Category Archives: Health and Safety

My Child Fell Out of the Shopping Cart- And lessons I learned

Yesterday, I joined the hallowed club:  Mother whose child has fallen out of the shopping cart. We were on the last isle of our huge weekly shopping trip, the one where you are not only buying two gallons of milk, but replacing staples like salt and hand soap.  My 19th month old had grown impatient…

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Remembering Rebecca-Guest Post

Today’s guest post is from my good friend and amazing life coach, Sharon Lincoln.  You can find many of her other Bump Life posts here, here and here.  Today she is writing about a tough subject- losing a child.  But read on to find out how the parents turned this tragdigy into a foundation to…

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What To Do When You’re REALLY Tired-Guest Post

I feel, and I think most moms agree, that I am ALWAYS tired.  But today’s guest post from Sashi over at Healthy Happy Geniuses, give us some really great tips and important safety reminders for those days we just feel dangerously tired. **************************** Yes, I know – we’re always tired. But there are those days…

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Are you Prepared for a Disaster?

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the Japan earthquake and tsunami.  Re-watching the footage from that disaster reminded me, again, how vulnerable we all are to a natural disaster.   And last Monday, my own little house was jolted by an early morning earthquake.  Now, this one was only a 4.0 and nothing even…

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Sick AGAIN….to school or not?

  According to the Academy of Pediatrics, kids between the age of 1 and 3 can get up to 12 colds a year.  Symptoms can last up to two weeks, so with two kids (…multiply times 2, carry the 1…)   It’s a good thing it is a leap year because according to my calculations,…

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