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Topanga from “Boy Meets World” Is Pregnant with a Boy of Her Own

by Erica Loop

Add another celeb to the list of soon-to-be mommies, because actress Danielle Fishel is pregnant. You may still think of Fishel as Cory Matthews’ girlfriend Topanga from Boy Meets World. But now the actress who played Topanga is all grown up, married and is about to become a mama for the first time!

The star recently announced her baby news in a super sweet Instagram post:

In her IG announcement, Fishel posted a pic of three pairs of shoes on IG: one for daddy, one for mommy and one teeny tiny pair of sneakers for baby. Along with the aww-dorable photo, Fishel added the caption, “I’m eating for two. I’m napping with wild abandon. Baby shoes. Baby clothes. (I’m shopping). I’m nesting. I’m reading books. I’m madly in love with my husband. I cry at commercials. I’m a walking cliché. I’ve got baby apps. I’m confident. I feel inadequate. I’m showing one day and the next I’m not. I’m nervous. I’m excited. He’s due in July. We can’t wait.”

Fishel is expecting her first child, a boy, with husband Jensen Karp, an executive producer in Hollywood. The pair tied the knot in early November 2018.

Fishel isn’t the only one who is super-excited about her pregnancy. Karp shared their happy baby news in his own ‘Gram, writing “GUYS. We’re having a baby boy. Couldn’t be more excited to raise a sweet little dumpling with @daniellefishel.”

Congrats to the Boy Meets World star—and we know the world can’t wait to meet your boy!

—Erica Loop

Featured Photo: Danielle Fishel via Instagram 

 

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6 Easy Apps to Organize & Print Baby Photos

by Julie Seguss

You’ve been taking photos non-stop since your baby was born. But are the best ones drowning in a sea of unorganized jpg’s on your phone? Don’t let all of those adorable snaps go unseen. Here are a few easy ways to print your favorites, design photo books your kids will treasure and create keepsakes with your best shots.

Turn Your Social Feed Into Tangible Books

You dream of designing a beautifully laid out photo book for each of your baby’s months, or even years, of life. But then reality sets in – personal time is virtually non-existent in the first year! Let Chatbooks be your hero. The app pulls in photos from your Instagram or Facebook feed to make 60-page little soft-back photo books that are totally affordable. You can set it up to automatically print a book each time 60 new photos appear. Though you’ll get a notice in advance so you can change the cover image or delete any that aren’t your favorites. You can also add photos from your camera roll or create books that aren’t based on your feed. When your kids get older, they’ll love flipping through the easy-to-hold volumes.

Available at chatbooks.com, $8 per book.

Create Monthly Photo Books Made for Sharing

Do Grandma and Grandpa asked for printed photos of your baby every time they visit? Then they’ll love Groovebook. Using the app, select 40-100 of your favorite photos each month to get printed in a book. The images are on perforated pages so friends and family can tear out favorites (if you let them, that is!). You can also add on a gift subscription. This service is incredibly budget-friendly, so go ahead and share!

Available at groovebook.com, $2.99 per month plus tax.

Embrace The No-Effort Way to Make Photo Books

If you think making a beautiful designed, hard cover photo book is out of your skill set, think again. Nowvel’s iOS app has the most genius technology that scans through your camera roll and selects the best images from every event, milestone and moment. Then it lays out 20-100 of them in a photo book for you, featuring different sized images that make it look completely professional and personalized. Once it’s generated you can go in and edit or replace images and add text as you wish. These are high-quality books that will last through years and years of browsing through memories.

Available at nowvel.com, prices vary by book size and style, $15-$45.

Join A Private Online Journal With Printing Options

Don’t want to share your babies most precious moments with all of your Facebook friends? 23snaps offers a private feed you can share with only your closest friends and family. It’s a great spot to store your top pics (and videos) – they’ll be displayed in chronological order and you can create a separate feed for each of your children. What’s more? You can easily order tangible photos, too. Choose from either 4×4-inch square prints or traditional 4×6-inchers. Or design 8-inch square hard or softcover books.

Available at 23snaps.com, $0.30 per print, $38+ for hardcover books and $31.99 for softcover books.

Store All of Your Best Shots

Make a habit out of uploading your favorite snaps once a month to Flickr’s app and not only will you ensure your photos are safe from any broken or lost phone incidents, but also you’ll create a timeline of great shots you can share and organize into albums. You get 1,000GB of space, which means you can upload a ton of hi-res images before you have to start paying for the service. In the interest of protecting your broods privacy, you can choose to have your photos be seen just by friends and family who you invite to your feed. You’ll also love that you can edit photos directly on the app.

Available at flickr.com, free.

Print Photos from Your Phone in an Hour

If you need prints fast, the Shutterfly app is your secret weapon. It’s quick to select the photos you want from your phone’s camera roll and have the printed at your local 1-hour shop, or if you can wait, directly from Shutterfly. But hat’s not all this little app can do. You can also quickly and easily create 20-75 image photo books, canvas prints and gifts (mugs, magnets, etc.) using your phone’s images. Of course you can do all of this on Shutterfly’s website too, but the app gives you the freedom to mulit-task while you’re snuggling your sleeping baby or nursing.

Available at shutterfly.com, prints free-$22.99.

What’s your favorite way to print, share or store baby photos? Share below.

–Julie Seguss

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The Hottest New Baby & Pregnancy Apps

by Oz Spies

A high-tech pregnancy and an app-enabled babyhood can be at your fingertips. Now, we parent with our smartphones and have Dr. Google at the ready to diagnose that mysterious rash or explain the pregnancy aches. Here are five new baby and pregnancy apps you need to know about, from ones that put brain-boosting music education at your fingertips, to a Bluetooth-enabled pregnancy test.

The Coolest New Way to Take Belly Photos

Belly Bump is the newest pregnancy and baby app created by three dads, including Justin Baldoni (AKA Rafael from Jane the Virgin). The app makes it easy to create a time lapse video tracking your growing belly during pregnancy, and then later, your little one’s growth. Choose from several different poses – like a head-to-toe shot or 180 degrees of your bump to capture every angle. You can set the app to give you daily, weekly or biweekly selfie reminders so you don’t forget to snap the photo. Then, with all those pics, use the built-in features to create your own sweet time lapse movie set to your favorite tune. Plus, the app makes it a cinch to share your awesome creation with friends and family.

App available at iTunes,  $0.99

A Musical Boost for Baby’s Brain

Here’s the high tech version of playing Bach for your baby (and baby-to-be). Nuryl is an app that plays a unique mix of music in a quest to super-charge your kiddo’s neural connections. From five months into pregnancy all the way to age two, Nuryl reports their tunes will build up the language center of your wee one’s brain. While you’re pregnant, you can plug in a pair of soft padded headphones, strap them to your belly and pipe music in to your future Einstein. Newborns and toddlers can listen to Nuryl through speakers (no headphones for sensitive ears, please). The app’s developer, an educator and father, suggests spending an hour listening per day, and the app tracks all your listening time. Then, the app gives tips about the power of interacting with your little one while you listen along, like dancing together. If you can’t make it to music class in person, Nuryl offers an electronic, mobile substitute.

App available at iTunes, from $9.99 for a subscription.

The Pump with Super Powers

Lansinoh’s bluetooth-enabled Smartpump makes it easy to track the date, time and duration of every single milk-making session through its connection to a free app on your phone. The quiet-motor electric pump itself has an updated design — fewer parts to clean and suction levels that you can adjust to work best for you. Then, the app gives you a place to add in the amount of milk you pumped, on top of everything else tracked. If you want, you can even input your baby’s feeding sessions (both breast and bottle), fill out a growth log or count diapers in the handy dirty diaper diary. Make the most of the app by adding reminders for when it’s time to pump and reading helpful tips about nursing challenges that crop up along the way.

Smartpump available at Lansinoh, $199+. App is free on iTunes and Google Play.

Mama’s Little Nursing Helper

Ever wonder how much milk your breastfeeding baby is getting? For new moms who want hard numbers, Momsense offers tools to provide information about just that. The app creates a feeding diary by gathering information from a sensor you place on your baby’s jaw. Based on the gulps picked up by the sensor, Momsense calculates how much milk your kiddo has consumed – really! The sensor doesn’t work until colostrum has been replaced by milk, so you’ll need to wait a few days after you little one arrives to use it. Momsense also suggests using it in airplane mode, to avoid radiation. What’s more, the sensor is connected to a special set of headphones so you, and your partner, can hear baby’s belly fill. If your feeling anxious about nursing and don’t have a baby scale to weigh your little one pre and post nursing sessions, Momsense might be able to give you a little peace of mind – though it’s no replacement for an expert lactation consultant, of course!

Kit available at Momsense for $89. App is free.

The Pregnancy Test You Never Knew You Needed

Is that regular old pee-on-a-stick test not cutting it for you? Then try the wireless-enabled pregnancy test: First Response’s Pregnancy PRO. Download the app (it’s free), then follow the instructions to link your test stick. The app will walk you through using the test stick itself — it’s just like a regular test with an absorbent tip. Then, as a three minute timer counts down, you can choose to distract yourself with cute puppy videos. Test results will pop up right there on the screen. If you’re pregnant, the super-smart app will ask for a little more information, like the first day of your last period, and estimate your due date. If not, the app will give tips about cycle tracking, and you can try again next month with another test. Since the tests are Bluetooth enabled, they’re more expensive than regular drugstore tests, but you might find that the novelty of a CONGRATULATIONS message flashing on your iPhone screen is worth it.

Available online at Amazon from $21.79. App is free and available on iTunes and Google Play.

Tell us: What are your can’t-live-without pregnancy and baby apps?

—Oz Spies

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6 Apps That Help You Change Diapers

by Christina Montoya Fiedler

Changing diapers— it’s one of parenthood’s lesser-loved chores. And by the time your baby is one month old, you’ve already done it hundreds of times … or at least it seems that way. Cut yourself a break and download an app to make the job easier. Here are six downloads that will help you rethink the way you approach those nappies.

Sprout Diaper Changer

From the maker of Spout baby products comes the Sprout Diaper Changer App. It offers a simple way to keep track of diaper changes for one or multiple babies. Record your daily number of wet and dirty diapers then track out the week. If you need to, you can go as far as recording bowel movement color and texture. Yeah, you're entered that stage in your life. $2.99. Available for iPhone and iPad. Click here to download the app.

Which of these apps are you most likely to use? Let us know in the Comments section below!

— Christina Fielder

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