My Baby Crib Bedding

The light pastels and traditional look of most nursery decor didn’t appeal to Melissa Van Flandern when she was pregnant.

She yearned for modern colors and contemporary nursery design but compensated by painting the walls a vivid lime green and covering the floors with red, fuchsia and orange carpet.

Her friends teased, “Is (the baby) going to be able to sleep in this room?”

But now, more than two years later, walk into tottini, the children’s store Van Flandern and business partner Melissa Maffei opened this month, and you’ll see brushstrokes of vibrant colors contrasting sharply with the modern space, and brands like ducduc, the Netto Collection and Argington.

A back wall boasts a saturated orange color, a sleek crib features bedding in deep browns, reds and greens normally reserved for adults, and bold, graphic Angela Adams rugs dot the concrete floor.

“That’s why I love what we have,” Van Flandern said. “It makes a statement.”

Urban parents are more finicky than ever about creating nurseries as modern as the rest of their homes, and a recent surge in modern design for kids has accommodated their tastes.

Source: Times Leader

Chic is definately in.  From Baby Bedding, Baby Cribs, Maternity Clothes,  Diaper Bags, and Children’s clothes parents want to be chic and hip.  Most parents do not want to sacrifice style and individuality in clothes or baby bedding.

Nurseries are growing up.

Winnie-the-Pooh, Peter Rabbit and pastel shades of pink or blue still have their fans, but many of today’s new parents are outfitting babies’ rooms with sophisticated style.

At one time, getting the nursery ready meant climbing into the attic to retrieve the hand-me-down bassinet, giving an old dresser a fresh coat of paint and dragging out that utilitarian diaper pail.

Today, babies are coming home to nurseries reflecting their homes’ Pottery Barn, Target or Architectural Digest-influenced interiors.

Expectant parents can easily spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for custom or upscale bedding, cribs, dressers, rocking recliners, coordinated soft mobiles, lighting and toy bags that double as flower-filled wall hangings.

Bedding, in fact, can cost more than the crib.

Source Home News Tribune Online

If you look around there is tremendously more baby bedding options available to parents.  Parents have different styles and personalities.  Some Parents may want more sophisticated styles, while others may enjoy the more whimsical and playful bedding.   The new offers reflect the fact that not every parent is the same and not every parent wants the same baby bedding style.

Rabab Ahmed may have a new definition for the term “airborne.” She gave birth to a baby girl on a British Airways flight that made an emergency stop at the Halifax International Airport.

Ahmed went into labour while traveling from Boston to her home in Egypt Sunday night. British Airways staff quickly diverted the flight to Halifax, in the hopes that the baby would stay put until Ahmed could be transported to hospital.

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Both the mother and baby are doing fine.  What a birth story this little darling has to tell.

A 14-pound girl delivered by Caesarean section is so large that her feet reach over the edge of her small crib, hospital officials said Tuesday.

Isabel Vitoria, who was born Sunday, measures nearly 23 1/4 inches.

She is far from the largest ever born in Brazil. There was a 16-pound, 11-ounce baby born in January 2005 in the northeastern city of Salvador.

According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing 22 pounds, 8 ounces in Aversa, Italy, in 1955.

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How did these big babies fit in those mothers.  It is amazing that a baby can be born soo.. big.