Pregnancy - Birth - Childcare

When many new Mothers get pregnant, they gain 15 or more pounds to insure that their growing babies get all the nutrition they need to develop into healthy babies. But after the delivery, the new Mother loses 10 or 12 pounds including blood loss and amniotic fluids. There is usually a surplus of weight left […]

There is no greater sight than that of your baby walking for the first time. It makes your heart jump with joy as well as fear. Joy at seeing those first tentative steps unfold before your very eyes; fear that your baby may fall and hurt herself.
As parents, we expect our children to walk; yet […]

Pregnancy nutrition actually follows the same principle as any healthy diet. You just need to be more careful during this special time in your life for both your baby health and your own. Since you discovered you are pregnant, and since this is something you had been hoping to attain for maybe quite a few […]

It is the baby’s first birthday and twelve exhausting months of joy, concern, worry, and devotion have come and gone. Whether you are a parent, a godparent, friend, or simply a well meaning member of the family, a baby’s first ever anniversary is a cause for much celebration.
Choosing the right gift to mark that event […]

Don’t underestimate baby intelligence. The brain of a newborn baby has some 200 billion cells, each primed to form connections with the cells around it. Stimulating the neurons of the brain is the key to their survival. In other words, just like the muscles of the body, the brain works by the principle of “use […]

Most babies crawl in some manner or other before they begin to walk. While the majority of babies crawl on all fours, others do the army crawl, propel themselves around on their bottom, or even crawl backwards. And then there are those who do not crawl at all - instead, their first forays at mobility […]

Memory books can be given as baby shower gifts and will make such special occasions as the baby shower, baby’s first records, physical records, holidays, and other celebration as your baby grows.
It is easy to picture the baby shower memory book as a category to the prelude or overture to baby’s life, and some common […]

I feel enormous empathy with new mothers desperately trying to make sense of the massive upheaval that I call the REAL change of life.
Some days all I can promise is that you will make it to the light at the end of the tunnel and no, that the tiny glimmer in the distance […]

It can feel reassuring to have specific instructions about when to feed your baby, especially when everything about caring for a baby is new and uncertain to you. However, when you are expected to time how many minutes you breastfeed, watch the hours between feeds or count how many feeds your baby has in a […]