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You may have seen "Meet the Fockers" and have heard about baby sign language. What opinions have you heard what advice have you gotten?
Our resident expert on baby sign language, Sara Bingham (founder of WeeHands and author of The Baby Signing Book), answers frequently asked questions about signing with babies and toddlers. Here her daughter, Sabrina shows her favourite sign - the sign for "I LOVE YOU"!
Saturday,
June 2, 2007
Sheraton
Wall Centre - South Tower, Vancouver
12:00– 5:00pm
$17.50 per person
This is an opportunity for all moms to have an afternoon out to shop, sample and learn to be business savvy! Meet the moms who are running their own successful businesses and find out how they did it. Discover the latest products, services and “must haves” this year for you and your family. Mingle with other moms over a glass of wine, take in the business presentations and shop the merchant tables. Tons of door prizes to be won!
Speakers include:
Also features a "Breast Feeding Zone" for moms who want to nurse their little one in comfort and privacy. For more information about this event and to register, click here.
In keeping with Invest in Kids commitment to share up-to date and relevant resources and information with the professional community, Invest in Kids have recently highlighted this online prenatal resource by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
The Public Health Agency of Canada has created a website entitled, A Healthy Pregnancy, that offers accurate and up-to-date information for pregnant women and those planning on getting pregnant.
Victoria Day is, almost, uniquely Canadian. Even the "other name", May Two-Four, for the holiday is uniquely Canadian. In keeping with the Victoria Day spirit, this month please mark your calendar and join Wee Welcome and other fabulous moms and their hip-squeaks for Mom & Baby Happy Hour!
Wee Welcome’s May Mama Mingle celebrates having a baby and a life in grown up style. You can connect with other moms and babies, sip a cocktail (or ‘mocktail’) or enjoy a bite to eat…how civilized! Of course, there will be lots of other Mingling Mamas to chat with. And, as always, you can win fantastic prizes! Visit www.weewelcome.ca for more info or to RSVP to the Mama Mingle in your community!
On June 30th we'll be having a draw for the CanadianBabies' Prize Pack! One lucky Canadian family will win a prize pack (valued) at over $300.00! To enter all you need to do is sign up with CanadianBabies by clicking here.
Our CanadianBabies' May/June prize pack includes the following:
Be sure to enter our cross-Canada May/June contest to win by clicking here! If you already recieve our newsletter, you can still enter by telling a friend about CanadianBabies. Click here to tell a friend about CanadianBabies!
New subscribers or current subscribers who tell a friend about our site between May 12th and June 30th are eligible for to win. Contestants must be Canadian residents.
Congratulations to Angela Block of Kelowna, British Columbia! Angela has won an incredible prize package filled with over $900.00 worth of gifts from our incredible sponsors! Stay tuned for more information about our next contest!
Okay, I completely love Slice's The Mom Show (I was even on it!) but the spoof of the show by CBC's This Hour Has 22 Minutes is pretty funny! Check the video out here.
I'm not sure if I'm a typical Canadian mom, but I do know that when I was home on my first maternity leave, back in 2000 I was, may not THE queen, but I was a queen of on-line shopping. My husband came home from work regularly expecting to find empty cartons/boxes from Motherwear or Amazon in the hallway.
I was a first time mom, first of my circle of friends to have a baby and while J. slept I needed something to do! This was before the start of Wee Welcome or Movies for Mommies, and even Early Years Centres, so on-line shopping and on-line discussions were my way of getting in touch with a world that related to me.
In 2007 there are SOOOOO many more ways and outlets for on-line shopping in Canada and we're featuring many of this in our monthly shopping guide. We'll also be adding links to baby and parenting books that have been written by Canadian authors, along our side columns (scroll down).
We can't get or read enough parenting books! Please let us know if there are other Canadian-written parenting books that you recommend. We hope to get reviews of these all up on the site as soon as we can...maybe some summer reading!
On Friday May 11th we'll be having a draw for the first annual CanadianBabies' Mother's Day Contest! One lucky Canadian family will win a prize pack (valued) at over $900.00! To enter all you need to do is sign up with CanadianBabies by clicking here.
Our CanadianBabies' Mother's Day Contest prize pack includes the following:
Be sure to enter our cross-Canada Mother's Day contest to win by clicking here! If you already recieve our newsletter, you can still enter by telling a friend about CanadianBabies. Click here to tell a friend about CanadianBabies!
New subscribers or current subscribers who tell a friend about our site between May 1st and May 11th are eligible for to win. Contestants must be Canadian residents.
anEach month our city sites include a Baby Shower contest and here are our April Winners:
This past Saturday, April 28th, CanadianBabies was at the Durham Parent Family Show in Pickering Ontario. We met a lot of fantastic new and expecting parents who all had the chance to enter our Baby Shower contest. We are thrilled to announce that Alison Colley of Whitby, Ontario has won the following prize pack from our amazing sponsors! Congratulations Alison!
Be sure to enter our cross-Canada Mother's Day contest to win more prizes!
Happy May 1st! This month is Speech and Hearing month across North America. For some wonderful tips on enhancing communication with your baby, please have a look a wonderful article by Roxane Bélanger who is a speech-language pathologist with the preschool speech and language service in Ottawa, First Words. Have a fantastic month!
