(Mental Floss) -- With Mother's Day just around the corner, this week seemed like a great time to give a tip of our caps to stay-at-home moms, including these four who used clever ideas to become business moguls. 

Gerber: Of course only a mother could found such a successful baby food company! In the late 1920s, Michigan mom Dorothy S. Gerber was hand-straining food for her baby daughter, Sally, when she realized there must be some way to avoid the messy task. 

She pointed out to her husband, Daniel, that if his family's business, the Fremont Canning Company, could puree a tomato all day long, its equipment could probably make short work of other fruits and veggies, too. 

Daniel Gerber realized his wife was on to something, and after a year of experimentation -- and an extensive search to find the right drawing for their label's now-iconic "Gerber baby" - the Gerbers introduced their first line of baby foods, a super-yummy menu of strained peas, carrots, prunes, and spinach. 

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Baby Einstein: When Alpharetta, Georgia mom Julie Aigner-Clark went looking for educational materials for her newborn daughter in 1996, she found a disappointing hole in the baby market: there weren't really any educational materials to expose babies to music and the arts. 

Some parents would just accept whatever the market was offering. Not Aigner-Clark. She shot a video for her daughter in her basement then edited it with her husband, Bill, on the family computer. She even doodled a logo for the video at her kitchen table. 
When was Gerber founded?
who was the founder?
How did the idea come to her?
Who was her husband?
What was his line of work?
WHat was his business?
How long did it take to find the Gerber baby?
Who is Julie Aigner clark?
What did she create?
Why did she?
In the late 1920s
In the late 1920s, Michigan mom Dorothy S. Gerber was hand-straining food for her baby daughter,
Dorothy S. Gerber
 Dorothy S. Gerber
was hand straining food
 was hand-straining food for her baby daughter
Daniel
 her husband, Daniel
businessman
Daniel, that if his family's business, the Fremont Canning Company
Fremont Canning Company
Daniel, that if his family's business, the Fremont Canning Company
a year
a year of experimentation -- and an extensive search to find the right drawing for their label's now-iconic "Gerber baby
a Georgia mom
 Georgia mom Julie Aigner-Clark
Baby Einstein
Baby Einstein
she looking for educational materials
Aigner-Clark went looking for educational materials