My children respond extremely well to progress charts.  I’ve used them in practically every endeavor in training or discipline since they were toddlers (including potty training).  Now that they’re older, they are keen to start earning money and privileges and once again I find myself in need of a chart to help them monitor their efforts.
Since I just bought my very first iPhone, I was positively thrilled to find out about this cool app called iRewardChart.  This handy-dandy little application lets you create and customize unique reward charts for each …

Meet our newest Shrinkx Hips success story, Courtney N. and her beautiful baby girl Aubrey!

What made you decide to use Shrinkx Hips belt after your pregnancy?
I had always heard that after pregnancy your hips and body will NEVER be the same again. That was so depressing to hear, but I had accepted it and was ready for it. I had never heard of Shrinkx Hips until a friend of mine had given them to me as a gift at one of my baby showers. Their claim of …

UpSpring Baby is a passionate advocate for breastfeeding and we believe moms who choose to breastfeed their babies deserve all the support and encouragement they can get.
Since August is National Breastfeeding Awarness Month and August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week, I’m collecting the best links I can find from around the web and adding them to this post.
Please email me at amanda@upspringbaby.com if you have an online article or blog post about breastfeeding that you’d like me to include!

Check out the most popular blog post in our blog’s history:  Top …

I thought the Flip camera was a cool invention when it came out, but now that I’ve figured out a way to improve my kids’ behavior with it I think it’s even more amazing.
We have a family Flip video recorder that my kids used to make family movies of everything from plastic army men attacking plastic horses to capturing funny moments of Jeff on the potty to the dogs doing tricks.  I even started to carry the bright orange Flip Camera in my purse in an …

UpSpring Baby’s Momerati is a weekly digest featuring the best of the best from our favorite parenting blogs around the web. If you have a submission/suggestion for next week’s digest, please email amanda@upspringbaby.com.
Watch this helpful video about Morning Sickness Cures on Parents Ask.

In this episode of DadLabs, Daddy Clay and Daddy Brad discuss how dads and moms deal with the aftermath of handing out punishment to their children.
Read DadWagon’s thoughts on Death & Dinosaurs.
Is having one child easier than having two or more?  Lil Sugar has a poll and …