This week we recorded a training video for our friends at Babies R’Us, and we couldn’t have let the moment pass us by without taking the opportunity to include a video for the Grammy Award-Winning (wannabe) song in honor of the Shrink Hips postpartum belt:

Wanna hear the full song?  Click here:  Shrinkx Hips (w)Rap.

This past week I heard a story on the morning news about a female reporter who is having her baby in Iraq while covering the war.  You can hear the story and read the transcript here.
I’m curious to know if you think it is irresponsible for civilian women who are working in war zones to stay on the job during and after their pregnancies.  Vote now!

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Baby Makin(g) Machine shares her rendition of Annoying Things You Hear At the End of Your Pregnancy.
Guess who’s giving away one of our Shrinkx Hips belts?  The truly fabulous Fabumom!
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Babies are expensive, no doubt.  Yet many mothers around the world manage to raise their little ones with just a fraction of the average U.S. household income.   It begs the question, “How much stuff do you really NEED to raise your baby in the first year?”

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Daddy Troy interviews Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN about the documentary “Dads for my Daughters” on DadLabs.
DadWagon says It’s Alright To Not Have Kids.
Behold!  The Brazilian Dancing Baby on DaddyTypes!
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Forget Samuel L. Jackson!  Life …