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MOMMY & ME
Getting Ready for Baby
You'll want to make sure everything is ready to care for your baby before you bring him or her home. Here are some things you can do:
Find a Health Care Provider
A pediatrician is a health care provider who takes care of babies and children. To find a pediatrician in your area, go to the Web site of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
A family physician is a health care provider who takes care of people of all ages. To find a family physician in your area, go to the Web site of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
It's a good idea to choose a pediatrician, family physician or another health care provider for your baby before he or she is born. When you first meet with the provider, ask:
How often should I bring my baby in for checkups?
How far in advance should I make an appointment?
How do I make an appointment if my baby gets sick?
What do I do in case of an emergency?
Decide About Breastfeeding
Before your baby is born, decide if you'll breastfeed or feed your baby formula. Breastfeeding is feeding your baby with milk from your breasts. Formula is a special liquid food that you feed your baby from a bottle. Talk it over with your partner and your provider. Here are some benefits of breastfeeding:
Breastmilk protects your baby from infections that formula does not.
Breastmilk is always ready when your baby wants to eat.
Breastmilk is free.
Women who breastfeed may receive some protection from breast and ovarian cancer.
Ask you provider about breastfeeding classes in your area.
Get Ready at Home
Here are some things you'll need:
Child safety seat: Make sure your baby's child safety seat is correctly installed in your care before you go to the hospital.
Crib: Choose a crib with slats no more than 2 3/8 inches apart. Make sure the crib isn't painted with lead or varnish. Cribs made after 1989 meet these safety rules.
Diapers: Plan on using about 70 diapers (disposable or cloth) a week.
Layette: A layette is a baby's clothing and bedding. To get started, you'll need:
6 to 8 T-shirts or onesies
6 to 8 sleepers
4 to 6 pairs of booties or socks
4 to 6 receiving blankets
Washcloths and towels
Medical Supplies:
Here's what you'll need:
Rectal digital thermometer (not a mercury thermometer) and lubricant (petroleum jelly). A rectal digital thermometer gives the best temperature reading for newborns.
Non-aspirin liquid pain reliever for infants (such as acetaminophen)
Rubbing alcohol to help clean the umbilical cord stump
Cotton swabs
Saline drops to help relieve a stuff nose
Infant nail clippers
Suction bulb for nose
For more information about your babies health please visit www.marchofdimes.com |
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The Custom-Fit Workplace
New Book is Guide for Happy Employees and a Productive Workplace
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius once told TIME Magazine, “We live in a society where too many people make workers choose – do you want to be a good parent, or do you want to be a good worker?”
But early in her career, as executive director of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, Sebelius took her two infant sons to work with her – a custom-fit, flexible work policy that allowed her to meet her responsibilities at home and on the job, without sacrificing one for the other.
Davis, a software engineer, worked virtually for a year when his wife took a position overseas. Jennifer is part of the Jet Blue call center in Utah; she works from home. George, who works in a Results Only Work Environment, says he can't imagine doing a daily commute to work anymore. He used to spend hours in traffic, but he gets far more done now working from home and coming to the office only when he has a purpose for being there.
These stories and other examples are detailed in The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line, a new book by MomsRising The book is a guide for managers and employees at all levels to navigate this workplace revolution, and details best practices used by private companies and nonprofits across the country which have created win-win situations for both businesses and employees. founder Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas.
The Custom-Fit Workplace, thoroughly grounded in research, presents flexible work tactics to help workers integrate their work and home responsibilities, and allow managers to tap into the power of their key asset: their employees.
In addition to the book, which was released this month, a Custom-Fit Workplace website will launch soon. It will provide more information on reshaping workplaces, and allow people to submit their own stories of struggle and success. |
GROVIA DEBUTS PARTNERS IN NURTURE PROGRAM
Company Builds Philanthropic and Educational Efforts to Bring Awareness to the Benefits of Cloth Diapering and Natural Parenting
As part of it’s mission to make environmentally friendly and natural diapering products accessible to every family, GroVia – leader in the cloth and natural diapering market – announced today the debut of the GroVia Partners In Nurture Program, dedicated to nurturing a generation of aware parents through education, guidance and support of natural lifestyle choices.
Greenpeace reports that standard disposable diapers contain traces of Dioxin, an extremely toxic by-product and a carcinogenic chemical, listed by the EPA as the most toxic of all cancer-linked chemicals. It is banned in most countries, but not the U.S. GroVia has realized that many parents choose disposable diapers simply because they do not know of the alternatives. Natural childbirth professionals find something similar, many parents in the U.S. have hospital births simply because they are unaware of their options. GroVia has launched the Partners In Nurture Program as a platform to align with today’s most influential natural birthing professionals in order to shine a light on natural childcare options and sustainable lifestyle alternatives.
“One of our top missions at GroVia is to educate modern parents on the health and eco-related benefits of choosing cloth and natural diapers,” said Kim Ormsby, founder and CEO, GroVia. “The GroVia Partners In Nurture Program is a way for us to reach parents who are already exploring lifestyle alternatives, and educate them on the ways they can extend the nurturing of their families beyond the birthing process. We know that once a parent learns how beneficial cloth is for baby and our planet, and how much money a family can save by using cloth diapers – they’ll understand that there really is no better choice.”
A GroVia Partner In Nurture will act as a cloth diapering advocate, an educator to the unaware, and a guide to those willing to take a chance on the unfamiliar. They will educate clients on cloth diapering, represent the cloth diapering movement at events, support parents through the learning process of switching to cloth, and will facilitate GroVia in it’s work to increase awareness of natural lifestyle choices. Educational materials and a Partner In Nurture application can be found on GroVia’s website < http://www.gro-via.com/partnersinnurture
In another recent effort to make gentle baby care products accessible to every child, GroVia has donated essential supplies to Tapestries of Life, a non-profit organization that is building a 55,000 square foot orphanage in Guadalupe, Mexico, which upon opening, will provide care and a nurturing environment for over 400 children and infants. Hoping to extend the reach of Tapestries of Life and support their efforts, GroVia has donated over $400,000 in product, all of which is being donated to local orphanages and communities in need, with a portion being held for the day Tapestries’ opens it’s doors. GroVia is also assisting Tapestries of Life’s efforts to win the APX Gives Back campaign, in which APX will provide a $100,000 award to the non-profit organization with the most votes by August 23rd. GroVia is encouraging customers and the general public to vote for Tapestries in the “Central Region” daily, here: http://www.facebook.com/apxalarm.
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The March of Dimes Making A Difference
Our mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. The March of Dimes carries out this mission through programs of research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies' lives.
March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight.
Parent Education
The March of Dimes helps pregnant women know what to worry about and what not to worry about when it comes to having a healthy baby. Through our Pregnancy & Newborn Health Education Center women can get free one-on-one, confidential answers to their questions about pregnancy, preconception, newborn screening and related topics. http://www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec
The Center also provides a wide variety of materials including mama, an annual magazine full of practical and important information for parents-to-be, are available.
Premature Birth
Each year, more than 460,000 babies are born too soon, some so small they can fit in the palm of a hand. Many of these babies must fight just to survive; others will struggle with lifelong health problems. No one knows what causes half of all premature births. No one is working harder than the March of Dimes to find out.
Genetic Research
Genetic birth defects leave our children unable to walk, to hear, to think, or even to fight off disease. March of Dimes investments in genetic research already are starting to yield results. Two March of Dimes-funded grantees have used gene therapy successfully in treating hemophilia and retinitis pigmentosa in the lab, giving hope that we are closer to a cure for these genetic birth defects. Currently Massachusetts has over $6,000,000 in active March of Dimes grants researching problems that effect babies.
Health Care
No parents should have to choose between feeding their child and buying the medicines he or she needs. Yet, this happens every day in America because more than 9 million children have no health coverage. For many of these children, this means they can't get preventive checkups, immunizations, or treatment for common childhood illnesses. The March of Dimes is fighting so that all babies, children and pregnant women get health insurance.
Help Us Save Babies
You can partner with the March of Dimes by becoming a volunteer or a donor.. With your help, we can win the fight to save babies. Visit www.marchofdimes.com/ma for local programs and events. |
Kitchen Appliances with Attitude
Check out the new lines of fun kitchen creations from Pop Art Toaster
Entice those picky eaters with Pop Art Toaster's newest Toy Story 5-in-1 Tasty Baker.
The 5-in-1 Tasty Baker by Pop Art Toaster is an ingenious way to create lasting memories of the family enjoying fun and creative snacks, desserts and meals. It's fast, easy to clean, and bakes more than 5 delectable baked goods in shapes and designs that are irresistible.
The Mickey 5-in-1 Tasty Baker brings the fun of the original Disney Mickey Mouse cast to the table. It's able to bake six different kid-sized shapes: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Pluto. Bake any liquid batter into playfully shaped cakes, pancakes, waffles, quick-bread, muffins, donuts and even eggs! Kids won't want to put up a fuss at mealtime when they could be having fun their favorite characters.
Toy Story 3 is coming and it's sure to be another hit! Indulge their imagination and their stomachs with the Toy Story 5-in-1 Tasty Baker. Throw a Toy Story birthday party they'll never forget, with individually sized cakes in the shapes of Buzz, Woody, Alien, Lotso, and Rex. The Tasty Baker cooks in one third the time of a conventional oven, leaving more time for enjoying the treats.
The Pop Art Toasters have had amazing feedback from parents raising autistic children. Kids are more likely to be engaged in their meals and end up eating more of what's on their plate. Their cook book comes with delicious recipes and ideas for using the stencils in new ways. Spice up a hamburger bun with a fun image or put a smiley face on your pancakes. Make healthy foods into shapes with the 5-in- Tasty Baker that will even get them eating whole wheat pancakes. Even gluten free recipes cook perfectly in the 5-in-1 Tasty Baker.
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