Let’s Talk Babies

Infant mortality is a difficult subject to talk about.  No one wants to think about the bad things that can happen.  It is often easier to sugar coat the statistics and pretend like it is something that only happens to other people.  However, in order to combat problems like preterm births and stillbirths we have [Read the rest]

The collective hearts of our community are broken today at the sad news that Layla Grace lost her battle with cancer this morning.  She was only 2 years old.  Her passing breaks my heart beyond words.

Please say a prayer and send healing thoughts to the Marsh family today as they begin the process of saying [Read the rest]

A few weeks ago I was contacted by Hello Baby Direct, a really cool online baby store based in the United Kingdom, to see if I would get interested in reviewing one of their top selling products, Sophie the Giraffe.  I had heard about Sophie before but never come across one in my baby store [Read the rest]

Having a child with a nut allergy (or any food allergy for that matter) poses particular challenges when they start choosing foods for themselves.   When Maya was diagnosed with a peanut and tree nut allergy last year that was one of the first things I worried about.  I knew that for the time being [Read the rest]

Maya has one great love in her life, one love that she just can’t live without…her blankie.

When I was about 6 months pregnant with Maya, not too long after finding out we were having a girl, I made a trip to our local Pottery Barn Kids to pick up the one baby item I had [Read the rest]