Expectant mom Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon looked fabulous in green on Tuesday night at the premiere of “Feast of Love”.
The star is expecting her 2nd and 3rd baby this fall with husband Mike.
Let’s hope that her son Oliver, 16, is up the challenge of helping his mom look after twins.
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Her mother, Tatiana Khalina, 42, said she wasn’t surprised at her daughter’s birth weight because the first of 11 children weighed more than 11 pounds at birth, and the others “beat the records set by their brothers and sisters.”
I wonder if this mom is diabetic? Diabetic babies are known to be much larger than regular babies and can sometimes have issues with lung growth in utero.
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Since starting this site a year and a half ago, I have covered many articles that list the endless benefits to newborns from breast milk.
However, I have never heard some of the claims that are being made on a Jamaican website.
The dietitian writes that:
Findings from one study, published in the journal Pediatrics 2006, showed that ensuring initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth could cut, by 22 per cent, all neonatal mortality.
If facilitated, healthy babies can instinctively find the breast and will initiate breastfeeding in the first hour in women who have normal vaginal delivery. The baby’s senses are highly developed and a healthy baby is very alert during this period. Studies show that if the baby is wiped, except for hands which should retain the taste and smell of the amniotic fluid, covered and placed skin to skin on the mother’s abdomen, then the baby will crawl and latch on to the breast. This first skin-to-skin contact is also important in causing the bacterial colonisation of the baby’s skin with the mother’s bacteria.
Other advantages of this first hour initiation is that baby learns feeding skills quicker, it prevents low blood sugar levels in the infant and the mild laxative effect of the colostrum helps in the passage of the meconium – the first blackish stool.
There are various routines which surround this initial period which prevent initiation in the first hour. Many times babies are initiated with artificial formula to prevent low blood sugar levels, among other procedures, and it is only after these routine procedures are complete that the ‘cleaned’ and swaddled baby is given to the mother to be put to the breast.
I believe that most hospitals are putting the baby to breast immediately after they are delivered.
This may be one of the things that you may want to discuss with your nurse before hard labour hits.
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Ryder is really cute, but I wish that she would cut his hair…again. It was much longer last year before Kate trimmed it before the holidays.
Apparently there is a tradition in the Jewish faith that says that ‘a child’s hair should not be cut until the 3rd birthday’. 
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People Magazine is reporting that she is 4 months along.
Melissa and her husband Mark Wilkerson, who married in 2003, are already the proud parents of a son, Mason, who is nearly 2.
“I love the faces Mason makes. I could watch him forever,” Hart, 31, told The magazine shortly after his birth.
The expectant mom is currently shooting a Lifetime movie in Vancouver, will next be seen in a guest appearance on the Oct. 9 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
We wish her a safe pregnancy.
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SanFrancisco news station ‘7 on Your side’ has investigated some frightening incidents where babies fell out of Bumbo chairs. The report triggered a lot of response. Several parents from around the country wrote in saying their kids suddenly tumbled out of a Bumbo seat too. Lots of other parents wrote to say injuries are really the parents’ fault. And now because of our reports a worldwide child safety organization is calling for action, and the government is using our reports to advance its investigation.The Bumbo Baby Sitter is a new product from South Africa that gets huge raves but there are scary reports of kids tumbling out.
All of these babies are alright now, but the number of cases keeps growing.
7 On Your Side received nine more Bumbo accident reports in the past week; that’s triple the number of reports we obtained earlier from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
“Parents shouldn’t put up with it. You should expect that when you buy a product in this country in particular and you use it as directed or as marketed, your child is not going to get hurt,” said Alan Korn from Safe Kids Worldwide.
Alan Korn is public policy director of the non-profit consumer group Safe Kids Worldwide in Washington D.C. Because of our investigation, Safe Kids Worldwide is calling for greater scrutiny of the Bumbo chair after seeing our reports.
This, after seeing how babies can get out of the chair on their own. It has no straps and injury reports we’ve obtained show some babies were hurt even while seated on the floor.
However the biggest danger came when parents placed the Bumbo up high. Parents said they thought that was okay because Bumbo advertises the chair is safe on any level surface, and ideal for eye level feeding.
The biggest issue is that parents think that this chair is what the box says ‘a babysitter’and it’s not. It doesn’t have straps to hold the child in, it is a recreational item.
Actually, the chair was designed for kids with special needs, not normal kids. The deep scoop is to help develop lower back muscles and give kids with low muscle tone the chance to sit on their own.
A few years ago, some trendy shops picked it up and then it went like wildfire after that.
The directions CLEARLY state that the chair should not be used on raised or uneven surfaces. I guess some parents didn’t read that or they think that their child has super powers.
My question is: Should an item be recalled or investigated if the problem sits with it being used improperly?
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