Samantha Harris Welcomes Baby Girl

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This weekend was full of girl power in Hollywood. Samantha Harris and husband Michael welcomed their first child, a girl, yesterday.

Samantha joins Salma Hayek and Charlotte Church in the new mommy club. All three women welcomed baby girls this weekend.

Josselyn Sydney Hess weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces and was 20 inches long. Both mother and child were doing well, publicist Shara Koplowitz said.

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PHOTOCREDIT:GRANTIZ/WIREIMAGE

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Bright Starts ‘Baby’s PlayPlace’

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This ‘playplace’ is a bright fun play area that will grow with your baby as their needs and abilities change.

The oversized (46”x38”) quilted play mat quickly folds to create an engaging environment with soft, sturdy side walls. The walls easily reconfigure to customize the play experience for a variety of developmental phases- from newborn and tummy time to crawling and sitting. Featuring colorful, high-contrast patterns and a whimsical garden theme, the Bright Starts™ Baby’s PlayPlace™ comes with seven developmental toys and grows along with your blossoming.

The developmental 5 stages:

• Newborn – 3 walls up with an open mat end provides easy access for diaper changes. Electronic toy stimulates baby with parent-activated lights & melodies.
• Active Discovery – 4 walls up keeps baby focused on the fun as they begin to grasp, kick and roll.
• Tummy Time – 3-walls up provides 270-degrees of panoramic stimulation during tummy time. 2 tactile mat activities and 10 toy loops allow mom to customize the play experience
• Crawling – 2 walls up with toy bars farther apart converts it to a long, soft tunnel for babies on the go
• Active Play – Removing bars expands it to an extra large mat where baby can actively play

This play space reminds me of Haba’s Dream Meadow.

Both play areas are bright and convertable for different developmental stages.

$80 at most infant retailers.

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Nicole Ritchie’s Beach Bump

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Nicole Ritchie shows off her cute bump this weekend while on vacation with boyfriend Joel Madden.

The baby, who will be the first child for both parents, is due in December. PHOTOCREDIT: RED SUIT – BAUERGRIFFIN via PEOPLE
PHOTOCREDIT: GREEN SUIT – DAILYMAIL

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The Pregnancy Peanut Debate Continues…

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In May, I covered a study that done in Montreal that warned expectant moms against eating peanuts while they were pregnant.

At that time researchers believed that:

“Eating peanuts during pregnancy appears to quadruple the risk that the baby will be allergic to nuts.”

The same study also revealed that:

“eating peanuts while breastfeeding doubles the risk a baby will develop a nut allergy.”

Now it is being reported:

That by repeatedly exposing a child’s immune system to peanuts the body learns to tolerate the allergens in such products The science and technology committee’s allergy report is likely to call on the Department of Health to change its official advice. Ministers have admitted that their guidelines that state that babies may be at a greater risk of developing a allergy against nuts if the mother or father have a history of asthma, eczema or hay fever, may be ‘entirely wrong and counter-productive’.

“If your baby is in this higher-risk group, you may wish to avoid eating peanuts and peanut products when you’re pregnant and breast-feeding,” the Daily Mail quoted the advice, as saying.

The Department of Health goes on to suggest that that these mothers should not add peanuts in their child’s diet until the age of three.

But some members of the committee have said that the advice may be ‘irresponsible’ and may even increase the risk of child allergies.

“It is quite striking that the increase in peanut allergies is rather in step with the increasing Government advice not to expose tiny children to them,” the crossbench peer Lord May of Oxford said.

“In Israel, where peanuts are quite commonly found in baby food, there has been no increase in peanut allergies.”

I am not sure that enough is know about this subject to make a decision one way or another. If I was pregnant right now, I would still avoid peanuts. It is just not worth it to chance it… SOURCE

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