Recently, while taking my two and a half year old son to the pool, I was startled by a sign at the front desk. The sign let patrons know that children over the age of 18 months were not allowed in the locker rooms designated for the opposite sex. 18 months?!?! Really? When I shared [...]
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“My baby eats all the time! I think I need to give him formula to satisfy him.” “When my baby falls asleep with a pacifier, he seems much more satisfied, but I’m always engorged.” “No matter how often she eats, I feel like she wants to eat again in 10 minutes! I must not have [...]
Tags: baby, breastfeeding, CCK, cholecystokinin, colic, milk supply, nursing, nutrition, pacifier
The Tylenol, Motrin, and Benadryl recall came in April and with it all infant and children’s products under this brand came off the shelves. But that was almost five months ago. I was surprised to see it still hasn’t made it back into stores. What is taking so long and is the problem more serious [...]
Parenting.com shared a link on their Facebook page today that they claimed was hilarious, but between the content of the video itself and the writing underneath, I really found it less than amusing. In fact, it reminded me a lot of the High Fructose Corn Syrup ads paid for by corn farmers that try to [...]
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Sometimes when I’m out and about, I see car seat usage that makes me cringe. Okay, often. Most of the time in fact. Sometimes I’ll take the time (and the risk) and approach someone about the car seat, but other times I’m in a hurry, just see the car in the parking lot without folks [...]
Tags: advice, carseat, carseats, education, research, safety, traveling with baby