1. Find a mom to shop with. Registering is overwhelming. The best thing I did was plan to have a champion by my side -- my sister-in-law, a three-time "Black Belt Mommy". Having someone experienced there to give you thumbs up or thumbs down on key baby items melts away any anxiety you... read more

Take a break from your hard working Thursday schedule and sit back, relax and get ready to literally laugh your rump off. Today is the day for laughter, fun and a little bit of sweetness mixed in there, too. So basically, we're bringing you the funniest, the coolest, the most hilarious baby commercials Mother Earth... read more

First-time parenting can be a blur for many people: the lack of sleep, the confusion and the seriously fast transition between stages and phases of development can leave many first time parents feeling a little (fine! a lot) frazzled. Being a second time mama (or dad!) can be so much more simple and... read more

This is the third installment of Danica’s four-part series on her son’s Autism diagnosis. In her first post, The Moment Autism Changed Everything, she shares how her son’s diagnosis changed her family’s world. Her second post, Avoiding the Autism Diagnosis: Ignorance Is Not Bliss, takes us through coping with her son's... read more

Even though she's enjoying her time off with her precious baby girl, Mila, new mom Jenna Bush Hager called in to the Today show yesterday to dish on Mila's sudden, surprising arrival! Admitting that her baby girl arrived two weeks earlier than they'd planned, Jenna was at her baby shower when her water... read more

I feel as though this week, the Heavens parted and our Belieber prayers were answered. Over the weekend, Justin Bieber posted an Instagram with his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Selena Gomez, and ya'll, the proof is in the picture! Looks like baby Biebs and his leading lady are definitely back on-again -- phew! Though Biebs took... read more

As the weather warms up and the sun starts shinin', it is time to focus on protection (not that kind of protection, get your heads out of the gutter!). Now that we're gearing up for sunny skies, you need sunscreen! Babies and young children have such fair skin, so the importance of blocking it from... read more

Surprising new research shows that babies display glimmers of consciousness and memory as soon as 5 months old! In adults, the pattern of activity is as follows: your senses detect something and then activate the vision center of your brain -- which causes a signal to travel from the back of the brain to the... read more

Remember all those pesky times when really, really wanted to show your brother (or sister!) how to do something and your parents would tell you -- in that awful, parenting way -- to worry about yourself? Makes you squirm just thinking about it, huh? Me too. But today, no more! Ryan Hunley recently uploaded a... read more

I'm due to pick up my boy at 4:40 on the dot from daycare. That means I must leave work by 4:30. The problem? It hasn't always been happening. You see, to save on child care cost, and to minimize the time our son spends at daycare, my husband and I agreed to change our... read more