By Adrienne Sarmiento-Buenaventura For new moms, giving their newborn baby a bath can be a daunting task, but it need not be a cause of stress. THE QUESTION OF WHEN According the the World Health Organization (WHO), “bathing should be delayed until after 24 hours of …
Mind Your Mind: Make Meaningful Connections
Before the pandemic happened, the world was already in the digital age. Parents constantly faced the challenge of managing their kids’ gadget time, intentionally making an effort for children to enjoy screen-free play and activities. Having access to countless activities and the outdoors, meaningful …
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Can You Breastfeed & Use Contraceptives at the Same Time?
By Adrienne Sarmiento-Buenaventura Since August is World Breastfeeding Month, it is more than fitting for nursing moms to celebrate and promote the importance and value of breastfeeding. And it is also necessary to educate new moms about breastfeeding as a …
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Mommy Mundo’s App Recommendations for Moms
Moms are among the busiest people on the planet. From the moment they discover they are pregnant until their child has graduated from college (or even beyond that), moms are doing doing doing! That’s why moms need all the help and support they can find, and a little help from technology …
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Expo Mom 2021: Connect & Reconnect Our Relationships!
How do we make meaningful connections in this age of technology, distancing, and new ways of thinking that challenge the norm? This is what Expo Mom hopes to focus on this August 14-15, in its trademark two-day conference happening for FREE on our Facebook page. Our Into the Mom Mind …
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Parenting in the digital world
Just about everything that we do now involves the use of a gadget or a connection to the internet. Technology and media are everywhere, and this can make parents anxious. After all, parents have been told of the evils of technology and overexposure to media. For years, parents and children have …
How to Take Advantage and Choose Everything You Eat While Breastfeeding
Lactating moms are often told that everything they eat turns into breastmilk. In a sense that is true. Whatever a mother ingests goes through her digestive system, and the nutrients of the ingested food and drink are absorbed by the blood and distributed throughout the body through the …
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Should you raise boys and girls differently?
Gender-differentiated parenting exists whether we realize it or not. It has been cited that 88% of moms treat their sons and daughters differently, even when they think they shouldn’t, and that mothers tend to be more critical of their daughters than their sons. (Miami Herald) These differences …
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