Predicting what names will strike a nerve in the public is a tricky business. A name can take on a life of its own, burning up the popularity charts when they seem to have come from nowhere. Still, th...
Russia is a fascinating country with a long history of breaking the mold and a sprawling empire has straddled the East and the West for hundreds of years. Its traditions are influenced by the Viking R...
Some names are captivating. Something about them makes people want to buy a bunch of kittens and attribute to them these names just to be able to say them out loud every day.
The first year of life is terrifying. All sorts of stuff can happen in the first 12 months that will be unlikely to hurt the kid once he is older but can be fatal now. This is also a time when birth d...
Fancy names have a drawback. They aren’t always easy to pronounce or spell, and sometimes they just look weird. Occasionally, they look like a string of inexplicable vowels or consonants that were slapped together for the funzies.
A pregnant woman will read everything she can about the last weeks of pregnancy and especially the way labor might go. Labor is the goal, the endpoint, and the result of nine long months of hard work....
For women of a certain age, they remember the phenomena that was the Harry Potter franchise. There was a Christmas where the entire tree ornament aisle was nothing but witches on broomsticks carrying ...
Sassiness is a natural attribute for little girls. They are born delighted with the fact that they are alive and knowing how great they are. It is a trait that most people can all hope that a girl kee...
Pregnancy is worrying business, from getting worked up about not having enough space for a nursery, all the way to stressing about the diaper stockpile and worrying about labor.
Some parents are dedicated to picking a name that absolutely no one else has. They will scour the world for something that sounds positively perfect. Name obsessed parents want their children to have ...
Original boy names can be tough to come by. A name has to pull off a tough balancing act between being easy on the ear all the while conveying masculinity. Any expectant mama trying to avoid names tha...
Newborns are adorable little bundles of germs. They have spent 9 months sloshing around in all kinds of fluids and there is no mudroom between a woman's womb and the outside world for them to wash off...
The first thing that a mom thinks when her baby is born is how amazing her baby is. The second thing is: “Is s/he ok?”, a question will dominate the new mom’s thoughts for the next couple of decades. ...
Finding the right name for a boy is hard work. Just like their clothes tend to not change in style for years on end, boy names tend to stay rather constant over the decades as well. Sure, a new one co...
Sometimes more than one name catches an expectant parents' eye and picking just one is simply too hard. Putting the two names together is a good compromise. The combination makes a great contribution ...
The House of Bourbon-Anjou, the Spanish Royal family, is a modern monarchy. The king even rides a motorcycle, and that is despite the fact the family has a pedigree longer than 'War and Peace.' It has...
Little girls need all the advantages that they can get before making their arrival into the world. They will be facing a myriad of obstacles in their life, from relationships to work, and they will ne...
The fact is, pregnancy is very hard on the human body. All sorts of complications arise when a woman starts growing another life inside her with your her own body, and people have been struggling with...
Names go through trends, whipsawing between practically never being used and being at the top of the charts over decades. However, some names just seem to fade out of use. Maybe the countries where th...
The baby is finally here, and mom is completely exhausted. Surely she has reached the finish line.
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