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Announcing your excellent taste. Oh, and a baby, too.
We found (and squealed about) the delicious, inventive cards and invitations from Bird and Banner years ago, but it's been a while since I stopped by to see what's new. Let's just say the selection hasn't quite made me want to have another baby just for the shower...
Breastfeeding Week Pick: Chewbeads
This week, in honor of World Breastfeeding Week, we've asked our contributors to share their favorite nursing picks. There's a stage of breastfeeding for which none of the books really prepare you: the one where the baby nurses while simultaneously doing, oh,...
Monkey business
As far as licensed characters go, I am admittedly partial to Julius, the cartoon monkey from Paul Frank. My kids are partial to him too, but they call him Paul. So how could we resist a chance to get up close with him at a traveling party that's touring the country...
Screaming even louder for ice cream
Our household has yet to meet our summer's quota of ice cream consumption (hint: it's a lot). Happily, eCreamery, makers of that awesome custom ice cream we love, is supporting our earnest attempt to wear out our home ice cream maker this summer with their new special...
Cool baby booties made for sleep deprived parents
The last thing I need as a mom of a newborn is an article of clothing that takes actual brain power to figure out how to put on. Give me no-fuss onesies and slip-on pants and I'm a happy camper. I always thought booties fell into the too-much-work-to-put-on-baby...
We’re sending you back-to-school shopping for less. Or maybe free.
We can never resist the chance to give away cool stuff to all of you cool moms out there. (But only the cool stuff. Just so that's clear.) So we love that our sponsor ShopRunner is asking our readers to fill out this short (and fun!) survey about back to school...
Breastfeeding Week Pick: Milk Nursingwear Halter Dress
This week, in honor of World Breastfeeding Week, we've asked our contributors to share their favorite nursing picks. I was lucky-- nursing was easy for me. Dressing fashionably while nursing, however, was impossible. In between spit-up, juggling the baby, and...
Breastfeeding Week Pick: The Breastfeeding Buddy
This week, in honor of World Breastfeeding Week, we've asked our contributors to share their favorite nursing picks. How annoying is it to have to carry around dozens of different cloths, bibs and blankets whenever you take your baby out? The Breastfeeding Buddy, a...
One of the best baby lotions goes fragrance free
More and more of our readers these days ask us for fragrance-free lotion recommendations for sensitive baby skin. And I don't blame them. I still remember tossing the high-end European stuff that I got at my shower (by my own request), thinking that I didn't need my...
Breastfeeding Week Pick: Bella Materna Nursing Bras
In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, we've asked our contributors to share their favorite nursing picks. When it comes to nursing, I'm an anywhere, anytime kind of gal. In grocery stores, while talking on the phone, while walking with baby in a carrier (maybe even...
Cold enough for ya?
It's 110 million degrees in Atlanta, and the thought of heating enough water to brew ice tea is horrifying. But I'm not willing to settle for the cheap stuff at the store that's neither green nor tea, if you get my drift.Enter these lovely bottles of organic tea,...
Okay, so imagine if NERDS were actually healthy
As my dentist will attest, I was a big candy fan as a kid, and I was definitely a nerd for NERDS. (My favorite was the split box with cherry on one side and watermelon on the other.) Cut to 2011, when my children think plain yogurt with honey is a sugary treat. Oh,...
Renting a maternity dress? Totally.
When I was six months pregnant with my second baby, the company I worked for was putting on a big, fancy shindig. Said shindig required me to go on a stage and speak in front of 800 people. I started to stress--mostly about what to wear. I wanted a stylish,...
The case of the disappearing boo-boos
My daughter is in the beautiful beginning stages of tree-climbing, which has left her with the usual variety of not-at-all-serious scrapes and bruises. I think she loves finding a new boo-boo to cover up with a Band-Aid as much as she loves trying to climb the...
Subscribing to Cool Mom Picks: It’s right on Target.
Maybe "cool" isn't a word you're using a lot this summer. But even when the temperature is in the 100's, we're always looking to hook our subscribers up with cool giveaways, because they are...yep. The coolest.This coming week, five-- yes, five-- lucky Cool Mom Picks...
Swedish designs that turn your kids’ walls into wow
I am sitting at my computer right this very second, drooling over the beautiful illustrated posters of Ingela P Arrhenius, who I discovered earlier this year. Her work just went on sale at Fab.com, my latest flash sale obsession, and at these prices--if you love them,...
It only takes ONE mom
At Cool Mom Picks, we get a kick out of finding cool stuff to make moms' lives easier. Then along comes a community partnership like ONE Moms that's helping make moms' lives easier in a truly profound way: Keeping mothers and babies safe and healthy.Right now, our...
Butt Art that isn’t raunchy, promise
As all parents know, kids laugh at the word "butt." There is something very funny about a word that is used constantly as a conjunction, a sometime preposition and also as a word for your behind. What could be funnier than that to a five year old? The answer? Nothing....
Sponsored message: Take the kids on a Smurfy adventure
This is a message from our sponsor, The Smurfs Movie The Smurfs are back! This time, they come to life in a live-action/computer-animated film that hits theaters nationwide on July 29. But it won't be just your kids who will fall head over heels in love with this take...
Mothers of Intention: Using our outside voices
My interest in politics has ebbed and flowed over the years, but since I've become a mother, public policy has taken on a whole new personal relevance for me. I've got three kiddos whose futures will be affected by the decisions of political leaders, from our local...
Poster sized goodness
Sarah Jane is wildly talented--something Cool Mom Picks discovered way back in 2007. Her prints are whimsical and magical in a way that would make Clement Hurd and The Runaway Bunny proud. I love the simplicity and the talent that beckons from the page. Now, fans of...