Born Too Early: A Mom’s Story Pt.2

By Liz McCarthy

The First Part of this Story can be found at Born Too Early; A Mom’s Story Pt.1

The emotions of loss while at the same time knowing you have a daughter whose life is hanging by a thread has to be the hardest thing anyone should have to go through.

Kaitlyn weighed 1 pound 11 [...]

Babies May Get Hooked On Smoking In Womb

I have never posted a positive article on smoking while being pregnant. That’s because there aren’t any. Researchers are always finding more side effects that are caused by maternal smoking. There are no benefits to anyone. Because I have never smoked before I cannot understand why someone would willing choose to [...]

Boy Born With Fetus In His Stomach

There are more and more unusual stories about babies being born with anomalies. I am not sure if there are now more occurrences of unusual happenings or that we have more access to the information.

A boy has been born in Chile with a fetus in his stomach in what doctors said was a rare [...]

Mood Beams

These Ghosts make a great night light for your childs room or just a great companion that changes colour to your favourite song.

Vaguely reminiscent of Casper the ghost, (but at least twice as cute), they cycle through an array of cheerful, ambient colours casting pleasing little puddles of light about the room. They come [...]

Born Too Early: A Mom’s Story Pt.1

By Liz McCarthy

This is a shortened version of a long, sad and sweet story of the birth of my twin daughters. The entire story can be found on my web blog: www.aLizard.com

I became pregnant with fraternal triplets after a long difficult road of trying to get pregnant. The [...]

Are All Tricycles Created Equally?

Once your child reaches a certain age, there is no getting past it - you need a tricycle. There are quite a few choices out there for you when you do decide to make the jump.
When I was a kid you had two choices if you wanted a tricycle. The “Classic” or the [...]

Preemie Profile: Sophia and Alina

This dynamic duo, known as Alina and Sophia, came into the world on August 13th 2005, at 26 weeks gestation.
Alina was the heavy weight born at 810 grams, while Sophia weighed in at 790 grams. Sophia came home two weeks before her due date, while Alina spent nine months and three weeks [...]