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rachelcook
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Hi, Minti parents and friends,

Welcome to me and my family...I have a husband and 2 boys. I am the Founder of Minti, passionate about parenting and being a "work from home" mom. I am an avid blogger and a social advocate in Web 2.0 and Family 2.0 space. I am also an angel investor in Web 2.0 companies and tech innovators. I also have a tech company ineedhits.com that has been around for thirteen years this year (09), although the idea was founded in 1994, I joined in early May 1999, after the start up incorporated in Nov 1998. I have been a partner since 2000. ineedhits.com - that boosts your business online is one of 2 resellers of (US) Yahoo! Search Basic Marketing services.

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1. Motivation: behind Minti, see Minti article, "Passionate Parenting" ...

2. Get started: "Minti''s Editorial Guidelines" ...

3. Whats happening: "Minti Blog" ...

4. Wikipedia Minti Article

5. The idea: After stepping down as Director of ineedhits and having a baby in 2004, I developed the idea for Minti in May 2005 after a year of research. I finished the business plan for Minti in June 2005, the idea was then called the Bubama ("Bub" "a" "ma"). We chose Minti from a line up of names, it sounded fresh and friendly.

6. Pulling the team together: Clay (member: ClayCook) was convinced by Matt and myself to take on the role of CEO. With Matthew''s (member: Matthew) full support and joining the team as CFO, I am sure Clay and I would not have been able to pull this together without him! This also enabled me to stay a part of Minti but not giving myself "another" full time job.

Clay has been my business partner for nearly 8 years and is also my husband. Hopefully our sons will have another brother ...

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A note for professional women thinking or not thinking of having childrenMay 2008 (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend)
Breastfeeding and Bringing your newborn home. The first 1-5 weeks survival guide.April 2008 (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend)
Nutritional Information to better babies and healthDecember 2007 (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend)
Pregnancy multi-vitamins. A warning on Vitamin A.September 2007 (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend) (Highly recommend)

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2011

Pregnant with our third bub!

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First trimester was an interesting experience. After having had two kids, you would think that being pregnant for the third time would be business as usual. Not for me. Even though I was fitter and slimmer than I had been pre-baby years, I didn't expect to experience more than my fair share of morning sickness, fatigue and headaches. All I think I did was sleep, sleep, sleep for two months!!! Now that I am in my 5th month, I can finally make it into the office without being dizzy and wanting to find a bucket to put my head in, if not to vomit but to escape into lol!!! The exciting thing is that baby will be another boy, kicks like crazy which I absolutely love and is healthy as any boy can be...and at last most of all the pregnancy aliments have subsided, apart from the sciatica area and occasional bombing off to sleep, all is good. Being back and blogging feels good x

 

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2011

testing safari

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testing safari 

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Jun
2011

test editor firefox

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test editor firefox

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2011

test editor

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