First Year Articles |
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Bringing Your Baby Home from the Neonatal ICU
It’s natural to have mixed emotions when you take your baby (or babies!) home from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. You’re thrilled to...
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Natural Teething Remedies
The mouth is your baby's most developed sensory organ and a great source of pleasure. This pleasure can be discovered through feeding, sucking on a pacifier or fingers and, even though you hate it, sticking...
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A little help along the road to talking!
From the moment your baby is born, they begin to learn language skills from the people and environment around them. They slowly go through various stages of language development from babbling to gesturing...
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Bathtime Basics
Mother Wisdom: If your toddler hates the feel of cold shampoo on his head, warm up the shampoo a little. Simply float the shampoo bottle in the bathtub for a couple of minutes to get rid of the chill. Take...
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All About Fever
Fever is a symptom and not a diagnosis or a medical condition. The most common cause of a fever in children is an infection; mostly viral but in some cases a bacterial. One of the challenges in evaluating...
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A Baby Cries
Imagine for a moment that you have been abducted by space ship to a distant planet and you are surrounded by giant strangers whose language you do not speak. Two of those strangers take you under their care...
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Infant Potty Training
This article is about working with *infants* towards accomplishing what is commonly known as "potty training." There is no English term to suitably describe "infant potty training" (IPT)...
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Taking a Road Trip with Baby
You’ll be in the car for five whole hours - how can you make the trip enjoyable with a baby along? Learn about it There’s no question: Marathon car trips with a baby on board take a good amount...
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Whose Baby is it Anyway?
If you thought your in-laws were intrusive before you had kids, then hold onto your maternity pants. The “fun” has just begun. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the truth is that your...
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Newborn Babies and Sleep
Congratulations on the birth of your new baby. This is a glorious time in your life. Whether this is your first baby or your fifth, you will find this a time of recovery, adjustment, sometimes confusion and...
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Crying and Your OLDER Baby
Excerpt from The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Book of Pregnancy & Baby Care From the age of about three months, you may notice a real change in your baby. He's now much more aware of what goes on...
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Positive Self Image - Postpartum
While many women manage to make it through pregnancy and delivery with their self-image relatively intact, it is common for many of these women to feel their self confidence slipping away during the postpartum...
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Crying and Your Baby
All you can do if your baby has colic is learn to live with it, in the certain knowledge that she isn't ill or abnormal, and that the colic won't last. Don't suffer alone. This will be a difficult three months...
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Disposable Diaper Recycling
Over the first two years of your baby's life, you will be changing over 5,000 diapers. In a country where at least 85% of parents use disposable diapers, 5,000 easily become 1.7 billion diapers, which are...
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Dr. Paul on Colic and Babies
Bouts of persistent crying occur in all newborns from time to time, and for a variety of reasons. Babies who have regular bouts of intense crying, however, may be diagnosed with colic. Colic is defined as...
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