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.
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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Caring for Your Baby's Umbilical Cord
Learn all about how to care for your baby's umbilical cord.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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How to Change a Baby Girl's Diaper
Changing a girl’s diaper is not as difficult changing a boy’s diaper. Yet, changing a girl’s diaper has its own set of challenges.
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How to Deal With a Newborn Baby's Cold
While it is always hoped that a newborn baby will not ever get sick, this is rarely the reality. Newborn babies are susceptible to colds and other illnesses because their immune system is not yet fully developed.
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How to Calm a Newborn Baby
Knowing how to calm down your screaming newborn can bring much relief to both you and your baby. After all, everyone knows how essential sleep is for an infant, and parents need it too.
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How to Bathe Your Baby Safely
Bathing a baby is an important activity. It allows for some great bonding time but also requires a lot of preparation.
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FAQs on Bathing Your Baby
Everything you need to know about bathing your baby!
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How to Bathe a Fussy Baby
Bathing your baby can actually make her/him calmer.
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Link Between Stress and Miscarriage
During pregnancy, prolonged or extreme stress will result in immediate effects on the body, but the long-term effects may be life-changing. Researchers have linked stress early in pregnancy to increased risk of miscarriage.
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Top Getting Pregnant, Fertility and Pregnancy Questions
Your top questions answered on getting pregnant, being pregnant, and more!
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DNA Testing During Pregnancy
Noninvasive Prenatal Paternity NIPP Testing can be done during pregnancy to establish biological paternity, to determine who the father of a person is.
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Heartburn and Baby's Hair
Does a lot of heartburn mean that the baby will have a lot of hair?
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Is Rachael Ray Pregnant?
Is Rachael Ray pregnant? In an interview with Us Magazine, Rachael Ray talked about pregnancy and having children.
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How to Help Someone Who Has Lost a Baby
Parents who've lost a child describe it as the lowest form of misery imaginable. Mostbereaved parents just don't know who to turn to for solace or how to ask for help.
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Tips for Preventing SIDS
SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, describes an infant death with an unknown cause. While doctors and researchers may not be able to pinpoint the reason for death in SIDS cases, they have compiled a list of tips to prevent SIDS from occurring with your baby.
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How to Entertain a Newborn Baby
A baby at this young age does not have interest in expensive toys or electronics, the most entertaining thing to them is your attention. Entertaining your young baby takes patience and time but it is easily one of the best parts of being a parent.
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How to Buy Maternity Clothes in 12 Steps
Shopping for maternity clothes during pregnancy is not so easy because it seems your body changes every single day.
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Paris Hilton Pregnant
Paris Hilton, the heir to the Hilton thrown, is the next big celebrity to want a new baby. According to Paris Hilton, there is a pregnancy in her future — very near future now.
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Matt Damon Hopes Wife Can Dress as a Pregnant Nun
Matt Damon is one of those stars that glide under the celebrity marriage radar. He and wife Luciana have three children together with a fourth on the way.
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Sandra Bullock Pregnant
According to an interview, Sandra Bullock is happy to become pregnant, but that is not the only way she is thinking about becoming a mother.
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Top Ten Baby Names 2007
The most popular baby names for 2007 as published by the social security administration
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Top 5 Baby Names by State for Births in 1980
The following tables show the five most frequent given names, by State, for male and female births in 1980. The number to the right of each name is the number of occurrences in the data. The source is a 100% sample based on Social Security card application data as of the end of February 2011.
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Most Popular 1000 Baby Names of the 1980s
Most popular baby names for boys and girls during 1980s.
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Popular 100 Baby Names For The Year 2011
The table below shows the most popular baby names for the year 2011 both for boys and girls.
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Most Popular Baby Names 2009
These are the most popular 1000 baby names from the year 2009.
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Baby Names: Most Popular By Date
Finding the right baby name isn't always easy. Here are lists of popular baby names through the decades. ... read more »
Popular 1000 Baby Names For The Year 2009
The following are the top 1000 most popular baby names for the year 2009 as reported by the Social Security Administration.
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Fetal Growth Issues
The majority of the babies born every day are of normal weight and
normal length but the fluctuation in birth weight can be astounding. There are certain reasons for smaller and bigger babies.
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Hair Loss Postpartum
A drop in hormones as your body returns to normal after delivery will likely cause you to lose some of your hair. Find out what causes the hair loss, what you can do about it, and how long you can expect it to last.
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Newborn and Infant Growth Charts
A newborn baby and infant growth chart is usually used to asssess whether your baby is growing normally or not. The newborn and baby growth chart gives complete picture of your child's growth.
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Hope for HIV positive breastfeeding mothers
Mother treated with antiretroviral therapy (HAART) pass the virus onto their breastfeeding babies less often, when compared to breastfeeding mothers who were treated with conventional methods.
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