I became acquainted with JJ though Twitter at first and I just love her! I think we'll be great friends! She told me she wanted to contribute to this fundraiser and offered to donate some great prizes!! But first, let me introduce you to the woman behind Bellyitch.
JJ is a work from home attorney who also has a boutique PR firm. She is a am mom to a 7 year old boy, 4 year old boy and a 21 year old who she calls the mischief-makers. No really... They even have their own blog: Mischief Makers, where mom chronicle all the mischiefmaking they do. Her husband is an attorney and was her college sweetheart.
"He keeps me laughing and is my best friend," she said.
JJ is the eldest of 4 siblings. She emigrated to the US when she was 4 and was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
"I spoke 4 languages when I came here," she said. "My parents wanted me to acculturate so they spoke only English and within six months, I lost all languages."
She's an avid adult class taker and has taken Adult Ballet, Gymnastics, Dance.
"Because my poor African immigrant parents weren't like the obsessive American ones and didn't sign me up for classes so I had to make it happen as an adult," she said. "Also, I went to Disney World on my honeymoon. Another childhood dream I had to make true when I got older."
She started off as a journalism major at the Univ of Maryland and even interned at US News & World Report, but as she put it, she "punked out" and went to law school. Now she practices broadcast law, telecom law and has tiny small business clients and some black owned radio stations.
"My most famous clients currently are the NAACP, Rainbow PUSH, & NOW," she added.
As far as her blog goes... She started it to chronicle her last pregnancy and first girl on a suggestion of a friend.
"While doing so, every once in a while, I'd post photos of pregnant celebrities, poems, funny stories and news tidbits I'd pick up here and there doing my own personal we search," she said. "The blog began to get hits and generate traffic after I posted my maternity pics and advice for maternity wear. It also got loads of hits following a now famous post listing the most expensive baby strollers back in 2007. This year, I updated that post and added the most expensive crib makers, childrens' clothing makers and diaper bags and since then have been generating additional hits from people googling those exact topics!"
Because of those hits and a combination of other factors, the blog is top searched and is an AllTop and PostRank top blog. She features weekly: Product Reviews, Celebrity Updates, A Bellyitch Bump (every Wednesday I feature a pregnant belly. It's sticky posted on the blog), Advice and a GG update (GG is her daughter).
All of the products pictured in this post are products Bellyitch has offered to give away to wonderful donors of this fundraiser! There will be 3 winners! One gets the "I'm the Daddy" mug, another gets the " Mommy Measure" to mark your belly growth each month (Seriously, I want one of those!) and another wins the feeder cover.If you donate just $1 to the charity I'll give you 1 free ticket to win one of these prizes from Bellyitch! Not only are you helping a charity but you get 1 ticket in our GIANT drawing! You can donate by clicking the "chip in" button to the right or by clicking here. (Paypal is NOT associated with the drawing, just with donations. Questions about the drawing? Email me at babymakingmachine{at}gmail.com)
This is just one of more than 40 prizes (worth over $1500) that's up for grabs in the drawing! See the full list here. 100% of the funds raised are going to March of Dimes, to help save babies!
Read how this got started here!
Check out all of the prizes here!
Have a giveaway? List it here! Offer extra entries to your peeps for donating!
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