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Salma Hayek, 41, and French billionaire, Francois-Henri Pinault, 46, are over.... The parents of baby Valentina have called off their engagement. Salma's rep said to USA Today, "We are sad to announce the engagement of Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault has been canceled. There will be no...

ParentDish has an item on a crib recall: apparently 320,000 Jardine Cribs have "slats and spindles [that] can break, creating a gap in which a baby's head could become entrapped." There have been 42 reported cases of this happening, although (thankfully) there are only 4 reported injuries...

Before you have kids you think the weird toys will be the ones that don't look like anything in particular - the toys that just rattle, have a lot of black and white stripes and seem to have the sole purpose of being put in a baby's mouth. But as it turns out, the truly strange baby toys are...

Next time I'm on a plane and there's a baby crying, I'll try to think that it could be worse. I could be sitting next to an actual birth. That's what happened on a Korean Air Lines flight the other day. En route to the Philippines from New York City, Jacel Brown suddenly went into labor...

In our 7 Days of Summerwear feature , Aaron challenged readers to find an attractive UV-protectant swimsuit that ships from the shores of the U.S., not the U.K. I think I've found one. The Sunsafe baby suit in the basic blue and white ($42) is has pleasant nautical hints and easy zipper and snap...

Interesting article over on Forbes.com about the BornFree people. Turns out they not only make the bottles, they help make sure that people know how dangerous the BPA-filled versions are. Apparently, when BornFree began back in 2006, very few people cared about BPA. So what does a dadpreneur (that's...

As part of my court-ordered free-will community service, let me pass some little known knowledge on to you. If you have an infant between the ages of 6-12 months, you can take him or her to a free puppet show that might have long-term benefits to his or her later health. The InfantSEE program matches...

Here's Salma Hayek and daughter Valentina, 8 months, at Los Angeles International Airport. She's riding down the corridor on one of those little electric carts that only stop and pick up rich people. I know, because once when I tried to flag one down and I had two kids, a suitcase, a boogie board...

My son is destined to become obese, anxious, wracked with low self-esteem and beset with emotional problems. At least this article in Time -- entitled " How Not to Get Baby to Sleep " -- certainly makes it seem that way. The story, based on recent research on sleep patterns in infants and children...

As a new parent, the whole baby thing can be overwhelming, to say the least. There's this idea we should just know how to do stuff naturally, like breastfeeding or interpreting the baby's cries correctly with little or no instruction. But of course, it isn't that instinctive. The lucky moms...