Having a baby is a life-changing experience. There is so much to learn and know about from newborn care and baby's health and development to simpler but necessary things like bathing your baby and taking care of your baby's cold, and so much more.
Boost Your Fertility: Get Pregnant Faster
This plan will help you get pregnant and have the baby of your dreams!
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Don’t Feel Too Guilty When the TV Plays Babysitter
If you’re a new mom, you know the scene all too well. Your partner will
be home from work soon, and you need to start getting dinner ready. As
you prepare your ingredients, you find yourself tripping over your kids
as they try to entertain themselves in the kitchen under your
supervision.
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A Labor and Delivery Nurse's Birth Plan
Birth plans are common these days. Here is a birthplan written by a labor and delivery nurse.
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Smoking and Pregnancy
Smoking can cause more than low birth weight. Pregnant mothers who smoke are at an increased risk of miscarriage and premature birth.
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How Alcohol Affects Your Pregnancy
Pregnant or planning to be? Stop drinking.
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Combating Worry: A Guide for Parents
Many parents describe feeling overwhelmed with a sense of worry. Left unchecked this can lead to sleep disturbance, depression, lack of focus, health and relationship problems and seriously affect your bonding with your child.
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Preparing for a New Baby in the Home
Preparing for a baby’s arrival in the home is one of the most exciting parts of pregnancy. Most families choose to wait until late in the second trimester to prepare the baby’s room just to ensure the pregnancy is safe
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Co-Bedding Safety Issues
Parents tend to choose co-bedding as a solution to late night crying and sleep deprivation. While co-bedding may help solve these problems, some experts report that the baby is at a higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome and accidental death when sleeping beside a parent.
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Clothing and Fetal Safety
Finding the right pregnancy clothes can be a difficult task, especially when you'll need exercise clothes, business clothes, dress clothes, and don't forget jackets and coats!
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What Is the Apgar Score?
The Apgar score is named after a New York anesthesiologist, Dr. Virginia Apgar, who in 1952 described the score as a means to assess the baby's status 1 and 5-minutes after birth. Learn what it means for your baby.
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The Cure For Grunting Baby Syndrome
If your doctor tells you that your infant is suffering from grunting baby syndrome, you might have to refrain from laughing out loud. While your baby certainly has been grunting a lot, you probably didn’t expect his diagnosis to be so simple.
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Top Five Male Baby Names By Year 1911-2010
Here are the top 5 male baby names for each year for the last 100 years from 1911 to 2010.
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Top Five Female Baby Names By Year 1911-2010
Here are the top 5 female baby names for each year for the last 100 years from 1911 to 2010.
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How to Cut a Newborn's Nails
Cutting a newborn baby's nails can cause anxiety for a parent as they do not want to hurt their baby.
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Pregnancy and HIV
Getting pregnant when a woman is HIV+ can be a tough decision to make if the woman already knows her status. If she doesn't, there are still ways to protect the baby.
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Preparing for Pregnancy Emotionally
Preparing for pregnancy emotionally can be more difficult than preparing physically because emotional needs vary from person to person.
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Hepatitis A and Pregnancy
Hepatitis A (HAV) is a viral infection of the liver caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV). Other viral liver infections are caused by hepatits B (HBV) and C (HCV) viruses. There is an increased risk of premature delivery if you become infected with HBV during pregnancy.
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Pregnancy Safety Guide
Everything you need to know about activities, sports, and food.
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Caring for Your Baby's Umbilical Cord
Learn all about how to care for your baby's umbilical cord.
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Risks of Preterm or Premature Labor and Delivery
Premature labor or preterm labor is when there are contractions and cervical changes before 37 weeks gestation.
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Chemicals May Affect Baby Gender
Researchers have found a link between the consumption of PBB polybrominated biphenyls and PCB polychlorinated biphenyls and the sex and gender of fetal offspring.
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Social and Emotional Skills for Toddler in the First Year
Your toddler’s social and emotional development will form the foundation of how she will develop relationships, express emotions and cope with change and adversity in later life. In her second year of life, her awareness of herself and the outside world will begin to evolve. One moment she’s your helpless, cute baby, and the next moment you will get a glimpse of the independent child she will become.
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Welcome to Toddlerhood: Communication Skills 12 - 24 months
Learn about toddlerhood and the communication milestones from 12 months old through 24 months old.
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Welcome to Toddlerhood: Cognitive Skills 12-24 Months
As your child approaches her first birthday, her cognitive skills are still very basic. In the second year of life, brain development is rapid, as she begins to interact more with the outside world. As she develops through childhood and into adulthood her cognitive skills will help her: process information, think, learn, read, write, remember, reason, create and focus.
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Can Stress Stop You From Getting Pregnant?
While stress has not been directly linked to infertility, the physical demands on the body during stressful situations are enough to trigger natural protective instincts.
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Breastfeeding Reduces Breast Cancer Risk
Breast feeding decreases the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women with a first-degree relative with breast cancer.
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Childhood Diseases and Infections
In the 20th century, vaccines have made many childhood infections and illnesses rare. However, there are still many that occur, ranging from common infections like croup to strange ailments like Kawasaki disease.
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How to Increase Fertility: Dr. Amos' 12-Step Program
The Dr. Amos 12 step fertility improvement program will improve your chances of getting pregnant and help you have a healthy pregnancy and baby.
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How to Tell Your Husband That You Are Pregnant in 12 Steps
Our 12 step program will provide you in detail how to tell your husband that you are pregnant.
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Study Finds Baby’s Stress Level Elevates When Mom’s Does
To test the emotional contagion theory, a team of researchers enlisted a group of mothers and their infants. Sure enough, the babies picked right up on their mothers' stress.
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Alcohol, Drug Use, Smoking, and Stress During Pregnancy
Certain stress factor can pose a problem when trying to conceive and during pregnancy.
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Michelle Obama Pregnant
How Would Things Change if Michelle Obama Were Pregnant?
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Don't Stop Antidepressants in Pregnancy
Women who are taking anti-depressants before becoming pregnant may need to continue taking the medication even after they conceive.
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Childhood Cancer Can Increase Pregnancy Complications
Pregnancy in childhood cancer survivors could be riskier than previously thought. Chances of premature labor, early delivery and hemorrhage are higher in certain cancer cases.
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IVF - Chances of Success
The chances of IVF success depens on your age, the reason for IVF, and the IVF clinic.
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How to Change a Baby Diaper
There are ways to make the diaper changing process easier than most people think that it is. While nothing makes diapers fun to change, preparation and planning can make the task more simple.
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How to Handle Teething
Teething makes for a cranky baby, and therefore cranky parents. Luckily there are some time tested methods and some new technologies that help the teething process break though.
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How to Keep Up Romance With a Newborn Baby
To keep the romance in your relationship after a newborn baby arrives, one must change the notion of romance.
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Breastfeeding Basics for Mom
The art of breastfeeding offers a bond between mother and child like no other bond on earth. This is not to mention the fact that the colostrum is the best choice for babies first meals of life.
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When Can a Baby Fly? Is It Safe Flying With a Newborn Baby?
When can a baby fly? Flying with a newborn baby infant is extremely stressful and asking about when a baby can fly is among the most important questions for new parents.
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How to Cloth Diaper Correctly
By following the directions of using cloth diapers, one can find a healthy and green way to diaper their baby without too much difficulty.
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How to Find the Best Baby Products
Finding the best baby products can be a challenge. There are a few things that one should consider when looking for the best baby products and how to best find them.
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How to Gear Up For a Newborn Baby
By having the right gear for your new baby, caring for him/her can be a simple matter of simply providing for his/her needs. If you do not have the right gear, it can be a frustrating battle to attempt to get the gear while handling a screaming baby.
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How to Choose the Perfect Baby Name
Naming your baby is a very personal decision, and one that your baby must live with for the rest of his or her life. While there is no set of rules regarding naming your baby, there are suggestions that one might follow. The biggest suggestion is common sense.
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How to Eliminate Baby Poop Diaper Pail Odors
For most people, baby poop diaper smell in the pail, a combination of old, stale baby urine and poop, is the worst part of having a baby.
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How to Budget the Baby's First Year
Learning to budget for the baby's first year can ease stress and help one avoid going into serious debt.
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How to Be a Good Mother to Your Baby
Being a good mother does not begin when the baby is born, it starts the
moment that the baby is conceived.
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How to Be a Good Father to Your Baby
Being a good father to your baby is not as daunting as it can seem. With a little common sense and a good sense of commitment, it can be one of the most rewarding things that one has ever done.
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How-to Guide for Newborns
Taking care of a newborn baby is not always easy so let us guide you through it!
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How to Deal with Diaper Rash
Diaper rash is a painful condition in which the skin that is covered by a baby's diaper is red and inflamed from the constant contact of the diaper.
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