Black Friday!!!!!

As promised here are a list of the great Black Friday deals we have to offer. Please check back regularly as we will be adding more and more as the day goes by. Click on the deal for more details. Happy Shopping!!!

Huge selection of sale items today only at Baby Earth.

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Give a gift of color this year at the huge Black Friday sale on Crayola.com. 

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Little Tikes has a huge amount of deals today!! Best toys for your kids!! 

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New deal posted every 6 hours on Paradise Galleries. Plus get $20 off and free shipping!!

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Burts Bees Holiday Grab Bag $50 value for $25 

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Save up to 85% on select items for Black Friday and Cyber Monday! Plus, get free shipping on DVDs & Blu-rays!

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Take 10% Off Toys On Orders Over $25 For Select Manufacturers w/ coupon code MK65823 at MyStrollers.com

Black Friday - 20% Off at PBS KIDS Shop!

Infant formula maker sued after baby's death

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The families of a three babies sickened by a rare bacterial infection, including a 10-day-old Missouri infant who died, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Illinois-based manufacturer of a powdered baby formula that they believe is responsible.

The lawsuit contends the babies were sickened by Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria, which has sometimes been associated with tainted powdered infant formula. The suit alleges that the infants fell ill after consuming different kinds of Enfamil-brand powdered baby formula late last year.

However, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control announced in late December they'd found no evidence that four cases of the infection in babies, including the infant from Missouri who died, were related. The federal agencies also determined there was no need to recall the formula.

The lawsuit contends that 10-day-old Avery Cornett died last December in Missouri after being fed Enfamil Premium Newborn powdered formula, and that two infants from Illinois were sickened by other Enfamil formula.

The lawsuit accuses manufacturer Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. of negligence, arguing that since 2000, environmental sampling from the Glenview-based company's facilities revealed harmful bacteria in raw ingredients, premix product and finished products. The lawsuit didn't specify who conducted the sampling.

The lawsuit also alleges that a Mead Johnson executive warned health care workers but not consumers that powered infant formulas should "not be used in neonates or immunocompromised patients in hospital settings."

Mead Johnson spokesman Christopher Perille said the company was aware of the lawsuit.

"We don't routinely comment on active litigation," Perille said. "The lawsuit refers to a batch that was extensively tested by Mead Johnson, as well as the Centers for Disease Control as well as the Food and Drug Administration. All those tests detected no bacteria."

The plaintiffs' St. Louis-based attorney, Andy Crouppen, said in an email that he's aware of those tests, but that based on further investigation, "including Freedom of Information Act requests from the CDC and FDA," he believes the bacteria originated from Mead's newborn food.

The CDC gets roughly four to six reports of Cronobacter sakazakii each year, though there are no legal requirements that cases be reported.

The bacteria is found naturally in the environment and in plants such as wheat and rice, but in the past also has been traced to dried milk and powdered formula. Experts have said there are not adequate methods to completely remove or kill all bacteria that might creep into powdered formula before or during production.

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A Mexican woman is pregnant with nine babies - six girls and three boys - the country's main broadcaster Televisa reported on Thursday night

The woman was identified as Karla Vanessa Perez of the northeastern state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. She is currently being treated at a hospital in the state capital Saltillo, the broadcaster said in the report.

Perez, whose age was not given, had fertility treatment leading to the multiple pregnancy, it said.

State-owned news agency Notimex also reported the pregnancy, saying Perez was due to give birth on May 20.

"It's very early to think of names for the babies," Perez told Notimex. "First I hope that everything goes well."

The successful delivery of nonuplets would be one of the highest multiple births ever recorded.

In 2009, a woman in California gave birth to octuplets, sparking worldwide media attention.

Hospitals pressured to end free baby formula

New parents leaving U.S. hospitals often take home a corporate gift along with their babies: a tote bag filled with infant formula. Consumer advocates want to end the giveaways, which they say undermine breastfeeding.

In a letter to more than 2,600 hospitals, dozens of consumer and health organizations called on the facilities to stop distributing free samples of formula that they say entangles healthcare providers in pharmaceutical and food manufacturers' marketing and could be seen as an endorsement.

Giving formula to new parents discourages some new mothers from breastfeeding, the groups said on Monday in the letter sent by the advocacy group Public Citizen. They are also petitioning the $4 billion infant formula industry's leaders - Abbott Laboratories, Mead Johnson Nutrition Co and Nestle SA - to halt the practice.

Hospitals aim "to promote the health of infants and mothers, but the ongoing promotion of infant formula conflicts with this mission," Public Citizen President Robert Weissman wrote in the letter to hospital chief executives.

The move is part of a renewed effort to boost U.S. rates of breastfeeding, which is known to confer a wide range of health benefits from reducing obesity to boosting immunity and is recommended for at least a baby's first six months of life.

Formula makers and hospitals defend the free samples, saying they are meeting women's needs.

Just 14 percent of 6-month-old infants are exclusively breastfed, something U.S. health officials want to increase to about 26 percent by 2020. Breastfeeding also lags among lower-income women, according to the government data.

Still, breastfeeding in the United States is increasing, according to the World Health Organization, partly because more hospitals offer breastfeeding support and allow babies to stay in their mothers' hospital rooms.

About 66 percent of hospitals still give away formula, a 2009 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released last year found, down from nearly 73 percent in 2007.

Often the practice involves a corporate-sponsored tote bag from a formula company filled with samples of their product along with diapers, pamphlets and other items. Samples are often also mailed to people's homes along with coupons for more.

'More information, not less'

The industry's trade group said such samples had been given away for more than 40 years and that most women wanted the bags.

"We can't forget that some moms even though they plan to breastfeed, they either can't or they decide not to," said International Formula Council Executive Vice President Mardi Mountford. "We believe they want more information, not less."

The consumer and health groups said in their letter that a hospital's involvement could sway women and that giving away formula samples worked against their other efforts. Rather than promoting breastfeeding, the packages of formula could encourage women to give up nursing their infants instead of seeking help and support, the groups said.

Once the free samples are gone, families also end up spending between $800 and $2,800 a year on formula, they added.

Some hospitals have already stopped formula giveaways, and a few states and cities have banned the practice.

The American Hospital Association, in a statement, said its members drafted policies based on mothers' preferences and that while breastfeeding was best, "having information and resources available for mothers who choose not to breastfeed is a responsible and supportive approach for the hospital."

Representatives for Abbott, Mead Johnson and Nestle did not immediately return requests for comment.


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Dad Delivers Baby in Car

Iowa City, IA — An Iowa family has a special story to tell when the talk about their most recent child’s birth! Ashley and Jeremiah Holyman never thought they’d deliver their own baby. That’s what happened as they were driving to the hospital. Ashely says she knew they wouldn’t make it. The couple pulled over on a gravel road in Iowa County near Interstate 80. They then called for help. “The dispatcher started going through some steps on what to do,” said Jeremiah Holyman. “The he started coming.” Two pushes later, they had a healthy baby boy. “It was overwhelming, I still don’t believe it!” said Ashely Holyman. Her husband’s parental instincts kicked in as they waited for an ambulance to arrive. “He took his shirt off and wrapped the baby with his shirt, cause we didn’t have anything else in there,” she said. “Then he took the drawstring from my pants and wrapped that around the umbilical cord.” The couple’s son Breckin weighed seven pounds and 11 ounces. Now, this volunteer firefighter can add delivering his own son to his resume. He had no choice but to respond to one of the strangest and most personal calls of his life.

Babies on Planes: It's War!

Time to examine another burning travel question of our age. Not "Will fees ever disappear?" (They won't.) No, today's question is, "Is there a place for babies on planes?"

The answer is yes. But the question really is, precisely where on an aircraft? Some advocate child-free zones or "cry-room" areas like you see at churches, while at least one airline has declared a class war on babies.

Parents today get it from all sides. Whether it's dirty looks from fellow fliers or the Transportation Security Administration forcing a woman to go to a public lavatory to pump breast milk because she couldn't bring empty bottles with her. The public outcry was so loud on that one that the TSA later apologized.

While I'm sympathetic to parents (I'm one myself), let's look at some recent children-behaving-badly incidents, as well as a few nominees for "worst parents on planes" and see the tricks that can turn despised parents into heroes.

For more travel news and insights view Rick's blog at farecompare.com

As most parents know, babies are not the biggest problem when it comes to children in flight. All babies do is sleep, eat and, well, they do need the occasional diaper change. Unless they're colicky or so sensitive to cabin pressure changes that a pacifier is rendered meaningless, they're no big deal. I know from experience; I've traveled with our daughter since she was just a couple of months old.

What does set a passenger's blood boiling are toddlers. Take the recent case of a 2-year-old versus a JetBlue pilot. According to news accounts, the child threw a tantrum (as toddlers do). But it apparently took her parents some time to wrestle her into the seat. Money quote, from the child's mother: "We were holding [her] down with all of our might, seatbelt on and I said, 'We have them seated, can we go now?'" Answer from pilot: No.

I have to chuckle over the "all of our might" bit, but JetBlue wasn't laughing. As the airline saw it, the family was not in compliance with the fasten-your-seatbelt order for a "prolonged time period," so back to the gate they went and goodbye went the toddler and her family. Yep, they were kicked off the plane.

At least they got on the plane, albeit briefly. Malaysia Airlines bans babies in first class. There's nothing about this on the carrier's website, but I hear it's been an unwritten policy for years, and their CEO gleefully tweeted about the ban last year.

No baby ban on Ryanair, though, despite what you may have heard. Sure, there were all those news stories last year about how the European discount carrier was starting up child-free flights, but what many in the media failed to notice was that the Ryanair news release touting this exciting development bears the date April 1. If that wasn't enough of a clue, how about the line in the news release that referred to children as "little monsters?"

Too bad, say some fliers, who would be just as happy to see children seated far, far away from them. This includes a Delta Diamond Medallion traveler of my acquaintance who flies in and out of West Palm Beach, Fla. What this anonymous flier really hates is being seated in first class and having an unruly kid in coach directly behind her, "kicking the back of my seat or screaming, and there's no amount of first-class leg room that can mollify me in those instances," she said. I completely understand. But what can you do?

Actually, it's what the parents can do, or more to the point, what they often fail to do, that is the issue. First, the two biggest errors parents make when traveling with children are:

Error #1
Exercising zero control over kids. This is a major complaint of passengers: Parents who are unwilling or unable to get the little darlings to behave. We get it. Kids act up, they throw tantrums, but nothing is more maddening than parents who just sit there and stare at the meltdown.

Sure, sometimes there isn't much you can to thwart crazed kids, but at least fake it. That's right, if parents merely look as if they're trying to stop the insanity, they'll have the sympathy of fellow passengers. Do nothing, and you'd better have a thick hide because all those flying fingers around you will be barraging the rest of us with tweets about what a disgrace you are.


Or you could be kicked off the plane, which is what Southwest did to a mom and toddler team when the little one refused to stop screaming.

Error #2
Mistaking any part of the plane (beyond the lavatory) as a changing station. Harried parents have been known to change infants on empty airline seats and - brace yourself - on tray tables. Need I say this is totally unacceptable?

Now for a couple of things parents should do.

Take their kids' shoes off.
A simple trick for the seat-kickers among us: Take their shoes off. They will kick. It will hurt. They will stop.

Free drinks.
I've heard this one from several veteran travelers now and it's real simple: When the kids go berserk, turn to the rows around you and say the four magic words: 'Drinks are on me'. Amazing how this'll turn the haters around.

I'll bet you've got some stories. I'd love to hear them. Just don't try to tell me about them over the screams of your child as he's kicking my seatback.