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Pregnancy Heartburn = Hairy Baby?

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Heartburn makes many a pregnant woman miserable. And if you moan about it, people tell you that it means that your baby will have lots of hair. Because that’s totally going to make you [...]

Staring at Babies

Okay, now I get it.
I always wondered why other moms would stare so longingly at my newborn, especially when they would start to tear up or literally look as though they wanted to eat my baby right then and there. I naturally assumed it had something to do with how incredibly adorable both of [...]

Sweet Dreams: A Guide to Baby Sleeping Bags

Baby sleeping bags have been popular in Europe for many years. It’s only recently they have started to catch on here too and once you try them, you’ll wonder why we went so long without them.
Baby sleeping bags, or sleep sacks, if you are not familiar with them, are like a wearable blanket that baby’s [...]

That Wonderful Baby Head Smell

Ask any new mom what her favorite smell is. Number one answer: her baby’s head. Isn’t it delicious? That warm, sweet, milky, furry, perfumy baby smell. It takes a couple of days after birth for the smell to start, but once it does it’s overpowering when you get close. My son smelt like [...]

Unintentional but Serious Errors in Hospital Care for Newborns

Remember the case of the Quaid twins and the heparin mistake? You`d think it was an unfortunate but isolated incident, right? Something that normally doesn`t happen in hospitals in the developed world. Well, think again.
A study in France whose results were recently published in The Lancet reported that such mistakes actually happen frequently. Too frequently, [...]

Clipping Baby’s Nails

Of all the responsibilities I had when my babies were newborns, the one I hated a feared the most was clipping their nails. Something about the task terrified me. I would rather change twenty poopy diapers than clip one fingernail on my baby because I was so scared of accidentally clipping the skin. [...]

Still Breathing

I was a little terrified when I headed home from the hospital with my first baby. I think it’s natural for most first-time moms to be scared out of their minds after their first babies are born, especially in cases like mine when I had never really been exposed to newborn babies. Why [...]

Nursing in Public? No Problem.

I nursed both of my kids, and I did it in public quite frequently. In the beginning I was terrified to do it, but since I didn’t even bother with bottles then unless I wanted to be a shut-in I knew that eventually I would have to feed my baby while out and about. [...]

Keep Baby Bundled During Winter Cold

Bundling baby up for a family outing can sometimes be a difficult task with baby wanting to play and move around, but a necessary evil to keep baby warm and healthy.

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