Light Iris app for Facebook

Last month the Light Iris app launched on Facebook to small group of friends and family. The goal was simple, see if this thing works. Fortunately, mostly everything did, and I'm pretty happy about that. More importantly maybe, I saw many opportunities for improvement and to make things easier useres. With that in mind, there are a number of changes being made behind the scenes. We hope to introduce those things in about a month's time from now. In the meantime, feel free to try it out and keep using it. All data will be retained. As more developments occur, I'll share them.

Discover the Preventable causes of the Major Chronic Diseases

Scientists are recruiting 100,000 mothers-to-be to track the development of their children from conception to age 21. The goal is to discover the preventable causes of the major chronic diseases that affect American children today. Complete story on MSNBC.

The Girl Effect

The Girl Effect looks like a worthwhile cause and gets a solid rating at charity navigator

Check it out: http://www.girleffect.org

Test breast milk for alcohol, Protect your baby from SIDS, and Help the little one to learn to walk

Julie from Upspring Baby demonstrates how to test breast milk for alcohol, protect your baby from SIDS, and help the little one to learn to walk without ruining dad's back. Plus the mompreneur story behind this cool company.
http://blip.tv/file/1326713

Moms always like their kids and other myths

Surprisingly good piece produced by the Today Show on motherhood myths: Moms always like their kids and other myths

The new mom sanity-saver that fits in the diaper bag

Heather & Whitney make it easier, but certainly not easy, to be a new mom with their new book. They wrote it exclusively for first-time mothers and included 250 things to help. And they should know! They are (were) first time moms and the geniuses behind the blog, Rookie Moms.

on Facebook....soon