{"id":422,"date":"2012-03-09T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/?p=422"},"modified":"2020-07-24T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:31:37","slug":"baby-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/baby-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Baby-Related Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems to be a baby boom going on at the mo, so for all my pregnant pals, I&#8217;m going to do a roundup of some online resources for expectant\/new mommies that I found useful when expecting my two.<\/p>\n<p>First off, websites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicmum.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magic Mum<\/a> &#8211; Subscription required. Loads of different forums on all stages of parenthood (trying to conceive, pregnant, struggling through those first few weeks, dealing with toddlers or teens&#8230;), to buy\/sell\/giveaway areas for baby- and non-baby-related gear, and to chat about non-baby topics such as house and home, hobbies, weight-loss&#8230; You name it, there&#8217;s a forum for it here. It&#8217;s a very active site, and I found it a really fantastic resource on my first pregnancy and first year with a baby, though I&#8217;ve drifted away from it a bit now that I&#8217;ve found my feet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollercoaster.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rollercoaster<\/a> &#8211; This site has lots of useful articles on conception, pregnancy, family life, nutrition, links to baby-related retailers, product reviews and the like. A good place to start if you just want to read some straightforward info without getting into debates. They&#8217;ve also got forums, and you can join a group for mums due the same month as you so you&#8217;re in touch with people at exactly the same stage all the way through your pregnancy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumsnet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mumsnet<\/a> &#8211; A UK site with more forums, blogs, info pages. Since things work slightly differently in the UK, not all of the info will be relevant to the Irish experience, but I particularly like their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumsnet.com\/Reviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Product Reviews<\/a> page, so wanted to give them a mention.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babynamewizard.com\/voyager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Name voyager<\/a> &#8211; Stick in a name and see its popularity plotted over time. This is fun whether you&#8217;re expecting or not &#8211; try it with your own name.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pampers.ie\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pampers<\/a> &#8211; Info pages and Q&amp;A for different stages of pregnancy and development in early childhood. As it&#8217;s a commercial site, they also have brand and product promotion, so you can sign up for a free pregnancy calendar, regular info packs, samples and money-off vouchers. One of my favourite freebies from these guys was a CD that arrived early in one of my pregnancies with the sounds of &#8220;inside the womb.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have a favourite site I&#8217;ve not mentioned here, please give a mention in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Next time, <a title=\"Baby-Related Podcasts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/baby-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems to be a baby boom going on at the mo, so for all my pregnant pals, I&#8217;m going to do a roundup of some online resources for expectant\/new mommies that I found useful when expecting my two. First off, websites: Magic Mum &#8211; Subscription required. Loads of different forums on all stages of parenthood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/baby-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Online Baby-Related Resources&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,34],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-baby","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}