Welcoming Your Preemie Home Finally, you can take your preemie home! Your first response is…panic! Is that normal? Many parents worry about handling their very little bundles of joy by themselves. Relax, you’ll cope as well as any parents of newborns – by the time Baby is ready to [...]
Sister Lilian Centre’s Basic Sleep Recipe The problem with developing a sleep recipe is that babies and toddlers are completely different from one another… it’s almost impossible to develop an actual sleep recipe. Instead, you need to build up your own flexible, kind, realistic routine around your child’s own natural [...]
How Are Newborn Babies Supposed To Sleep? While most newborns spend much of any 24 hour period napping or sleeping, they only do this in a truly healthy and developmentally optimal way if they do not feel insecure, unhappy or distressed in any way. Infants need to be close [...]
9 Top Tips For Building A Baby Routine I hate the word ‘routine’. In my many years as a parenting advisor, I have seen more tears of frustration caused by the relentless pursuit of a ‘good routine’ than I have seen tears of joy! And when you think how [...]
Is There Any Harm In Letting Babies Cry And Self-Soothe? Quite honestly, I am exasperated by a number of mantras I constantly hear about how to deal with crying babies. Let’s be honest and see the bigger picture. “Self-soothing” is the idea that babies should learn to comfort themselves [...]
How To Choose A Day Care Wisely As with all things to do with babies, there is no such thing as only one perfect childcare option that’s suitable for every family. If Mom needs to work outside of the home, a trusted nanny, caring granny or loving day mother [...]
Potty Training Parents Hindsight is wonderful! And if you could see into the future, you would see some of the things that hindsight will in any case one day show you, making you wish you hadn’t sweated the small stuff. Potty training, for one, would not loom as this [...]
Car Safety With Babies And Children - Don't Neglect It! Was it you I saw, Dad, with your little superhero on your lap as you nonchalantly drove down a busy suburban road? Mom, I couldn’t help but think how ironic it was that you were securely buckled up, but [...]
5 Embarrassing Symptoms Of Pregnancy Pregnancy – some women love it, others have a far more difficult time.Your body goes through tremendous changes in those nearly-ten months you carry your baby, resulting in a lot of niggles and uncomfortable conditions. Here’s how to solve the more embarrassing ones. Incontinence [...]
3 Reasons Why Induction Of Labour Is Not A Good Idea So many questions and anxieties arise in one’s mind in the last weeks of pregnancy, as the long wait draws to an end. Most women wish that the discomforts of the last weeks would end sooner rather than [...]
