Are you preventing your baby from sleeping through the night? Here's something that may really surprise you: As much as we may want our babies to sleep through the night, our own subconscious emotions sometimes hold us back from encouraging change in our babies' sleeping habits. You yourself may be the very obs
Babies and flat heads Every dad needs support, encouragement, information, confidence and tools to help him be as involved as he possibly can with his new family. Our fatherhood expert, Armin Brott, author of Babies and sleep: Your infant's sleeping habits - part 2 Sleep. It's the stuff of which dreams are made -- particularly when you have a newborn baby... In part two of this article, Ann Douglas, author of The Unoff
Be alert to the winter SIDS risk The cold winter months bring an increase in the number of infants who
die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, according to the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, one of the
National Institutes of Health.
Bedtime bottles and asthma risk Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have found that children with a family history of asthma or allergies may face significantly higher risk of persistent wheezing and asthma later in childhood when bottle fed in the bed or crib before
Binkies, blankies and bottles - Understanding security items Have you ever noticed a toddler dragging his teddy bear along side of him in the grocery store? Do you question why your baby pops his pacifier into his mouth the instant you buckle him into the car or if he's about to go to sleep? A child's dependen
Early bedtime means better baby sleep In their efforts to encourage their baby to sleep better, one approach that many parents use is to put their baby to bed later in the evening. They think, "If he's "really tired" he'll sleep better, right?" Wrong! This often backfires because
High levels of immune protein in infant brain linked to SIDS High levels of a protein called cytokine in the brains of
infants could hold a clue to the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
(SIDS), according to a study in Neurology , the
scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
How to sleep when your baby sleeps: Six ways to get more rest All parents of newborns face sleep deprivation at some point, so it makes sense that the piece of parenting advice you're most likely to hear bandied about at your baby shower and endorsed in your OB/GYN's office is "sleep when the baby sleeps." Slip
Infant snoring linked to parental snoring Young children born to parents who snore have an increased risk of snoring. New research published in the April issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), shows that infants, who had at least one par
Infants who sleep on their backs have fewer fevers and ear infections A team of researchers reports that infants who are placed to sleep on their backs are not at increased risk for health problems, and they
are less likely to develop fevers, get stuffy noses, or develop ear infections. Placing infants to sleep on the
Let your sleeping baby sleep! Not quite sure what to do when your baby wakes frequently in the middle of the night? Parenting Expert Elizabeth Pantley has some tips so the both of you can get some rest!
Mother Nurture: Getting more sleep Parenting is a lot of work! But to be the best parents we can be, we have to take time to nurture ourselves as the people we are outside of being Mom or Dad. Psychologist Rick Hanson, PhD, and acupuncturist & nutritionist Jan Hanson, MS, authors
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