Share ten tips for preparing your home for your new baby's arrival for a $50 gift card!

Thank you for your interest in this blogging opportunity! We have reached our quota of the first 50 qualifying blog submissions.

Please feel free to post your links on this page after we have filled the first 50 spots, so we can share your blogs with the Seventh Generation team.

Are you an expectant mom preparing for the arrival of a new baby? Chances are you’re focused on finding safe and natural products to use in your home and for your baby.

Good to know that Seventh Generation is tuned in to the needs of new moms and their babies. They offer Free & Clear baby-care products that include diapers, wipes and baby liquid laundry detergent. Seventh Generation Free & Clear diapers are free of chlorine, latex, fragrances and petroleum-based lotions and come in a range of sizes from newborn to stage 6. Moms who have used them on their babies report that the diapers are soft to the touch and have exceptional absorbency. And gentle as its diapers, Seventh Generation’s soft, cloth-like Free & Clear Baby Wipes are free of alcohol, synthetic dyes and fragrances and whitened without chemicals containing chlorine.

Seventh Generation wants to help make your home and our planet a better place for you and your baby.

In honor of Seventh Generation’s Free & Clear chlorine-free disposable diapers and baby wipes, we are celebrating with a fun new blogging program!

Share ten tips for preparing your home for your new baby’s arrival!
Is the changing station stocked with natural diapers, wipes and ointments?
Does your crib and car seat meet safety regulations?
Did you remove all small objects that are in a baby’s reach?
Did you get safe and healthy baby products?
Have you prepared your other children for the arrival of your new baby?
Is your home baby-proofed for safety?
Have you switched to cleaning products made with natural ingredients?

In this blogging program, we’d like you to tell your readers about Seventh Generation’s new Free & Clear diapers and wipes and your top ten tips for how to prepare your home for a new baby’s arrival.

We're looking for quality over speed, so please read on.

Posting Guidelines
We are looking for 50 creative, original and authentic blog submissions of high quality. Create an original post on your blog, in 400 words or more (using your own words), telling us about how to prepare your nursery for your baby’s new arrival. Include a thoughtful introduction, original content within the body of your post, and a conclusion. Check your spelling and grammar. You must also include the disclosure statement that is below in your post and install the campaign widget in the sidebar of your blog. Then follow the rest of the requirements below. We will review every post and select the first 50 qualifying submissions to receive a $50 Target gift card!

Highlights from your posts, tweets and tips will be collected and featured on http://seventhgeneration.socialmoms.com, and distributed across the web for all to see. The blogging program starts on September 14, 2011 and the submission window closes at 11:59pm PST on October 12, 2011. We will contact the qualifying bloggers on or about October 19, 2011. Full terms and conditions are posted for your review at http://seventhgeneration.socialmoms.com/terms.

Rewards for Participating:
The first 50 qualifying participants will receive a $50 Target gift card! See Terms and Conditions.

Requirements:
To participate, we ask that you:

Create an original blog post on your blog, in 400 words or more, telling us about "how to prepare your nursery for your new arrival." Please include a thoughtful introduction and conclusion in addition to the main body of your essay. Give it plenty of thought, and include content that your readers would like to hear about and can connect with! Short or poorly written posts will not be accepted. Copying and pasting does not count. Blank posts submitted to create a blog link on the discussion page will be disqualified. Don't copy another blogger's post or ideas. Plagiarism is grounds for immediate disqualification.
Participants must include the following disclosure as a footnote of their post:
“I wrote this blog post while participating in the SocialMoms and Seventh Generation blogging program, for a gift card worth $50. For more information on how you can participate, click here.” (make sure you link to http://seventhgeneration.socialmoms.com/about)

Install the campaign widget in the side bar of your blog
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Log on to your Twitter account, www.twitter.com, and send a tweet including a link to your blog post with the hashtag #SeventhGeneration.
Return to www.SocialMoms.net and post a comment on this discussion page in the comments section below, including an active link to your blog post and a direct link to your Twitter tweet. (You can click on the date/time link below your tweet to get the direct link to your tweet.)

Eligibility:
No purchase required to participate. You must be a legal resident of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, have a personal blog and be a registered user of the www.socialmoms.net and www.twitter.com websites to participate and at least 18 years of age or older at time of submission. See Terms and Conditions. Please see SocialMoms FAQs for more information on blogging programs.

About Seventh Generation
Seventh Generation is the nation’s leading brand of household and personal care products that help protect human health and the environment. Established in 1988, the Burlington, Vermont based company remains an independent, privately-held company distributing products to natural food stores, supermarkets, mass merchants, and online retailers across the United States and Canada.

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