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This magical book is perfect for a baby's first Christmas. They will love looking at the enchanting pictures and listening to the tinkly Christmas music.

Obama keeping his promise. Child Development - SCHIP Bill Passes House: First Step in Expanding Health Insurance for Kids.

Baby-care basics:
Getting Help After the Birth
Handling a Newborn
Bonding and Soothing Techniques
Diapering Dos and Don'ts
Bathing Basics
Circumcision and Umbilical Cord Care
Feeding and Burping Your Baby
Sleeping Basicsv

Surrogacy is a path that many couples who are unable to have children of their own have chosen due to the intimacy and experiences involved in the process. There are many things that should be taken into consideration before you make the choice of becoming a surrogate mother. You should first speak with an attorney and/or an adoption agency specializing in surrogacy. They can provide you with a list of things to consider and agencies available to start you on your way, educate you on your rights as well as those of the adoptive couple and what you can expect and what is expected out of you. When you consider on becoming a surrogate mother, you also need to decide whether you will be an independent surrogate or agency surrogate. As an independent surrogate, you need to be responsible for your own arrangements, finding the right couple, working out a contract and, if anything goes awry with the arrangements, you will be responsible for finding another couple. As an agency surrogate, all of these arrangements and legalities are managed for you by your agent. Either route you choose, make sure that you have consulted an attorney who specializes in surrogacy and adoption to serve your best interests. The next step in becoming a surrogate involves the physical aspects or extent of the measures you are willing to take to become pregnant. You need to decide if you are willing to undergo artificial insemination, hormone therapy and/or in vitro fertilization. Each of these measures are time consuming and not fail proof, so it is always best to have an alternate plan, if possible, in case your first choice for conception does not work. Finally, once an agency or attorney is employed in your journey to becoming a surrogate mother, psychological and physical tests need to be done to make sure that you are healthy enough to carry a child to term and that there are not any past medical or family histories that may cause pregnancy or genetic issues. Extensive counseling will be

Surrogacy itself calls up a lot of moral and ethical concerns, mostly because of the money that is involved. Also the fact that a childless couple are asking, sometimes, a complete stranger to become pregnant for them and then give them the child after the birth. Depending on the infertility problems of the intended couple, the surrogate mother will become pregnant in some very different ways. Firstly there is the traditional method, which is where the intended fathers sperm is used to artificially inseminate the surrogate mother. This is using the surrogate mothers egg, so she will be the legal and the biological mother which may cause some people problems, ethically and morally. Then we have where both of the intended parents are infertile, so a sperm donor is used to make the surrogate mother pregnant, and thirdly we have the gestational surrogate method. This is where the intended mothers egg is fertilized with the intended fathers sperm in a laboratory and then it is placed into the surrogate mother to grow until ready for birth. This method is used because the intended mother either can not carry a baby full term, has had a part hysterectomy, or has other medical reasons that prevent her from becoming pregnant. In the majority of these cases, the surrogate mother will be giving this service due to altruistic reasoning. She will still receive reimbursement for her and her family for any out of pocket expenses she may incur in the 9 months while she is carrying the child'. This amount of money is called the base fee. This is an amount of money that is usually split up into 9 monthly payments. The amounts are never equal in their amounts because of the fact that a miscarriage is more likely in the first three months than at any other time during the pregnancy. So, understandably, the first couple of payments will be less than offered later in the pregnancy so that the intended parents will not have to pay too much for a failed pregnancy but the surrogate mother

&Me, a Bangalore headquartered startup, is the proud seller of India's first menstrual drink. The brand is founded by Ankur Goyal, an alumnus of Stanford business school. Matrix partners and Sauce.vc. together are set to invest $ 1 million (INR 7 crores approx.) in &Me. RoC filings show that they have invested in new shares of &Me's parent company called Merhaki Foods and Nutrition.

When you become a new parent, one of the first worrying factors is safety of your little one in daily life. Mother's Zone brings to you some useful safety ideas for kids that will help you keep your children safe at home and outside home.

When you become a new parent, one of the first worrying factors is safety of your little one in daily life. Mother's Zone brings to you some useful safety ideas for kids that will help you keep your children safe at home and outside home.

Baby's first bath can be daunting. The experts at JOHNSON'S® BABY have put together some useful resources to help every step of the way. Presenting JOHNSON'S® Baby Top-to-Toe wash. It has a unique no more tears formula that does not sting your baby's eyes and assures doctors and mothers that products have been specifically formulates and rigorously tested to be safe and gentle to baby's eyes.

Dressing your baby can be a lot easy. First-time parents can sometime be caught in the challenge of how to dress their little ones. The article are consisted of few tips to help you ensure the comfort of your baby.

The moment you became parent of a new born baby,and as the baby grow ,start crawling. The first question comes into your mind is how to prevent the injuries when the new born roaming across the home ,ther may be a chance of hurting fingers into door or any such things in your home.To keep them safe from such thins one should equipped their home with child safety products.

Today, ecommerce and new born baby clothes online shopping is moving hand in hand. Everything has gone online starting from your board to university result. There is no such segment which is free from internet and online transactions. When it comes to online shopping the apparels come first.

Remember your first few Christmas after having a child. You wanted so badly to give them the best gifts you could. You scrimped and saved and looked at sale inserts out of the paper. Wrapped it up nice with bows and ribbons. You waited with pained anticipation for weeks until finally Christmas morning came....

Learning how to win and lose is a large component of children's sports. It teaches them proper decorum and coping mechanisms to deal with adverse situations in life. Although these days with the helicopter parents getting air time, sports fanatical fathers making the news for the wrong reasons, and dance moms getting their own television shows, we may be going in the wrong direction...

It may not have happened to you yet but someday, if your lucky, you'll get to have THE TALK with your children. My wife Ann made it very clear that I would be in charge of talk. Come to think of it, she made it clear that I would be in charge of speaking to the kids on all uncomfortable subjects. The first time didn't go so well...

James (Age 9) has a problem. He thinks there are five meals a day. First comes breakfast at home which consists of a bowl of cereal or a bagel followed by going to his grandmothers house and eating oatmeal or a bagel. Then he gets hungry...

Newborn's skin is so sensitive. Rashes are common during baby's first year. Here are products to keep your baby's skin smooth and healthy.

The magic and wonder of Christmas is captured in this enchanting treasure of well-loved, traditional carols. Each song has been specially arranged for young children's voices, and is delightfully complemented by Jo Litchfield's charming, hand-crafted models.

Texas based researchers found that an increasingly common pollutant called perchlorate may interfere with the bioavailability of the iodine in breast milk, thus decreasing an infant's intake.