Booster Seats Are Safer
The journal “Pediatrics” published the results of a study, conducted by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia’s Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, confirming previous reports that it’s safer to keep children aged 4 through 8 in a booster seat during car travel.
The new study gives [...]
Tags: aap, American Academy of Pediatrics, babies, booster seats, car seat, car seat safety, carrier, infants
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If you leaf through your baby or parenting magazine you’d be sure to find one of those cute pictures of babies, pictures that will tug at any mommy’s heart. Unfortunately, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is not pleased with many of them. Not in the least, according to this US News report. Because most [...]
Tags: aap, American Academy of Pediatrics, baby ads, Safety, SIDS
Posted in: Current Events, Photography
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OK, tell me something I don’t know. I hope the researchers from southern California didn’t pay too much money to learn that going to back to work makes it more difficult to continue nursing your baby.
Specifically, they learned that when women go back to work in less than six weeks, they are up to four [...]
Tags: aap, Breastfeeding, maternity leave, nursing
Posted in: Baby, Breastfeeding
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Because baby girls are gorgeous without any jewelry. Because I think it’s something that is a permanent alteration and is something that your daughter should be able to decide to do for herself. Because it could even be dangerous.
I’m not anti-piercing, I have 8 in my ears and a stud in my tongue. But I [...]
Tags: aap, ear piercing, earrings, memories
Posted in: Parenting
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The most fun age to take children trick or treating may be when they are toddlers. But that can also be when they are most in danger. This is partly because they are very mobile, but also uncoordinated, leading to the three most common preventable Halloween injuries. Dr. Brian Keaton, President of the American College [...]
Tags: aap, costumes, emergency room, FDA, Halloween, Safety, trick or treat
Posted in: Holidays, Toddlers
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