Health

Review: FruitziO Snacks

By on May 14, 2012

My boys are polar opposites when it comes to their tastes in food and eating habits. Jack refuses to eat vegetables, Nate asks for seconds.Jack will only eat a select few fruits, Nate will eat them all. Jack pushes food around his plate and refuses to eat anything “new”, Nate typically eats what we give [...]

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IT’s Fitness week! Banglz Review and Giveaway (CLOSED)

By on March 7, 2012

One day I noticed a co-worker of mine standing at the counter doing leg curls.  She told me that she wears ankle weights to work and when she’s standing still, she sneaks in some leg curls.  After I thought about it for a second, I realized it was sheer genius. Our job as nurses is [...]

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Fitness Review and Giveaway (CLOSED): Bondi Bands

By on March 5, 2012

I have a love/hate relationship with my hair. It’s a mousy light brown color that I don’t exactly love. But that’s easy enough to fix with some professionally placed highlights. The thing that I can’t change about my hair is the texture. For lack of a better word, it’s slippery. It will not hold a [...]

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Review & Giveaway: Blistex Intensive Hand Cream

By on February 12, 2012

As a native Southern Californian, I never experienced a “true” winter until my husband and I moved to Kansas. The winters there are brutal – freezing cold, snow, ice, and the coldest winds I’ve ever felt in my life. After three frigid winters in Kansas, we moved to Ohio and then on to Virginia. Jack [...]

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IT’s Healthy: Exergen Temporal Thermometer Review

By on May 30, 2011

My husband and I have been parents for four years now. In those four years, he has changed diapers, taken care of a 2 year old with the stomach flu, kissed booboos, and applied Scooby Doo band-aids with the utmost care. However, he has never, yes never, taken a temperature. He always defers that task [...]

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News & Giveaway: First 5 LA Celebrates National Children’s Dental Health Month

By on February 8, 2011

February is National Children’s Dental Health Month and First 5 LA is celebrating with 28 days full of smile-worthy fun! My husband and I encourage our daughter to use good oral hygiene on a daily basis. She is three years old and she’s had two dentist visits. So far everything looks great and she seems [...]

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Health News: October is SIDS Awareness Month

By on October 16, 2010

SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, is the unexpected, sudden death of a child under age 1 in which there is no explainable cause of death.  There are no symptoms, and babies who die of SIDS do not appear to suffer or struggle.  The rate of SIDS has decreased dramatically since 1992.  This dramatic change occured when caregivers were instructed [...]

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Review & Giveaway: FLAVORx Yo Gabba Gabba Flavor Spray

By on August 18, 2010

I have to admit, giving medicine to Teagan was easy. Doctors were amazed at how cooperative she was and Teagan never once complained about taking it. She would even ask for it when she wasn’t feeling well. “Medicine will make me feel better!” But that all changed when she recently had some awful tasting antibiotics. [...]

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