HOW TO CREATE A VERY SPECIAL NURSERY FOR YOUR BABY

CELEBRITY MOMS' SECRETS TO
CREATING A BEAUTIFUL 
 NURSERY 

It's all in the details.....
monogramming, custom painting, custom curtains,

personalized wall art, simple details which add a

"luxe" and personal touch to the nursery. 
Our design studio will to help you create 
unique and custom nursery design. http://www.babydecorator.com/Baby_Decorator/Home_page.html

Custom murals are a charming addition 

to your babies nursery.

No mistaking who sleeps here!

Nursery murals are a delicate, 

personal touch.

Tiny "faux" baby birds 

tweet lullabies in this nursery.

Soft custom window treatments

share a lovely nursery space 

with this mama bird!

Delicate hand painting on this charming

changing table/dresser adds an heirloom

touch that can be coordinated with crib,

bookcase, and toy chest.

Hand painted furniture with nursery rhyme 

motifs are exclusive pieces we bring you

that create a custom nursery. 

Beatrix Potter would be proud! 

Monograms! The ultimate custom 

luxury addition to the nursery. 

The crib blanket, the carriage blanket,

is an ever so much more beautiful gift 

when the giver adds the baby's 

embroidered monogram. 

The topper of precious touches, 

lampshades entwined with delicate ribbons 

and the baby's initial make charming, 

simple, luxurious additions to the nursery.

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WHO WILL CARE FOR THE BABIES?

BABY DECORATOR  LOOKS AT THE PRESS, 
THE BLOGS, AND THE TWEETS 
ABOUT THE BABIES OF HAITI.

We must do whatever we can to help these babies 
who have been orphaned or separated from their 
mothers by the earthquake in Haiti.


Drop the controversy over feeding formula. 
These children are hungry and need our care.

Donations of baby formula to Haiti strike controversy

You might think a baby who survived the Haiti earthquake would benefit from just about anything: jars of food, a fresh pair of clothes, bottled water, baby formula...not so fast...actually many people are vehemently objecting to donations of artificial milk.

Ricardo Arduengo/AP

A nurse feeds a quake-injured baby at the Israeli Field Hospital in Port-au-Prince.

The contentious breast-feeding versus bottle-feeding debate that so many new moms are faced with in America is making its way into the aftermath of the Haitian disaster.

While many organizations are requesting formula for Haitian babies, others are speaking out against these relief efforts. Why!?!? In the midst of this crisis, it's hard to imagine that anyone would oppose any food source for hungry babies.

Donating formula might appear to be a great way to help out on the surface, but in a thoughtful article on Salon.com, Tracy Clark-Flory explores why it might do more harm than good.

Formula has to be mixed with water, Clark-Flory explains, and clean water, or a place to boil water, isn't easy to come by in Haiti. Nor are there places to sterilize bottles or safely store formula.

UNICEF has found that formula-feeding can bring about infection, diarrhea, dehydration, malnutrition and death. "In fact, following the earthquake this fall in Indonesia, the organization had to issue a call to halt donations of formula" Clark-Flory writes. "Three years earlier, after another earthquake in the region, UNICEF found that infants younger than six-months who were fed donated formula were twice as likely to have diarrhea than those who did not receive formula; the rate among babies between six and 23 months of age was five times the pre-earthquake rate."

What's more, if a mother uses formula and thus reduces or stops breastfeeding, it creates a problem when the donated formula runs out, according to the blog Good Intentions Are Not Enough. The mother will have problems adequately breastfeeding her child because she has decreased or even ended her own milk production. Thus a simple goodwill donation can actually lead to a dependency on the item that is donated.

While there might be downsides to a mother feeding her baby formula, there is certainly no other option for an orphaned baby who has lost her mother. But the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both recommend using ready-to-feed formula, which doesn't need to be mixed with water.

As for the small amounts of formula that are needed, Meredith Connelly, a spokesperson for the Red Cross, told Salon.com, it is much "faster for organizations to collect funds and distribute what is needed to the people on the ground," and that way they can "give what is really needed."

The debate over whether it's appropriate to send formula to Haiti has unfolded over Twitter. Nonprofits are sending out tweets asking for formula, which are then met by messages from a rival campaign with the Twitter identity "Don't Send Formula," Salon.com reports.

One Tweet reads: "please send formula to Haiti and don't listen to that stupid doula who says formula is bad. Dumb biotch!"

An opposing Tweet responds: "PLEASE! don't send formula to Haiti! The women&children shouldn't be victimized twice!"

Do you think Haitian women and children are being victimized through donations of formula?

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Monday, January 18, 2010

Effort to bring Haitian children to U.S. gathers steam

The stories of children fighting for their lives amid the devastation in Haiti are heart-wrenching. It's impossible to not tear up as you flip through the slide shows on news sites, and read the stories about children such as the 7-year-old girl who survived more than four days eating dried fruit rolls in the supermarket that collapsed around her.

Parents always tell their children that life isn't fair, but no young life should be this unfair.

Gerald Herbert / AP

One year old Misa Gureline Bestige reacts as she wakes up from sleeping on the street with her family and other displaced people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

In the aftermath of this terrible disaster, it's saddening to see that many of the children who survived are wandering the rubble-filled streets with nowhere to go, no one to care for them, no food to eat. Many of these kids are wounded. The tented clinics are overflowing with people, and critically injured children are being treated and then discharged even though they should be closely monitored.

A doctor working at a tented clinic in the city's main United Nations compound told a London Times reporter that she was so desperate at being forced to discharge children still in grave danger of dying from infection that she wanted to "scream and scratch people."

For want of bed space "we are sending wounded children back on to the streets of Port-au-Prince with no plan even for how they will be fed," Jennifer Furn, from Harvard Medical School, told the Times.

What's to be done with these children? Maybe there's hope for them in the United States.

In Florida there's a plethora of hospital beds in comparison to what's available in Haiti, and the state is only an hour and a half from the devastated country. Church representatives in Miami are lobbying the US Department of Homeland Security to allow Haitian children left homeless or without parents to be given shelter in the United States.

The Catholic archdiocese of Miami has been inundated with calls from local, state and federal groups -- and people wanting to take in a needy child, according to the Miami Herald. Florida hospitals and schools are preparing for an influx of children. The church is beginning to put together a plan to airlift thousands of children.

The effort is being compared to the Operation Pedro Pan airlift of 1960 when 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children were rescued from the ravages of communism and brought to the United States to start new lives. This plan was also the brainchild of the Catholic archdiocese of Miami.Read More »

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CUSTOM NURSERY DESIGN FOR SAVVY NEW MOMS!

THE BIGGEST CITY'S NEWEST MOMS!

"BIG CITY MOMS" GATHER AT NEW YORK CITY'S KIDVILLE.

BABY DECORATOR IS THERE WITH 

CUSTOM NURSERY DESIGNS

65 pregnant women come for information, guidance, 

ideas, suggestions, and surprises!

BABY DECORATOR SHARES DESIGN 
INSPIRATIONS FOR CUSTOM NURSERIES.

WE CREATE INSPIRATIONAL NURSERIES 

TO SHARE WITH BIG CITY MOMS!

BABY DECORATOR SHOWS BRIGHT, COLORFUL, 

NEW IDEAS FOR DECORATING THE NURSERY.

AN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS HOW 

TO MAKE A BABY SMILE!

NEW-BABY NURSERIES ARE HAPPY 

PLACES WITH HAPPY FACES!

 65 PREGNANT WOMEN COME TOGETHER TO  SHARE

 WAYS TO CREATE THE PERFECT NURSERY.

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gift bags stuffed with new baby inspirations and information.

COME VISIT US TO VIEW OUR NURSERY PICKS AND TIPS.

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WE LOVE DESIGN, WE LOVE OUR CLIENTS, WE LOVE BABIES!

IT'S JANUARY 10TH IN THE YEAR 2010 AND BABY DECORATOR'S BLOG IS BEING BORN TODAY!

-- WHAT WE DO AND WHY WE DO IT --

We're two women, moms who work together doing residential design. 

We love the work we do, we love our clients, and we love babies!

We created Baby Decorator to fill a void -- the need to create calm, 
nurturing, special nurseries for the new baby 
whose mom and dad are smart and style savvy. 

WHAT DO WE CARE ABOUT?

  Safety for your baby, pure, organic products, sustainable choices for your nursery.

We'll show you lots of choices -- cool, eco, posh, luxe, and budget baby. 

Hey -- It's your BABY, after all.

FIRST BLOG -- FIRST PRIORITY

 GET THE NURSERY READY ....... YOU'VE GOT A NEW BABY COMING!

We'll help you make your style choices at BabyDecorator.com

Choose the color you want for your nursery. Check out our room plan suggestions.

Check out our catalogues to choose your crib, changing table, and that all-important
 chair where you'll nurse and cuddle your baby.

 Buy soft, pure baby bedding.

Create a safe spot to change and dress your baby. 

Stock up on all the necessities like diapers and lotions. 

 START WITH THESE ESSENTIALS AND COME TO US TO HELP YOU. 

 MAKE YOUR NURSERY A HAPPY, NURTURING PLACE FOR YOUR NEW BABY. 

PICK WHAT STYLE YOU LOVE AND WE'LL HELP YOU CREATE IT -- 

 CLEAN, CHIC, AND MODERN

WARM, ELEGANT, AND TRADITIONAL 

CLASSICAL, ENCHANTING,  AND CHARMING

OPULENT, SOPHISTICATED, AND LUXE

 TRENDY, EDGY AND MOD.

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