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Styling Your New-Mom Body + JJ Cole Caprice Diaper Bag Review and Giveaway!

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If you are pregnant or have a new baby, I’m sure you’ve asked yourself and your new-mom friends the age-old question..
how will I possibly still look even an inkling stylish after I’ve had the baby?   JJ Cole sent us a Caprice Diaper Bag to review and because we are all out of babies here, one lucky reader will win the bag we received for review!

Win a JJ Cole Caprice Diaper Bag

First, I want to give you a few new-mom fashion tips that I’ve learned over the years:

  1. Buy lots of leggings.  H&M has several colors and they are just $10!
  2. Stock up on tops that will take eyes off of your newly enlarged boobs such as a top that has a narrow v-neck which will bring eyes up to your neck and face not your boobs and flowing blouses.
  3. Avoid blouses with lots of frill.  Those will make your breasts look larger.
  4. Get a statement necklace or two; one that has a large pendant which will make your breasts look smaller.   Steer clear of necklaces that lay at your neckline.
  5. Wear shirts that have a 3/4 length sleeve or long sleeve tops as they are more slimming than short sleeves or tanks.
  6. Make sure you have a cute diaper bag or two!

When it comes to a diaper bag that is fashionable as well as affordable and easy to use, the JJ Cole Caprice Diaper Bag steps up to the plate.

The JJ Cole Caprice Diaper Bag has tons of great features while at the same time being stylish and fitting into your budget.

Here are a few features that I love about this diaper bag:

  • Attaches to your stroller – Taking your little one along in a stroller which requires both arms free to push around?   No problem!  Attach the Caprice diaper bag to your stroller with the included Grips™.
  • It’s lightweight – The Caprice Diaper Bag weighs just over 2 pounds so don’t worry about breaking your back from carrying your baby and diaper bag!
  • Strap and carry options – Adjustable and removable shoulder strap and tote handles

Grips feature for diaper bag on stroller

You won’t have to bring a separate purse either — despite being a diaper bag, it has 10 organizational compartments both inside and outside, allowing you to keep your items safe and easily accessible while looking chic.  You can keep your wallet and cell phone in the external zipper pockets, while keeping your baby’s bottle or sippy cup in its insulated and spacious side pockets, and the diapers inside the internal pouch.

This fabulous JJ Cole Caprice Diaper Bag also comes with a changing pad that matches the bag’s design.

JJ Cole Caprice Diaper Bag

The Caprice diaper bag comes in a variety of colors such as shadow, silver drop, and vintage poppy; and fashionable printed designs that can go with the outfit of your choosing, all for the affordable price of $69.99.

Best of all, it contains no traces of the chemicals PVC or Phthalate, thus making this bag a safe choice as well as being convenient and fashionable. You won’t have to pay a single cent more for anything of such great overall quality in terms of ease, style and safety.

We are giving a lucky reader a JJ Cole Caprice Diaper Bag!

The bag is the very bag reviewed here.  All tags and pieces are intact.

Here are the steps to enter the giveaway:

  1. MANDATORY/MUST DO ENTRY – Leave a comment at the bottom of this blog post, include your name, and use the same email address that you enter in the rafflecopter form!
  2. Use the Rafflecopter App below to submit your entry  – Complete optional entries as shown in the rafflecopter form, for extra entries.

Alicia, The Mommy Insider blog author

Review + Giveaway – Must Have Gadget for Bloggers Who Travel: WorldCard Link Business Card Reader

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GIVEAWAY!
Win a WorldCard Link Business Card Reader!
Scroll down to enter.

I’ve been an online publisher since 2001 and I’ve been blogging since 2005.  I have attended a lot of conferences over the years and one thing that I could have used was a business card scanner.

This is one of those must-have gadgets that once you have, you don’t know how you did without.

Bloggers, when you’re at a social media or blogging conference, how many PR and blogger business cards do you collect?  

Most bloggers at a conference will collect anywhere from 100-500+ business cards.   What do you do with all of those business cards when you get back to the office or home?  I’ve heard everything from “stick them in an envelope”, “put them in a notebook”, and “store them in a box”.

Tell me.. how do you easily find a contact when their information is stuffed in a box or envelope somewhere?  It’s not easy and most of us don’t take the time to sift through our office to find business cards from the last conference we attended.

That is why I love WorldCard Link’s business card scanner for the iPhone.  This gadget is as amazing as it is small!

WorldCard Link Business Card Reader for iPhone

Your iPhone plugs in to this incredibly intuitive and useful device.  After that it’s simple to scan every business card you’ve collected at a social media conferences such as BlogHer, or other conferences.  Extremely portable, the WorldCard Link can be stored in just about any small bag such as a purse, briefcase or even a large coat pocket. Easily stowed away in a carry-on bag, the card reader goes wherever it is needed.

The genius of the device extends to how it maintains the information received from the business cards it scans. The WorldCard Link can connect to a preferred cloud based server such as Google Contacts, iCloud or even Dropbox. This makes it immensely easy to sync up with other contacts to maintain a coherent structure to anyone’s databases and client lists. In the fast paced world of business, it allows for a simple means of taking care of something that can quickly become too large for easy organization.

win an iphone business card readerIn the professional world, business cards are handed out by just about everyone. WorldCard Link Business Card Reader can help iPhone users maintain a powerful but simple database to house the information scanned from these cards. Thanks to cloud based servers, it will free up a professional from having to enter contact info themselves, as well as having to carry around all those business cards.

WorldCard Link is a complete business card manager for iPhone users. It comes with an ergonomic iPhone dock and an app. With iPhone on the dock, as soon as you put a business card on the other end of the dock, the app will smoothly capture all contact info for storing on the phone and sharing over the cloud. No more hand type in business cards.

Bloggers, this is a must have for your next blog or social media conference!

WorldCard Link

  • is easy to use
  • is convenient
  • is small
  • is affordable – $39
  • is  master information gatherer
  • can sync contacts to the cloud
  • can search contacts on FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn
  • can scan horizontal and vertical business cards
  • and more!

Learn more about and buy WorldCard Link business card reader here.

See WorldCard Link in action in the video below!

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Win a WorldCard Link Business Card Reader!

We are giving a lucky reader a WorldCard Link device to keep!

To enter, leave a comment relevant to this post below.

For example, tell us where you would take your WorldCard Link device, how many business cards do you have to scan initially, how would WorldCard Link make your life easier?

Be sure to tell us everything you do in the comments so we can count all of your entries!

Earn extra entries:

Contest rules and terms

  • Entries accepted through 11:59pm EST June 5th, 2013.
  • Open to U.S. residents only. No P.O. Boxes.
  • Your email address may be added to our weekly email newsletter list. We will not send you spam and you can unsubscribe anytime.

 

I was provided with a sample to review and a unit to give to a lucky reader.  All opinions are my own and were not influenced in any way.  I only write about products and services that I would buy.

Giveaway + Review: New Philips AVENT Double Electric Comfort Breast Pump

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Let’s get personal, shall we? I breastfed both of my kids. After the birth of my son, I had lots of help from nurses at the hospital. Once we were home though, he wasn’t very fond of latching on correctly. After a few days the pain set in. I had no idea that breastfeeding could be painful. I was told to use hot compresses, ice packs, tickle his chin or open his mouth while he was trying to latch on, and then finally, the pediatrician told me that I should pump and give it to him from a bottle. This was 13 years ago. I was a bit clueless when it came to breast pumps. I bought one from the store, not really paying attention to the features, then I bought another because it wasn’t comfortable at all. I think I was finally happy with the third one I bought. Breast pumps are a very personal item and the one you choose has to be good.

I am so happy that new moms these days have breast pumps like this one at their disposal!

Philips AVENT Comfort Breast Pump.

The newly launched Philips AVENT Comfort Breast Pump was designed with moms’ comfort in mind. Once of the biggest breast pumping complaints I’ve seen time and time again is that you have to sit slumped over so.. you know.. gravity works better. With this breast pump you can sit in your favorite chair with no need to lean forward while pumping.

The Philips AVENT Comfort Breast Pump has many great benefits that new moms will appreciate including a gentle and soft stimulation mode and comfortable massage cushions that easily help to get the milk to flow. The massage cushions have a warm feel to them too which helps with breast pumping.

Enter to win a fabulous gift basket full of Philips AVENT goodies below.

There are three pumping settings and the funnels are shorter which ends leaning forward while pumping. The Philips AVENT Comfort Breast Pump focuses fully on providing comfort and making it easy for the mother breastfeed. Research has found that 23% of women found that breastfeeding is painful and stop within three months. Using the Comfort Breast Pump allows mothers to pump milk longer. The Comfort Breast Pump will dispense directly into Natural Bottle to allow for immediate bottle feeding. The Natural Bottle that comes with the pump features a wide, breast-shaped nipple created to help babies latch on naturally.

The BPA free Philips AVENT Comfort Breast Pump has a patented soft 5-petal massage cushion and it has a memory feature that remembers the mother’s personal rhythm. It has a unique storage system and makes like easier with usage of Philips many baby bottles and breast milk storage containers to use in both the fridge and freezer.

It is important to offer your baby a comfortable bottle to drink from when he’s not breastfeeding. The Philips AVENT Natural Bottle has a wide, breast-shaped nipple designed to help your baby latch on naturally. The special comfort ‘petals’ inside the nipple increase softness and flexibility without collapsing. This bottle has an advanced anti-colic system with innovative twin valve allows air into the bottle – not baby’s tummy and it works with the Philips AVENT Comfort Breast Pump, making it easy for babies to combine breast and bottle feeding.

  • Pumping your milk regularly will help you to maintain the levels of milk that most physician’s recommended.
  • Pumping your milk will boost supply and relieve pain due to enlarged breast pressure.
  • Pumping allows your baby to drink breast milk when you’re not around to feed (date night perhaps?) and will help maintain your milk supply.
  • Pumping your breast milk is also perfect if you plan to go back to work but want your baby to continue having the benefits of your breast milk.
  • The Philips AVENT Natural bottle and nipple for natural latch on makes it easy for babies to combine breast and bottle feeding.
  • The twin electronic breast pump alleviates stress of pumping breast milk and it is a relaxing process each time you have to pump milk.

Using the Philips AVENT Comfort Breast Pump will assure your baby will get your breast milk at every feeding time. Your husband, mom, nanny, or an older sibling can help with feedings which will allow you to get a little uninterrupted sleep or get a little “me” time. Imagine that!

Learn more about or buy the Philips AVENT Comfort Breast Pump and follow @AVENT_US or #AVENTparents.

This is not intended to be medical advice.

We are giving a lucky reader a Philips AVENT gift basket full of goodies!

Philips AventThe gift basket will contain:

  • natural bottles
  • spout cups
  • natural drinking cups
  • soothies

To enter to win, leave a comment relevant to this post below.

Be sure to tell us what you’ve done to earn extra entries, in the comments below!

Earn extra entries:

Contest rules and terms

  • Entries accepted through 11:59pm EST May 20th, 2013.
  • Open to U.S. residents only. No P.O. Boxes.
  • Your email address may be added to our weekly email newsletter list. We will not send you spam and you can unsubscribe anytime.
  • The prize will be mailed to the winner by Philips AVENT/PR company not TheMommyInsider.com.

I was sent the below mentioned product in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are 100% my own and are not influenced in any way.

What Would You Buy With a $100 Kmart Gift Card?

Contests,

What would you buy with a $100 Kmart Gift Card?

Yesterday I showed you a few things that I would buy with a $100 Sears gift card.  Today I am showing you what I would by with a $100 Kmart gift card.

Here are a couple of things that I would buy with a $100 Kmart Gift Card

 

outdoor garden umbrella from kmartOur umbrella broke during a storm and I haven’t dined or worked at my patio table.  The sun is so bright on our patio that it’s just not fun to work out there if I can’t sit under an umbrella.  This 9″ steel umbrella is only $53.99 at Kmart!

pool lounger with cup holders

We go to Florida a few times a year and we spend a lot of time in a lake.  It’s an alligator-free lake.. in case you were wondering.  I would love to have an inflatable lounge chair with cup holders so I can just hang out on the lake all day.  Sounds nice, doesn’t it?

Kmart local ad

You have the chance to win a $100 Kmart Gift Card for less than 5 minutes of your time!

Enter the Kmart LocalAd Sweeps on ShopYourWay SWEEPS Points.

All you have to do to enter to win is..

  • ‘Follow’ the Kmart LocalAd brand page on ShopYourWay
  • Then pick 5 must-haves from your local Kmart store and add them to your ‘Wish List’ on ShopYourWay.
    For example: search patio furniture on ShopYourWay, hover over a set you like with your mouse and click ‘want.’ The product will automatically be added to your Wish List. Don’t worry about writing this down, the SWEEPS app will walk you through it.
  • Once you’ve completed these steps, you’ll be entered to win 100,000 points, which equals to $100!
  • Score two additional entries easily by sharing the Sweeps with your Facebook & Twitter friends.

You’ve seen what I would buy with a $100 gift card.  

What will you buy with your winnings?  

Get more information and details here: http://bit.ly/ZN6O0g

This is a sponsored post. I am a Kmart blogger, though all opinions are my own.

 

What Would You Buy With a $100 Sears Gift Card?

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What would you buy with a $100 Sears Gift Card?

Would you buy jewelry, a handvac (to practical, I know), gardening tools?

Here are a few things that I would buy with a $100 Sears Gift Card

Windchime

 I love being outside, especially during the summer months.  This wind chime would make my time outside even more relaxing.

Grace Note Chimes Small Himalayan Echo Wind Chime – $90

necklace

Eziba Collection Miadora 18k Gold-plated Smokey Quartz Necklace – $41

 sheets

AT HOME by O Egyptian Cotton 800 Thread Count Extra Deep Pocket Sheet Set – $94

I’ll tell you one thing, it’s more fun to shop when you win money!

You could win 100,000 points (that’s equal to $100) when you enter the Sears LocalAd Sweeps on ShopYourWay SWEEPS Points.

Prizes. Play!

Sears Local Ad

 

Entering to win 100,000 points is not difficult.

  • You simply have to ‘follow’ the Sears LocalAd brand page on ShopYourWay
  • Then pick 5 must-haves from your local Sears store and add them to your ‘Wish List’ on ShopYourWay.
    For example: search grills on ShopYourWay, hover over the ones you like with your mouse and click ‘want.’ The products will automatically be added to your Wish List. Don’t worry about remembering this, the SWEEPS app will walk you through it.
  • Voila! In 5 minutes or less you’ll be entered to win $100 from Sears.
  • If you want two additional entries, all you have to do is share the Sweeps with your friends on Facebook & Twitter.

Now back to the original question, how will you spend your gift card?

This is a sponsored post. I am a Sears blogger, though all opinions are my own.