Wallypop on TV

Customer Jen Graham reports:

I just wanted to let you know that the Mei Tai you made for me is in on TV! We are on the TLC show Bringing Home Baby and they show my husband and me wearing your mei tai on the episode. It is re-airing on December 19th. the name of [...]

Craft Saturday

Craft Saturday was a lot of fun! Thanks to those of you who came out! Hopefully, we’ll see the rest of you at the next one in March!

Free Tickets for Business of Being Born

Wallypop is giving away two free tickets to one local customer. Any area resident who places an order (for $10 or more) with Wallypop between October 15 and October 31 will have their name entered into a drawing for the two tickets. Winner will be notified by phone on November 1.
Please note that ICAN has [...]

The Business of Being Born

Simul-posting at all my blogs.
Central Iowans have an opportunity next month to see an awesome film about childbirth in America – The Business of Being Born is a movie about the business of childbirth in this country. In the film, actress and former talk show host Ricki Lake and filmmaker Abby Epstein draw [...]

The Stork Affair

Today, we had a booth at Mercy Hospital’s Stork Affair, which is a baby event they have once or twice a year. Every year is better, it seems – the first year I was there (3 years ago) most people walked by with their noses turned up, but every event since then seems to have [...]

Green Lifestyle

simlu-posted at Natural Living Des Moines.
There was an environmental rally in Des Moines on Saturday. I wasn’t there. But I’m disappointed. I can’t tell if it’s disappointment at the event or, more likely, at the media coverage. “Green Lifestyle” in the media seems to equal carpooling, walking, or riding the bus.
Which is certainly important. Carpooling [...]

April is Cesarean Awareness Month

April is Cesarean Section Awareness Month.  Last year, over 1 million c-sections were performed in the United States.  The c-section is now, sadly, the most common surgery performed in the U.S. 
The hundreds of thousands of unnecessary c-sections have been shown to have no benefit on maternal-child outcomes, while putting an additional strain on our already overburdened medical and insurance industries. 
To help fight the growing [...]

Oh Baby Review

As mentioned earlier, Wallypop had a table at the Oh Baby event at Methodist Hospital. We shared a booth with The Stork Wearhouse, since we are, after all, in the same industry, not to mention good friends! It’s a long day, with a lot of standing and saying the same things over and over. But [...]

Oh Baby!

Wallypop will once again have a booth at Methodist Hospital's Oh Baby event, which will be held April 1, 8-11:30 and 1-4:30. This event is geared towards new or expectant parents, and features vendors from a number of local companies, as well as several nonprofits. Most of the booths are very mainstream, and there are [...]