Parents’ days of struggling at the airport with luggage, a stroller and their kids may soon be over.Josie Stockdill and Benjamin Newman from Melbourne, Australia, created a compact stroller that is also a carry-on suitcase. Stockdill told The Huffington Post she came up with the idea for the traveling system, called Born to Fly Baby, after traveling with their daughter … [Read more...]
Baby/Toddler News & Advice
30 Birth Photos That Show Pure, Beautiful Love
No matter how a baby’s birth unfolds ― whether it’s a first-time mom having a C-section, or a third-time mother fighting through a labor that lasts two full days ― childbirth is hard and it is messy.But in between all the, well, laboring are moments of love. Love between partners, love between families and doctors, doulas and midwives, and that very special love when … [Read more...]
This smiling preemie baby is melting the internet’s collective heart
On Dec. 2, 2014, Lauren Vinje snapped a picture of her five-day-old daughter, Freya, to send to her husband. The baby, who was born almost two months premature and weighed just four pounds, four ounces, looked up at her mother and gave an enthusiastic open-mouthed smile.Nearly two years later, that picture has gone viral, as the internet has fallen in love with Freya’s … [Read more...]
The Things I Didn’t Know About My Rainbow Baby
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.My first pregnancy ― eagerly anticipated, anxiously awaited ― ended, not in a birth, at least not in the kind of birth I intended. Instead of pacing the hospital floor counting the patterned breaths of Lamaze, belly round with life, I’d give birth, alone, paralyzed by general anesthesia, in a sterile operating room, where … [Read more...]
Breastfeeding mothers could soon have their own emoji
There could soon be an emoji representing new moms.A new proposal to Unicode, the organization that oversees the creation of emoji, would add breastfeeding to the official list of emoji characters. The group will consider the proposal at an upcoming meeting.New characters for almond, coconut, climber, mermaid, person meditating and pie will also be considered. The … [Read more...]
