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Founded in 2007, Bellyitch Blog is among the few websites that focus on the celebrity “bumpwatch” phenomenom while focusing on parenting news, advice and offering reviews as well. It’s founder Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt is an attorney, published author , law journal author, blogger and business owner who founded the first communications law firm started by women and minorities.

Background
A Sierra Leonean, West Africa native, Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt was born in 1973, but raised in the Washington, DC area. After marrying her college sweetheart and bearing 2 sons, a friend convinced her to document her third and final pregnancy with a pregnancy blog. She launched BellyitchBlog and in addition to using it to update her family around the world about the pregnancy, she also shared photos of celebrity women who were also pregnant at the time. Over time, the blog become more popular and trafficked for its celebrity news and photos in addition to its product reviews, and parenting tips and news.

Site Awards
Bellyitch Blog has won several awards over the years including Healthlines’s top pregnancy blog and #4 in its top style blog in 2011. In 2013, RedTricyle named it among the best parenting blogs for new moms.

Site Statistics
BellyitchBlog reaches millions weekly; it gets tremendous traffic from Pinterest where its pins reach 1.5 million daily impressions and close to a million monthly page views. Founder JJ has a Google Plus page that has exceeded 44 million views and counting, currently more than the pages of Google executives.

Popular Features
Bellyitch was known for its bi-annual listing of top strollers baby cribs, diaper bags, children’s clothing and top cribs. In 2013, Bellyitch self-published its Bellyitch 100 guide to the top 100 cribs, maternity clothing, diaper bags, children’s clothing and strollers.

Media Influence
Bellyitch founder Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt is a nationally acknowledged political pundit and and has been a columnist for Washington Times, Politic 365 and Urban Faith. She had been a frequent guest on national political radio having appeared as a political analyst and expert on Sirius XM shows Showdown 2012, The Mario Armstrong Show , New School with Charles Ellison , and has done appearances on local terrestrial radio stations WOL-AM in Washington DC, WVON’s nationally-syndicated The Chris Kelley Show, Canadian radio’s G987 FM , the Voice of Russia nationally syndicated radio, and ABC news affiliate TBD. . She has been interviewed, quoted as an expert or media member in CNN.com, The Atlantic , The Root.com , Media Bistro , Yahoo.com , Fishbowl DC , Uptown magazine, the Philadelphia Tribune , The Charlotte Observer , and others. Her work has been syndicated on the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, News One, The Dallas Weekly, The Washington Informer. She has had tweets inserted in stories by Time, Mashable , Buzzfeed , and BET. Her writing has been syndicated in the book “Issues that Concern You: Drug Abuse (Gale)” ; and her writing included as reference in the books: “Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for Americas Schools (Oxford Press 2013); SuperVision: An introduction to the Surveillance Society (University of Chicago 2012); The Gold Standard: the 2005 List (AML Media 2005). She has been to the White House on invitation numerous times including as one of 22 bloggers to attend the first and only White House Black Bloggers summit in 2010. She has guest spoken at Penn State, Netroots Nation in 2011 and on Cable Piracy and Payola at the invitation of the Jamaica Broadcasting Commission, also in 2011. She is quoted as an expert in several books including “Keep You Government Hands off my Medicare!” An analysis of Media Effects on Tea Party Health Care politics. Bellyitch Blog has been syndicated on Bellyitch reaches the same audiences as competitors PopSugar moms, BabyCenter, The Bump.com, The Stir, Celebrity Baby and Babble. As seen mentioned and syndicated in: Bellyitch has been syndicated and mentioned in USA Today, Newsday, Parent magazine, ABC-TV, E!Online, Huffington Post, About.com, TheBump.com, Babble, MadameNoire, BabyCenter.com, Ask.com and other notable and reputable sites.