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This post on making a difference in the world through your own photography is brought to you by Johnson & Johnson and The Motherhood, who sent me a box of products and compensated me for my time. Opinions, experiences and photos shared here are all my own, and I hope you enjoy them.
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I take about 320 pictures a day on my iPhone. Who’s with me? Ok, so maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but I certainly use my camera app daily! I’m sure many of you do, too, and that’s why I’m excited to tell you about a way to use those pictures to make a difference in the world.

To encourage consumers to live well while doing good, the Johnson & Johnson family is introducing the Donate a Photo app during their Healthy Essentials program. Donate a Photo is a brand new, free app (available for iOS and Android) that allows each of us to give back to causes we care about and make a difference just by taking a photo.

Using Donate a Photo couldn’t be easier – all you do is take a picture (or choose one you’ve already taken) and choose the cause you want to support and voila, you’ve done your good deed for the day! I particularly liked that they make it easy to share it on Facebook and Twitter so you can encourage friends to get involved in helping the causes, too.

Right now, you’ve got three non-profits to choose from:
–Safe Kids: One photo helps protect a child from a sports injury
–Keep America Beautiful: One photo helps restore a public park
–Save the Children: One photo helps a newborn get medicine to thrive

When a cause reaches its goal, another takes its place. You can donate one photo a day, every day.

Also, just by visiting the Healthy Essentials website, you can get $50 worth of coupons (Jenny, did you hear that??) for the Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies products (including Neutrogena, Band-Aid, Listerine, Avveno, Neosporin, Visine, and more) by visiting HealthyEssentials.com.

And – we’ve got a fantastic giveaway as well! You can win a box of assorted J&J products worth more than $100! To enter, leave a comment on this post telling us your favorite J&J product. For an additional entry, download the Donate a Photo app and share a photo, and then leave another comment here telling us you did so. Comments will be closed on April 22 at 5:00 pm.

This is a contest you want to win, people – when my box of J&J stuff arrived, my husband, who is used to random packages showing up at our doorstep, took one look at the contents and said “YES! This is stuff we actually NEED and can use!!” Practicality FTW!

No purchase necessary. Open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and District of Columbia, Eighteen (18) years of age or older. Sweepstakes end May 20, 2013. Prize(s) provided by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company Division of Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. Void where prohibited. See Official Rules for complete details.

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My baby Jonah is 26 months old (what!??) so he’s getting big, but…he’s still my baby in lots of ways.

He likes to take selfies, like his mama.

And he looooves his blankie(s) – they came in a set of 4 and he loves them all!

But one thing he does not like is talking about going to the potty. He, like, his brother and sister before him, won’t even acknowledge when he’s obviously doing the deed. It’s nothing buy deny, deny, deny, up in here!

So, I’m still buying diapers and wipes.

One thing that does set Jonah apart from his older siblings in the diaper department is that his little buns are super-sensitive. I swear, with Joshua and Sophie, I didn’t use a tube of diaper rash cream between them. But with Jonah, I have used approximately 20 billion tubes of cream, mixed up my own special concoction a few times, and bought him special extra-strength ointment from behind the pharmacy counter twice! Shew! It wears me out just thinking about it.

One time in desperation I turned to Facebook for diaper rash help, and some other moms gave me some great advice. A couple mentioned sprinkling cornstarch in his diaper at every change, and I’ve been doing it for a few months now, and it has helped TREMENDOUSLY. I took the suggestion from my friend Beth, of filling an empty spice container with cornstarch and just keeping it at the diaper-changing station. It works great, I use it just like baby powder and it helps keep Jonah’s sensitive little buns dry and rash-free. Yes!

Another thing that helps is wipes that are good for sensitive baby buns, so I was very happy to try Seventh Generation’s Free & Clear baby wipes when my friends at the Motherhood asked if I’d be interested in reviewing them. They’ve recently improved them, making them bigger in size and more cloth-like gentleness and performance. AND, they now use 70% LESS plastic than their old wipes through the use of plant materials. Wow! Obviously, Seventh Generation is a waste-conscious company, and I can honestly say with these wipes, I’ve used less than with other brands. They seem to be able handle more mess per wipe than the wipes I usually use! True story! I’ve been really pleased with their performance and I know they don’t contain any fragrances or chemicals that are going to irritate Jonah’s skin. I’ve been using them to clean up his messy face and hands after meals as well and I can get the whole mess cleaned up with just one. (And Jonah generally scrapes the inside of his yogurt containers clean with his fingers. Ahem.)

So, I’m a fan of Seventh Generation Free & Clear wipes! You can find them for sale at Target, Whole Foods, and Diapers.com. AND you can enter to win a pack here! Holla!

All you have to do to enter is leave me a comment on this post with your best baby care tip! One winner will  be chosen at random on Monday, March 18th.

Good luck! And thanks to Seventh Generation for letting Jonah and me try out their wipes.

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I was provided wipes to facilitate my review and I am being compensated for this post by the Motherhood and Seventh Generation. All opinions are my own.