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Safety Tips on Jogging With a Stroller: Part II

Jogging with your baby is great exercise for Moms. It will help you to lose any weight that you might have put on when you were pregnant. It will help to tone your muscles and enjoy the company of your child while you exercise. In Part I we discussed safety tips while jogging with baby. Other additional safety tips include: * Be sure to strap your baby in the jogging stroller completely to avoid any injury. If your baby is not strapped in he or she may fall out of the stroller while you are jogging. Little fingers also have … Continue reading →

Save on Baby Items

It is a fact that babies need stuff, lots of stuff. And all of that stuff winds up costing lots of money. Fortunately, with a few frugal practices, you can spend much less. Here are some ideas on how you can save on baby items. Announce it to the world If you are lucky, as soon as you announce that you are expecting, you will be inundated with offers for free baby stuff, such as equipment, clothes and toys. Friends, family and even casual acquaintances often have a ton of baby stuff that is sitting there waiting to be used. … Continue reading →

Bad Mommies Let Their Kids Sleep in the Car

A new study slams parents who let sleeping babies lie… in their infant car seats. According to researchers parents who allow their passed out kids to remain strapped in their car seats while they rush to unload the groceries from the trunk, grab the mail from the end of the driveway, or pick stale Cheerios from in between their vehicle’s upholstery, are putting their child’s life in danger. Oh wait. That’s me. Apparently, good mommies are the ones, who risk waking up their overtired tots by removing them from their infant seats, and placing them in their cribs to sleep. … Continue reading →

The Breastfeeding Card

While many states protect women from getting arrested on indecency charges for breastfeeding (not all states do), there are very few states that actually declare it a civil right to breastfeed your child. Fortunately, some progressive states are starting to institute such laws. Washington state has become the latest state to declare, effective today, that women have a civil right to breastfeed in public. Lawmakers who sponsored the bill want women to feel just as comfortable with breastfeeding as they would pulling a baby bottle out of a diaper bag. Unfortunately, breastfeeding moms are made to feel ashamed and insulted … Continue reading →

Colic May Lead to Future Disease

Researchers are studying colic in babies, the one gastrointestinal condition that can stump even the experts. They have some interesting news about it, including identification of a bacterium that may be causing the condition, as well as a link between colic in babies and the later development of gastrointestinal disease into adulthood. Colic is characterized by inconsolable crying in an otherwise healthy baby. It has long been thought that some form of gastrointestinal discomfort is to blame. Colic can be dangerous not directly but because it can lead to frustration in parents, post partum depression and even harm to the … Continue reading →

The New Parent’s Restaurant Survival Tips

It never fails. The moment you cautiously venture out into the world in the form of a quick restaurant meal, your smiling little angel becomes the crying crazy baby. Okay, so even if your kid isn’t like that, there are a few things to keep in mind when bringing your baby or young child into a restaurant. Here are some tips to make it easier on everyone, from parents to baby, to servers to other patrons. Make sure that you have enough distraction on hand to keep your little one occupied throughout the meal. It is a good idea to … Continue reading →

Do Fetuses Have Memory and Other News

A new study suggests that babies in the womb may be able to remember. This is exciting news, not just in itself. Testing babies on their memory while they are still in the womb may help detect developmental issues as early as possible. The study was conducted at Maastricht University Medical Center in The Netherlands and published in the journal, Child Development. Fetuses were given a form of stimulation by vibration. At first the babies were startled, but after several introductions of the stimulus, they seemed to ignore it. Furthermore, fetuses tested when they got older seemed to “remember” the … Continue reading →

Is Your Toddler Nutritionally Deficient?

Trying to get a toddler to eat is sometimes like…well, I can’t even compare it. There are no words. As a result, we parents seem to always worry about our little ones getting enough to eat. Conventional wisdom tells us to just relax, continue to offer new foods and allow our toddlers to eat when they are hungry. But is there ever a danger of our toddlers becoming nutritionally deficient? While it isn’t likely that your toddler is nutritionally deficient, it is a good idea to know the signs, just to be safe. First of all, if you are all … Continue reading →

When Will Your Milk Come in?

In spite of the fact that breastfeeding in a completely natural way to feed your baby, there is a lot of anxiety about the practice, as well as a good learning curve. One of the most frequent questions that I get from pregnant ladies is: “When will my milk come in?” Here is a little bit of information and advice just on that subject. First of all, even right after birth, your breasts are capable of providing for your baby. This is in the form of colostrum, a rich milk that is full of protein, antibodies and other immune factors … Continue reading →

The First Feeding

Establishing breastfeeding right away, even minutes after your baby is born can go a long way to making breastfeeding easier. Early breastfeeding can also reduce the amount of stress that your baby has right after birth, soothing her from all of the tension that has built up over the time of labor and delivery. When my oldest child was born after a very long labor, family immediately burst into the room. As a result, I didn’t get to feed my son right away, and in fact, my sister-in-law got to hold him before I did! When I finally got a … Continue reading →