News Roundup

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news roundup - black maternity dressSome of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…

  • Liberating Working Moms offers several ways to make a basic black maternity dress look more festive for holiday events.
  • The Mom Edit rounds up some great shapewear and other “undercover wonders” to wear under dresses.
  • Free Range Parenting picks out a highlight from Tim Elmore’s Growing Leaders blog post, on doing “less preventing and more preparing.”
  • Hellobee has tips to make baby’s first Christmas special and shares 18 Hanukkah crafts for kids.
  • Anjali Joshi writes in The New York Times’ Motherlode blog about considering giving her son an “ethnic” name vs. a “white” name. Also from Motherlode: the story of a company who plans to buy breastmilk from “urban African-American women” in Detroit and sell it to hospitals at a 600% markup (with a purported goal to increase breastfeeding rates among black mothers there).
  • Here’s your Laugh of the Week: Scary Mommy presents a mom’s (stay-at-home-mom’s?) take on Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space.” (If you haven’t contributed to the original’s 200,000,000+ views, check it out first; it’s kinda fun on its own, anyway.)

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