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• Melissa Joan Hart Drops the Ball on Being a Role Model

  So Melissa Joan Hart packed on the pounds during her pregnancy. That makes her different from any other pregnant woman in America, how? The former Sabrina the Teenage Witch star showed off her bikini-worthy bod in People last week, but it was her words that cut deep into the psyches of moms everywhere. Read More... Posted Jun 01 2009, 02:26 PM by JeanneSager with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, newborn, baby, pregnant, weight loss, melissa joan hart, post-partum, weight gain, post partum, Jeanne Sager, people, new mothers, pregnancy weight, celebrity pregnancies

• Hint: We Really Might Know Our Kids Better Than You

  The best part of the latest Non-Breeder column on Babble? The author realizes she was being a bit of a tool.  Not that all "non breeders" are bad people. Far from it. But the expectation that they know better than a parent does how to raise their kids runs high among the kid-free crowd. Read More... Posted May 27 2009, 04:04 PM by JeanneSager with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, friendship, babble talk, notes from a non breeder, friends, new parents, Jeanne Sager, child-free, non breeder

• Lose a Game, Gain a Son

  The day your child is born may not be THE best day of your life (because, really, what does that say about every day after that). But, hey, doesn't the birth of your child tend to overshadow everything else that happened around that time? Let's hope so for Casey Jennings. Read More... Posted May 24 2009, 03:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, newborn, birth, sports, delivery, athletes, Jeanne Sager, kerri walsh, volleyball, Casey Jennings, birth of a child

• Mom Uses Breastfeeding as Weapon in Custody Battle

  The story is full of bad breastfeeding puns (that, honestly cracked me up), but an interesting case came up in the Globe and Mail this weekend. A mom has made her breastfeeding schedule so rigorous that the ex-boyfriend who fathered their child has been essentially totally cut off from spending any time with his daughter. A judge has decided enough is enough. Either wean your child or start pumping honey, because Daddy's got to have a go. Read More... Posted Apr 28 2009, 12:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: newborn, child support, breastfeeding, breast is best, single parenting, pumping, custody, breastmilk, Jeanne Sager

• iPhone Making Parents Everywhere More Helpless?

  Who knows how mothers managed before the days of the iPhone. If the Baby Brain iPhone app is any indication, we left them sitting in poopy diapers all day and neglected to nurse! Read More... Posted Apr 21 2009, 02:07 PM by JeanneSager with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, iPhone, breastfeeding, diapers, nursing, new parent, feeding, Jeanne Sager, new mother, new father, iphone app, Baby Brain

• Breastfeeding Debates: Just a Tempest in a Sippy Cup?

  Here's the thing about the breast is best debate. Do we really care what another mother does with her boobs? No, really. You might say you care that she gets the best medical advice, that that precious little baby gets the best start to life. But when your kid and her kid sit side by side in kindergarten, holding hands, is it really going to matter who did what on day thirty-six of that baby's life? Sometime Babble contributor Lynn Harris turned her often irreverant sense of humor to the oh so serious topic of breastfeeding on NPR this week, and though she treats the subject with all due respect (she is, after all, a mother), she pokes her fun where it's due. The breastfeeding debate, she says, is nothing but "a tempest in a sippy cup." Read More... Posted Apr 16 2009, 10:23 AM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: health, newborn, baby, hospitals, nutrition, breastfeeding, nursing, breast is best, pumping, breastmilk, breast, Jeanne Sager

• Did Having a Baby Make You Start Thinking About Your Ex?

  I wasn't thinking about much when my daughter was three months old. My maternity leave was over, and I was back at work - albeit at a reduced thirty-hour schedule. I didn't have time to think about sex, nonetheless an ex.  Turns out some parents have turned the seven-year itch into the three-month itch. Their baby hits three months, and as exhausted and un-sexy as the mothers feel, they start thinking about what their life could have been if they took a different path. Namely, if they picked another partner.  Read More... Posted Apr 14 2009, 04:30 PM by JeanneSager with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: newborn, baby, divorce, marriage, nursing, love, post-partum, relationships, Jeanne Sager, sleeping through the night, ex

• Where I Say Something Nice About the New York Mets

  Ready your markers for the calendar. I'm about to do something a Yankees fan should never do.  I want to send good thoughts the way of New York Mets' pitcher Johan Santana. There I said it. Happy? Good, because it hurt.  So what did Mr. Santana do, pray tell? Read More... Posted Apr 14 2009, 09:34 AM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, infant, newborn, birth, sports, delivery, athletes, Jeanne Sager, new york mets, yankees, new york yankees

• Baby Survives Removal from Life Support

  A baby girl whose parents were prepared to take off life support so her heart could be donated came off life support . . . and is holding her own.  Baby Kaylee, two months, was born with a rare brain malformation that doctors expected would keep her from every breathing without medical assistance. Her devastated parents made the decision to take her off life support when they learned there was another sick child who could use her heart via transplant. Read More... Posted Apr 10 2009, 11:29 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: newborn, brain tumor, organ donation, Jeanne Sager, life support, sick child

• Another Hospital Baby Mix-Up, Now With Added Racism!

  Despite all the modern technology that's meant to keep newborns from being given to the wrong parents in the hospital, there seems to be a rash of inadvertent baby swaps going on. The latest took place in New Hampshire, at the Portsmouth Regional Hospital, late last month. And the parents of the newborn in question -- a baby girl who was handed to the wrong mother for either five minutes (according to the hospital) or significantly longer (according to her parents) -- are hopping mad. I can see being upset -- I'd be upset, too! -- but why are they so mad they feel "physically sick"?  Read More... Posted Apr 06 2009, 10:01 AM by Kate Tuttle with | with 29 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, newborn, baby, racism, parents, breastfeeding, maternity, Race, Mistaken Identity, breastfeed, biracial, black, mix-up

• Family Evicted for Having Twins

  Ever heard of someone too big to fit inside a house? What if that person were two people - two teeny, weeny newborn people? A Michigan couple learned their newborn twins put them over the limit for space allotted to people in their housing community this week when they received an eviction notice - just after the babies were born. Read More... Posted Apr 03 2009, 05:57 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, baby, twins, multiples, bizarre, housing, economy, Jeanne Sager, economic downturn, landlord

• There Oughta Be A Law (Really?)

  The state of Oklahoma is set to pass a law that would protect pregnant women against murder charges if they kill to protect their unborn child(ren). Laws like this sound like a good idea, till you figure out what they're really doing. Read More... Posted Apr 03 2009, 03:30 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, infant, newborn, baby, pregnant, self-defense, domestic violence, fetus, violence against women, anti-choice

• And Deliver Us by Google

  For all you people who scoff at the power of Google University, I present the story of Jordan and Natalie Peck and their newborn baby girl The Pecks live in Hendrum, Minnesota, right in the center of the bad flooding that's been making the news lately. So when the heavily pregnant Natalie went into labor, Jordan knew there was no way he could drive her to the hospital - and there was no way their midwife was getting to them.  So he did what any American who wants to know something did   Read More... Posted Apr 02 2009, 12:34 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, newborn, father, Google, fatherhood, labor and delivery, midwife, home birth, delivery, emergency delivery, Jeanne Sager, how to deliver a baby, home delivery

• Babies Switched In NYC Hospital

  Let me just say that part of this story is absolutely awful - that a maternity ward's security practices could fail so miserably that two newborn babies are mixed up for several hours is criminal.  HOWEVER, every time I hear a re-telling of the story of Shatiesha Brown's baby being given to the wrong mom in the New York City hospital's maternity ward, I am more mystified by her misplaced anger. Read More... Posted Mar 28 2009, 12:52 PM by JeanneSager with | with 40 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, lawsuit, breastfeeding, formula, labor and delivery, breastmilk, nipple confusion, maternity ward, Jeanne Sager

• What You Look Like After Triplets

  This mom is BRAVE. And totally awesome.  A mom allowed herself to be photographed throughout the weeks of her pregnancy with triplets. Then she jumped forward to three months after delivery and struck the same pose - shirt pulled up to just below the boobs and everything hanging out. Read More... Posted Mar 27 2009, 04:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: health, pregnancy, newborn, mother, pregnant, triplets, multiples, body, stretch marks, Jeanne Sager

• Motherless Baby Breastfed By Six Women Each Day

  A baby without a mom. A bunch of moms still breastfeeding their own babies. It was just meant to be.  You don't hear about death during childbirth much anymore, (and thank goodness for that), but when Susan Goodrich lost her life shortly after giving birth to her son, one of her most important wishes for her child was fulfilled by a band of impromptu wet nurses, moms who heard a baby needed their help. Read More... Posted Mar 25 2009, 05:02 PM by JeanneSager with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, breastfeeding, breastmilk, feeding, Jeanne Sager, co-nursing, wet nursing

• They Say: Early Pacifier Use Can Undermine Breastfeeding

  Some parents swear by them, some swear at them, but pacifiers are a nearly universal symbol of babyhood. Now a new study by Danish researchers suggests what many have warned, that early use of pacifiers can be associated with shorter duration of breastfeeding. The study looked at data from visiting nurses who assess and assist all new mothers in Denmark, typically in the family's home around eight days after birth. The health visitors, specially trained in breastfeeding issues, specifically noted whether the baby was being offered a pacifier; two-thirds were. Read More... Posted Mar 20 2009, 11:31 AM by Kate Tuttle with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, breastfeeding, nursing, breasts, Denmark, binky, nipple confusion, danish, pacifier, nipple

• What If The State Kept Your Kid's Blood for "Research?"

  I never thought about what happened to the blood sample taken from my daughter in the maternity ward after she was born . . . until now.  Apparently in Texas, blood samples taken routinely from newborns are kept on hand to be used for research. Which doesn't bother me in the slightest.  But a bill making its way through the Texas Legislature will give parents who DON'T want their kids' blood used in research an out; they can ask for the blood sample to be destroyed rather than held onto by the state.  Read More... Posted Mar 19 2009, 03:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, texas, privacy, discrimination, right to privacy, blood, maternity ward, Jeanne Sager, newborn screenings

• Congress Looks at Postpartum Depression Support

  Unless you're Tom Cruise, you probably have some sense that postpartum depression is very real and moms could use a heck of a lot more support.  A bill winding its way through both houses of Congress could finally make postpartum depression awareness a priority in the country, along with making it easier for mothers to apply for and access treatment. Read More... Posted Mar 10 2009, 05:37 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: infant, newborn, depression, post partum depression, PPD, congress, new parents, Jeanne Sager, senate, House of Representatives, new mothers, Melane Blocker Stokes Act

• Three Generations, Just One Birthday

  The chances of having three generations in one family share the same birthday are seven in a million.Meet number seven - she was born February 2. So, for that matter, was Anala Broussard's mother, Jasmine, and her grandmother, Cherise Terry. Read More... Posted Mar 02 2009, 04:37 PM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: newborn, birth, families, birthday parties, birthdays, c-section, generations, birthday, cesarean, celebration, Jeanne Sager

• Mother with Herpes Unwittingly Kills Baby with a Kiss

  This heart-wrenching story is made bearable by the courage of the mother it involves, who has taken her tragedy as a chance to educate others. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2009, 01:09 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, baby, herpes, fatal, Kiss, cold sore, herpes simplex virus, HSV, Ruth Schofield, deadly

• New for Mom: Spa Treatments on the Maternity Ward

  This might make even the die hard home-birthers opt for a hospital delivery. A new service is making the rounds of maternity wards in the Twin Cities to "mother" new moms with massages and spa treatments.  Launched last year by a mother of three and former TV producer, Go Home Gorgeous is an attempt to give new mothers a jump on recovery from delivery. And did me mention they do massages? Read More... Posted Feb 07 2009, 03:55 PM by JeanneSager with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, maternity, hospital, labor and delivery, giving birth, massage, maternity ward, Jeanne Sager, new mother, spa treatments, pampering mom, pampered

• American Newborn's Stuck in Iraqi Red Tape

  Would you go to a war torn country when you were six months pregnant? What if your eighty-six-year-old mother-in-law was there and in ill health? Grace Alshemmari had never left the United States before, but when her husband, an Iraqi refugee, wanted to visit his ailing mother, she said OK. She'd be home, she thought, in time to deliver her little boy back in the good old US of A. Except she wasn't. Read More... Posted Feb 02 2009, 08:29 AM by JeanneSager with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: newborn, iraq, war, airplane, separated at birth, middle east, Jeanne Sager, state department, flying when pregnant, pregnant on an airplane, pregnant overseas, American citizen, baby smuggling, citizenship

• Family of Man: Birth Photos Shows Everyone But Mom

  It's one of the most celebrated photos of a child being born - the baby's body is stretched out with the umbilical cord stretched across his glistening body, the black and white making his scrunched up screaming face that much more vibrant.  Yet, nowhere in the picture, is the little boy's mother. Not even Joan Miller's legs are seen in the most famous photo of her life - the moment she gave birth to son David.   Read More... Posted Jan 31 2009, 12:30 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: infant, newborn, birth, mother, pregnant, photography, women, labor and delivery, delivery, photos, Jeanne Sager, photographs, photographing the delivery

• Hospital Hangs on to Children's Bodies for Two Years

  It's almost the exact opposite of the stillborn baby thrown in a New Jersey hospital's trash - and just as horrifying.  When a British mother suffered her second miscarriage, she went to the hospital to see if she could arrange a funeral for little Jonah.  He had already been cremated, the hospital told her. But her first son, miscarried two years ago at twelve weeks, was still in the hospital, they said. Would she like him? Read More... Posted Jan 20 2009, 04:40 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: newborn, baby, hospitals, Britain, miscarriage, hospital, healthcare, bodies, Jeanne Sager, stillborn