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Melamine: Good for sturdy plastic plates, bad to ingest. And I'm very worried that my two daughters have been exposed to huge doses of it, courtesy of tainted formula in China. So I've been spending a lot of time bugging my pediatrician, trolling boards and contacting international adoption physicians (this is actually a specialty) to see what we should do.  Read more >

Halloween's just slightly below my daughter's birthday and Christmas in terms of big deals in our house. And so, we're already starting to plot out our holiday plans. Here's how we celebrate it: 1. We take the day off. Otherwise, we tend to miss giving out candy to the early-bird trick-or-treaters (i.e. the cutest little ones). 2. We give out the good stuff. No Bit-o-Honey or Smarties from us. It's mini candy bars all the way, and several of them for each trick-or-treater.  Read more >