Oct 17th, 2009 at 10:30AM: On Friday, a blogger reported a harrowing tale that would make any parent furious with the TSA. She claims that, while going through security, she was detained because her son's pacifier clip set off the metal detector. When she was pulled aside for a search, her son was taken away from her by a male TSA agent and was out of her sight for several minutes.
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TSA disproves blogger's claim that agent took her baby
Oct 17th, 2009 at 10:30AM: On Friday, a blogger reported a harrowing tale that would make any parent furious with the TSA. She claims that, while going through security, she was detained because her son's pacifier clip set off the metal detector. When she was pulled aside for a search, her son was taken away from her by a male TSA agent and was out of her sight for several minutes.
On her blog, she recounts the story of ...Aruba's Westin Resort offers $300 for your baby
Aug 29th, 2009 at 12:00PM: I can understand the idea of a babymoon, a vacation taken right before a new baby is born. Enjoying one last (for a while anyway) trip before your life becomes a crazy blur of diapers and late-night feedings almost seems medically necessary. But taking a vacation with the sole purpose of getting knocked up - a procreation vacation - well, that sounds a little too "desperate marketing ploy" to me. ...10 passengers we love to hate: Day 6 - Crybabies and restless kids
Jun 8th, 2009 at 11:00AM: We don't mean to hate 'em but we do. The moment of truth is when you find your seat and hope pray that a child will not be sitting next to, in front or back of, or even close to you. Children just don't make good neighbors on an airplane. On a playground, maybe, but not when you've purchased a seat and five hours of flying time for $200. Take my nephew, for instance. When his mouth is closed, he ...Babykeeper Basic hangs your baby close while you pee
Dec 9th, 2008 at 4:00PM: I thought writing product reviews couldn't get any better than Skymall Monday. But then a product comes along that is so patently amazing that it takes my breath away. I stare at my computer screen, mouth agape, and wonder how I ever lived before experiencing such wonderment. I can only imagine that this is how one would feel upon encountering a unicorn in a meadow filled with daisies and trees ...Galley Gossip: A question (and a poll) about breastfeeding on the airplane
Dec 2nd, 2008 at 10:30AM:
Dear Heather,
Is it okay to breastfeed on the airplane--specifically take-off and landing. Do the flight attendants allow it? Do you need to cover up?
Maggie R.
Dear Maggie,
Of course it's okay to breastfeed on the airplane! And if you are going to do it, take off and landing is the best time to do it. A constant swallowing motion will help ease those little ears in a pressurized cabin when a ...Travel Safe and Bulletproof Your Baby
Aug 30th, 2007 at 11:30AM: Complaining to your foot-loose-and-fancy-free, childless friends about how much you miss backpacking adventures in tourist-free exotic locales, now that you're a new parent?
Worried about taking your baby to a Third World country in the middle of a bloody coup?
Worry no longer: bulletproofbaby is here!
Traveling with young children has never been easier with their safety products, including ...A Canadian in Beijing: Naked Baby Bums Everywhere!
May 18th, 2007 at 4:13AM:
I wonder how babies in China feel in the wintertime. I mean, they must experience some severe crotch frost considering the built-in air-conditioning their clothing has! This no-nonsense approach to raising not-yet-potty-trained children has me both baffled and amused. Here in China, children under the age of approximately 4 years old wear pants that are crotchless. In other words, their pants ...Infant Fights Cobra in Bizarre Indian Ritual
May 14th, 2007 at 2:30PM:
Think you've seen it all? The video above shows a one-year-old baby "fighting" a de-fanged cobra snake in a bizarre right-of-passage for the young Indian child. And by "fighting" I'm sure they mean "just laying there while a friggin' snake tries to sink its fangs into his head." "This bizarre spectator sport - reportedly from Kasimkota in Andhra Pradesh - has been condemned by animal rights ...
Baby Storage on Planes
May 16th, 2006 at 1:58PM: Way back on April 1, we did a series of humorous...OK, maybe some more than others...posts for April Fools Day. One of them was about a faux new product called the Baby Cone of Silence. A pioneering, if non--existent device that would help stifle babies' cries on board a plane. Now, even for those with kids, you KNOW that such a device would be of immeasurable value. It's just that technology ...
