Baby

Displaced by the winds of Hurricane Irene, the squirrels, some of them less than three or four weeks old, were brought to Mildred English over the weekend by people who found them knocked out of their nests throughout the area. At one point, English was taking care of more than 100 baby squirrels at her Myrtle Grove home, but she enlisted the help of other wildlife rehabilitators to care for and    .. more …

Pattern and print This season’s prints are more bold and innovative than ever and for those who find surface interruption fussy, more good news comes with the fact that they are also not even remotely girlish. Rather, fierce would be a more accurate description of the surreal flowers, tangled branches and violently coloured reptiles that crawl across Nicolas Ghesquire’s clever volumes at    .. more …

Would you wrap your newborn up in an Angry Birds baby blanket?Rovio, the developer of the smash hit casual game, has signed a new licensing deal with a company called SwaddleDesigns, which specializes in the manufacturing of baby products. Although the game developer has only come to fame because of a single, 99-cent downloadable title, it has turned into a pop culture phenomenon.Angry Birds    .. more …

The baby blanket looked familiar. Lynn Morgan stared at it, wondering: Could it be the same blanket she gave away nearly a year earlier? She apologized to the baby’s mom, explaining that she didn’t mean to stare. But a year ago, she’d given a blanket to an infant who had just entered foster care. It was her first donation after she created a nonprofit to help clothe the area’s needy children. The    .. more …

A middle aged woman standing in front of her politely advised her to use a baby blanket if she didn’t want to expose her breasts.”Wherever you are, no matter what you are doing, you are expected to feed your baby if the need arises. If you don’t and the baby keeps crying you end up with heaps of insults from onlookers and you are suspected of stealing the baby,” said the woman who later introduced    .. more …

Abdul Manan stood expectantly outside the maternity unit awaiting the birth of his first child, his calm facade only betrayed by the way his head snapped around each time the delivery room door opened. On the other side of the door, his teenage bride Firoza barely whimpered as she entered the final stages of a long labour, assisted by an increasingly fraught looking midwife. In many parts of the    .. more …

With each loop of the yarn, Janeta “Peaches” Kimball comes one stitch closer to finishing a baby blanket or little hat – an addition to the dozen she’s already completed during her time in    .. more …

By Hellen Nachillongo , The Citizen CorrespondentDar es Salaam. The endless cry of a baby at the back seat of a bus was menacing, but, her mother in late teens knew what her child wanted, was shy to show it.”I feel ashamed to show my breasts to the public,” she said meekly.A middle aged woman standing in front of her politely advised her to use a baby blanket if she didn’t want to expose her    .. more …

If you really want to know the truth, or even if you don’t, count on someone under the age of 5 to tell it like it is. They have nothing to base their true feelings on other than what’s real, even though they surround themselves with the imaginary.While helping my boyfriend entertain his grandkids recently, I learned more than just the words to The Wiggles theme song – I realized I had    .. more …

“4 R KIDS SAKE” designates August as Purple Ribbon Month due to the traffic death of 6-month-old Kaitlyn Marie Russell. In 2000, Kaitlyn died from hyperthermia after being left by a baby-sitter in a parked car for more than two hours as temperatures reached triple digits. In the fall of 2001 the governor of California signed into law Senate Bill 255, also known as “Kaitlyn’s Law” or the    .. more …