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Good Question: Safe Teethers

Is your baby teething? So is Carey's. She writes in: With so much attention being paid to the dangers of plastics and lead in toys, do decent options exist for teething babies? My daughter is 4 m...

Babycinno Theme Week: Having Babies

Babycinno Blog is a joint venture of four friends living in four European cities - London, Amsterdam, Paris and Milan. All told they have seven children with an eighth on the way. This week they'r...

Blogging The Mayo Clinic: Potty Training - How to Get the Job Done

Usually when the Mayo Clinic has something to say, we listen. And as we continue Bathroom month here at Ohdeedoh, we read about what the world renowned Mayo Clinic has written about potty training. ...

The Business of Being Born

After experiencing both a hospital and home birth, Ricki Lake felt a strong desire to share her experiences with others which ranged from feelings of vulnerability and fear during her hospital birth...

Good Question: New Parent Library

Frances sent us an email:"My friend is having her first baby and has told us all that since she'll be getting all her baby gear and clothes from her sisters (as hand-me-downs) all she really wants is ...

Holiday Gift Bag #5: Win An Organic Gift Set

We're wrapping up the first week of our Holiday Gift Bag and today we have a Cherish Organic Gift Set generously donated by Babybearshop....

Good Questions: How Do You Clean Up Mercury?

Dear Ohdeedoh, I am writing this into you even though I edit over at Apartment Therapy. Earlier this week I dropped a thermometer onto the floor (everyone in our house is sick with the flu) and merc...

Sunny Farm Toothbrush Holder

Parents know the key to teaching kids to perform routine tasks is to make them fun. The Sunny Farm Toothbrush Holder by Sevi can help. ...

Blogging New York Magazine: Snooze or Lose

Are your kids getting enough sleep? Probably not if they're like most American children. And the implications may be more serious than you'd imagine according to a cover story by Po Bronson in New Y...

Silipads

Jeepers, Creepers, where'd you get those kneepads? It's hard to stop a creeping baby - they just want to go! Those little knees getting dragged over carpet, wood, tile and grass - for lots of babies ...

Happy Suction Toothbrush Holder

Our lovely vintage bathroom has lovely vintage fixtures, which include a toothbrush holder. Which would be great, except today's toothbrushes, with their curved handles, don't fit. When we went lookin...

The Bathroom Diaries

Move over Nanny Diaries and make room for the Bathroom Diaries. Even if everyone "went" before leaving the house, inevitably someone will have to "go" while you're out. You probably know of a few b...

Medical Organizer

We'll never forget missing the YMCA Girls' Basketball Finals (go Chimps!) because we came down with chickenpox. But we've forgotten nearly everything else. Rubella shot? Um, maybe. Boy do we wis...

Blogging NY Daily News: Gerber Recall

Gerber has recalled its Organic Rice and Organic Oatmeal Cereal because of clumping, a potential choking hazard. According to the NY Daily News, this cereal may contain lumps of cereal that will not b...

CleanWell Hand Sanitizer

AT readers have the best sources! When we recently blogged about substituting paper soap for hand sanitizer, reader Laura in LA pointed us toward a child-friendly hand sanitizer, from CleanWell. The...

Paper Soap

Life is germ-filled, but we aren't comfortable having hand sanitizer around little ones, given the high alcohol content in those little bottles, so when we saw a parent using these in a local park to ...

Badger

What do badgers have to do with great skin products? We don’t know and we don’t care as long as Badger keeps producing their line of Earth- and body-friendly balms, oils, and butters. Self-describ...