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Rafaela Lamprou is a 24-year-old mother of two who gave birth to her son, Anjelo, seven months ago. Quickly after Anjelo was born, Lamprou realized that she was producing so much breast milk she was running out of room to store it all. More from CafeMom: Girl Trashed Her ‘Curvy’ Barbie for Being Fat & Her Mom’s Response is Perfection At first, the Lamprou reached out to her fellow moms to find people who would take the excess milk off her hands....

Disturbingly, Aptamil was under fire a mere few months ago for having beetles and live SPIDERS in the formula. Supposedly eggs got inside, were exposed to air when the seal was broken, then hatched. Ugh, I’m twitching just writing that. Sadly, we know this isn’t a foreign problem, since we had (thankfully) dead beetles in Similac powder not that long ago. Companies always stress that powdered formula can’t be sterile, and the process of making a bottle and killing things often falls on you, the parent....

And what better way to do it than to introduce your child to music, even during those quieter times. Turns out, there are brain benefits to it as well. I’ve exposed my kids to music since … well, conception. My children’ father is a musician and we both really enjoy listening to many different kinds of music. Every night from when my children were first born, we’d go to bed listening to classical music....

Wanna know what her (weird) secret is? Compression garments. Judd recently gave an interview in which she credited compression shorts that her doctor gave her for her crazy post-baby body. “Having a baby, my abdominal muscles separated by 8cm, which is huge. So as soon as I had Billie, my physio gave me compression shorts to wear, and I’ve been wearing them at home all the time,” she said, adding that the garments give “a little helping hand” at speeding up the weight loss process....

But even that’s not the main reason that I will continue to buy organic milk despite a shortage and the inevitable rising cost. Yes, the price of organic milk is going up — the short story is because it’s a lot more expensive to produce and farmers say they aren’t getting paid enough for it, so they have to cut back. For us, that means paying about 10 percent or about 40 cents more per half-gallon, which seems to last about 3 hours in my house of two bottomless pit elementary schoolers....

And now, she’s 1! As of her one-year check-up with the pediatrician, which happened this week, that little infant weighs 20 pounds and is 2'5" tall. She has teeth, six ridiculously cute ones. And her copper-colored hair, which fell out when she was about 6 months old, has now filled in and is starting to curl. She’s almost talking, this one. She says what appears to be “hi” and “bye” while waving....

David and Christen Epstein decided to change the name of their son, now 14 months, because the name no longer fit the heroic ideal they’d harbored from reading To Kill a Mockingbird. “When the new book came out, we just felt like, this does not at all encompass the values that we want for our son to have and know,” Christen explains. “And we felt like our son was young enough that we could change his name....

It can be motivating if you actually think that you can achieve that transformation. The photos can also be depressing because they can make you feel like you fall way behind on the fitness achievement scale. If you fall into the latter category, we have some news for you. These transformation photos, or photos of chiseled abs, thigh gaps or muscles, aren’t always accurate. Enter ‘plus-size’ model Iskra Lawrence. A photo posted by ?...

The condition itself is fairly common. Although experts haven’t been able to pin down whether it’s caused by hormonal changes, issues with the connective tissues in the belly, or maybe even something having to do with the placenta, it’s the most common skin condition that crops up during pregnancy. But Bostock’s was anything but common. Hers was spreading beyond her stomach — where it typically shows up on expectant women — to other areas of the body, covering her legs and arms in angry, red, painful pustules....

Like an elephant minus the trunk and the extra set of legs, yes. Like a MILF? Oh hell no people. But every time you start feeling like a giant wrapped around a bowling ball, remember the pregnancy fetishists. You know, the guys who think you’re one swelling mound of sexiness only when you have, um, a swelling mound in front of you. Where does one find one of these men?...

According to Buddy TV: “As an alternative, the network will move up the production date for the third season of Parks and Recreation shortly after the second season wraps up in order to stock up on episodes before Poehler takes her maternity leave.” It’s not uncommon. Here’s a list of other TV actresses who endured weeks of head-on shots, baggy lab coats and empire waist dresses to hide their baby bumps during tapings over the years: Julia Louis Dreyfus — Elaine frequently walked into Jerry’s living room on Seinfeld wearing oversized blazers and winter coats that she did not take off....

To help give you a bit more perspective, check out this decade-by-decade look at prom styles through the times, spanning from the 1950s up until today. Those frills! That poufy hair! And who wears shades in a prom photo? One look, and you’ll be glad you’re parenting in this decade … although we can only wonder what people will think of modern prom attire in 20 years or so. Egad, what’s more cringe-worthy — the 70s or the 80s?...

World renowned Hong Kong chef Alvin Leung is getting a lot of attention for his signature “Sex on the Beach” dish and it’s nothing like it sounds. The slithery pink, edible condom laid over powdered shiitake mushrooms (made to look like sand) conjures up some feelings all right, but sexy isn’t one of them. The sugar and water love glove is made by dipping a cigar tube into the mixture....

After much research, I’ve determined that the main thing you need to make your own Rudolph decorations, besides clothespins, is googly eyes. Oh, and a red puff ball for the nose, of course. He’s nothing without the nose. Also, you don’t have to paint him brown. If you leave the clothespins unpainted, he looks a little more formal, like he’s wearing a tux to an ’80s disco. Watch out John Travolta!...

More from CafeMom: This Mom Never Got a Push Present & 4 Kids Later, She’s Pissed “My true feeling is that sometimes, incorrectly, parents think it is funny to encourage their children to be disobedient in school, as this photo portrays,” another wrote. “Teaching a child, and in this case, rewarding a child (cool picture on Facebook for the WORLD to see) to be disobedient in school can, and will, lead to greater problems in the future....

“Sex Confessions” is a series featuring your naughtiest bedroom secrets and fantasies. Some will sound familiar, others may give you ideas, some will turn you on, and some are dark and twisted. You might want to sit down for this. Some people do really bad things and feel terrible about them. Others not so much. Like 40-something-year-old Kimberly* for example. She had sex with her husband’s best friend Lou*. Actually, she has been for around six months and she continues to have sex with him all behind her husband’s back....

Today’s sex confession comes from Anna* (*not her real name), a 36-year-old married mom of one school-age kid. She says she has a happy marriage — her husband is a great dad, he’s amazing at saving money, he still compliments her after almost 10 years of marriage — but he does insist on one thing that drives her crazy. He wants to have sex every day. He demands it. He says that if they don’t do it, it would ruin their marriage....

Do you a) thank the teacher for having such a dangerous job, which I’m sure the teacher never imagined in a million years would be a dangerous job when he or she signed up for it; b) explain to your child that during emergencies, sometimes you have to make adjustments — even embarrassing ones; c) demand an investigation and have your child talk to the media about this supposedly horrifically embarrassing incident....

Only one week after her twin daughters were born, mom and photographer Hayley Garnett took to Instagram to share an important message. “This morning Archer asked me what’s wrong with my belly,” she wrote, detailing what happened when her young son made notice of her stretch marks. More from CafeMom: New Mom’s Post-Baby Body ‘Transformation’ Photo Will Change the Way You See Stretch Marks th3littlestavenger/Instagram Hayley’s response was short, sweet, and incredibly real — so real that we’re almost shocked by how moving we found it....

Road trip. A road trip is a great bonding experience. Just the two of you, stuck in the car, with no interruptions. No kids, no computers, no housework. No kids means no unending DVDs of Hannah Montana or iCarly. No listening to today’s hits on the radio including that really annoying song by Far East Movement called “Like a G6.” No computer is a huge thing for me and my husband....