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Get the inside scoop on all things giggle from our very own CEO and Founder, Ali Wing.
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9 Months
Expecting? We've got some great advice to prepare you for your pregnancy and the birth of your child.
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Nursing Know-How
Start your breastfeeding off right with helpful information from non-profit Best for Babes.
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City Mom
Learn strategies for navigating public transportation, crowded streets and small living spaces from Manhattan mom Monica Storch.
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Healthy Home
Build a healthy environment for your baby with practical and easy tips from national nonprofit Healthy Child Healthy World.
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Parent Talk
Get tips from the trenches with this information-packed blog from the authors of The Rookie Mom's Handbook and Stuff Every Mom Should Know, Heather Flett and Whitney Moss.
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Hip Baby
Get fun fashion advice from blogger Nadia Carriere for the 40 weeks before and after your baby is born.
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Grab Bag
What's happening at giggle? Get the latest, learn about promotions, and read posts by some giggle friends and special guests.
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5 Tips for Eating Safer Seafood
Raise your hand if you have a hard time figuring out which fish and seafood are safe to eat.
I really want to give my family all the good things about fish (omega-3’s, protein!) without any of the bad (mercury, PCBs, antibiotics – yuck). To eat fish that’s good for you and isn’t fished in a manner that’s destroying the oceans, you have to be an informed and conscious consumer.
Don’t give up on fish and seafood just because it’s complicated to know what to buy. Follow these tips to get the safest seafood for your family.
Healthy Home: Best of 2012
Use these most popular posts from Healthy Child Healthy World from the past year to help you build a healthy environment for your new baby.
Top 10 Toxic Products You Don’t Need
Isn’t it time to purge what isn’t necessary? Let’s start with this top 10 list of toxic products you absolutely don’t need. We compiled the list with the input of our knowledgeable Facebook community.
5 Non-Toxic Baby Care Products You Can Make!
Great news: Nontoxic baby care products don’t have to be expensive! Organic, nontoxic, or even fragrance free items for our little ones can veer towards the pricey side. Luckily, there are easy, affordable DIY solutions for many commonly used baby care products.
How Your Dog Keeps Your Baby Healthy
Here’s one more reason your dog is your best friend. A new study published in Pediatrics last week found that babies in homes with dogs have fewer ear infections, take fewer antibiotics, and get respiratory illnesses less often than homes without dogs or with cats.
4 Tips for a Healthy Nursery
There are quick and easy steps we can take to minimize our exposures at home that don’t require much effort.
Six Steps For Finding Safer Pre-Natal Vitamins
Like most pregnant women, you’re probably taking pre-natal vitamins as part of a healthy pregnancy regimen but did you know that unlike drug products, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not “approve” dietary supplements for safety or effectiveness before they are sold?
5 Non-Toxic Kitchen Cleaners You Should Know About
With the recent return of my husband’s cancer I have become even more picky (aka neurotic) about the chemicals that we use in our home. One of the places I’ve been wondering about keeping bacteria-free is the kitchen. I’m always worried about making sure that the cutting boards are properly cleaned and the counters sanitized after preparing meat or using raw eggs. The thought of using a toxic chemical cleaner anywhere near where I prepare food has always been totally out of the question. I’ve always just used scalding hot water and hoped it was enough to kill any bacteria left lying around. It always did a good job of burning the skin off my fingers.
I was relieved (and so were my hands) to come across such easy ways to keep a kitchen free from bacteria using natural products. These are all things that are very easy to find at your local grocery store or pharmacy and that many of you probably already have some of them around the house.
2 Nasty Chemicals to Purge from Your Bathroom
by Margie Kelly, Communications Manager
A clean bathroom is a beautiful thing. But did you realize that some of the very same toxic chemicals used to clean your tub and toilet are also found in your antiperspirant or perfume? Yuck.
While you may not be able to detoxify your personal care and house cleaning routines overnight, there are toxic chemicals lurking in your bathroom that should be shown to the door immediately.
Natural Cough Remedies
By Lori Alper of Groovy Green Livin’
It’s officially cold and flu season. Everyone seems to be sniffling, sneezing and coughing, trying desperately to find remedies to ease their symptoms. I tend to get sick like clockwork this time of year. Last year around this time I was feeling pretty miserable. This time around it seems to be a bad cold with lots of uncontrollable coughing. In between coughs, I decided to check in with some great green minds from around the blogosphere to see how they would combat a vicious cough the non-toxic and natural way.
7 Simple Ways to Save on Organic Food
Pound for pound, children eat and drink more than adults. Healthy eating is essential in order to safely nourish their growing bodies. Incorporating organic food into your family’s diet is an important part of eating healthy, even if you can only purchase organic foods selectively. Here are seven simple ways to save on organic foods to make them more accessible for all of us.
Top 10 Toxic Products You Don’t Need
by Margie Kelly, Communications Manager, Healthy Child Healthy World
Advertisers spent an astonishing $144 billion in 2011 to entice you to buy more and more stuff. So it’s not surprising that you have an apartment or house full of things you don’t even like.
Isn’t it time to purge what isn’t necessary? Let’s start with this top 10 list of toxic products you absolutely don’t need. We compiled the list with the input of our knowledgeable Facebook community – thank you! Not only will your home be less cluttered, your health will improve by eliminating common, everyday items that contain toxic chemicals and contaminate your food, air, and body.
7 Healthy Tips For Painting the Nursery
There’s nothing like a fresh coat of paint to improve the look and feel of a room. In the process of making your home beautiful, however, you don’t want to contaminate the air you breathe for days or even years by choosing paints that aren’t healthy for you or the environment. More
How Your Dog Keeps Your Baby Healthy
by Margie Kelley, Communications Manager, Healthy Child Healthy World
Here’s one more reason your dog is your best friend. A new study published in Pediatrics last week found that babies in homes with dogs have fewer ear infections, take fewer antibiotics, and get respiratory illnesses less often than homes without dogs or with cats.
3 Reasons to Buy Antibiotic-free Meat and Poultry
by Margie Kelly, Communications Manager, Healthy Child Healthy World
If you’re a meat-eater, it’s better for your health and the planet to buy antibiotic-free meat and poultry. That might be tough to do, given that 80 percent of the antibiotics in use are fed to animals raised for food to keep them growing faster and to prevent them from getting sick in crowded and unsanitary conditions.
