#babyshower2.0
Of course you know that Zen Mommy is Pregnant… but times 2.0?! Yes, she’s pregnant with TWINS.
The cat’s out of the bag! My Mommy Manual and Kolcraft, along with our friends at Artistic Sensations and Viewpoints invite you to a Baby Shower like no other… Web 2.0-style! TOMORROW, November 3, 2009 11 am – 1 pm CST, tune in HERE and be part of the first live streaming virtual baby shower ever!
Click here to get to the LIVE streaming video and chat room! We’ve got over $2000 in BABY GEAR to share with you!
We’ll be celebrating Mommy-hood, as we love to do… with YOU! And of course, we’ll be sharing practical and inspired tips on how to create a meaningful and memorable baby shower for your pregnant loved ones in real life!
What’s on the agenda?
• How to Make a Labor Bracelet
• How to Capture Special Birth Moments
• How to Furnish a Nursery with www.ArtisticSensations.com
• How to Work with a Doula
• Special Guests: including Denise and Alan Fields, authors of the bestseller, Baby Bargains
What about gifts?
YOU get gifts! (We said this is a shower like no other, right?) Kolcraft and Artistic Sensations is giving 2.0 of everything in our silent auction to benefit Parents As Teachers Prenatal Program.
How can you support our charity partner? …lots of ways to play!
1) Leave a comment below with your bid for any of the items in the silent auction!
2) Click here to make a $1 donation to the Power of One raffle and a chance to win a POSH PURSE (valued at $129) from ArtisticSensations.com
3) Buy a Snap Stories book today (a portion of the proceeds will go to Parents As Teachers)
SILENT AUCTION ITEMS
• 2.0 Jeep Tandem Strollers ($249.99 value) Bidding starts at $25
• 2.0 crib mattresses ($259.99 value) Bidding starts at $25
• 2.0 booster seats ($39.99 value) Bidding starts at $3
• 2.0 walkers ($69.99-$99.99) Bidding starts at $6
• 2.0 Sealy mattress pads 2-pack ($99.99) Bidding starts at $9
• 2.0 Sealy mattress pads ($19.99) Bidding starts at $1
• 2.0 baby bedding from Artistic Sensations ($400 value) Bidding starts at $40
To enter the SILENT AUCTION, leave a comment below any time from now until November 3 with 1) the item you are interested in and 2) your bid amount!
(Comments is the best way for us to get your email to notify winners!)
Oh, sounds awesome! I’ll be there!
-Jeni
This is going to be rocking girls, Can’t wait to celebrate!
Kolcraft is very excited to be part of baby shower 2.0!
Love this idea ladies! So excited for you ZenMommy!
Ria, I had a doula with my last baby born in Dec. 1997. It was an awesome experience. I was at MoBap. I had no drugs or an epidural and when the nurses came in to tell me to keep it down because I was yelling with labor pain, my doula, Zaire Imani, said to the nurses “She can scream if she wants to. She’s having a baby” and I kept right on yelling. It was so great to have an advocate there.
Michaela Turner aka Yogi Parenting Mommy
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Yay! I’m excited too… those cupcakes are going to be dee-vine!
I will be there. Zen Mommy is awesome and deserves the best. And I have only had limited contact with her. I can see how she is a great BFF!
Can’t wait to participate & celebrate this stage of Suzanne’s amazing journey. Hip Hooray for all those momma’s carrying wee ones right next to their hearts! Yeah for mymommymanual.com for helping us honor them all more sweetly.
I am brand new to this group and do not know anyone yet, but what a neat way to meet people! I will be there if my new baby boy will allow me to be! Being 5 months old he can be kind of demanding though so if I am not you know why. In any case I send my congratulations and hope to start meeting new friends soon!!
Dana
Dana, very excited to have you tune in and be part of the group.
One of the highlights will be sharing how to make a Blessingways Labor Bracelet… a wonderful way to express your love and support for a birthing mom through her labor and delivery.
I can’t wait to see how this is going to turn out. It sounds interesting. I can’t wait to tell all the 0-3 parents that I work with about it.
Great! I’ll be there!
I’d LOVE to win the jeep tandem stroller – it would be perfect for my 15 month old and newborn!
I just posted about your great shower on my site:
http://www.agiveawayeveryday.com
This is such a fun idea… Have a great time!! I will be telling others about your great idea!!
Deborah
This sounds awesome! I am currently taking care of my nephews 5 month old daughter since he & his wife are going through a rough time and my kids are older (19, 16 & 14) and I don’t really have all of the baby essentials that I need since I gave all of my stuff away years ago. Baby products/furniture is SO expensive. I’d love to win one of these items. Thanks for the great opportunity!!!
Most important thing at a baby shower?? a super comfy seat for Mom to be!!!! lol
Ok I will be the first bid for the Jeep Tandem Strollers @ $25!
Congratulations to Zen Mommy and Shawn on the upcoming event of having TWINS! I will celebrate your shower with you vicariously since I will be attending an all-day meeting on Sponsorship at Carondelet. My love to all of you.
Paulette
Congratulations….best wishes to Mom and Dad. I will be thinking about you for the shower…but I won’t be able to attend.
Barbara
My friend just had a little one so I’m going to go ahead and bid on something for her to use! LOVE this idea and am so happy for you ZenMommy!!!
Baby Bedding – $40
Love baby bargains!!! I was wondering what do u think of using educational computer games for toddlers? Btw love my kolcraft stroller !!!This virtual shower is great!
Hope you are having a great baby shower!! The time difference makes it hard for me to “be” there… but I am with you in spirit.
Hi Suzanne – So exciting that you’re due so soon. Happy Shower x 2!!
I will bid on the Jeep Tandem Strollers for $26.
I will bid on the booster seat for $3.
I will bid on the Sealy mattress pads @ $1.
Okay, I just watched the demo on Kolcraft’s site for the stroller and holy wow is that thing amazing! I’m going to bid $50 for it (and it’s worth WAY more than that!).
Jeep Tandem Stroller for $27.
Bid: Baby Bedding $40
Bid: Walker $6….My sister in law just had twins last month so I am bidding for her.
Bid: Crib Mattress $25
Bid: Sealy mattress pads 2-pack- $9
Just made a donation to Power of One! Great cause.
Booster Seat $3
If you bid on an item, thank you sooo much for supporting P.A.T. Please send us your email address so we can get in touch with you… Patti, Ken, Hollie.
You can use this form here:
http://mymommymanual.com/contact/
We will close the silent auction at midnight tonight! So get your bids in… lots of great deals!
Hi,
I noticed the question posted earlier asking about the use of computer games for toddlers. It is such a great question because as a parent it is hard to know what is really best for a child’s development.
As an early brain development awareness specialist…. my passion is to share scientific brain information in real and practical ways. And what I love to share most is……. the best way to make brain connections is through fun interaction with real objects and loving interactions with real people! Learning is best when all senses are used!. Isn’t it great to know that you are your child’s favorite toy!
A report from The National Scientific Council on the Developing child, states:
“Although a varied array of experiences clearly stimulates learning in the preschool years, promotional statements about the superior brain building impacts of expensive “educational” toys and videos for infants and toddlers have no scientific support.”
Have fun!
~ Deborah McNelis, braininsights
Booster Seat Bid $4
Sealy Mattress Pad Bid: $1
stroller $35
booster seat $8
Stroller $36
$5 Booster Seat.
Walker $6
stroller $40
Stroller $41
walker $8
Walker $8
stroller $51
Sealy Mattress Pads $2
Stroller $52
Walker $9
Walker $9
walker $12
Booster $9
Booster Seat $9
Stroller $52
Walker $13
stroller 60
Walker $13
$61 Stroller
$62
$65 Stroller
stroller $67
I won the bids for the Tandem Stroller at $65, booster seat at $9, sealy mattress pad $2, walker $13. Here is my email: heidijo722(at)yahoo(dot)com I look forward to hearing from you and I am glad to support the Parents as Teachers Prenatal Program.
Yipeee. We are so excited to support such a great cause as P.A.T and get some fun stuff. My sister just had twins so this is going to go along way at her house!
Here is my list of our purchases in the silent auction:
Jeep Tandem Stroller($249)-$62
crib mattresses ($259.99 value)-$25
booster seats ($39.99 value)-$9
walkers ($69.99-$99.99)-$13
Sealy mattress pads 2-pack ($99.99)-$9
baby bedding from Artistic Sensations ($400 value)-$40
Total=$158
Here is my email addy so you can bill me: agiveawayeveryday@gmail.com
WOW, you guys. THANK YOU soooo much for supporting Parents As Teachers. You guys are eBay experts aren’t you? We… are not. So the ZM and I are going to go over the time stamps on all your bids and make sure we award our fabulous Kolcraft and Artistic Sensation prizes to the highest bidders ending at 12:ZERO ZERO am CST.
Winners, we’ll get back to you today via email. Pronto!
I’m so bummed I wasn’t feeling well last night and went to be too early! Congrats to everyone who won though. I’d love to hear what you think of the stroller
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Thank you all for your generosity! Article in today’s news about high mortality rate of US babies related to inadequate prenatal care means there’s a real need for Parents as Teachers prenatal program. YOU make it happen!! Thanks all!!
Thank you for all your generous bids for our Kolcraft products. We are so happy to be working to support PAT. Special thanks to everyone who could “attend” the virtual shower. So fun to celebrate motherhood x 2 with you!
WOW!!! our guest bedroom is piled high with great baby stuff x two. My husband and two girls were blown away when I came rolling home in our van filled to the roof top with amazing things!!! from the double stroller, baby feeding seat by Jeep, cool Baby walker/playring…matress, pads and more all from Kolcraft, to my gorgeous new diapper bag maded from recylcled plactic bottle with a huge hot pink flower on it (adorable) from Artistic Sensations.com… to my Viewpoints basket full of goodies like my very first Dr. Brown’s bottles which I can’t WAIT to try out… my Due sling and clothes and my new Snap Stories baby books from Emma Hand ——— i am one blessed mama.
Ria, Kim, Mom, Emma, Kate, Sisters Trish and Mary, Michelle and Katie… our guest caller author Alan Fields from Baby Bargains and YOU all in the chat room who viewed the shower live… thank you so much.
Love to you all,
Suzanne aka Zen Mommy
You guys are terrific! This kind of support for Parents as Teachers is generous and creative. We LOVE that you are a part of helping parents do their best. THANK YOU!!
You guys are too cute!
Everything seems like it’s going really well, I’m looking forward to the interviews and for Zen Mommy to open her gifts!
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Thanks again My Mommy Manual for this awesome shower. I really enjoyed it and I am so excited for your twins Zen Mommy. Best of luck with the delivery!!!
Wow! This is all really awesome, what can you tell me about lactation issues i will have? I am 9 weeks prego…!
Maggie, congratulations! Here are some links that will help you…
http://mymommymanual.com/how-to-nurse-your-baby/
http://mymommymanual.com/18-weeks/
But please sign up for our newsletter because we publish new tips DAILY! And, I’m sure that you can benefit from all the advice that our mom community shares.
Peace!
Ria
Interesting and very good article. Keep it up. Providing information for new mums is a really good thing to do. Cheers
STL- KMOV – Im four months pregnant, in college, and lost but hoping I can be half the mom my mother was! As for advice, when me and my sister were fighting shed make us stand nose to nose until we hugged! We were stubborn but it eventually worked everytime!