Looking for some mother inspired designs? Head on down to DUMBO/Brooklyn Heights tomorrow from noon to 8pm to chat with interior designer Julia Aulenbacher about your dream children's room or nursery. Shop from a selection of gorgeous Indian inspired kaftans perfect for a summer pregnancy and postparum style - yes I did pair postpartum with style! Plus organic children's tees.
Here's the info:
The fabulous folks at The Pregnant New Yorker are throwing another excellent event. Amazing guest speakers in the fields of holistic health, pregnancy and postpartum include: Prenatal massage therapist Janet Markovits, lactation consultant Leigh Anne O'Connor and postpartum doula, Sara Newman as well as discussion on acupuncture and child safety.
The event is Wednesday May 19th at City Treehouse, For more details visit thepregnantnewyorker.com
Looking for something a
little different to do with your little ones this weekend?
I took my 6-year old son,
and 10-month old baby to see The Tinderbox. They both enjoyed it immensely.
Both were captivated by the combination of live action and puppetry, and the 45 minute running time
wasn’t a problem for either of them. My son followed the story and humour, and
enjoyed the puppet making 101 that immediately followed the performance. He
loved how engaging the actors were, making eye contact with him as if they were
performing especially for him.
The Frog and Peach Theatre
Co is on New York Cities upper west side.
Be quick, the plays have a limited engagement of this weekend and next.
We all have plastic toys. Whether you bought them for yourself or you were given them as gifts. But what do you do with them once your child has stopped playing with them?
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of this years Earth Day Second Chance Toys, in partnership with The New York Kids Club, will be hosting a toy drive April 12th-April 22nd at each of their six locations.
Second Chance Toys is a community-based initiative that rescues unwanted plastic toys that are gently used and distributes them to children in need through local community organizations.With Earth Day on April 22nd you have the opportunity to teach your child the benefit of helping the planet while at the same time helping those less fortunate. If each family donated just one toy, think what a difference we could make. The toys must be plastic only, must be clean, no small or missing parts and battery powered toys must be fully operational.
Drop boxes are in the lobby of each New York Kids Club location for the next two weeks, so please give any gently used plastic toys that a child in need could enjoy. Thank you.
Fellow Mamas. A favor? Please forward this e-mail/post to families you know who might be interested in attending this event. My friend Laura Becton and her husband Steve are hosting and it is for a very important cause...
On July 18, 2005 Laura and Steve Becton, residents of the West Village, lost their four month-old son Luke to SIDS. Luke was a beautiful, healthy smiley baby. He was put down for his afternoon nap and never woke up. Since that day, Laura and Steve have literally lived every parent’s worst nightmare. In an attempt to ensure that one day this will be a tragedy that ceases to occur, they have been working with the organization First Candle to raise funds to support research into the cause and prevention of SIDS. In addition to this goal, First Candle provides essential support to families dealing the ultimate tragedy of losing a baby.
In May 2008, Steve and Laura hosted Luke's Rock N' Stroll. The event, attended by over 500 people, celebrated Luke’s life and raised more than $60,000 in support of the Luke Edward Becton Memorial Fund at First Candle. On May 1, 2010 they will be hosting Luke's Rock N' Stroll II. This year the event will include a two-mile sponsored walk along the Hudson River Park followed by a Family Party at Pier 46. Running from 8.30-11.30am, it will be a fantastic event including a kids awards ceremony, carnival games, music by Princess Katie and Racer Steve, arts & crafts, sports and many other family activities.
Please visit firstcandle.org/lukesrocknstroll for more information and to register or call 1-800-221-7437.
If you are unable to attend please consider making a donation to this cause. None of us can come close to imagining what the Becton family has been through, both in losing Luke and learning to live with his loss - or what this event again means to them.
With many, many thanks,
The Family and Friends of Luke Edward Becton
Haute Mama has some very
exciting news…
We’re opening a brand
new shopping experience through OpenSky.
Through our shop, you
will be able to buy the products we write about and recommend. Theses are
hand picked products we’re passionate about and use. Plus, we have special relationships
with designers so Haute Mama’s shop will be offering products you can't get anywhere else!
I'll have everything from post partum body care to toys. This is just a sneak peak of
what’s to come. Right now I’m offering one of my favourite fair trade designers
of children’s home ware: Zid Zid
Please stop by Haute
Mama’s shop at OpenSky for a sneak peak. We’ll let you know when our Grand Opening
is.
Enjoy our new shopping
experience!
Tatyanna, Founder Haute Mama Online.
Why do people always have to give things names – like
orthorexia, the coined phrase that describes the obsession of eating healthy?
Come on. Reading Babble.com the other day there was a post about
orthorexia. Obsessing is the key word here, as in Obsessive Compulsive-Eating Disorder
and should be treated as such rather than frightening people into thinking that
if you eat healthy and whole foods you’ll starve yourself.
Claiming eating healthy or simply raw foods is a disorder is almost like what General Motors did with their electric car the EV1. That is to say, they got scared the world would stop using fuel so they withdrew every single electric car from the market and took back EV1's from “owners” burying them the Nevada desert. Sounds like a conspiracy to me – is the fast foods industry upset that more people are actually starting to care about their diets and taking a genuine interest in a slow food?
Jamie Oliver’s winning 2010 TED presentation discusses how the US is killing its occupants through fatty foods and how we need to eat better IE: healthy- that means learning to include fruit and vegetables rather than consuming fried, fast and frozen bar foods.
The girl mentioned in the Babble article (originally taken from a Time piece), was anorexic becoming obsessed soon after her doctor told her to eat healthy. No one has ever stated that you can survive on raw broccoli alone. Her interpretation of healthy meant eating nothing but one kind of raw vegetable. When someone obsesses this much its OCD. I think her mental health is what’s really the cause of her drastic weight loss – 68lbs is extremely low for a 5”4 woman. Ones state of mind should be analyzed before people start attacking healthy eating.
The entire world once ate “healthy” – 30 years ago to be exact, when our foods were grown fresh without genetically modified elements and people cooked from scratch at home. Today we are a nation of fast food junkies and eating on the go is a favourite past time. 30 years ago people weren’t diagnosed with orthorxia because it didn't exist. We ate how we were are meant to: healthy.
Enjoy eating, it’s a part of life. Here are three great books worth reading to learn more about diet and eating healthy without leaving you obsessing. The Optimum Nutrition Bible, Real Food for mother and baby & The Conscious Kitchen.
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