening right now. On the other hand, updating my wardrobe is kinda-sorta-completely-not-at-all in my budget. Know what I mean?
Read MoreIt was midnight. After nearly 30 hours of labor I had just delivered my first son. He weighed nine pounds, had a head that looked like an extraterrestrial creature, and he was hungry. I swear the OB put him on my stomach and he inched his way towards my chest, anxious for his first meal.
Read MoreParental genetic make-up decides almost every tiny aspect about a child’s health but did you know your health could be affected by your child’s genetic make up? According to a new study, a child’s genetic make-up may be a contributing factor to his or her mother’s risk of rheumatoid arthritis.
Read MoreFor little kids, seeing mom or dad nearby is a calming influence, maybe the difference between between perfect calm and a full-bore freakout. It's as if having a trusted caregiver nearby transforms children from scared toddlers into confident adolescents.
Read MoreTabloids are always speculating whether or not a celebrity is pregnant. How many times has it been falsely reported that Jennifer Aniston is expecting a child? The actress is fit yet anytime she eats a cheeseburger news breaks that she has a bun in the oven.
Read MoreA California mother made the ultimate sacrifice for her baby when she refused lifesaving treatment for cancer. You often hear mothers say they want to stop time when they have a new baby. But for 24-year old Ashley Bridges, time is running out...
Read MoreIt's a dilemma all breastfeeding, working moms must face where to pump once the maternity leave ends. While some companies provide new moms with a private, safe space, others force women to pump in disgusting, degrading circumstances.
Read MoreA mother-of-two who makes incredible artwork from packed lunches was clearly never told to stop playing with her food as a child. Li Ming started making the charabens a form of arranging food - three years ago.
Read MoreThe results of MIT’s Make The Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon are in. More than 150 breast pump users, engineers, designers, health care and lactation specialists, as well as educators, converged at the MIT Media Lab for two days of hacking.
Read MoreEleanor Bimla Schwarz believes doctors and mothers to be are making a big mistake if they think pregnancy and childbirth is a nine-month journey that ends in the delivery room. The next months are critical too, she say's.
Read MoreMeredith may seem like the embodiment of a busy working mother who "has it all," but she admits it wasn't always so easy when her kids were young. In fact, back in the early '90s, she made a controversial decision about juggling her career as a journalist and her life as a mom.
Read MoreWhen toddlers draw, most parents compliment their creativity and then hang the artwork on the refrigerator (or, you know, surreptitiously trash it later that night). But one mom decided to take her daughter's creations to the next level.
Read MoreThe Jolie-Pitt children, including Zahara,and Vivienne, "wrote vows and asked us to make promises to each other," Jolie, 39, reveals in People's issue. "It was very sweet what they came up with." "It was important to us that the day was relaxed and full of laughter"...
Read MoreWhether you're a devotee of the bottle or the breast, when it comes to a mom's right to feed her baby, we all agree that nothing should stand in her way. For all the emphasis that's been placed upon the benefits of breastfeeding in recent years, nursing moms have been getting the boot from some pretty surprising spots.
Read MoreWe've long known about Olivia Wilde's amazing sense of humor and her appreciation for a good joke. As the latest celebrity to jump on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge bandwagon, the actress did something exceptionally odd: instead of pouring ice-cold water over her head, she declared that she was going to use her own breast milk instead -- before proceeding to dump what looks like milk all over herself.
Read MoreIt's never too early to learn how to multitask when you're a mom. One Texas woman learned this the hard way when she delivered a baby boy while enrolling her 4-year-old son in a preschool in Houston. Vanessa DeLeon knew she was in labor when she decided to stop at Alexis' preschool to fill out all of the necessary paperwork she needed to ensure her child was all signed up and ready to go this September...
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