Well here’s a product that will make you want to throw up

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

I’m not even kidding when I tell you that someone has just come out with “trendy” morning sickness bags for pregnant women. And the best part may be the name: Morning Chicness Bags. The truth is, they’re cute. (If you don’t look at the...

And to all a good night

by Cool Mom Team | Meta

Merry Christmas Cool Moms!Now get off the computer. [card via alternate greetings]

The gift of peace. Literally.

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

With my kids becoming more territorial about their things, I can only imagine the fights that I’m going to have to mediate courtesy of Santa this year. So I’m thinking about preparing in advance for once, and snatching up a personalized stamp for each of...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that bling

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

I’m not generally a bling evangelist, but if there is a time for all things sparkly and retinal-damaging I suppose it would be the holidays. I’m happy to have come across the Swarovski pencils at Red Stamp Cards–blingy on one side, arty on the other,...

Welcome, eco baby!

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

When a little organic cotton onesie or a mere wooden rattle doesn’t cut it for the new baby in your life, you’ll want to order up the Eco Baby gift basket from Treadlight Gifts which is probably the first gift basket I’ve seen where I’d truly...

Pregnancy weigh-in time! Hooray! Hooray!

by Mir | Random Coolness

Up until very recently, I would have told you that no pregnant woman should even own a scale. I can remember very little of the first year after each of my children were born, but I remember the dread with which I’d tiptoe onto that scale at the doctor’s...

Possibly the hottest gift of the year: The chance to make your very own muppet

by Mir | Random Coolness

In television and film, the miscellaneous humans hanging around in the frame are called extras. In scenes that call for additional bodies of the Muppet variety, those are called Whatnots. And while FAO Schwarz’s Muppet Whatnot Workshop is basically to gift a...

Ponoko – Our new favorite time suck

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

There’s a reason the new online marketplace, Ponoko, is taking the design world by storm. It’s sort of like etsy meets Flick’r meets the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, all with an underlying current of eco goodness.Browse the showroom if you’re...

Cool Mom Picks loves Brazil!

by Cool Mom Team | Meta

We just wanted to give a huge thanks to Época, Brazil’s popular weekly magazine, for naming Cool Mom Picks among their top 20 international blogs! We are beyond honored to be in such esteemed company as the Huffington Post, Boing Boing, Post Secret, Perez...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: The time our holiday shopping guide launches.

by Cool Mom Team | Meta

The winter sweaters are out, the tinsel is already in the store windows, and the annual Cool Mom Picks Holiday Gift Guide is live and, if we do say so, kicking. We’ve scoured the web to help you solve your every gift giving dilemma, from your adorable...

Look mom, no hands

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

I know I’m very lucky to only have to pump as an extra curricular activity. But that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the benefits of owning a PumpEase, a cool mom-created product that allows you to use your regular old electric breast pump with no...

More words of CMP wisdom at The Momspeak

by Cool Mom Team | Meta

Want to know CMP editor Kristen’s down and dirty tips on which green products actually get your house clean? Click over to The Momspeak where for the next couple of months, we’re keeping the mom speaky-ness going. You can comment too! In fact, we’d...