Scooting and Cooing!!!

This is the stage in every mother's life when she awww's and oooo's over her baby's great accomplishments. Holding up their head, scooting across the floor, looking around and recognizing your voice you are so excited that you take pictures of every moment right!!! Well what if you have twins? One baby is scooting, and looking around getting on their knees and taking notice of the world around them and well one baby says NOPE I'm not ready yet!

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Well if nothing else twins will let you know that they are definitely individuals. They do everything in their own time. While one baby loves the floor scooting and trying to learn to crawl the other one loves the water. Splashing every way you can think of. Does this mean one baby isn't developmentally on schedule of course not. As a matter of fact, I advise any mother that bought all those books to throw them away! Because your baby is going to be on their own time schedule, even if you have twins. Just think even though they were in the womb together doesn't mean they are the same person. They are going to do everything when they are ready. They weren't even technically born together. Rather a minute or two apart the only thing most twins have in common is the day they were born! SO don't be alarmed and go to the local neurologist because one baby just lays around on their back all day while the other baby is moving around and looking for something to get into, regardless to the books and specialists, at the end of the day, babies are going to move to the beat of their own drums or beat machine EVEN TWINS!!!

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FDA says throw out infant positioner

Today, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement telling parents not to use this popular product because babies can suffocate.







The governmental agencies have received 12 reports of deaths involving babies who have suffocated in a sleep positioner or became trapped and suffocated between a sleep positioner and the side of a crib or bassinet. The babies were between 1 month and 4 months old. Most suffocated after rolling from a side to a stomach position.






“The deaths and dangerous situations resulting from the use of infant sleep positioners are a serious concern…” says CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. “We urge parents and caregivers to take our warning seriously and stop using these sleep positioners, so that children can have a safer sleep.”

“To date, there is no scientifically sound evidence that infant sleep positioners prevent SIDS,” says Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner and a pediatrician. “We want to make sure parents, health care professionals, and childcare providers understand the potential risk of suffocation and stop using infant sleep positioners.”







Many parents use these products to help their kids fall asleep. They create a snuggly environment, which babies like because it reminds them of being held or even of what it was like in the womb. Also, some product manufacturers claim the positioners prevent flat head syndrome (plagiocephaly) and aid in food digestion to ease colic or the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).






CPSC and the FDA are telling parents and child care providers to:






STOP using sleep positioners. Using a positioner to hold an infant on his or her back or side for sleep is dangerous and unnecessary.


NEVER put pillows, infant sleep positioners, comforters, or quilts under a baby or in a crib.


ALWAYS place an infant on his or her back at night and during nap time. To reduce the risk of SIDS, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends placing infants to sleep on their backs and not their sides.

information provided by The Baby Center

Sunflowers and Coffee

So here we are once again. I must say where the inspiration for my Seed and Bean came from and is now headed. Seed and Bean first started out as a brain child in my head for a wholistic vegetarian/vegan book store here in Alabama. Well as my Seed and Bean grew so has the dream!Sunflower Seeds and Coffee beans is going online. WE will launch very soon to see how you all take to the idea of having books from African/African in America authors, natural products from venders that are personal to my heart such as Mocha Mango and Devine Khemistry as well as others. I hope to be launching at the end of the month as we have to get the site just right. I'm very excited to see what happens and watch my dream become a reality. IT is very important to me that we offer something well known but unique in its character.

If all goes well I hope to launch the food and beverage portion of the business soon after (end of the year first of January). I thank you for your continued support in hopes that Sunflower Seeds and Coffee Beans is a great and humble sucess!

Blessings in love

Empress

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