Check out the following video of Fiona enjoying Kideos and the Rhino Song before taking a nap.
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Before deciding on a guest post this week, I read through the comments on my last Calm, Cool, Connect blog post and found the perfect suggestion for connecting technology with my last month of pregnancy – thank you! I had not thought to download an application for timing contractions.
Naturally once I searched “pregnancy” on my phone, a plethora of options came forward. I opted for Contraction Master , which seemed worth the $0.99 investment. Childbirth class taught us to wait for 5-1-1, contractions lasting for 1 minute, 5 minutes apart for at least 1 hour. And now I have the perfect tool to track the timing and frequency of my contractions. My husband walked by as I was downloading the app, and commented that he needed it on his as well. This app will definitely eliminate the guesswork and provide a history of the contractions that can be emailed or at least shown to my nurse and doctor when I finally do arrive at labor and delivery.
I also downloaded the What to Expect app. Even though I only have a few weeks left, it’s calming to read that if I went into labor now, the baby is considered full term. And fun to know that moms expecting boys experience more of an increased appetite in the third trimester. Does that excuse the incredible sweet tooth I’ve developed as of late?
Nicole Anderson
Hello, everyone! I’m Nicole, an AT&T employee and soon-to-be-mom of a baby boy. My husband, Justin, and I are expecting our first child at the end of April. It’s been a year of big changes for us, as I relocated with the company last April from the San Francisco Bay Area to Dallas. Thankfully, my husband was able to maintain his career, working remotely from Dallas. I’m jealous he gets to go back to California every month or so, especially during the summer to beat the heat! Just as we started getting settled in Dallas – learning the neighborhood, what road led where, and I was getting up to speed on my new job – we found out we were pregnant! It has been an exciting, if overwhelming, journey for us. Critical during our relocation was the use of our smartphones. If we got lost, or if we needed to find a restaurant, e-mail our realtor or send a quick text, our smartphones didn’t let us down. Now with the text4baby program, I can get quick and informative baby advice sent directly to my phone. With all the hecticness in our work and lives, these texts create a quick moment to reflect on the big change coming in our lives and learn something about the new life we are forming. I look forward to sharing this experience with you through my blog posts, and learning more about how to use technology as a new mom. Is there an app that helps your baby sleep through the night?!Posted by Calm, Cool & Connected in Applications, Guest Blogger, SmartPhone, Uncategorized Tags: Guest Blog, iPhone applications, SmartPhone
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March
26Twitter Party Tonight!
Please join us tonight from 9:00 to 10 p.m. EDT for the rescheduled Twitter Party with Resourceful Mommy. We’ll be chatting about everything from how to use our smartphones to keep our busy lives organized to how technology can help new parents!
As part of tonight’s Twitter Party some amazing prizes will be given away including the new Motorola BackFlip™. Check it out here, and let us know what you think!
What feature would help keep you calm, cool, and connected if you had a BackFlip? Is it the never-before-seen QWERTY flip design? Or the PC-like web browsing? Or that you can sync with Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter from the home screen?
Posted by Calm, Cool & Connected in Contests, SmartPhone Tags: BlackBerry Bold, Contest, SmartPhone
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You may have seen your favorite celebs carrying the white BlackBerry® Bold™ 9000 smartphone, while at awards shows, grabbing coffee or at the hottest clubs.
The smartphone offers a full-QWERTY keyboard, as well as voice-guided GPS with turn-by-turn driving directions, local business search and more (additional charges apply). Plus, never miss an opportunity to capture the moment with the two megapixel camera, which features a built-in flash and 5x zoom.
Here is your chance to feel like a celebrity in your own right – we are giving away the white BlackBerry® Bold™ 9000 smartphone signed by top country artist Rascal Flatts!
Here’s how to enter:
1) Leave a comment here and tell us how the white BlackBerry® Bold™ 9000 will help keep you calm, cool and connected. Your e-mail address and phone number must be accurate in your comment so we’re able to contact you. Make sure you double check. (Your contact information won’t be published.)
2) You also can enter by writing a post on your blog answering the same question. Just be sure to leave a comment here linking to your post so we know where to find it.
No purchase necessary to enter or win. Void where prohibited. This sweepstakes runs from 12:01am ET Friday, March 26 to Monday, April 5, 2010, 11:59 pm ET. It is open only to individuals who, at the time of entry deadline, are legal residents of the United States and are 18 years or older; one entry per person. Wireless service is not included with the phone. The winner will be notified via phone on or about Wednesday, April 7, 2010. For complete contest rules, including eligibility, click here.
Posted by Calm, Cool & Connected in Contests, SmartPhone, Uncategorized Tags: Contest, SmartPhone
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Getting a new phone is always exciting, especially when you get your hands on one of the many exciting options offered by AT&T. That is doubly true for my mom and sister. Not long before the holiday season, they both were in need of a new phone. They weren’t ready for a smartphone, but liked a number of the new touch-screen phones available. After watching Stephanie’s Samsung Solstice review, and trying it out for themselves, both decided to go with the Solstice.
Then, the unexpected happened – my mom signed up for her first text messaging plan. Now, instead of a phone call asking us what new clothes Fiona needs, we get a SMS message requesting size and color preferences. Sometimes we get MMS messages detailing the day’s purchases. We’ve decided that my mom is officially dangerous when in close proximity to anywhere that sells baby apparel.
My mom even invents her own shorthand, apparently not happy with this generation’s LOL, TTYL, and L8Rs. I always knew I had a cool mom. Now, she further proves the point via SMS.
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Posted by Cory in Cory, SmartPhone Tags: Cory, SmartPhone, Texting
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March
5App Addict
After many months of trying to convince Amy that she needed a smartphone, the birth of our daughter Fiona became the deciding factor. Now, instead of sending SMS messages using a T9 interface, she’s tapping away at a touch-screen interface, texting faster than I could ever hope to. Her phone has become her go-to camera to take pictures of Fiona, and it’s how she checks her email.
Then there are the apps. Amy is officially ‘addicted’ to apps. She uses her smartphone to keep up with Facebook, check the weather, hunt for a new house, track workouts and food intake, play games, share pictures from our Flickr account, and keep up on parenting information, among other things. She just might be on her smartphone more than I’m on mine, which is saying something.
Does anyone else have a significant other who fought the transition to a smartphone, only to become ‘addicted’ to mobile apps?
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Posted by Cory in Applications, Cory, SmartPhone Tags: Cory, SmartPhone
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My journey as a guest mommy-to-be blogger continues this week on Calm, Cool & Connected, as I found a way through technology to hear my baby-to-be as opposed to just feel him wiggle and kick around.
At my prenatal check-up this week, my doctor measured my belly and listened to the baby’s heartbeat as per procedure. However, this time I thought it would be fun to keep the sound of my baby’s hearbeat with me instead of waiting another two weeks to hear it again. So I whipped out my Smartphone to use the Voice Memos app to record seven seconds of my little man’s heart beating away.
After my appointment, I sent the recording via text to my husband so he too could share in the reassuring sound of our little miracle. Take a listen yourself!
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Nicole Anderson
Hello, everyone! I’m Nicole, an AT&T employee and soon-to-be-mom of a baby boy. My husband, Justin, and I are expecting our first child at the end of April. It’s been a year of big changes for us, as I relocated with the company last April from the San Francisco Bay Area to Dallas. Thankfully, my husband was able to maintain his career, working remotely from Dallas. I’m jealous he gets to go back to California every month or so, especially during the summer to beat the heat! Just as we started getting settled in Dallas – learning the neighborhood, what road led where, and I was getting up to speed on my new job – we found out we were pregnant! It has been an exciting, if overwhelming, journey for us. Critical during our relocation was the use of our smartphones. If we got lost, or if we needed to find a restaurant, e-mail our realtor or send a quick text, our smartphones didn’t let us down. Now with the text4baby program, I can get quick and informative baby advice sent directly to my phone. With all the hecticness in our work and lives, these texts create a quick moment to reflect on the big change coming in our lives and learn something about the new life we are forming. I look forward to sharing this experience with you through my blog posts, and learning more about how to use technology as a new mom. Is there an app that helps your baby sleep through the night?!Posted by Calm, Cool & Connected in Applications, Guest Blogger, Nicole, SmartPhone
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I may be the only person on earth that never knew this, and if so, I have a ton of people to yell at! Like most people, I love the self-portrait. You know the one, where you are doing a big ol’ cheese for no one but yourself and take a photo and retake it until you are satisfied with it, then post it to Facebook, Twitter or in an mms to someone.
Well, I have always struggled with taking self-portraits using my Smartphone. I would think I know where the button is and then end up only capturing my chin, then go the opposite direction and only capture my forehead. (Maybe it should have been a clue to just stop taking pictures of myself, but that would be way too easy!) So I learned something new today and can’t imagine I’m the only one that did not know this piece of valuable information. When you go to take a self-portrait, press and hold, the key word is hold, the button down that captures the picture. It actually doesn’t take the picture until you release your hold! Uh -huh! Go ahead…try it now!
So, you can look at your device, get your finger in the right spot by placing it on the capture button and holding it down, turn your device and release when you are ready Bam! The picture has been captured. Genius, I tell ya! And I thought I knew a ton about the Smartphone.
Friday night, just to name one time, I carried two devices because I can’t leave home without my Smartphone, but also needed my Blackberry to capture self-portraits of me and my girlfriends. My life just got simpler as I continue to stay calm, cool and connected (or so I think on the cool part). Happy photo-taking!
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Posted by Brandy in Brandy, How To, Photos, SmartPhone Tags: Brandy, Photos, SmartPhone
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Walk into any baby store and you will find an endless number of infant car seat options. Every color is available, with a variety of accessories, head-rests, and sun shades, even different modes of installation. But how do you know what to buy?
A car seat is supposed to keep your baby safe in an automobile. All models claim to have a variety of safety features. But not all are created equal, and much depends on your own vehicle, not the car seat brand.
We started our search with a handy book (yes, a book – does anyone use those anymore?) that rated all baby equipment. This allowed us to determine the seats that are highly rated on ease of use, durability and accessories. We then visited carseatdata.org, where we searched for the best car seat from those compatible with our automobile. By cross-referencing between the book and the recommendations at carseatdata.org, we narrowed our options to a few. We then made our decision based on aesthetics. After all the legwork, the final decision was easy.
All of this sounds simple, but we have an extra step because our second car is a wheelchair van, which we use to transport my stepson. This vehicle is modified to meet my stepson’s needs and is not listed at carseatdata.org. For the car seat in this vehicle, we will visit a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST) to determine which seat will be best. Locating a CPST is easy – simply visit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website at nhtsa.gov to get a list of locations for technicians in your area. You can look it up on your Smartphone and then use your Smartphone to navigate to the nearest CPST.
Believe it or not, this was much easier than deciding on how to decorate the nursery!
Laura HernandezHello, my name is Laura, and I am a wife and working mom who has been with AT&T for 13 years. I am a mom who is about to be a mom for the first time – sounds confusing. I have a stepson with a disability who lives with us, and my husband and I are expecting our first child together in May. My stepson is completely dependent on technology to communicate, so if we want to communicate with him when we are not at home, e-mail and texting is the way to go. I use technology in every aspect of my life. Aside from using my Blackberry to stay connected to work issues, I use Navigator to get around my new city of Dallas, and I use multiple smartphone applications to manage grocery lists, get restaurant reviews or find important locations, like the shoe repair, tailor and, yes, even clean bathrooms. As two working parents juggling the demands our stepson presents us, we use technology to coordinate social schedules and yoga classes and to keep our friends and family up-to-date on happenings in our lives. More recently, I have used the internet to track how my pregnancy is progressing.
Posted by Calm, Cool & Connected in Guest Blogger, Shopping, SmartPhone Tags: Safety, Shopping
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Hey! I wanted to share with you a great AT&T Smartphone app, the RunKeeper. I use this application when exercising especially on my Saturday morning jogs. Check out my video where I show the handy features that are helping improve my workout.
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Do you have any Smartphone applications that are helping you stay fit?
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