Rebecca is a writer and communications professional by day and exhausted mom-of-two at night, living in Ottawa, Ontario. When she's not chasing after her delightful albeit impossibly energetic young boys, she can be found eating obscene amounts of chocolate, pretending to exercise, and falling asleep standing up. A regular contributor to BabyGaga.com, Rebecca is also active on social media. Follow her @theunfitmom on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
We all know that snuggling is good for the soul, but did you know that this type of closeness between parent and child has actually been shown to improve a child's overall long-term health and wellbeing?
Sure, they're tantalizing, bright, and carry with them a standing invitation for children of all ages to automatically jump into with reckless abandon, but a recent study has found that ball pits actu...
For many women who've given birth, it can be hard to imagine not knowing you were pregnant for nine whole months. After all, there's typically a missed period, aches, pains, weight gain and eventually...
In the golden age of e-books and tablets, many parents will undoubtedly be happy to hear that printed books are still very much alive and kicking when it comes to one very important audience: children.
A squad of kindhearted cops in Prince William County, Virginia recently helped make the birthday dreams of a little boy come true when all of his gifts - including decorations for his first birthday party - were stolen out of his mother's car.
Last month when a bomb cyclone hit Sidney, Nebraska, Riley Jo Fischer and her husband Dustin were terrified. Riley was in labor, and the family had piled into their car and was on their way to the hospital along with their 3-year-old son.
Forget Eye of the Tiger, Another One Bites the Dust or any of the other classic pump-you-up tunes. Baby Shark is where it's at - at least it is for Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus. Andrus walked ...
It's something that's just not on the radar of most policymakers and prison officials, but experts are saying that it should be. A first-of-its-kind study was recently released detailing the care for ...
There's a rather large case of baby fever happening right now in the state of Maine - specifically at Maine Medical Center in Portland. A total of nine nurses, who all work in the labour and delivery ...
Move over My Strange Addiction: pregnant women have weighed in on their weirdest and most unorthodox pregnancy cravings, and quite frankly, you no longer seem all that strange.
Last week, a concerned mom-to-be took to Slate's parenting advice column, Care and Feeding, to ask for advice on how to deal with her mother-in-law, who smokes, around her new baby. While she wasn't c...
Recently, a baby girl was born in Columbia with a rare addition - a parasitic twin. But this was no ordinary parasitic twin. Incredibly, a smaller, undeveloped fetus was found growing in the abdomen of the larger baby.
Kasey Jones is an artist, an educator and a mom, and she's using her talent and creativity to make a big statement about the demands of motherhood on women - working women in particular, and especiall...
Look out, Teigen/Legend family: you've got a mover on your hands. Earlier this week, Chrissy Teigen shared an adorable video on Instagram of 10-month-old Miles doing a pretty mean army crawl as he pla...
Cousins make the best of friends - first friends, in fact, other than siblings of course! Take little Chicago West, youngest daughter of Kim Kardashian and her cousin True Thompson, who were snapped b...
A baby boy has been reunited with his mother after experiencing a solo New York City subway ride Tuesday evening. The boy, one, was travelling with a caretaker when the caretaker reportedly had a "med...
Love it or hate it, you can't argue that Baby Shark is the earworm of the year when it comes to children's tunes. In addition to being a fan favourite for kids across the globe, Baby Shark recently se...
A pilot program launching on March 1st in two New York state counties will allow the cost (or almost the full cost) of doula services to be covered by Medicaid with the aim of supporting more women be...