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Ne-yo Ties the Knot with Fiancée Days before she Gives Birth

Posted on February 23, 2016

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R&B crooner Ne-Yo and his fiance, mom-to-be Crystal Renay officially tied the knot this weekend, days before she is set to welcome the couple’s first child together.

“When I went to my first fitting, I had actually just found out the day before that I was pregnant, so from the beginning of the whole dress process, we knew that it would be a growing belly,” Renay told PEOPLE magazine. “I’m nine months pregnant – I’m nervous about falling on my face.”

Ne-Yo expressed his joy as well.

“This is big for me,” the Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter said. “I’m not doing this again, so I’m happy that my family and friends are able to be there to share this moment with us.”

Ne-Yo’s 5-year old daughter Madilyn and 4-year old-son Mason (Irish Twins) with his ex-girlfriend, and our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alum Monyetta Shaw were not at the nuptials.

Apparently, as Shaw explained on her Instagram to quell the rumors and hate darts thrown at her, she is in the process of securing a placement for her children in an independent school and was busy taking the kids to open houses and school visits that weekend.

“Not that it’s anyone’s business I have a few secs to entertain since we are all done with these school visits for today,” she wrote on Instagram. “Any involved parent in search for the best school for their children knows how important this process is and I don’t take it lightly.”

 “My #1 concern & priority are my kids! NOTHING will EVER change that!!!  “she added.  Anyway, the kids are excited and looking forward 2 spending time with their father, new little brother and step-mom this summer.”

More pics from the weekend.

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A photo posted by Crystal Renay (@iamcrystalrenay) on

Getting carried across the threshold! Awwww!

 

 

Photo: PEOPLE, Duke Images

h/t Black Celeb Kids

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In One Year, 3 Women Accidentally Birthed their Babies inside a Toilet

Posted on February 23, 2016
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Dad Flinn Dorion, Charlotte Bryant and Kirsty Parker all welcomed babies delivered accidentally in the toilet

This past February, another woman went to the bathroom and accidentally gave birth to a baby inside a toilet.

On Valentine’s Day 2016, Joanne Fontaine of Winnipeg, Canada unexpectedly gave birth to her son Christopher 6 weeks prematurely when her water broke while she was using the bathroom.

Fonataine said she called her boyfriend Flinn Dorion who scooped the baby out of the toilet and cleaned him off before emergency personnel came and took over. The baby is being monitored at at the neonatal intensive care unit at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre, according to CP24. “I told my boyfriend to call the ambulance. I can feel the baby’s head,” the new mom told CTV News.

 

This isn’t the first time a woman has given birth to a baby inside a toilet. Earlier this year, a Welsh woman’s back pains were misdagnosed by doctors who didn’t realize she was pregnant.

Mom Charlotte Bryant also welcomed her son, Joshua, unexpectedly while sitting on a toilet. He was 7 pounds, 4 ounces and was taken to  the intensive care unit at University Hospital of Wales. The baby boy has since been released from the hospital and is now three weeks old.  Bryant told the Daily Mail that she had no idea she was pregnant until she welcomed her son while sitting in the washroom.

And even more bizarre is the story of another British woman who gave to not one, but two babies on the toilet unknowingly.

In 2015, Kirsty Parker thought she was experiencing a stomach bug when she went to the bathroom one afternoon and suddenly gave birth to a 3lb 4 ounces baby girl, she later named Ruby. Parker said she had no signs of pregnancy except slight weight and a little moodiness. The baby was born 10 weeks premature. Parker was at her mom’s home at the time.

Only nine months prior, Parker was in the bathroom when she gave birth to a baby girl Amber on the bathroom floor. Parker knew she was pregnant then but was not expecting to deliver for another 8 weeks.

‘”Who needs to go to hospital to give birth? I’m still in shock really. I think it’s more that I just did not know I was pregnant,” Parker said.  ‘As all my previous births have been in a bathroom – that is obviously just where I like to have my children.  I had my first child Crystal who was born eight weeks early on the bathroom floor. That was a shock but I knew I was pregnant with her – and with Amber – but on neither occasion did I know I was in labour.’

At the time, Parker and her husband Lee had 5 other children: Parker’s 7-year old daughter Crystal Stevenson; Lee’s sons 5-year old Harry and 4-year old Ronnie, and the couple’s 9 month old baby. seven, Lee’s two sons Harry, five, and Ronnie, four, and the couple’s t9-month old daughter, Amber.

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Kirsty with her family, L-R, Harry, Amber, Angie (Kirsty’s Mum), Ronnie, Lee and Crystal – Amber was also born in the toilet and Crystal was born on the bathroom floor

Parker said she did not have any morning sickness – and thought she had just struggled shifting the baby weight from Amber’s birth nine months previously.

“If I knew I was pregnant there are things I would have done differently,” she told the Daily mail. “I would not have had any coffee or egg mayonnaise. I am very good when I am pregnant and fortunately I am not a very big drinker anyway. I did feel guilty about some of these things but both Lee and my mum said I shouldn’t as I had no idea I was pregnant.”

Amazing!

Photos courtesy: CP24, Daily Mail,

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With North West as Muse, Balmain Kids Launches this Summer

Posted on February 23, 2016

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Balmain‘s creative director and head designer Olivier Rousteing has designed custom pieces for North West, daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West since the tot was born in 2013.

Inspired by West, last month, Rousteing announced on his Instagram page plans to launch the Paris fashion house’s first children’s wear collection this June 2016. The 55-piece collection for boys and girls between the ages of 6 to 14.

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It’s essentially a mini-mi version of the Balmain line which is famous for leather pants, double-breasted cropped jackets, military boots, zebra prints, peacoats, tuxedos and plenty gold embroidered embellishment.

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Kim Kardashian West Shares First Photo of son Saint West

Posted on February 22, 2016

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Kim Kardashian West use the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of her dad to share a first photo of her 3-month-old son Sain.

“Today is my dad’s birthday. I know there’s nothing more in the world he would have wanted than to meet his grandchildren,” the reality TV star and business mogul captioned a photo shared on her app. “So I wanted to share this pic of Saint with you all,” the proud mom wrote alongside her son’s picture.”

He is a cutie pie!

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Here are Some Creative Easter Hunt Ideas

Posted on February 21, 2016

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Ready for Easter? Check out these innovative and different Easter Egg Hunt ideas from PaperTrail:

 

  • Checklist Easter Egg Hunt – For large Easter Egg Hunts, you could make checklists for each child. Give each child a basket with a checklist and pencil in it, and instruct the kids to find ONLY what is on their checklist and no more (otherwise someone else would not get enough). Make the checklists the same for each child and make sure you have enough eggs hidden so that everyone can complete theirs. You can have a grand prize too, for whichever child completes his checklist first! The checklists could read something like this.
  • ___Find 2 blue eggs
  • ___Find 3 pink eggs
  • ___Find 1 yellow egg
  • ___Find 2 orange eggs
  • ___Find 4 purple eggs
  • ___Find 3 green eggs
  • Obstacle Hunt This is a good choice if you are having the Easter egg hunt outdoors in a big backyard or at a park. Just like in an obstacle course race, you could have various activities interspersed with egg collecting. For example, at the starting buzzer the kids race to the next spot where they have to thread a needle and only when they complete it can they run ahead to the next spot (collecting all the eggs along the way of course). Some other Easter party activities could be jumping over a cardboard box , going around a chair five times, blowing up a balloon, drinking a glass of water, eating a boiled egg and so on. The first child to reach the finish line wins a prize.
  • Printable Egg Hunt, Don’t have any plastic easter eggs?, Or looking for a different and easy way to have an, Easter egg hunt? Print out an egg game online game, cut out the eggs and hide them around your house., The kids will even have a great time helping to cut out the eggs.
  • Puzzle Treasure Easter Egg Hunt For this hunt you would need a puzzle (not more than 25 pieces , with each individual piece small enough to fit inside an egg). Here are the steps: First put the puzzle together. Then flip it over and write a clue across the back pointing to the treasure. Take the puzzle apart and put one or two pieces in each egg. Then hide the eggs for the hunt. The children will have to find all of the eggs and put the puzzle together in order to figure out where the “treasure” is. For more details on this and other Easter Egg hunt ideas visit creativekidsathome.com.
  • Pirate Hunt –Create a map that represents the floor plan of the house (if it’s indoors). You can even modify it to look like an island. Then mark the positions of eggs on the map. Stairs can be represented by a cliff, etc. Inside of the eggs, write clues that when put together will lead the kids to a “pirate treasure”.
  • Hunt in the Dark – You could also combine the Pirate Hunt above with a hunt in the dark for added effect, which the older kids are bound to enjoy. Give the kids each a flashlight and have them hunt for eggs in the dark. To make it even more fun, you can paint the eggs with glow-in-the-dark paint and search for them with no light at all.
  • Easter Egg Hunt with a message – Have a regular egg hunt, but in 12 plastic eggs put a number and a scripture telling a part of the Easter Story. Then when the kids find the eggs and are sitting all together, call out the numbers one by one and have each person read their scripture. You can have the kids tell the story of Easter.

 

 Here are more ideas.

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There’s an App Some Companies Use that Tracks When a Female Employee has Stopped Filling Her Birth Control Prescriptions

Posted on February 21, 2016

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Some companies, including Walmart, are hiring third-party firms like Castlight Healthcare Inc. to help them reduce their health care costs. Concern is that some of this “help” includes tracking when a woman has stopped filling her birth-control prescriptions and made fertility-related searches on Castlight’s health app.

An article in the Wall Street Journal this week stated that the collected data about employees help employers calculate people’s risks of certain health conditions. It scared a bunch of folks, especially on the Internet, who thought the app was a set up for pregnancy discrimination.

You could imagine the part about the app sending alerts about one’s personal and private moves sounds invasive and scary!

But it turns out the alerts are sent to the employees who are then “nudged” to make healthier choices that could lower their (and their employer’s) health care costs in the long run.

Data collected from the app is matched with the woman’s age, and if applicable, the ages of her children to compute the likelihood of an impending pregnancy, Castlight’s chief research and development officer Jonathan Rende, Castlight said. She would then start receiving emails or in-app messages with tips for choosing an obstetrician or other prenatal care. If the algorithm guessed wrong, she could opt out of receiving similar messages.

The employers only receive data in the aggregate and stripped form any personal-identifiable information.

Still, people think about that Target incident a few years ago, where the big box store used big data marketing analysis to send women who didn’t even know if they were pregnant yet coupons for baby products. Infamously, a father got a teen daughter’s baby coupons and learned before the teen could tell her dad that she thought she could be pregnancy.

These data-mining platforms are risky because sensitive health data is at risk of breaches and hackers, worse than a boss knowing that you’re looking to get pregnant in the near future.

It still pretty scary stuff!

 

 

h/t Vox

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Yup, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen had an even More Adorable Baby Bump Moment

Posted on February 20, 2016

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R&B crooner John Legend and his model and TV host wife Chrissy Teigen are not strangers to sharing affection for one another at events and definitely on social media. The couple are expecting their first child together after a few  bouts of infertility and other struggles to conceive and maintain a pregnancy, Teigen once shared.

The internet was abuzz again recently over a tender moment shared on Instagram of the “Ordinary People” singer and multi-award winning artist kissing Teigen’s growing bump.

Cute!

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These 25 Blogs Have Great Family Spring & Easter Vacation Ideas

Posted on February 20, 2016

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Because it is that time of the year again to start figuring out what to do with the kids during Easter and Spring Break, we are sharing a old post featuring 25 blogs with ideas for what to do and were to go!
Enjoy!
Camping
Getting away for a while and hanging out in nature can be very

relaxing for kids and parents alike.  You don’t even have to go very far

from home to enjoy this experience.  Getting the kids outside to play,

get some exercise and spend time away from the television and other

electronics can be great for some family bonding.  Here are five blog

posts with family-friendly camping ideas.
Cruises
Cruise lines have opened up a world of opportunities for vacationing

with your kids.  What was once considered a more adult-only vacation has

branched off and now includes many kid-friendly activities, making it

the perfect family-friendly vacation. There are also some cruises, like

the Disney cruises, that are geared almost entirely at the kids in the

family.  Check out these five blog articles about cruising options for

the family.
Warm Destinations
If you are living in a region where there is a lot of snow and

temperatures fall below zero, you might be thinking that enjoying Spring

Break on the beach sounds pretty good.  Which beach do you choose?

Beaches and other warm destinations to enjoy during Spring Break are

included in these next five blog entries.
Cold Destinations
Spring Break is often the last chance to get some skiing in if you

want to head north or travel into the mountains. If you aren’t a skier,

there are plenty of cold destinations that offer fun activities for

families during Spring Break as well, such as taking in a play on

Broadway or checking out historic locations in New England.  These five

blog posts will point out some Spring Break destinations that will allow

you to take advantage of cooler temperatures before summer hits.
Kids with Working Parents
If you can’t take time off this year to go on a family trip and you

are looking for something interesting for the kids to do all week, here

are some ideas that might inspire your youngsters to have a blast on

their break at home. If you don’t live near any of these places, but

still want to take advantage of these ideas, keep in mind that your

child might be able to stay with family in another city and attend some

of the day camps.  Other ideas to keep kids from getting bored over

Spring Break are also noted.  For ideas check out these five blog

articles.

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Here are 4 Working Mom’s Solid Tips for Getting Out the House On Time

Posted on February 19, 2016

 

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Mornings can be the most difficult part of the day for many working moms. Trying to get the kids and themselves ready and out the door on time seems to always take much longer than expected. With these 10 tips, working moms can make their mornings much more manageable and make their family’s morning departure one that is on time and not late.

  1. Wake up 30 minutes before everyone else. If you don’t first care for your own needs, you won’t be able to care for the needs of others in your family. Waking up before everyone else allows you to get ready to start your day without interruption. Enjoy your coffee and paper in peace, prior to waking up the others.
  2. Lay out clothes the night before. The older children get, the more say they want to have in their wardrobe choices. Provide children with two or three acceptable choices and let them choose what to wear. Hanging a plastic shoe organizer over the back of their door and filling each pocket with a matched outfit can make choosing an outfit easier for preschoolers.
  3. Always repack your diaper bag once you return home. Resist the urge to drop it and forget about it. Once you are home, repack your diaper bag with spare clothing, diapers, snacks, and any other necessities you may need and then leave it by the door so it’s ready to go when you are.
  4. Keep a tote filled with necessities in the car. Keeping a tote filled with spare clothes, nonperishable snacks and bottled water, diapers, a package of wipes, sun screen, and any other essentials can come in handy if you’re out longer than originally planned or if you forget your diaper bag.

Good luck Moms!

 

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Eco-Friday: 10 Must-Reads for Having a Vegan-Pregnancy like these Celeb moms

Posted on February 19, 2016
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A few year ago, actress Emily Deschanel got some heat by continuing with her vegan diet while pregnant last year.  However, despite concerns, remaining vegan while pregnant can be done safely with the consultation of a doctor and nutritionist and maybe also by reading up on some recommended books on having a well-rounded vegan diet.
 She is not the only celebrity to stick with her vegan diet even while pregnant. Alicia Silverstone even wrote about her vegan pregnancy diet. Carrie Underwood, Natalie Portman and Allyson Hannigan  are vegans who softened up and switched to vegetarianism during pregancy.
The Happy Herbivore put together a post that includes a list of recommended books for having a safe vegan diet and pregnancy. Check them out:
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