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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
Great Grandmother’s Famous Butter Cookies and the Best 2020 Homemade Christmas, Chanukah, and Specialty Disney and U.S. States Cookies For Games To Play and Times to Share, With the Best Ways to Mail
GG (Great Grandmother) Frieda, my mother, was a great cook and an even greater baker. Our home was overflowing with food and sweets as...
Dec 18, 20204 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
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
The Best Baby Shower Variation is a “Sprinkle”
A colleague commented that the baby shower planned by her close family and friends was the best. Of course, I inquired why. She shared...
Jul 31, 20142 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
Grandma Says Shift the Focus from Moms and Dads Wanting to “Have it All” to the Family Team
The Today Show on NBC on Friday, March 15, 2013 had a segment on new research which “shows that as more moms join the workforce, men want...
May 9, 20135 min read
Grandma’s Chaos and Quiet
This Grandma’s home is comfortable for two adults. This spring break the occupancy went up to a crowded eleven. Everyone came into...
Apr 2, 20134 min read
How Does Grandma Measure a Year
“Seasons of Love,” the song from the Broadway play, “Rent,” starts out: “five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. How do...
Mar 7, 20134 min read
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