Amber Leventry's Blog

If a new mom chooses to breastfeed, her life revolves around the milk factory living in her breasts. Nursing, pumping, storing, and coveting ounces of stored milk is all done for the sake of what some call liquid gold. Breastfeeding is a very personal choice, and if breastfeeding is the plan, most women also need a breast pump. The Quiet Expressions Double Breast Pump made by The First Years gives mom the ability to pump in discreet silence. It also allows them to multi-task.

The GottaTinkle Female Urination Device is your solution to dirty bathrooms, porta potties or no potty at all. It gives women and girls the ability to pee anytime, anywhere, and like a lady.

As small as kids are, they take up a lot of space. Baby equipment is bulky and toddler toys spread throughout the house faster than wildfire. Our kids get older and they keep acquiring stuff. And that stuff is usually anywhere than its designated place, i.e., on the floor. Our children’s things can take over the house and leave little room for our own things if we are not careful. Mimish Storage Beanbags solve many of these problems in a fun and stylish way.

Slacklining is becoming more popular every summer. You may have seen them at the park—the college kids, hipsters and yogis exercising and performing stunts several feet off of the ground while on a two inch wide nylon line anchored between two trees. The Balance Blox Slackline System will give your child the thrill of a high wire circus act and the coolness of the hipsters at the park with their very own pint-sized slackline.

Pediatrician Harvey Karp’s book The Happiest Baby on the Block has become a parenting bible for many first-time moms and dads. Why? Because it holds the key for soothing cranky, screaming babies. The magic is in a method using the Five S’s: swaddling, swinging, side or stomach position, sucking, and shushing. We have all been able to buy accessories for swaddling, swinging and sucking. Now we can own a Baby Shusher, an actual gadget that will shush for you as you try any and all of Karp’s methods to get your baby to be the happiest on the block.

Technology is great—until it doesn’t work. Or until it doesn’t work for me. I love to capture moments of my day and events with my children, but then the images of those moments seem to live forever in my smart phone or digital camera. I have almost 3,000 photos on my phone, and while half of those may not be worth printing, there are certainly some pictures I wish I had on display. I simply haven’t taken the time to select the ones worth printing and then turned them into tangible, color images. Impossible is making it possible to get my favorite moments onto paper instantly with their Impossible Instant Lab.

Maybe you live somewhere that doesn’t get snow. Or maybe you do and you want to have a snowball fight in the middle of summer. Short of Elsa making you your very own snow cloud, you’re out of luck. Unless you have a bucket of Snowtime Anytime. You can have tons of snowy fun anytime and anywhere with Snowtime.

If you have a baby who slept through the night at a very early age, napped well, and didn’t throw a fit the moment you left the room, congratulations, you gave birth to a unicorn. Most parents don’t get such a rare creature. For the rest of us, we need a little guidance and help to get our babies to sleep. One of the tried-and-true methods is swaddling. But even while asleep, babies figure out how to wiggle out of the best made swaddle and then wake themselves up with startle reflexes. Zipadee-Zip is the answer to this swaddle problem.

That middle ground between being a little kid and a teenager can be hard. Your tween child is trying to find his or her independence while still wanting and needing to hold onto the comforts of being taken care of. Hormones are starting to kick in, friendships are getting trickier, and school is getting tougher. Blah. Even their interests are fluctuating, which means buying gifts for the tween in your life can be hard too. It doesn’t have to be. Here are 10 perfect gifts that will make your tween very happy.

Dinosaurs might be extinct, but a child’s love for them is not. Kids love dinosaurs. Don’t ask me why. But I can tell you about the newest toy to keep the love affair going. Zoomer Dino is a remote control dinosaur that senses your presence and reacts to your touch and motions. You can even train him to dance and roar.