Can a six-month-old sing? Perhaps in her own gibberish-y way. But I’d argue babies can certainly appreciate music from very early on. As someone who loves to sing (in the car, in the shower, on a stage – you name it), it’s important for me to impart a love for music on The K Man…
Natrel Baboo: drink of the toddlers
During a recent play-date, my friend admitted to giving her 12-month-old son two per cent cow’s milk. Perhaps there was the look of horror on my face that followed. I was nearly certain that babies under the age of two need the higher fat content found in homogenized milk for proper brain development, but this…
GR8X Inflatable Nursing Pillow
If you’re a new Mom or Dad reading this, you’ll understand. Surely there’s been at least one time that you’ve thought of something and decided that a patent might be wise, lest the idea be stolen from the clutches of your grey matter only to show up in mass production at Babies ‘R Us making…
Baby Ddrops: sunshine in a jar
Vitamin D has become one of those recommendations from health professionals that you just can’t ignore. Aside from being a must for any exclusively breastfed baby, the sunshine vitamin can be absorbed through exposure to the sun or by drinking milk, which is fortified with vitamin D. But most kids, at least those in Canada, can’t or…
BUILT NY’s Tidy Bib
Maybe it’s because I’m a certified SCUBA diver that I’m drawn to neoprene. It’s a pretty brilliant thing: keep warm things warm and cold things cold without any of the bulk you often get from insulators. So when I first saw BUILT NY‘s line of Tidy Bibs, I was a tad confused…I mean, why would…
Naturepedic No-Compromise crib mattress
Even as adults, we do more of this than anything else: sleep. Even more so for babies. Although I don’t consider myself an “Earth Mother” who gazes longingly at trees or plans to home-school, we do subscribe to a fairly organic lifestyle. We might even be radical hippies in the ‘burbs for using our green bin –…