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Maternity Clothing Then and Now, Its Future and More For Women, Being Created, Fostered, and Modeled
When I look at the photographs of the maternity clothing my mother wore when pregnant with me in 1946 and the maternity clothing I wore...
Aug 19, 20234 min read


Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and This Florida Judge’s Immigrant Life Following Her A Decade Later. Para
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant among us and her loss has been felt nationwide. The following two quotes I...
Oct 21, 20207 min read


A New Scientific Study Shows How We Grandparents Cause Ill Will Between Us and the Parents of Our Gr
“Half of Parents Report Butting Heads with Child’s Grandparent Over Parenting,” is a new study from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital...
Aug 19, 202010 min read


Five New Important Facts About Breast Milk That May Make Everyone A Believer Who Were Not Convinced
This Grandma has written several posts about breastfeeding over the years, most saying that it should be a choice, nor guilting or...
Jan 31, 20193 min read


The First Pregnancy and Baby Advice and Information Has Changed Beyond Recognition With Our Grandchildren’s Generation
When this Grandma’s children, now in their forties, were babies, cereal was the first food to introduce to the baby, and after a few...
Sep 5, 20185 min read


Interesting and Important Smelly Facts Regarding the Differences Between Men and Women
This Grandma remembers a story about a fire and a dear friend who was pregnant. She was sitting on the front porch with her husband and...
Oct 28, 20173 min read


Six Tips On How Grandma Can Be the Maternity Concierge and Continuing Concierge to the Parents of Our Grandchildren Or Not
The Today Show, on May 11, 2017, had a segment about an admirable new project, maternity concierge, that businesses are starting. They...
May 23, 20178 min read


Why We Grandmas Should Be Nuts Over the Change in Exposing Our Grandchildren To Nuts As Babies
When we grandmas were having our first babies, we were in the dark ages of information about child rearing. Now we are in the era of...
Feb 6, 20176 min read


Prepping For Baby Number Two As The Hollywood Stars Do
It seems that many Hollywood stars are in the baby way for the second time. In the Sun Sentinel, April 27, 2016, it was reported that...
May 13, 20164 min read


Postscript and More Ideas After Documenting Baby’s Growth Month By Month During the First Year With Onesies, Belly Stickers and Huge Stuffed Animals
A dear long (we never say old) grandma friend just celebrated her youngest granddaughter’s first birthday. During the baby’s first year,...
Apr 5, 20162 min read


Depression of Either or Both Parents of Our Grandchildren, Before or After the Birth, is Something We Grandmas Can Identify and Should
Within the last few weeks, pre and post partem depression is in the news, first for women. At the end of January 2016, the United States...
Feb 18, 20167 min read


Text4Baby is the New Technology For Parents and Grandparents
When this Grandma was a new mother, I had little information at my fingertips. Dr. Spock was it. Yes, we too felt that our parents were...
Sep 29, 20152 min read


Who Made the Pacifier and Grandma’s Advice on Use of a Pacifier
“Who Made That Pacifier?” by Dashka Slater appeared in the “Who Made That” column in the New York Times Magazine June 20, 2014. I love...
Jul 16, 20143 min read


What Do Pregnant Women Want?
Last evening, grandpa and I were at dinner with long (we never say old) friends whose oldest son and his wife just had their third child,...
May 21, 20144 min read


Nuts! Nuts! Nuts!
This Grandma did not know about nut allergies when her children were young. Now it seems that child nut allergies are rampant. A recent...
Mar 11, 20143 min read


Most Fascinating and Intriguing People of 2013
Barbara Walter’s television special was about the ten most fascinating people of 2013. People magazine had a special edition of the25...
Dec 29, 201315 min read


Singing to the Womb
This Grandma just finished reading about the last issue of the moment, that pregnant women did not like people who thought they could...
Nov 20, 20132 min read


Halloween as a Holiday for Grandma to Teach Charity
When my brother and I were children, Halloween was a time for a lesson in thankfulness that we had enough to eat. Our refrigerator and...
Sep 16, 20136 min read


Personalized Baby Gift Ideas for the Third Child Born in the Family
A dear friend has a new granddaughter. She is the fifth granddaughter in the family. One thing is sure. This adorable newborn does not...
Apr 5, 20131 min read
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