Just sharing – this is out Medela ad in the next issue of Pregnancy and Newborn magazine. We like that they placed it right with an article about those crucial first 72 hours of breastfeeding a new baby.

medela ad for breast pumps and replacement parts

The Nurture Center just launched their new website!  Have a look at any of the links below – here is a sampling of some of the cool products they have to offer.

The Ergo Baby Carrier

Arms Reach Cosleepers (practically a necessity!)

Nursing Pillow for twins

Replacement cushions for Dutailier gliders

Kidco safe feeding products and Peapod travel tent

Dutailier Gliders in the Express-Stock Program for fast shipment

Britax car seats

February 2009 Issue – Featured Product

betterforbabies.com/BFBpresstrestria.pdf

The link above opens a PDF of a press release sheet for the popular Tres Tria cosleeping solution.  This bestselling baby item is all-natural inside with an organic cotton sateen cover.

The majority of parents bed share at some point in time – whether it be an occasional night or in the early morning hours. So, not only is the Tres Tria the product for full-time co-sleeping families, it is a wonderful addition to most any family’s sleep routine.

TIME magazine tips its hat to the quickly growing cloth diaper population

Here’s the main of it:

But the new cloth diapers are different from the ones that your grandma struggled to get around her baby’s bottom. While approximately half of cloth users still rely on fold-and-pin diapers provided by laundry services, new designs with cutesy names like Fuzzi Bunz, bumGenius, Kissaluvs and Happy Heinys that are made to be washed at home have developed cult followings. Velcro, buttons and snaps have replaced pins, and the diapers are fitted with elastic around the openings to hold tight around flailing legs. In place of old-fashioned rubber panties, the new cloths use water-resistant covers made of merino wool, nylon or polyurethane laminate. “They don’t leak or sag or get stinky,” says Jenn Labit [founder of BumGenius].

And though cloth diapers cost from $6 to $18 each, parents can take care of their baby’s needs straight through toilet training for a total cost of less than $300, whereas disposables may run up to $3,000.

[see our related article "cloth diapers save serious money" and the cloth diaper area of our retail store]

To enter the drawing, buy a gift certificate on December 22, 23, 24 or 25, 2008. You get one entry for each gift certificate you buy during the promotion.  On the morning on Dec 26, we will randomly select a winner.

The winner will get a free gift certificate equal to the one they bought.  For example, if you buy a $50 gift certificate and are the lucky winner, your prize is another $50 gift certificate! But if you buy a $100 gift certificate and win, your prize is $100 gift certificate!

Pass the word along to the grandparents, the in-laws, and anybody else who might still be looking for gifts for your little ones!

Gift certificates can be mailed as cards or emailed directly to your gift recipient. We can send a gift certificate immediately by email right up to the last minute!

The giveaway is NOT OVER! Many prizes, including the trip to Seattle haven’t been won yet and we still have contest babylegs in stock – Babylegs will honor ALL prizes until they sell out!

The Babylegs Sew Golden giveaway is on! Buy any of our Babylegs that have a “sew golden” logo in their item description, and you can win prizes from the companies below, everything from free Babylegs to a trip to Seattle!

“Sew Golden” refers to a special stitching all Babylegs are made with, a mark of quality that sets them above the rest!

All Babylegs are sewn this way, but to win, be sure to pick one we’re selling with the Sew Golden logo right there in the item description. We have 20 colors participating in the contest!

The coupon “5BABYLEGS” will give you $5 off any order that includes babylegs plus a baby carrier. We have lots of Beco Butterflies and Pikkolo Baby Carriers around here, and if you add a pair of Babylegs to your carrier purchase, you’re getting them for practically half price and you still might be a winner!

Articles that link to us or recommend us:

Green Kiddos blog about our play food

the Mommy Files at sfgate.com featuring our organic Babylegs (SFgate = the San Francisco Chronicle website)

Urban Mama Blog recommending our blog

Magic City Slingers adoption and babywearing blog

g.design’s Baby Transport Post about the Beco baby carrier

Baby Gaga forums about nursing in public with The Belly Hugger

Sakura Bloom sling blog discussing our Babylegs

a customer happy with her Pikkolo carrier

a customer situation made right  :)

and then there’s this blogger who discovered MomSpit!

Links from abroad:

A Japanese writing customer showing photos of her order -soft shoes and babylegs.

A Russian forum discussion linking to our Beco carriers

A Spanish forum recommending our store

Our warmest thanks to all of you who passed on the word about us! We appreciate every bit of it!

Here you can see Baby Couture magazine picked a Beco Butterfly to feature this month.

You can also see the possible – but not officially recommended – front carry position with the child facing outward! Beco did not design the carrier for forward-facing, and so it is no wonder if some babies or parents  dislike the position, but, if it works for you, and your child is comfortable like in this photo, well, here’s how it does work.

PS- regarding colors, here is our everlasting blog thread about Beco carrier availability

PPS – the one carrier that IS designed for outward-facing while still offering proper ergonomics and materials for comfortable use lasting years afterward as a back carrier would be the Pikkolo

Dads and Daughters .org

NY Times on equally shared parenting 6/15/08

G rated movies give Boys a D

men in slings photo and interview #1

adoptive dad baby sling photo and interview #2

sakura bloom sling dad and baby photo and top 10 list

my favorite baby products and design blog – Daddy Types .com

10 ways to be a better dad and 5 myths of fatherhood by Babycenter