Having a baby born with a medical condition or a gene that could trigger a condition is scary. Not knowing about your baby’s condition is even scarier. That’s why newborn screening is so important—even lifesaving. We’ve teamed up with Save Babies Through Screening Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates for newborn screening, to spread the word.

Food Blogger Bake Sales are going on nationwide until April 28, 2012 to support Share our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale.

Are you a Brave Woman?

One in four women experience domestic violence (intimate partner violence) at some point in their lives. These women need all their courage to find a way out.

People often wonder why victims of domestic violence don’t just leave. They do not realize that it takes a special brand of courage to believe in yourself after the person you think you love has told you that you are worthless. Someone has made you feel isolated and invisible…

I hope your holidays were filled with joy!

Imagine, for a minute, a child waking up on Christmas day and wondering if there will be any breakfast… already knowing there are no toys to unwrap.

That is a reality for too many in our communities this season.

Here’s a way that we were able to share joy with some other children this Christmas.

“Mommy, if Santa Claus brings presents to all the good boys and girls, why do we donate toys to the kids in the shelters?”

Whew. That’s a tough one.

We donate toys for these children because sometimes people do not let Santa know how little they have. We bring the toys because some children use their letters to Santa to ask for warm clothing and food. We give these gifts because even Santa does not work alone and he needs friends in every neighborhood to help him bring a little joy to every girl and boy…

We often hear about the worries of going “past due” on your pregnancy but do you know about the risks of elective induction?

I found myself weight the options at almost 42 weeks pregnant…

The first time I held my baby, I thought: “She’s exactly the same temperature as my body. It is like she is still part of me. She is so perfect.”

The first sign that anything was less than ideal was the oxygen mask they kept pushing onto my face and then onto the baby’s.

“What’s wrong?” I asked…

A few months before my husband deployed to Iraq, we decided we were ready to start a family.

There is never a perfect time, especially for a military family. There is only now.

The day before my husband deployed, I took three, count ‘em, three, of the “super-duper early we can tell if you are even thinking about it” pregnancy tests and got a big fat negative…

As one of the community leaders for the Million Moms Challenge, I am learning more about the issues that unite us as mothers.

The goal of the Million Moms Challenge is to focus our collective will on the issues that most affect women and children on this planet…