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Ava
Elise
Delaney
Kaelin
Emerson
Devyn
Clara
Lily
Mika
Sienna
Miley
Clare
Gabby
McKenna
Aslyn
Addie
Olive
Chloe
Madeline
Shelby
Aubrey
Lauren
Savannah
Giovanna
Kenley
Gillian
Ruby
Stella
Gemma

I know it’s long, but please help me!!! Favs and least favs?
And they’re all girl names by the way.

I like:
Ava
Delaney
Kaelin
Emerson
Devyn
Lily
Mika
Miley
McKenna
Aslyn
Addie
Shelby
Lauren
Giovanna
Kenley
Gillian

I don’t like:
ELise
Clara
Sienna
Clare
Gabby
Olive
Chloe
MAdeline
Savannah
Ruby
Stella
Gemma

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Lovely:
Ava
Elise
Clara
Lily
Clare
Olive
Madeline
Aubrey
Giovanna
Ruby
Stella
Gemma

These are all gorgeous. They’re all wonderfully feminine and will age flawlessly with the child.

Not so lovely:
Delaney (whiny and trendy)
Kaelin (misspelled and trendy)
Emerson (masculine, “Son of adam” for a girl?)
Devyn (misspelled, masculine name)
Mika (If you’re going for Mica, this is misspelled, if you’re going for MEE-kuh, it’s alright)
Sienna (Sienna is actually nice, but the color is ugly LOL)
Miley (Cyrus? She’d never live it down. Trendy)
Gabby (nickname, Gabrielle would be fine)
McKenna (Trendy trash, I’m sorry. “Son of Cionaodh” for a girl?)
Aslyn (A ss-lyn? Ashlyn would be alright, but it’s still trendy)
Chloe (trendy)
Shelby (originally masculine, trendy)
Lauren (dated)
Savannah (I have not reason, I just don’t like it)
Kenley (Trendy)
Gillian (see Savannah)

The names marked “trendy” mean that the child will outgrow their name before they reach their teens and that they are very popular right now.

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I really like Chloe, Sienna, Giovanna, Kaelin, Lauren, Aubrey and Savannah. These are all strong feminine names.
Names such as Aslyn, will be made fun of such as the first two letters of the name with an added S(if you know what I mean)
Olive, Clare, Gabby, Lily, Stella, Madeline and Ruby are kinda nerdy, Kenley, Delaney and Mika are kind of masculine. Gemma, Devyn, Shelby and Gillian are cute, but they don’t hold any weight. A persons name needs to carry them through life. If it is strong then your child will be strong and successful. Miley is really cute, but she will feel like she has to follow in the celebs light.
You have a beautiful list of names here. God’s Blessings to you and your baby.

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Ava- love it but SUPER popular right now (#4)
Elise- pretty
Delaney- felony Delaney! its ok…i dont hate it
Kaelin- like it
Emerson- i love it for a boy or girl
Devyn- plain but ok
Clara- nice but old
Lily- pretty but starting to become overused
Mika- i like micah better for a boy
Sienna- LOVE IT
Miley- pretty but makes me think of miley cyrus.
Clare- dont like the spelling at all. i like Clara better than Claire.
Gabby- LOVE IT.
McKenna- i like it but i remember my cousin saying she thought this name sounded foreign? lol
Aslyn- ooo i like this a lot. and for the poster who said its asslynn…i believe it is pronounced Azlyn
Addie- too common right now
Olive- Oil? like popeye’s girlfriend? Olive is TERRIBLE!
Chloe- nice but pretty common right now
Madeline- if i hear another Maddy im going to bang my head into a wall repeatedly. i love the name madeline pronounce with the line not lynn sound and NOT shortened to maddie.
Shelby- like it. my moms name is Shelly but ppl call her Shelby alot. i’ve only met 2 shelby’s my whole life.
Aubrey- beautiful, love it
Lauren- classic but nice
Savannah- like it tons
Giovanna- i like Gia not sure about giovanna though
Kenley- too masculine. u have way better names on this list.
Gillian- ok
Ruby- nice and sweet
Stella- old lady
Gemma- nice but sounds kind of country to me

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I know a few people on here who have small children and are constantly on here. How does someone with small children find the time to do this?

There are a couple in particular that I know have really young children and I know they are on here all the time because from morning until night there are constantly new posts and when you look in their profile it’s never been more than an hour between their posts except over night when they are sleeping. This is just one example, I see it a lot but do you think a parent who spends that much time on the computer is being neglectful to their kids? Shouldn’t they be feeding their infant and spending time bonding and playing? Toddlers also need a lot of supervision which would have to be lacking unless these people sit their kids in front of the TV all day.

My kids are all older now but when they were younger I only went on the computer when they were sleeping or DH was home caring for them. I just think it’s funny that someone with young children they should be watching, is instead on here dishing out parenting advice to people all day long LOL I can see once in a while but geez take a break and spend some time with the kids. Don’t you think?

If you can have 2 kids that age and be online a lot, you have remarkable kids or remarkable child-caring skills. I couldn’t. My daughter’s 5 years old and I just got some free time!

I think the problem is that oftentimes it’s the militant breastfeeding, no CIO, BLW, anti-consumerist, anti-TV, mothers that are all too happy to judge everyone else’s inadequacies as parents. By being so judge mental, they leave themselves open to criticism.

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Why do you care so much? This is the last ditch insult “get off the computer and care for your kids” it just sounds so childish. Lots of women with small children are probably “wearing” their children, or have laptops and can be snuggling and playing anyway. You like your life, they like theirs.

Or maybe they are fake parents. Lot of trolls out here.

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I’d love to hear from both parents and children (might be adults now!)
Wondering your advice, thoughts?

This is the link to one of the most informative adult adoptees currently blogging on the internet.
http://harlowmonkey.typepad.com/harlows_…
She is a Korean adoptee.
Do search and read widely through her huge array of links and book suggestions.
You can learn much from adult adoptees.

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I was in foster care for a few years and one of the placements was with an African American single mother and her children. My brother and I were in middle school at the time. We are caucasian, and if we would go out for a night with them or shopping or when we were picked up from school we would get lots of stares. Our foster mom’s friends also made snide comments about it. It was frustrating but just something that you deal with. Eventually I was adopted by a family of the same race and my parents began to foster all races and ages of children. My mom was involved in tons of groups, garden club, gourmet dinner club, wine club…just crazy clubs that she did with friends and we also lived in a pretty wealthy area. When my mom would host her clubs there were always questions and comments and the older women definitely had their opinion.
I loved having such a wide variety of people around me and living with me. I think it made it easier for me to get along with so many different kind of people. Everyone with their looks and opinions can just shove it.

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They smell just fine when I get them out of the wash but then after they are put away they all stink! I think it is the dresser it smells the same way! It was new we bought it from babies r us so maybe its the paint? anyone have any ideas about what I could do to make them smell better. I’m worried to put a fabric softener in there because will it irritate his skin? Any ideas please??

you should take everything out of the dresser and wash it all so the smell is out. then line the dresser drawers with the special paper made for dressers and they can even come scented. what my mother always did ever since we were kids is put a bar of scented soap in our drawers and it keeps them smelling nice and you can use the soap after. you can put any kind in, the ones from bath and body works are especially nice. they wont irritate his skin. it just adds a nice fresh scent to the clothes and dresser!

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I am going into high school and my mom will only let me wear mascara and eyeshadow. She lets me wear eyeshadow because she knows that I don’t want too. When I entered middle school she told me I could start wearing makeup, then she told me she meant high school, well now the time is hear and she is saying no. Of course she is giving me the you are beautiful with out makeup, which I believe, but I do want to use a little eyeliner and a little powder. She has raised me right, and I don’t want to cake it on my face. She won’t even give me a chance, every time I mention the word eyeliner she says absolutley not and brings up the name of a girl who cakes makeup on her face. I get Straight A’s, and I am the president of the honor society. I am to the point where I am ready to go behind her back, but then that would just prove to her that I am immature, and I don’t want that. I just want her to cut the string loose a little. Any advice?

Ask your mom for a “girl’s day” Let her pick what she wants to do for the first half of the day,. . . . And you get the second half.

Rule #1 for each of you. each portion of the day must be a surprise to the other. Your mom can’t tell you what she is planning and same applies to you. Rule #2 absolutely no rejected each others idea.

On your portion of the day, take her to the mall and have your makeup done, in front of your mother tell the makeup artist that you want only “light and natural”.

You are onto the next stage of loving your mom as a parent and liking your mom as a friend . . . . Your mom also cross the stage of realizing her baby girl is growing up . . and because she has obviously done such a great job as your mom, you wearing makeup WILL NOT speed up that progress.

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I am a mom of a little girl..and when that day comes and i was in the same situation as your mom i would let you wear makeup i would just monitor how much you are wearing and maybe check your bag to make sure you arent sneaking it out to put more on until i trust that you wouldnt do that..i hope this helps and makes sense

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they say breast milk can last 6 hours at room tempature. So if I make a bottle of formula and my baby only drinks one ounce of it can it sit out for a while and feed it to them later?

one hour if not in fridge - if in fridge you can re-heat once more within a few more hours

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I would place it back in the fridg. if all possible. After 1 hour I would throw it away. I am crazy when it comes to stuff like that. Let me ask you. Would you drink an ounce out of a glass of milk and let it sit for 2 hours and then go back and drink the rest?

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If you pre-make formula for the day, the whole batch is good for a 24 hour period if kept refridgerated.

If you warm a bottle and there are leftovers, toss it by the time it gets room temp. Don’t put formula back in the fridge once it has been heated. I’m a bit germ-a-phobic, so I’d rather toss it and make a new bottle later. Plus I don’t like to re-use things they have already put their mouth on.

If it is a cold bottle I’d give it 2 hours or so, depending on how much is left and if it stays cool…like someone else said, I wouldn’t drink milk that has been sitting out longer than that.

I went on RateMD’s and I couldn’t find alot of doctors. I would like to go to a good doctor, I’ve found that alot of Barstow doctors seem to NOT be good doctors at all shoving drugs at your infant even for the littlest things and just not knowing what their doing, which is why I chose to go to a OBGYN in Apple Valley who is great.

I will go to Apple Valley and Victorville because I want my daughter to have a great doctor who wont drug her up just to get money or because they don’t know what their doing. Any suggestions for good pediatricians?

Print a list of doctors that are in network and bring it to your OB. He/she can make recommendations.

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ask for recommendations.

this is how i found my son’s pediatrician, who is better than any doctor i have ever seen… seriously.

i found him because it seemed everywhere i went, people came up with his name for pediatricians.

i asked nurses at the hospital… they aren’t really supposed to recommend doctors, but they will usually tell you who they “have heard” is good.

make sure you find a good doctor soon… i made the mistake of chosing any pediatrician for my son, and the first one was horrible. she put my son through a test at the hospital that wasn’t needed! the nurses there and the next pediatrician even said so! i had to watch my newborn son cry for so long for nothing… i wanted to call the doctor up with some very unkind words.

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call around, set up an appointment to question them.
make a list of questions, such as(got all of these from the link below…Please check it out…its a good list)

1. What do you like best about your job? ________________________________________…

2. Do you have children? ________________________________________…

3. Will you be available for discussions on my child’s behavioral developments (discipline issues, social development, etc.)? yes / no

4. Where are your views on:
• bottle-feeding ________________________________________…
• circumcision ________________________________________…
• antibiotics ________________________________________…
• immunizations ________________________________________
• parenting methods _____________________________________
• childhood obesity _____________________________________
• getting babies to sleep___________________________________
• alternative medicine ___________________________________

He’s not particularly whingy. Maybe a little more than usual. What else could it be? Or is this just normal at this age, and not teething?

my son is now 20 weeks and has been doing this since 7 weeks he shoves everything in his mouth too he does much like teething rings but my thumb he loves and now he is older I give him frozen banana and he loves that .. you will know if he is in Pain all of a sudden he will scream as if he’s hit a nerve.. my little man does this occasionally I’ve tried gels but he doesn’t like them.

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He is not teething at 7 weeks old and he is not in pain, what he is doing is normal at that age.