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Supporting Simon: One Little Boy’s Fight for Survival

In spite of all our planning, nothing is ever certain in pregnancy and childbirth. For instance, only 5 percent of all babies are born on their actual due date. Most, however, are born sometime between 38 and 42 weeks.
Sometimes, nature sends us a real shock. On July 28, 2008, a dear online friend of mine, [...]

Parenting Around The World: Jewelry and Babies

Parents’ approach toward jewelry and babies can differ quite dramatically around the globe. I found this out when I shared my own baby girl’s ear piercing story. See getting ears pierced in many cultures, including mine, is quite accepted, and even expected. The same thing may be frowned upon by other cultures, [...]

Teeny Tattoos: Safety Tats for Toddlers

When I heard about tattoos for toddlers, I thought Oh. My. Gosh.
Is this the teenager-ifying of our toddlers going completely off the hook? Are manicures for infants and high heels for newborns not enough? (Tamsen, my Babies Online blogger colleague recently wrote about manicures for preschoolers and I totally agree with her. One manicure [...]

Child Care for Infants

A recent article in our local paper told of the difficulties that families have finding daycare for infants. I?ve found this to be particularly difficult in my case as I have had several special needs children. It?s hard enough to find child care, much less care for a child that has health concerns [...]

April 2 was World Autism Day

Last Wednesday, April 2, the first World Autism Awareness Day was observed. An initiative of the UN General Assembly, it is ?a day to focus on children and adults suffering from autism.?
Autism has been linked to vaccines, genetics, pollution, and prenatal alcohol exposure. A recent study shows another side to the multi-faceted Autism Spectrum Disorders [...]

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