Tell Mommy: What Is Your Plan Once You Go Into Labor?


Updated 11/12/08 8:02 AM · Posted by LilSugar · 2 comments

Tell Mommy: What Is Your Plan Once You Go Into Labor?

Expectant women all seem to have a plan. The due date is circled on the calendar. The hospital bag is packed and waiting by the door. The phone tree of friends and family member's numbers has been circulated, but with birth comes the unexpected. Many couples find themselves driving toward the delivery room weeks ahead of schedule or with another child in tow. There's no time to drop junior Read more

A Whole Lotta Lil in This Week's Links


Updated 05/26/12 4:30 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Baby and Parenting News Week of May 20

These sweet Memorial Day treats may steal the show at your barbecue! What to do with all that stuff baby outgrows. These personalized baby gifts are perfect if you have any new babies in your life! Planning a birthday party for your tot? Don't miss our favorite birthday party themes — ever! Don't head to the beach this weekend without reading our guide to packing a beach bag for a Read more

Katherine Heigl Brings Her New Baby Girl Along to Meet Friends


Updated 05/14/12 8:35 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

Katherine Heigl Pictures With New Daughter

Katherine Heigl smiled big Saturday when she arrived at a friend's house in LA with her husband Josh Kelley. Also along for the outing with Katherine was the couple's newly adopted daughter. Katherine Heigl adopted a second baby with her husband Josh, making their 3-year-old daughter Naleigh Kelly a big sister. Yesterday marked Katherine's first Mother's Day as a mom of two. Josh was on top of Read more

Lil Links: A Cup of Tea May Shorten Your Labor


Updated 04/20/12 5:35 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Lil Links: A Cup of Tea May Shorten Your Labor

Drinking tea may ease nausea and even shorten your labor — FitPregnancy A Mother's Day gift guide to cover every type of mother out there – Cool Mom Picks There may be a link between junk food and autism — The Stir Jessica Alba isn't planning on any additional babies, for now — Celebrity Baby Scoop Daya Vaidya is expecting identical twin boys — Celebrity Baby Blog Twenty-two Read more

Host an End-of-Summer Labor Day Feast


Updated 08/31/11 9:28 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Labor Day Menu and Recipes

While it's not as popular as the Fourth of July or Memorial Day, Labor Day weekend is a great excuse to host a barbecue. Why not invite some friends over to enjoy some delicious eats and the final days of Summer? For those who plan on entertaining in the near future, I've come up with a spectacular meal that's filled with the fabulous flavors of the season. Here's a quintessential barbecue Read more

Down but Not Out: Tori Spelling Shares Her Friend's Perspective on Raising a Child With Down Syndrome


Updated 02/28/12 2:05 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Raising a Child With Down Syndrome

We're excited to bring you a new post from mother and actress Tori Spelling! Every other week, we're bringing you the best parenting and lifestyle advice from ediTORIal by Tori Spelling, which is Tori's daily blog about everything from food and fashion to parenting and relationships. This week, Tori shares a letter from her friend about her baby who was diagnosed with Down syndrome. Today, I’m Read more

You Should Ask For a Raise Now


Updated 02/21/12 2:20 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

When Should I Ask For a Raise?

If you've been working yourself to the bone and promising yourself that you'll ask for the raise when things start looking up — this might be a good time to do it. Things are looking better and according to economists at Econbrowser, which analyzed the 2012 Economic Report of the President, ". . . one would be hard pressed to find American business in terrible shape. Productivity has Read more

Grey's Anatomy Rundown, "Have You Seen Me Lately?"


Updated 02/17/12 9:40 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Grey's Anatomy Recap "Have You Seen Me Lately?"

The line between Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy blurs once again this week, as Cooper's baby mama Erica is brought into Seattle Grace with a life-threatening brain tumor. Naturally, Derek is the man to see, but the twist is that his kid sis Amy is the one trying to convince him, and it's only a few minutes before the two are fighting like, well, brother and sister. Derek and Amy aren't the Read more

Labor Pains: 7 Ways to Ease the Pain of Labor


Updated 02/01/12 11:40 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Tips For Reducing Labor Pains

We're excited to share this post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we will be bringing you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Nancy Johnson Horn about tips for easing labor pain. I remember going into labor over 6 years ago with my first child. When my water broke 11 days early I couldn’t remember a thing, other than Read more

Did You Have a Surprise Birth?


Updated 01/20/12 6:55 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Woman Gives Birth on PATH Train

Ready or not, here he comes! Regardless of whether or not you had a written plan for your lil one's birth, when baby's ready to come, there's little mom can do to stop him! Such was the case for Rabita Sarkar of Harrison, NJ, who thought she was feeling false labor pains and decided to use them as an opportunity to do a trial run to test her route to the hospital. Soon after boarding the PATH Read more