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August 9th, 2010

BlogHer Wrap Up

First things first!  I want to thank all the amazing companies that helped me make my trip possible.  Lamaze, Kandoo, Go Mama Go Designs, and RJS Designs. Without all of you, I would not have been popular because I had swag, but I also would not have been able to afford to go.

I was able to give women Potty training wipes, coupons, and awesome Lamaze pregnancy skin care sets.  Total scores all around especially since I became the queen of swag before I left!  LOL  (I will get to that later in the post)

Friday I hooked up with Gina, Jill, Jenn, and a ton of bloggers I have talked to over the past year and really become friends with. Of course my luck I ended up continuing to run into this woman I had no interest in associating with. She blew me and my roommate off sticking us with $450 of charges for our hotel room. She made a commitment and backed out the day before the conference. Shitty if you ask me. Of course I ran into her at The People’s Party, the newbie breakfast, EVERYWHERE!  I finally hooked up with Gina at the breakfast and we hung out basically all day. The Expo hall sucked us in, and I totally missed the first session I wanted to go to on Friday.  We made rounds till lunch time then grabbed some lunch.

Then went back to the Expo hall, I think I entered for almost everything, but of course I knew I wouldn’t win. I never win anything. We also spent some time at the Ecco shoe’s suite and get pedicures, and of course I stopped by the Windows Suite.

We have had such bad luck in the past couple years that I was almost certain I would go home without all the swag everyone was telling me about before I left for BlogHer.  WRONG!  4 on Friday I headed up to my room to relax, and blog, which didn’t get done. About a half hour into my “relax” hour I got a phone call from a random number, it was the Playtex booth calling me to tell me I won a Flip Cam!  No way!   So I headed down to the Expo hall to pick it up and it was for real!  I won a flip cam!  Something I have wanted, but just couldn’t afford to dish out the $200 for!  Score!

I headed out to the Babble.com party as a plus one of Jenn, it was fun, different, and certainly something I didn’t expect, but we had some totally exciting news at the party…  Gina found out she was pregnant! For those of you who don’t know the back story of Gina & her husband… they have been trying to get pregnant since January.

I also went on a great tour of NYC with NYCityMama and won a huge basket of toys valued at $300 for the kids. Needless to say between all the toys that were given away, the basket, and swag… I got my Christmas shopping virtually finished.

Needless to say, it made for an exciting night. I hung out with my roommates, made some rounds in the hotel, and conference space, and went to bed. I knew I had a long day on Saturday.

I woke up Saturday morning to some crazy exciting news…
“Congrats to @birthbabiesblog on winning 2 Dell Inspiron 14R PCs. Stop by the #Win7BlogHer suite (4331) by 2pm EST to collect your prize!” – BenThePcGuy on twitter

Um… no shit? Really? No!  It couldn’t be!
So I strolled up to the 43rd floor to the Window’s suite, and of course, it was right. I had won not one but TWO Dell laptops!  I couldn’t believe it. I really still can’t believe it, and I am home, checked them out, and gave one to my rockin’ husband.  Our desktop died about 2 months ago, so it has made it hard for him to get online, and download music because that is what he does best.  So, now I was up to 2 laptops, a flip cam, the toy basket, and all the free stuff I got in the Expo hall which included toys for the kids.  I hit up two sessions, and decided to make one last lap around the Expo hall.

I stopped by the diapers.com booth… and won $100 gift card!  Woot!  So needless to say, it was super eventful.

I had a dinner that eventing provided by Tavern Direct, and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. A great cause I plan on getting involved with once things calm down a little.

Saturday night was for SparkleCorn, CheeseburgHer, A Bloggy State of Mind… and every other party I could get into, or sneak into considering I made friends with the event staff, and the guys watching the door. Smart huh?  Oh and don’t forget the wine party I rocked in my room provided by The Wine Sisterhood!

Sunday morning I was on The Feminist Breeder & Friends radio show, then headed over to 11th ave, to pick up my Lincoln MKT press car for the week.  Score huh?  I can’t wait to share some more about that!  Stay Tuned!

So overall, BlogHer was amazing. I met SO many awesome women I look forward to following, linking, and getting to know better, including another Fire Fighter wife, a couple women from Connecticut, and some rather interesting women.

Huge success all around, and DH and I are already planning our trip to San Diego for next year’s BlogHer 2011!
Check out some of the pictures!

July 9th, 2010

Revealing my Other BlogHer Sponsors

As most of you already know, I am working with Lamaze as a sponsor for BlogHer 2010, and I announced that a couple weeks ago. After working with Lamaze, I knew that if I wanted to be able to fully afford the trip to New York City, considering the hotel room alone is over $300 a night, I was going to have to secure more sponsors, or a large sponsor who would help in a big way.

I am super excited to announce I secured 3 other sponsors, and all are awesome companies!  Which has made me able to go to BlogHer and know we as a family can afford the trip. My first sponsor I want to announce today is :

Go Mama Go Designs is the company I blogged about last week, that makes the awesome safer Wonder Bumpers for Cribs. After the sponsorship for BlogHer they also sent me their product which I fell in love with. I am looking forward to working long term with them over the next couple months through blog projects, and various social media projects.  The women from Go Mama Go that I have been working with have been super awesome, and really helpful!  I am glad that I came across their company, and can’t wait to work more with them.

My second sponsor is probably someone most of us know a little bit more than Go Mama Go because they are slightly bigger on a corporate level.

Since both of our children were born, they have been both in pampers, until recently. Although we are switching Benjamin into cloth diapers, The Kandoo products are what we use to make potty training fun in our house. From the hand wipes to the colorful soaps, it helps our toddler to have fun washing his hands, and make it less paintful to get clean.  I am really looking forward to working with Kandoo long term as I have discussed with the company.  It is a really exciting time to be getting involved.

It is really exciting to be working with such large companies and building long term professional relationships with these companies. Both of which are great, and provide products I support, and use in my own home.   I am sure you have also seen both of those logos go up in my advertising space on my site here also.  Explains a lot huh? Haha!

Now onto the local company!

RJS Designs is a local event planning company run by a couple people in Shelton. I originally came across them while working on The Shelton Butterfly Project with them, and being a good friend of one of the women involved.  Their involvement in the Butterfly Project really impressed me.  They wanted to help out on a local level, and I am super grateful for that!

So there you have it… Lamaze, Go Mama Go Designs, Kandoo, and RJS Designs!

June 27th, 2010

How Safe is Your Nursery?

There are so many debates over baby products today, but one of the biggest debates I continue to see is the use of baby bumpers in cribs. Typically they recommend a bumper that is not pillow like, but I had yet to find a bumper that was not pillow like until I came across Go Mama Go Designs and their awesome new bumper alternative. They call it The Wonder Bumper.

Before I get into details about The Wonder Bumper, my review, what I think about the product, and the relationship I have built with the Go Mama Go Design company, I want to discuss some of the statistics I came across regarding nursery dangers and injuries related to baby products, because I found them to be completely alarming.

In 2008, 63,700 children under the age of 5 years old were treated in emergency rooms across the United States for injuries resulting from some time of baby product incident.

Between 2004 and 2006 there were an estimated 247 deaths averaging about 82 deaths a year. What was the cause of 88% of these deaths?  Crib mattresses, baby baths, playpen/play yards, bassinet/cradles, infant carriers, and infant carseats.

In 2008, 11,500 injuries were caused by a crib, crib bedding, crib mattress, etc.

Now when researching things for my kids, I always came across conflicting information about crib bumpers. Put them in, take them out, they cause SIDS, suffocation, etc. Needless to say by the time my oldest son was born we scrapped the bumper because I am still worried to death about SIDS and he is almost 3!

Which is why when I saw this Wonder Bumper product, I thought to myself… Ok, well why aren’t they more popular?  Why haven’t I heard of them until now?  Why isn’t this the #1 product moms are signing up for on their baby registry if they are planning on using a crib!

It is a GENIUS idea!  Look!  It is clearly not your traditional bumper!  They are basically covers for each individual bar for your crib, which in turn allows the air to flow between the crib bars, unlike traditional crib bumpers. Which helps to reduce the risk of SIDS.

Another plus is as children get older, they can’t stand on these like traditional crib bumpers. I can tell you, as our children got older, and we put the bumper back into the crib when they were old enough to roll over and move around, we have caught a child or two trying to use it as a stepping stool to step right out of the crib.

So why am I reviewing and loving this product and company?  Well Go Mama Go Designs is one of my sponsors for BlogHer this year! I am super excited to be working with them on various projects in the upcoming months also.  Sometime in August-September we are also going to be giving away a whole bedding set including the awesome Wonder Bumper to one of my super lucky readers!

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Please take a couple minutes and check them out!  I think they are an awesome company for those who do choose to use a crib!