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  1. Monday Mom challenge: Breaking bad habits
    By Jen Klein on Aug 17, 2009
    We all have a bad habit or two. Whether it's biting cuticles or jumping to negative conclusions, we all have things we do that maybe...
  2. Top 25 weird celebrity baby names
    By Sarah W. Caron on Aug 14, 2009
    There is no shortage of weird celebrity baby names -- in fact, the hard part is narrowing the list down! When a celebrity has a...
  3. Helping kids make friends
    By SheKnows Parenting Editors on Aug 13, 2009
    How can you help your kids make friends? SheKnows parenting expert and author of The Family Coach Method Lynne Kenney explains how...
  4. How to make hiking fun for kids
    By Jen Klein on Aug 12, 2009
    Whether you call it a "hike" or just a "walk," getting out into the fresh air and sunshine in a (relatively) remote location with...
  5. Child safety locks: When should you disable?
    By Jen Klein on Aug 11, 2009
    My daughter and I are having a disagreement lately. She thinks she's old enough to have me turn off the child safety locks on the...
  6. Spanish baby names and meanings
    By Sarah W. Caron on Aug 11, 2009
    When you are looking for the perfect name for your baby, not just any name will do. It needs to be meaningful, and you may even want...
  7. 7 Ways to motivate kids in the morning
    By Christine Cristiano on Aug 11, 2009
    Check out these mom-approved ways to motivate kids to get out of bed and out the door in the mornings. Most parents agree that...
  8. How should your kids address your friends?
    By Jen Klein on Aug 10, 2009
    How should your kids address your friends? Growing up, I had an Uncle Rick. His loving and warm presence in my life from my earliest...
  9. Monday Mom challenge: Take something off your plate
    By Jen Klein on Aug 9, 2009
    For all we do as moms, organizing, planning, figuring it out, and just plain making it all happen, sometimes the plate gets...
  10. Keeping kids off drugs
    By Dyan Eybergen on Aug 7, 2009
    There's a right way and a wrong way to talk to your kids about drugs. Adolescent psychiatric nurse and author Dyan Eybergen shares...
  11. Could it be a panic attack?
    By Jen Klein on Aug 6, 2009
    Everyone has feelings of anxiety and fear once in a while. When stress runs high, you can feel overwhelmed and very much out of your...
  12. Pediatric growth charts
    By SheKnows Editors on Aug 5, 2009
    Bethany DeSilva was worried. Her son, Max, was a happy, precocious toddler, but as his next doctor's appointment loomed on the...
  13. Teen dating
    By Vicki Salemi on Aug 5, 2009
    Is your teen prepared to enter the world of dating? Ah, teenagers. Pre-teens, too. How about ‘tweens? Sure, when they get the itch...
  14. Managing the morning grumpies
    By Jen Klein on Aug 5, 2009
    With the new school year upon us, we are back to early mornings. In my house, that means back to the morning grumpies. As much as we...
  15. How does your baby fall asleep?
    By SheKnows Parenting Editors on Aug 4, 2009
    How does your baby fall asleep? Real moms weigh in on the SheKnows message boards on how they get their baby to fall asleep. 57%...
  16. 9 Fun activities for kids
    By Abbi Perets on Aug 4, 2009
    Check out these 9 fun activities for kids that are sure to keep them busy and active. Trust us, it will prevent your kids from...
  17. Promoting penmanship in kids
    By Jen Klein on Aug 4, 2009
    It is important to promote good handwriting in kids. The computer -- more accurately, the Internet -- has brought us so much. So...
  18. Should kids have cell phones?
    By Sarah W. Caron on Aug 3, 2009
    Should kids have cell phones? Families have always dealt with the perils of having several kids in different activities and the...
  19. Monday Mom Challenge: Try a new cuisine
    By Jen Klein on Aug 3, 2009
    The world is becoming a smaller and smaller place. To learn about the cuisines of the world, you used to have to travel the world....
  20. New mom survival guide
    By Mary Fetzer on Jul 31, 2009
    How can you make the postpartum experience less stressful? This should be the happiest time in my life. That, says Shoshana Bennett,...

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Because carrying and caring for a baby is the ultimate responsibility, SheKnows has assembled some of the best pregnancy and baby information available. From our Pregnancy Q&A to the latest pregnancy headlines the information you need on caring for your growing bundle of joy is all right here.

Sure pregnancy is tough, but now that your little bundle of joy is here, you have a whole new set of problems to deal with. From breast feeding to sleep deprivation, find tips to help you make this special time in your life a little simpler at our sister site PregnancyAndBaby.com. You can even dish the dirt (or the dirty diapers, as the case may be) with other new moms at our pregnancy message boards, where you'll find other parents to chat with about your brand new babies.

The only thing better than celebrity gossip? Celebrity BABY gossip. ;-) Somehow the stars are much more accessible to us as we watch them navigate parenthood. Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise are a fashionable mother-daughter pair. Gwen Stefani takes her babies on the road. Kate Hudson might want to consider a haircut for cutie son Ryder, Jennifer Lopez and Halle Berry are finally mamas! Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt seem to have so much parental love to share. Tori Spelling is a blissful mom. And motherhood didn't seem to slow Nicole Richie down one iota - she was back on the red carpet within her first month postpartum. Christina Aguilera dedicates one of her songs to her baby. Nicole Kidman - also pregnant at last! Everyone would like Britney Spears to recover and rehabilitate so she can parent her children. Teenager Jamie Lynn Spears shocked everyone with her pregnancy news. Marcia Cross is a radiant mother to her twins. Check in daily for celebrity pregnancy and baby scoop!

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