Dr. Sears‘ book, The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know about Your Baby from Birth to Age Two, is my new parenting bible. It’s 740+ pages covers everything from feeding and nutrition to health concerns and remedies, to baby’s stages, to parenting the colicky baby, to baby-wearing and contemporary parenting, to the transition from [...]
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Yesterday, my toddler and I were invited to a party – a chicken pox party.
Have you heard of chicken pox parties? The parents of a child who has caught chickenpox invite his or her friends to their home to catch the disease, believing it’s best for a child to have the disease early and “get [...]
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Aaah, the many illusions I had before I became a mother. One of them was that the baby would arrive, and would seamlessly transition her from bassinet, to crib, to toddler bed. Hubby and I would preserve the sanctity of our bedroom, and teach her independence by having her sleep in her own [...]
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When I first started venturing out of the house after having my daughter, I saw mothers carrying their babies in slings.
They told me, ‘It’s so much easier than lugging around a heavy car seat.’
‘You don’t even need a stroller.’
I wasn’t convinced. I strapped my daughter into her car seat before we got into the car, [...]
Tags: Attachment Parenting, Baby, slings, toddler
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