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Family Spring Cleaning Tips

Posted on March 15, 2015

Spring cleaning season is just around the corner and families will be clearing out the dust and clutter that accumulated this winter. But part of that cleaning involves chemicals, mold and mildew, all which may contribute to poor indoor air quality.

Broan-NuTone offers the following tips from home-improvement expert Danny Lipford on how to breathe easy and have a healthier spring clean out.

Watch your chemical count!

§ When you use household cleaners be mindful of the harmful chemicals that circulate into the air you breathe. To be safe, open a window during and after the use of these products.

Keep humidity levels (and potential mold and mildew!) in check particularly in bathrooms and kitchens where moisture builds up throughout the year.

§ Easily test the effectiveness of your fan by holding a piece of tissue paper near the fan – if the fan is removing air properly the paper will be drawn against the grill and remain there as long as the fan is on

Clear the kitchen air after cooking and cleaning.

§ The kitchen is a key source of indoor air pollution especially with a gas stove, so make sure to use a range hood to remove the pollutants created from cooking and preparing meals.

Keep dust and debris at bay.

§ Dust is basically shed skin cells and pet dander. Dust mites feed on those particles and tend thrive in bedrooms on linens and blankets. Wash linens often in very hot water and replace pillows regularly, or cover existing pillows with antiallergenic covers.

Happy Cleaning!

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What celeb moms are sharing on Instagram today (PHOTOS)

Posted on March 14, 2015

Tamar Braxton-Herbert with Adrienne Bailon on the set of The Real

We ~~stalk~~ follow your favorite celeb moms so you don’t have to. Check out some of the fun parts of their lives they are sharing on social media, specifically Instagram, today and in recent days.

Alicia Keys was making music with her new baby

Beyonce was sharing her Bee inspired jewelry. Is she releasing a jewelry line for her Bey Hive.

Tiffani Amber Thiessen was taking a bump portrait with her daughter.

Snooki was playing soccer mom

Second time mom-to-be Hilaria Baldwin was out with her babies and pups.

Lily Aldridge was looking hot on location.

Gwen Stefani was posing up with other famous celeb moms including past bumpwatch moms Kate Hudson, Rachel Zoe , Courtney Cox and others at a girls night out.

Heidi Klum was posing in lingerie for a campaign.

Jessica Simpson was prepping for a TODAY show appearance

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Pre-Pregnancy “Bucket List”: 5 Things to Do Before Having Your First Child

Posted on March 13, 2015

Bellyitch Rewind

A bucket list contains things, adventures, feats, and accomplishments that people want to tackle before “kicking that proverbial bucket”. Bellyitch had a past post about the Bucket List for DINKS – or Dual Income, No Kids couples. A lot of women worry about getting pregnant because they fear what will become of their flat abs and freedom. Well, the fear is understandable and therefore, it may just be better that they have their own individual pre-baby bucket list, separate from the one they share with their significant other.

This post HERE has links to ideas of what other women had on their lists.

Here are 5 few items to consider adding to it.

1. Go “Bare-Bellied”

Crystal Renn by Patrick Demarchelier in Glamour, May 2009

Wear a two piece on the beach or a bare midriff top. If you become one of those unfortunate ones to get lots of stretch marks on your belly during pregnancy, you may never feel comfortable baring your tummy again after baby comes. Creams and laser surgery may not make it the same as before. So bare it now even if you’ve never felt comfortable in a bikini. If your abs are not in tip top shape, get them there… or don’t! Who cares? If you’re uncomfortable about exposing abs that are not defined, imagine how weird you’ll feel about exposing undefined abs with the map of Switzerland on them. Get out there and bare it all, girl!

2. I Hope you Dance

credit: Fred J. Field for The Boston Globe

These days will be the last that you can get on top of a bar or a table and dance freely at a club or bar without worrying about the photos landing on Facebook and embarrassing your kid. Even if you’re shy and would never consider dancing where you’d get so much attention, dig deep down and find your inner “Coyote Ugly” and shake what your mama gave you. You’re only young and baby-free once!

3. Gotta Get Away

credit: Pinky Photography

Last minute vacations away on a whim and moment’s notice are reserved for those with no attachments holding them back. Many airlines offer last-minute get away fares and sometimes a long drive across the country can be refreshing and liberating…but usually when you don’t have kids at home to worry about. If the girls are getting away for a quick trip, why not throw caution in the wind and join them?

4. Get down and dirty

Go ahead and “get it on” somewhere risque, in public and off limits with your significant other or husband. If you get caught, you don’t have to worry about who will watch the kids while you arrange for bail.

SPLURGE

After baby comes, many women sacrifice their wants and needs and don’t feel comfortable spending on themselves any longer. So before you have to deal with that weight on the mind, go get yourself those pricey pair of shoes or handbag you’ve had your eye on for a while. It’s the ultimate “me” treat to spend carelessly on self. Do it when you can.

It’s now or never ladies! Do it NOW! Good Luck and Have fun!

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Kerry Washington opens up on Motherhood and parenting a Girl

Posted on March 13, 2015

Kerry Washington is a private person but during recent interviews she has opened up quite a bit about being a parent.

In a new Marie Claire interview which was with HBO‘s Girls star and creator Lena Dunham, for example, Washington reveals what she wants for her daughter Isabella who she welcomed almost a year ago.

“I just want [Isabelle] to know that she’s heard. Really heard, because I feel like that is what we all really want. When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I’ve made, all of which I’m grateful for, it’s because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn’t or wouldn’t be. I see you, I hear you, I’m with you as you are.”

Also a recent book launch luncheon on international women’s day, Scandal star Kerry Washington revealed a bit about her feelings about motherhood.

“It’s just made my life better in every way,” the Emmy -nominated actress told PEOPLE at Sunday’s book release event for “Expecting 411.”

She and husband NFL‘s Nnamdi Asomugha plan to celebrate her first birthday on April 21.

Washington also had great things to say about the book: “This book was by my bedside the whole time I was pregnant,” Washington shared. “It’s as if your very best girlfriend was a brilliant OB and wrote a book for you.”

Last fall, Washington also shared that she has been breastfeeding her daughter and hopes to pass along a healthy lifestyle to her.

“I’ve always been a person who really approaches health in a proactive way,” the Image Award winning actress stated. “I work out, I eat right, so those are things I continued to do once my doctor said I could, but not to be crazy about it. I’m breastfeeding, so I can’t starve myself. It’s important for me to be a good mom and a good actor, and be responsible to myself and my family.”

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Baby wrapped in American flag photo sparks controversy

Posted on March 13, 2015

Professional photographer Vanessa Hicks has been the subject of controversy this week over newborn photography images she took and shared on her Facebook page and online professional photography community. Some are calling the photos of a baby laying nude on an American flag and swaddled in a flag shaped like a tiny hammock unpatriotic and a desecration of the flag.

The baby in the photo belong to her client, a military veteran, Samantha Clevenger and the man in uniform holding ends of the hammock is her husband Rodney Clevenger a current active duty Navy seaman. U

Hicks and the Clevengers have been all over TV and radio defending the image which went viral and drew the ire of many reservionists, active duty and vets, but also much support from military families and others as well.

Hicks addressed the controversy on her Facebook page:

Yesterday, I woke up to see this photo was shared on a group site that is meant to bash other photographers. It was in their opinion I had disrespected our nations flag. I had disrespected our country by taking this picture. Several of these people not only bashed the picture, but me, saying I should be ashamed of myself, my husband should be ashamed, etc and I received several private messages to my business page. They even took it a step farther and bashed the service member in the picture, hoping he gets in trouble for participating in desecration of the flag.

I am very well aware of our U.S Flag code. I also know exactly what desecration of a flag is. It’s when you pull into ports and you see protestors with our flag and have spray painted horrible things on it. It’s when you watch the news and you see other countries burning our flags, and you are a young Quartermaster scared because you know you are just a few nautical miles from that exact country.

“The inspiration behind this photo is that we wanted to capture everything about this family in one shot,” Hicks told BuzzFeed News. “The father, who is in uniform, is currently serving. The mother is a veteran. This baby is being wrapped in the flag.”

She has since offered the couple free photography for life.

Perhaps, as we’ve covered in Bellyitch in the past, wearing the American flag violates protocol as well but it is a recycled fashion trend adopted internationally.

What are your thoughts on the matter?

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Kelly Clarkson helped a radio show host’s 2nd pregnancy announcement in song (VIDEO)

Posted on March 13, 2015

While promoting her latest single yesterday at New York’s KTU Morning Show , Kelly Clarkson helped co-host Carolina Bermudez announce her second pregnancy in song.

Clarkson, who just gave birth to her daughter River Rose last June, performed the “Heartbeat Song” with new lyrics written just for the big announcement. So sweet.

“Today’s a really special day and I asked Kelly if she could do the announcement,” Bermudez said as she turned the mic over to Clarkson after sharing the news.

“Oh my gosh, I’m still hormonal, y’all!” the former American Idol champ said after the song, “I’m so excited for you. I’m kind of jealous too cause I want another one already.”

See the entire thing below

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Pi Day is coming: 100 Pie recipes for families

Posted on March 12, 2015

March 14, Saturday is Pi Day and for the first time it is actually the first 5 numbers that represent the numerical value of pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter: 3.14.15.

(if you use the American way of writing dates).

Pi day is also an annual opportunity for math geeks, including nerdy parents all around, to make and eat pie with their family and friends!

We found from recipe curators over at our partners at Foodie over 100 pie recipes – from sweet, to pizza to fruit – for every taste and palette to consider making this Saturday!

Good luck!

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Bump Watch: Kate Middleton tours art gallery in trendy dalmatian print coat

Posted on March 12, 2015

The Duchess of Cambridge rocked a Hobbs Dalmatian print coat she’s worn before while touring the Turner Contemporary Art Gallery yesterday, March 11, in Margate, England. I loved the fact she had her hair pulled back into a messy pony tail since wispy loose messy hair is trending these days.

The former Kate Middleton was in her fave black Stuart Weitzman Power pumps and carried a quaint Mulberry clutch. I’m really feeling the dalmation print as it is whimsical and fun!

hmmm…..

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Trending: Hipster eyeglasses are still a thing

Posted on March 12, 2015

Trend watchers may have noticed that wearing eyeglasses is fashionable again.

Thank hipsters and the new popular geek culture for making it cool a few years ago to skip laser surgery and contact lenses and embrace the four-eye look again.

Some of the celeb moms we’ve regularly featured here like Reese Witherspoon, Courtney Cox and Zoe Saldana have been spotted out and about and on red carpets in eyeglasses. Mom-to-be Zoe Deschanel looked smart and chic in a pair of dark-rimmed glasses recently as well.

Men too are wearing glasses, even though they need them or not, following the moves of the guys who seem to stay one step ahead of all the tech gadgets. The numbers support the theory, as World News Stand notes,

The prevalence of eyeglasses, like other hipster fads, likely became such a popular trend because of the economic and thrifty value of glasses — especially compared to things like contact lenses and LASIK surgery. Eyeglass sales, according to Euromonitor, are currently at their highest point in the past 15 year

I recently discovered that my perfect 20/20 eyesight is not so perfect anymore. I blame old age. Thus, I had to get an eyeglasses prescription, so it was awesome to learn that they are trending. Perfect! I am accidentally in style! Ha!

And this trend is a perfect way for those who want to stay hip and current while pregnant to do so. There is a perfect pair for everyone.

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Chelsea Clinton doesn’t take all of Hillary Clinton’s motherhood advice

Posted on March 11, 2015

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has her grandbaby to distract her from email-gate.

In a recent interview with Sky News, Chelsea Clinton says she’s loving watching her mom be a great grandmother to her daughter, Charlotte.

However, Chelsea Clinton says she isn’t taking all of her mom’s baby advice.

“Some of it I take,” Clinton says. “And some of it I sort of smile and say, ‘Thank you’ for. I’m sure this is a common thing with new moms with their mothers.”

The former NBC news special correspondent would not confirm whether her mom planned to run for presidents.

She added “at this moment, she’s more Charlotte’s grandmother than anything else…It’s amazing…watching her read to Charlotte, watching her give Charlotte a bottle, watching her sing to Charlotte.”

h/t PEOPLE

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