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Kim Kardashian wears a bikini during pregnancy. Do you?
Kim Kardashian, who is due in July, flaunted her baby bump in several bikinis during her time in Greece. Check them out in the Splash News video above.
If you have taken pictures of your bump, covered or not, don't forget to share them with us! Also, don't forget you can discuss your pregnancy with other New England women in our Boston.com Moms pregnancy forum.
Local parent bloggers open up to Boston.com Moms
We are having a blast learning more about local mom and dad bloggers as part of our new Boston.com Moms Featured Parent Blogger series.
Here's how it works. We get to know the blogger over the course of a week. The blogger posts in our Featured Parent Blogger forum each day. On Monday, we ask for an introduction. On Tuesday, the blogger shares 20 facts about him or herself and the blog. On Wednesday the blogger reveals his or her favorite post of all time and why. On Thursday, the blogger takes questions from readers. And on Friday, the blogger shares the blogs he or she is reading.
Check out some of the bloggers we've gotten to know so far.
Kimberly Hensle Lowrance is a mom of two in the 'burbs who has been blogging at Red Shutters since 2008. She met her hubby on Match.com and once slept overnight on the Great Wall of China. One of her favorite blog posts is about her anniversary trip to Paris. Check out her week with us.
Kip Durney is a North Shore dad of three (including twin girls) who blogs at Tubalub. His blog name came from trying to make bath time more appealing to his kids. And he tells us he is "infatuated" with sandwiches. His advice to new dads? "Sleep now. And often. And LONG." Check out his week with us.
Free kids' tickets to see YO GABBA GABBA! at the Life is good Festival
YO GABBA GABBA!, the award-winning live action television series and live stage show, will be headlining the kids’ lineup at the 2013 Life is good Festival Sept. 21 - 22 at Prowse Farm in Canton. (Photo: Courtesy DHX Media/ Yo Gabba Gabba! All Rights Reserved).
Tickets go on sale today. And, for a limited time, you can snag free kids' tickets with the purchase of adult tickets at www.lifeisgood.com/festival.
The festival is a two-day celebration of music and optimism with the goal of raising more than $1 million for The Life is good Kids Foundation.
The complete festival lineup will be announced June 17, but other confirmed family-friendly acts include Josh and the Jamtones and Recess Monkey.
Parents of PFLAG share advice to families with gay children
Photo courtesy of PFLAG
From left: Chad and Anne Gifford with son Rufus Gifford, who is being honored at "Step Up! Make it Better NOW."
About 700 people are expected to attend a fund-raiser for Greater Boston's PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) called "Step Up! Make it Better NOW." It takes place under the Party in the Park tent in the Kelleher Rose Garden in Boston's Back Bay Fens on Thursday, May 16, at 6 p.m. The organization hopes to hire more people with the money raised.
"People often think we have a staff of 30," said Pam Garramone, executive director of PFLAG. "We have two staff members and a lot of volunteers."
More staffers will mean more community education, bullying training in schools, and support for families, things that have made a difference in so many gay kids' lives, Garramone said.
The event co-chairs, Joan Parker and Holly Safford, said they are passionate about raising money for PFLAG because they know what it's like to need that support. They each have two sons who both came out to them.
We spoke with Parker and Safford by phone about how they found out their children were gay, their reaction to the news, and their advice for other parents who find themselves on a similar path.
FULL ENTRYReport: Wealthy moms hiring disabled tour guides to cut lines at Disney World
According to a report in the New York Post, wealthy Manhattan moms are hiring disabled tour guides at Walt Disney World so their children don't have to wait in line.
The report says the disabled guides, referred to as "black-market Disney guides," pose as family members so the children can skip to the front of the line. The guides charge $130 an hour.
Read more in the New York Post report.
What do you think of this?
In other Disney World news...Check out these defunct Disney World attractions. Do you remember them? Tell us which ones you miss. And, if you've been to Disney, don't forget to share your Disney World photos with us!
Truck in Texas gets repossessed with baby inside
A Texas baby was towed away inside a repossessed truck over the weekend.
The family's truck was repo'ed in Texas because the dad missed a few payments, reports kltv.com. The dad, who will not give his name, was getting ready to go to the grocery store Saturday night, placed the baby in the car, and then went back inside to get his keys, according to the report. When he returned outside, his truck and his baby were gone.
The baby slept through the entire ordeal and was picked up at the pound unharmed. The dad is calling it a simple mistake and police are not pressing any charges.
Do you think action should have been taken? Or do you agree it was a simple mistake?
Chat about childhood depression and anxiety with Dr. John Sargent -- Thursday, May 16, at noon
Dr. John Sargent is chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and director of the Child Psychiatry Residency Program at Tufts Medical Center. He is a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, a clinician in the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project, and a member of the Massachusetts Children's Behavioral Health Advisory Council. He was online to answer your questions about childhood depression and anxiety Thursday, May 16.
TweetPee app alerts parents when baby is wet
It seems everyone is using Twitter these days. And now, even your baby's diaper is tweeting.
Well, technically it's not the diaper, but a sensor clipped to the diaper. And it's probably not your baby's diaper because the new TweetPee app causing buzz this week is being tested only in Brazil. Huggies Brazil plans to launch the app in July.
Here's how it works: The parent attaches a little owl-shaped sensor to the baby's diaper. When the baby pees, the sensor detects a change in humidity and sends a tweet to the parents saying baby is wet.
According to this NBC News report, it's not clear whether the app will be made available in the U.S. But Adweek is reporting that it will not be available for purchase (after joking that a TweetPoop app would probably be more useful).
What do you think of the app? Would you use it?
7-month-old baby goes waterskiing
A 7-month-old baby named Ryder Blair from Australia is learning to water ski. Check out his skills in this KTLA video posted above.
The video, posted on YouTube by his mom Tamara, has been viewed more than 300,000 times and has created a lot of buzz. The New York Daily News reports the video has "stunned the world."
Here is what the skiing tot's mom posted with the video:
This is our son Ryder learning to ski at the age of 7.5 months at Lake Dyer, Queensland. Please note: he is not actually behind a boat he is just being pulled along the shoreline. Next step is to get him beside the boat next season when its warmer again.
What do you think of waterskiing at 7 months old?
Survey: Three is the most stressful number of kids
Submitted by Ben Rodriguez of Suffield, Conn.
A TodayMoms.com survey of more than 7,000 U.S. mothers found that mothers of three children stress more than moms of one or two. We have no idea what the stress levels are like at the Rodriguez home in Suffield, Conn., but love this shot of their three kids, twins Elise and Nora with an older sister who is not named.
The study also reported that mothers of four or more children have lower stress levels. Once again, we can't speak for their stress level, but we love this shot of the Tate family, which has two sets of twins that are 17 months apart -- Emma, Robin, Morgan, and Ryan.
Submitted by Nina Tate of Waltham
"Life is crazy, but we wouldn't change a minute of it!", writes Nina.
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Kristi Palma, Boston.com Moms producer, is the mom of a kindergartner and a preschooler. She is a writer who enjoys cooking her grandmother's Italian recipes (when her son isn't launching paper airplanes into them). Follow her on Twitter @kristipalma.
Jennifer Clark Estes is a teacher, writer, blogger, and the mother of four young children. In her free time, she blogs at A Mom's World, plays with the kids (or chauffeurs them around), and is desperately seeking a quiet spot so she can read a book. Follow her on Twitter @JenniferCEstes.
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