After losing her job on the TLC reality show Kate Plus 8 last year, Kate Gosselin has been fired yet again. This time, couponing website CouponCabin.com decided to severed ties with the mom of eight, who was a contributing blogger for the site.

In a statement posted directly to the website, founder and CEO Scott Kluth said he decided to part ways with the former reality star for personal and professional reasons.

“A series of recent events have made it clear to me that Kate Gosselin and her contributions do not align with the authenticity which we set out to build almost a decade ago,” he wrote. “Ms. Gosselin is simply not a good fit with the wonderful team and culture at CouponCabin.”

In light of recent abuse allegations that claim Kate hits her kids and has thrown them by their hair, it seems like a good idea for any company to distance themselves from the former John & Kate Plus 8 star.

The site could also be referencing Kate’s constant need for media attention, which seems more important than focus on being frugal — she recently visited Access Hollywood and Bravo’s late night show Watch What Happens Live!

What do YOU think of Kate being fired HollyMoms? Do YOU think that was a good decision by CouponCabin?

– Christina Stiehl

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Madonna says she doesn’t want Lourdes to be “a lazy writer” — but she’s only 15! Is the singer being TOO harsh on her daughter?

Madonna’s micromanaging has gone to a whole new level! The 53-year-old mom said she edits her teen daughter Lourde’s fashion blog to make it sound better, according to The Daily Mail!

Lourdes uses the pen name Lola on her Material World fashion blog. It features tips and advice from the view of a teen — but is it actually Madonna’s writing or Lourdes’?

“I proofread her blogs and edit them and give her a hard time when I think she’s being a lazy writer,” Madonna admitted.

Like practically any teen girl, Lourdes loves fashion and style, and Madonna claims her job is to “stand in the background and watch.” Um, Madonna, proofreading her blog is NOT standing in the background last time we checked!

HollyMoms, is Madonna being too hard on Lourdes? Or do you think it’s fair to push your child?

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Want to know what the essentials are for the 9 (10) months of pregnancy? HollyBaby.com Bloggers Sarah Main and Neil Eggleton fill us in on the items they couldn’t live without!

As we are FINALLY getting to the end of this pregnancy, I thought it would be smart for Neil and I to write down the top things that got us through. Every day I seem to be forgetting more and more what life was like 3 and 4 months ago, so hopefully this will help other HollyBaby Moms before they get baby amnesia as well. I have also polled some of the most fabulous moms and moms-to-be on this one, so know that I wasn’t alone. Here goes!

SHE SAID:

Prenatal Yoga
I was a bit skeptical at first only because at 12 weeks I felt like I could still do regular yoga, so why waste time chanting and sitting on blocks when I could do a one handed down-dog… (that may be an exaggeration). However, prenatal yoga has helped in SO many ways. I got to meet other pregnant moms and it was always exciting to see who was due when. I learned how to take care of my constantly changing body by stretching and preventing problems as opposed to dealing with them once it was too late. Most importantly; it just felt good.

Body/Wedge Pillow
I have to say this is not something I partook in, but every single woman I polled swore by theirs. Each had a different brand or strategy, but it seemed to be the #1 on everyone’s list.

A Pregnant Friend
This was a lifesaver!!! Having someone to talk to about things that were happening, or going to happen with your body, as well as someone who understood the hormonal imbalances you were going through (no matter WHAT he says Neil just did not get it) My freak-outs seemed a little less worrisome when I knew other completely normal rational women had cried over something trivial like closet doors, too.

Ice Cream
This was high in the poll as well. I have to admit, I absolutely indulged in the stuff myself, but I think that’s because I never allowed myself more than 4 oz of Tasti-D-Lite pre-pregnancy

Body Cream/Oil/Stretch Mark Lotion
There were a few brand differentials among people but the front runners were Bio-Oil, Palmers, Mamma Bee (Burt’s Bees) and a new one I’ve just heard of: Boob Tube.

Note Pads for Lists
This didn’t happen to me until the third trimester, but all of a sudden my brain was gone. I would drive all the way to the grocery store and completely forget what I needed. I felt so bad the next week I made a list, then forgot the list on the kitchen counter!!! This also helps when you get to the “Holy S%$t, I have SO much to do before the baby gets here” stage. Making lists and crossing things off makes the projects go by so much faster. I had one friend recommend putting items on the list that I had already completed just so I didn’t feel like NOTHING had been done.

HE SAID:
A Friend Who Has a Pregnant Wife or a Kid
Seek out friends who are going through a pregnancy, or who did so recently. This will help when you A) Think your wife has lost your mind or B) Your wife tells you that YOU have lost your mind.

Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy
Of all the pregnancy books, this was the easiest to read and takes a lot of the terror out of a prospective pregnancy. It also doesn’t sugar coat anything, which helps since Sarah stopped sugar coating around week 14.

Contingency Planning
Get some really good iPhone apps. Do you know where to get a reuben sandwich at one in the morning? You should. Know the location of all ice cream parlors within a 2 mile radius (use the AroundMe app for that) and just in case, put your wife’s doctor’s number in your phone.

The Ability to Count to 10
Sometimes you just have to realize she’s emotional, and rather than countering with a pithy or cutting remark, hold your tongue and think whether you want to carry the baby instead… this is one I’m still working on.

Sleep
According to friends with young children, you may as well get as much sleep now while you still can. And if that sleep has to be while relegated to the couch in order to accommodate a body pillow, white noise machine or anything else she needs to help her sleep, then so be it.

-Sarah Main and Neil Eggleton

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With summer ending and fall upon us, HollyBaby bloggers Sarah and Neil begin to build a ‘nest’ for their baby. But it’s proving a bit more challenging than they thought.

It’s one of the toughest things to do before your new addition arrives — baby-proofing your house! And HollyBaby.com‘s Sarah Main & Neil Eggleton are struggling with the basics — like what to do with the cat & kitty litter! Can you help?

SHE SAID:
Most people talk about the fact that once a woman becomes pregnant she begins to “nest.” However, I think it’s once a woman gets married. I had never looked at a china pattern or flatware with quite as much enthusiasm as I did once we registered for our wedding. On top of that, I still look forward to when we entertain so I can pull out all my fine china and crystal glasses. I figured prepping for the baby would be just as exciting. But nesting for a baby is VERY different.

I now have to find a “safe and secure” location for my wine glasses. Before, I had always hoped they would be in the most convenient location to the door when walking in from a particularly hellish day at work. Our liquor cabinet has always been an open storage cupboard, but I’m pretty sure Child Protective Services wouldn’t approve of the Bombay Sapphire themed nursery. So as I look around our Brooklyn apartment it has become a “Sophie’s Choice” of items from our pre-baby life.

One item I am very happy to include in our home is our family crib. It was mine when I was born and has remained in the family for many (no, I’m not going to say HOW many) years. However with time comes wear and tear and a few safety regulations that have been updated. So the next few weekends will be spent power sanding off old paint and turning a drop side crib into a secure “fortress of sleep” I just hope the baby likes it!

So HollyBaby Moms, what are the nesting items you just had to have with your little one? And what are the “adult items” you refused to get rid of with a bambino on the way?

HE SAID:
Labor Day traditionally marks the end of summer, and the holiday weekend has usually been greeted in the Eggleton household as reason to get out the house, enjoy the last of the warm weather, host a barbeque or a picnic in the park.

So come Friday, I was so excited to leave the office and start…sanding down baby furniture. It wasn’t quite what I had in mind, but Sarah’s father had sent the crib that she had used as a baby, and it needed some serious renovation. What followed was a crash course in the difference between various palm-held and random orbit sanders, and how to make a drop-side crib into one with fixed sides. I’m sure that a new crib would have been a lot easier and would have left me at least one day to relax or play golf, but the crib has sentimental value, and I’m now learning that you can never win an argument with a pregnant lady.

Regardless of whether the crib was done or not, there’s a list of other upgrades that need to take place before baby arrives. Probably the first thing is to pack off to storage all the stuff that is going to be superfluous to our new lifestyle; Sarah will be happy that the water skis are going to be pulled out of hibernation from the back of my closet, but that also means her shoe and handbag collections are about to be pared back from Imelda Marcos level of exuberance.

The one thing I am not sure of is how to “baby-proof” an apartment. I know we will need to put catches on the cupboard doors, we should probably move the alcohol into a closed cabinet, and consideration needs to go into what to do with the cat litter (one of my re-occurring nightmares involves the baby crawling into the litter tray), but what else needs to be done? Thanksgiving Day is less than three months away and that’s a four-day holiday! I could use some help HollyDads, what handy safety protectors are a “must”?

–Sarah Main and Neil Eggleton

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Sarah and Neil have started the search for the perfect baby boy name. Kingston? Ryder? Zuma? Bentley? Bear? They need your suggestions!

Now that they know the gender of their unborn child, HollyBaby.com bloggers Sarah and Neil are finding themselves stumped on a name. Can you HollyBaby.com readers help?
HE SAID:
Last week, we found out the gender of our baby, so the next step was easy, just deciding on the name for our little boy. We had our secret baby names for a boy and a girl, so I was pretty sure that it would be a simple case of choosing one of a half dozen agreed names for a second name and we would be done. What I’m not sure on is how we got to be sitting in a traffic jam for an hour and half on a Friday night, going through a book of baby names, and only getting from Z to T.

I’m sure I could trace the root of the issue back to the 3-D picture from the ultrasound – in Sarah’s opinion, the baby just didn’t look like the name we had agreed on a long time prior to getting pregnant, although that could be another source of the conflict, the fact that the name had been bouncing around for so long. In my opinion, the name checks the boxes on the baby-naming checklist: it is classic yet not flavor-of-the-month, there is a link to an older relative, it is a shorter name (to go with a longer surname), and as far as we can tell there are no ex-boyfriends in Sarah’s past or playground bullies in my past that share the name. Plus it just sounds like a name that I can visualize calling my son, or so I thought.

Whatever the source of the contention, I was obviously being closed-minded, and rather than argue the rationality of it with a pregnant woman, we pulled out the baby names book as we tried to escape Hurricane Irene through the Holland Tunnel.

As if traffic jams are not bad enough, having every name beginning with the letter Z really makes it feel like death by a thousand cuts. However, the experience was educational and there were a couple of take-aways. First rule of baby-naming, if you cannot pronounce the name, it’s probably not the right name for your child. Second rule of baby naming is that it’s not a cut-and-dry process, it seems that this will be a lively topic of conversation all the way up to when our little boy is born, and probably beyond. And we haven’t even started to canvas opinions from friends and family yet.

The reassuring part of this is that of all the parents that I have spoken to, none have regretted choosing the name that they ended up giving to their child, so is a light at the end of this particular tunnel…. Much like the Holland at 5pm on Friday.

SHE SAID:
I always thought that when the time came I would know exactly what the baby’s name would be. Since we were convinced we were having a girl we really only focused on that, and I’m pretty sure that name was locked and loaded. Once we found out Baby BOY Eggleton was on the way all bets were off.

When Neil and I were still dating, long before joint tax returns and living in Brooklyn, he told me that he had two “secret baby names” that he liked; One boy’s name and one girl’s name. I don’t think I realized at the time that those were the ONLY names he liked.

Once we saw the 3-D sonogram, I became unsure about what the baby’s name should be. We had a few “guidelines” we wanted to stick to, but other than that I was at a total loss. So out came the baby name book, and I have to say…. It really didn’t help. Half the names I couldn’t pronounce or understand. The other half was just one name with a letter changed (Example: James turned into Tames). It probably didn’t help that we decided to go through the book backwards as well. There aren’t a whole lot of X names I like.

So I’m turning to you HollyBaby Readers… We tend to lean towards shorter first names. We like classic, but current is fine. We don’t want to just name our baby a word, the name should be a name people have at least heard once before. (Apple and Pippa will NOT be considered) So….. we’re open to suggestions, tell us your thoughts.

–Neil Eggleton and Sarah Main

–Sarah Main and Neil Eggleton

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So A Family Grows in Brooklyn readers, are YOU ready for the big reveal? Sarah & Neil found out the sex of their baby! Read more to see if Baby Eggleton is a boy or a girl!

HE SAID:
We are now in the twentieth week of the pregnancy, so today Sarah and I went to Lenox Hill Hospital for the Level 2 Ultrasound. Sarah had had this one marked on the calendar for some while, and had even sent me an Outlook invite so that there would be no chance of me double-booking with a meeting.

The Level 2 Ultrasound is primarily to check that the anatomy of the fetus is developing normally, but we were excited, as we knew we would be coming away with confirmation of our long-held belief that we were going to be having a baby girl.

Going in for the scan, neither of us had a great preference for the sex of our baby, just the hope that all was proceeding on track and the baby was healthy, but for reasons mostly related to family history and gut feeling, our selection of wallpaper samples featured flowers, butterflies and fairies in various shades of pink.

The examination began with the ultrasound technician liberally applying jelly to Sarah’s bump, and then started by looking at the baby’s bone structure. It was a little shocking at one point — during one of the views of the baby’s head, I thought we would be having a baby Skeletor. However, that was nothing compared to the surprise when the technician switched the monitor to a 3D view of the baby’s face – seeing the baby’s face as clearly as that really makes your heart jump and I was not expecting to be so emotionally taken.

So the scan moved over the rest of the baby’s body and everything seemed to be going smoothly; heartbeat strong, spine in good order, there are the kidneys, all the toes and leg bones accounted for, and there is the penis… My first thought was — oh my god, our baby girl has a penis! When it dawned on me that our baby girl was actually going to be a baby boy, I was excited, but not nearly as excited as Sarah was. I still stand by my mantra that all I wish for is a healthy baby, and I was most excited when the doctor had examined the scans and confirmed that everything was going smoothly.

I would say that looking back on the day, I feel as though the way we found out was a little anti-climatic — “and there is the penis” — as opposed to something akin to a golden envelope being opened at the Oscars, but our own excitement that we shared more than made up for it.

Next up — wallpaper shopping. Should we go cars and trucks, or dinosaurs?

SHE SAID:
Since the day we found out we were pregnant we both felt pretty confident that we would be having a girl. We focused on girls’ names, looked mostly at girls interior design elements for the nursery and even referred to the baby as “she” on more than one occasion.

With the anatomy scan on the calendar for the last few weeks I began to wonder, “Will I be upset if this doesn’t go how I plan.” (This was in the pregnant Carry Bradshaw voice in my head obviously.)

Because there are only 3,963,296 things to worry about during your pregnancy I decided to add in another factor “What if they tell me one gender and I suddenly realize I wanted the other?” This growing fear crept up on me for a few weeks. I’m the type of person who shakes my Christmas presents… I don’t do well with surprises. (Ask Neil about the “luggage incident of 2009”). I also began to feel like I would be a bad parent for realizing that I really DID have a preference a little too late.

When we walked into the exam room the ultrasound tech asked a series of questions: “How old are you?” “Is this your first child?” “Would you like to know the gender?” I basically yelled, “YES!” After looking at image after image of bones, internal organs, blood, penis…….. WAIT, WHAT!? Yes: penis.

I cried.

Tears of pure pure joy. I suddenly realized that this was exactly what I wanted. I was going to be the proud mother to a son.

I spent the whole rest of the day walking around New York with “pudding face,” you know, the huge grin. This is the first boy in my family for three generations. I cannot wait for him to get here!

Neil Eggleton and Sarah Main

–Sarah Main and Neil Eggleton

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Congratulations go out to Alexandra Osipow and her husband A.J.! The happy couple welcomed a baby boy on May 25 named Alden Alexander Vissicchio.

Alex, who appeared on Cw’s High Society, has been blogging with HollyBaby.com for the past few months, filling all of us in on the joys and “bumps” of pregnancy!

Check out some of her entries and send Alex some new mom tips!

Congratulations again, Alex ad welcome to the world baby Aiden! YAY!

–Leigh Blickley

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As the new mom-to-be blogger for HollyBaby, I’m excited to tell you about the trials, tribulations, cravings and a public wardrobe malfunction that will all happen before I meet my new son!

Alexandra Osipow, 32, is one of New York City’s most sought after socialites. Her leading role on the recently taped CW show High Society furthered her notoriety in the New York Social Scene. In 2008, she married Andrew Vissichio, a Wall Street trader, with a keen eye for the arts. They are currently expecting their first child in June, in addition to the three children Andrew has from his previous marriage, aged 16, 14, and 11. Here is her story about finding out she was pregnant! 

So there it was. That second pink line—the line that I had been anticipating for the last two weeks.  Wait….was I seeing things? Is it disappearing?  I called my husband in the bathroom for a second opinion regarding that “extra pink line.”

Despite the fact that my husband was beyond elated, he repeated  in a monotone voice, “Of course, honey, there is STILL a second line.” Mind you, this was my fifth pregnancy test!!  I just had to make sure!

My husband and I have been married for two years now, and I couldn’t wait to be pregnant and become a mother.  I couldn’t wait for it all! I have been (and obviously will continue to be) a stepmother to three wonderful children. But this was a new and exciting time for us. All of which, we had to keep a secret until the calendar hit three months.

How did we keep such good news a secret?  Well, I wanted to shout it to the world. And not just from the rooftops, but on Facebook and Twitter! We each told our respective parents, who were thrilled and excited to say the least. And all the others would just have to wait. Between the trips to the bathroom, the mild instability from mood swings and moodiness, my insatiable appetite, and constant fatigue, the time flew by.

For me, the immediate fatigue was one of the most difficult initial changes that I went through. I had always been a person with lots of energy. I had the ability to work during the day, have a continued enthusiasm to attend events, and socialize with friends ‘til the wee hours of the morning. But this was totally new to me. I was lethargic all the time. Any possible downtime I had, my eyes were closed. I was tired in the morning, tired after a nap, tired after a meal, but of course I couldn’t fall asleep at night at a proper bedtime. I found that in order for me to function in the world around me, I had to close my eyes sometime through out the day.

For my husband, he had to adapt to my ever changing food cravings. Because when I  craved it, I had to have it NOW!  From waking up my husband in the middle of the night for a grapefruit, to my odd request for a Jamba Juice at 11:30 at night, to him pleading with a pizza place to open its door after closing time (which he succeeded in doing), he had to satisfy my every whim. The guilt of my demands and my somewhat diva behavior unfortunately did not outweigh my indulgences.

With my newfound appetite, I shouldn’t have been at all surprised when my favorite dress no longer fit like a glove, but rather fit like a glove that was two sizes too small! I was heading to an important event that evening, and as I tried to shimmy into my leopard print Dolce and Gabbana dress (as seen on CW’s High Society), it dawned on me that it was time…time to edit my closet.  Once I finally wrangled a barely closing zipper, I looked in the mirror to see a reflection of something that did not at all resemble my body. Though my husband greatly appreciated my new voluptuous figure and thought it was hot, hot, hot, stuffing myself into that dress made me feel more like the cartoon character Jessica Rabbit! I felt very uncomfortable letting those new puppies loose into the wilderness without any proper support. I didn’t enjoy wearing something that left little to the imagination.

Overall, this just wasn’t me anymore. I could still be sexy, but this just wasn’t worth it. And one thing my mother always said, it doesn’t matter what you wear, as long as you wear it with confidence. So rather than trying to pry myself into a dress using a shoe horn, I hung up it up and with no reservation, traded in my tailored Dolce and Gabbana dresses and tight-fitting bandage Herve Legers, for something a little bit more comfortable.

–Alexandra Osipow

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