• Health - infertility - Technology

    Five Free Infertility and Fertility Apps

    March 5, 2014 - By 

    Fertility apps and infertility apps are a great way to track ovulation and reproductive health. Here are five free fertility apps that will help at any stage of your fertility or infertility journey. When you are struggling with infertility or trying to conceive you need a huge toolkit of resources just to get through the journey. Knowledge is power, right? Luckily power and knowledge in the age of Google are right at your finger tips.    Lately numerous press releases regarding the latest and greatest fertility and infertility apps have been flooding my inbox here at thrifty momma’s tips, so I…

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    Hey Mom, What’s a Bong? Answering Kid’s Drug Questions

    March 4, 2014 - By 

    Kids really do say the darndest things. Usually when I am driving. It’s a minor miracle I don’t crash the minivan with their constant random Nattering questions and hijinks. I’ve heard Mom, did birth mom have any other kids? And can I meet her now? Like tonight? Also random statements like: We aren’t biologically related, right? Then there’s always: Do you miss Grandma? Does Daddy miss his Mom? Do you know why the sky is blue? Did you ever smoke? Did Daddy smoke? Here’s me driving along thinking, ‘Hey what’s for dinner? What did I thaw? Did I forget to…

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    Kellogg’s New Snack Products #Giveaway

    March 3, 2014 - By 

    I wish I had some better pictures of all the new Kellogg’s products I received here at Thrifty Momma’s Tips recently. I truthfully thought I would have more time with them. But here’s the thing. See those pastry crisps out front there? Well, they vanished super fast. I got to taste one. One. That’s right. Like nobody here at my house understands that I need to actually taste the treats and new snack products in order to write about them? Anyways take my word for it, several of these new snack products from Kellogg’s are heaven sent. The pastry crisps…

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    The Protective Factor of Diagnosis and Three Ways to Help a Person with FASD Now

    February 28, 2014 - By 

    When it comes to children and any form of disability early diagnosis and intervention is often key to success. Why is that? Because having a way to frame a child’s behaviour can make all the difference in the world to how you approach that child as a parent, as a therapist, a doctor, or a school. If you try to teach a fish to walk you end up frustrated, but worse than that you end up making the fish feel stupid. Proper diagnosis of FASD is critical to success. So why do we have such difficulty diagnosing and treating children and…

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    Sign The Pledge with Your Teen and Make Roads Safer

    February 27, 2014 - By 

    If you are a parent of a child about to start driving then you want to hear about this pledge to make roads safer.     Driving is one of the biggest rites of passage for a young adult. Getting your driver’s license is an epic event, one children begin fantasizing about from the time they are small. Little boys practice driving their imaginary cars almost as soon as their brains are capable of creative play. Girls too. My oldest daughter just last year pulled her iPhone out at the beach and warned me she was only 1598 days away…

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    Win Family Passes to Disney Live Mickey’s Rockin’ Road Show

    February 26, 2014 - By 

    Disney Live makes me feel like a kid again. I wonder if that is the case for you as well? Maybe you can find out if you enter for the chance to win these family passes. My friends know well of my love for all things Disney. Disney Live! Skating shows are always welcome here. I have taken my kids consistently to Disney Live events ever since they were tiny toddlers soaking it all in. There’s something about the live skating show that always makes me feel happy to be a parent. It’s a nice way to take a break…

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    Signs and Hearts – #WordlessWednesday Linky

    February 25, 2014 - By 

    Do you believe in signs? It was, in fact, Valentine’s Day when we took possession of our new home. As we were moving some boxes in, scoping out the rooms, my youngest daughter hollered: “Mom, come quick!” This was on the rooftop of the house across the street. My youngest girl said: It’s Grandma. She’s been painting in the snow. I have been moving through the last few months healing, but the physical and emotional challenge of moving from the house where I could literally picture my Mom in every room was a hard hurdle to get over. I had…

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    Five Creative Advocacy Ideas For Non Profits – #ivf4on #onpoli

    February 24, 2014 - By 

    My regular readers know I have been working with numerous non profits and charities to build their profiles on social media. I am community manager for Conceivable Dreams, the Ontario patient group advocating for better awareness and access to fertility treatments, and for Generations of Hope in Calgary. Conceivable Dreams has had some brilliant ideas over the last two years and their name/ brand as a non profit is extremely well known now, especially on social media. I am proud to have been part of their team. When we started we had about 50 followers on Twitter and we have…

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    Can you drink alcohol when pregnant? – #PreventFASD

    February 22, 2014 - By 

    Can you drink alcohol when pregnant? It’s a weighty, controversial question. So many popular myths still endorse drinking alcohol as culturally acceptable when pregnant. Many people still believe alcohol is okay to consume in moderate amounts when you are pregnant. This is an interactive post designed to get you thinking about drinking when pregnant and risks associated with that. Interactive and hands on learning works best for my child with FASD – fetal alcohol spectrum disorder – and the same is true of many of our children and young adults diagnosed with FASD. So let’s give this a try.   This…

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    Great Games for Kids – Monopoly Junior

    February 21, 2014 - By 

    Remember how fun regular Monopoly used to be when you were a kid? I do. I used to love playing Monopoly by the hour with my Mom and my brother. It was a childhood favourite. We were super competitive and we played it many Sunday afternoons. Park Place and Board Walk were battled over in fierce territorial disputes. I loved that game, even well before I recognized that it was made by Hasbro, a respected and enduring brand. So when I heard there was a Monopoly Junior in stores I was super interested in seeing how different it was. A…