RSVP Cards - will match your invitation!

We received another great customer question we wanted to post.

Question:  Do you do reply cards for baptisms?  
Ms. C.

Answer:  Yes we do reply cards, also known as rsvp cards, for all of our non photo invitations – - birthday party invitations, baby shower invitations and baptism invitations!  The cost is 0.50 cents each and will match the design on your invitation.   The best news is that it does not add any additional cost on to your shipping.   

 As with all of our printed products, nothing is “pre-printed”, meaning that we design everything just for you.  This means that you can also use the reply cards to instead provide directions to your guests.

How Do I Order the RSVP Cards?  For baby shower invitations, we’ve made things very easy.  There is an option on your baby shower invitation order form to add rsvp cards on to your order. 

 For baptisms and party invitations, there  are two ways you can order.

1. On the order form you are filling out for your invitations, there is a place to add additional comments or instructions.  It is there you can let us know how many rsvp cards you would like.   After we receive your order, we’ll confirm with you.

2.  You can place your order for invitations online.  Once you receipt your order number, you can email us at email@miraclemunchkins.com and reference your order number.  Just let us know the quantity.

That’s all there is to it!

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Happy New Year Bloggers!  We have some exciting changes coming this year to our website.  We will be unveiling a whole new look, a new logo and  some exciting new designs and products.  

Along with that comes some great savings and discounts!  For the entire month of January, we will be offering Free U.S. Ground Shipping off of our printed items for every order of $55 or more!  This is a great value and available only  for future orders if you visit blog.

To redeem your coupon: enter “Jan Shipping” (without the quotes) inside the shopping cart where it asks for your voucher code.  Once you Recalculate your order total, you will see a discount added to your order for the same amount as the cost of ground shipping.

Maternity Dress from BellaBluMaternity.com

I was looking through some old family photos and came across a few from my mother’s generation where some of my relatives were wearing some “not so fashionable” maternity clothes.  I was actually going to post some photos to do a before and today comparison but for fear of being banned from future family gatherings, I’ll have to stick to just posting some today photos.

Maternity Top from BellaBluMaternity.com

They have much more than that though. With a great selection of
maternity jeans, maternity tops, and maternity pajamas, you are sure to find what you are looking for.  One of my favorite tops is pictured on the right.  I would have loved to have worn this one. 

One of my favorite categories of offerings is their maternity swimwear. When I was pregnant in my later months, swimming was one of the few things I could do to find relief from the baby’s weight.  Okay, it wasn’t so much swimming as just getting in the water and relaxing, but you get my point.  It was so hard to find a maternity bathing suit.  I actually ended up having to borrow one that didn’t fit that great.  Having a website that offers maternity swimsuits year round is priceless in my opinion.

Maternity clothes are available in both petite and plus size. Sizing charts are available to help make sure you get the right size.  Information on returns, exchanges and shipping can be easily found on the website along with their contact information.  If you aren’t in the market yourself for maternity clothes, they also have gift certificatesavailable.  I also love the fact that you can create registery and easily add to the registry what items you would love to have.

 I thought I’d leave you with one more item that they sell that I certainly could have used while pregnant. I think the image to the left says it all. 

 Don’t forget to tell them that you heard about them from the Munchkin Mutterings Blog

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Baby Shower Place Cards

Sometimes we receive questions from existing customers or new customers that we don’t have answers to posted on our frequently asked questions page.  This baby blog is a great place to go mention a question that we might receive that seems especially pertinant.

We recently received just this question and we thought might be something others are wondering about as well. As always, personal information such as full names, email addresses etc are kept private. At MiracleMunchkins.com, your right to privacy is always respected.

QUESTION: Do you print place cards?  You did my daughter’s baby shower invitation and we were so pleased that we were wondering if you did other cards as well.
thanks
Ms. C.

ANSWER:  Yes, we do and we can match the place cards to your invitation or even use any one of our other designs. We can do them folded up so that they stand up on the person’s plate (like a tent fold) or as a flat card that you will put in a holder.  You can even choose to write your guests names on the place cards once you receive them and you can optionally also have a place for table numbers.  The places cards are 3″x2″ and are 50 cent each.

How do I order? This is a special request order and there is NO additional charge to you.  You will just send us an email at email@miraclemunchkins.com letting us know you are looking for place cards and we’ll go from there.  It’s that simple! 

Will I receive a proof?  Absolutely, you will receive an emailed proof of the place cards before we print!

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I hope everybody had a happy and healthy Thanksgiving!  

While my family gathered around the dinner table for our Thanksgiving meal, I was quickly reminded it was cold and flu season by all the coughing, sniffling and sneezing going on around me.  Luckily everybody seemed to be in various stages of having some type of cold rather than something more serious; all except for one relative who seemed to have the flu.  As he started getting his fever, I was immediately grateful that I received my flu shot several weeks ago.

I have personally found that the flu shot has really helped reduce my chances of getting the flu during the main part of flu season.  However, as many of the visitors to this website are pregnant, what about them – - should pregnant women also get flu shots?

Did you know that women who will be pregnant during flu season are now on the Center for Disease Control and Preventions recommended list on who should get the flu vaccine?  http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm  The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) also agrees with this recommendation.

Originally the flu vaccine was recommended only for women who would be in their third trimester during flu season. That was recently changed to include all trimesters because according to the CDC, pregnant women are more likely to suffer severe complications from the flu than are women who are not pregnant.  A recent study also suggested that with the flu vaccination, protection from the flu is provided for both the mother and baby.  This study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicated that newborns whose mothers received the flu vaccine while pregnant had a 63% reduction in influenza. The full study can be found here – http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/15/1555

However, giving the flu vaccination to pregnant women is not without controversary.  The majority of influenza vaccines available currently contains thimerosal (mercury); see – - http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/ABOUT/QA/thimerosal.htm  While not everybody is concerned about thimerosal in vaccinations, it clearly is an issue for quite a few women. Currently only about 14% of women are vaccinated for the flu.  If you are unaware about thimerosal and why concern exists, www.safeminds.org has a lot of information.

According to the ACOG,  “there is no evidence showing that thimerosal is a danger to the health of the pregnant woman or her fetus.”  While at face value that statement is true, it is misleading because there has been no research, therefore there is no data, either way regarding the safety to the fetus. 

If you are concerned about mercury in vaccinations, the good news is that thimerosal-free flu vaccinations do exist!  You just may need to make a few phone calls until you find a doctor’s office that stocks the thimerosal-free version.  In addition, within the last several years, six states –California, Delaware, Missouri, New York, Washington and Illinois– have enacted laws that ban the use of the thimerosal-containing vaccines in both children under 36 months of age as well as pregnant women.   More states have legislation pending.

The bottom line is do some of your own research so that you have the knowledge to make an informed decision that is best for both you and your baby and talk openly to your OBGYN. 

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Information on this site is provided for informational purposes only and is not meant to substitute the advice provided by your own doctor.

Back when I was in 6th grade, my teacher excitedly announced to our class that we were getting two new students in our grade and there was something very special about them — they were twins! Not only did we not have any other twins in our grade, but there were also no twins in the closest grades above or below us. If I remember correctly, you had to jump about 3 or 4 years ahead before there were any other twins. Fast forward to today… in my daughters grade in our school district alone there are two sets of twins and one set of triplets.

Did you know that according to the CDC website, the rate of twin births in the U.S. has increased 42% since 1990 and a whopping 70% since 1980. That’s a lot of twins and a lot of parents of twins who could use a good resource for twin pregnancy, twin childbirth and twin parenting. I found such a resource over the course of my internet travels that focuses on these areas: Twin Pregnancy and Beyond which is located at www.twin-pregnancy-and-beyond.com

This website was founded by a mom of twins who was having a difficult time finding good online support and information for a twin pregnancy and beyond that. There is a lot of really helpful information on this website; a week by week pregnancy guide, as well as labor and delivery information that includes a great YouTube video about natural twin births. You’ll also find some very emotional YouTube videos showing actual twin births. This is an interactive website where parents can share stories, post photos, as well as ask questions for an OBGYN to answer.  The website extends beyond pregnancy and childbirth and in to the parenting of twins as well.

I must admit though that my very favorite area was the photo gallery. There are several different photo galleries such as ultrasounds photos and breastfeeding photos but I absolutely loved those twin belly photos!

My review is really only scratching the surface of twin-pregnancy-and-beyond.com, so go check them out and if you get a chance tell them that Miracle Munchkins sent you!

www.MiracleMunchkins.com/twins.htm

Holiday Birth Announcements - NonPhoto Style

The previous blog was about a common trend of combining holiday greeting cards and a birth announcement together as one card.  The focus was on photo style birth announcements, however, that is not the only option.  Non-Photo style holiday birth announcements are part of this exciting trend as well.  What better way is there to send a holiday greeting than by sharing the exciting news of the new addition to your family!

We have many styles and designs available – for girls, boys, twins, and with siblings; we have both light and dark skin tones, designs with snow, stockings, angels, mittens, holiday-themed storks, and much more.

Where can find your designs? You’ll find the non photo style holiday birth announcements here – http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/holiday_birth_announcements.htm

What about siblings? We have an entire line of cards devoted to including siblings on the birth announcements located here – http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/holiday_siblings_announcements.htm This includes multiple siblings of all different genders and designs including twins.

More Details: You can have your choice of 3 different paper finishes for your birth announcement.  You’ll select your choice on the order form;  A 5″x7″ Soft-gloss photo finish, 5″x7″ matte finish or a 3.5″ x 5″ magnet.  All paper finishes are professionally printed for exceptional quality.

As with all of our printed announcements and invitations, you’ll receive a free emailed proof to review before printing to make sure your order is excactly the way you like!

One of the very first things we want to do for our bloggers is offer free stuff!  Who couldn’t use something for free??  So for the entire month of November 2008, we will be offering Free U.S. Ground Shipping off of our printed items for every order of $55 or more!  This is a great value and available only if you visit blog.

To redeem your coupon: enter “Nov Shipping” (without the quotes) inside the shopping cart where it asks for your voucher code.  Once you Recalculate your order total, you will see a discount added to your order for the same amount as the cost of ground shipping.

Need a faster shipping method?  If you need a faster shipping method such as 2 day air or next day air but still want to use the coupon, no problem at all!  Just select which shipping method you need, enter in the voucher code and you will still receive a discount in your shopping cart good for the amount of ground shipping.  This means that your 2 day air or next day air shipping cost will be cheaper for you.

What products is the coupon good for?  The free U.S. ground shipping is good for orders over $55 for all printed items such as our entire birth announcement line (every single style!) holiday cards, party invitations, baby shower invites, baptism invitations, thank you cards, and candy wrappers. 

Where can I find these printed products?  Just visit our website at www.miraclemunchkins.com 

• Our entire line of birth announcements can be found at http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/birth_announcements.htm
• A good starting place for all invitations is http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/invitations.htm
• Thank you notes can be found here http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/thankyounotes.htm
• Candy wrappers – http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/wrappers_shower.htm

Any questions, just email us at email@miraclemunchkins.com and we’ll be happy to help or post in the comment section below

We are so excited to introduce Munchkin Mutterings – A Miracle Munchkins Blog!! We will be posting about trends, information on our website, your frequently asked questions about our birth announcements and baby shower invitations and interesting articles we’ve read on subjects such as parenting, pregnancy, babies, and raising children.  We’ll even offer coupons and discounts on our MiracleMunchkins.com website just for bloggers.   We also hope to hear from you!!

If you have an interesting story or information to tell us, email it to us at blogger@MiracleMunchkins.com Tell us about your Miracle Munchkin(s), tell us your birth story, your pregnancy story, or send us your munchkins photo to post.  Do you have any advice to give on throwing a great baby shower or parenting?  How about a cause we need to know about – -we want to hear from you!  If we pick your story to post, we’ll enter you in a drawing to win a personalized teddy bear for your little munchkin.  You can shop for personalized teddy bears at http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/bears.htm  Contest details can be found at http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/blog_stories.htm

So start typing bloggers and email us your blogging stories at blogger@MiracleMunchkins.com