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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 [...]
Tags: baby hair, heartburn, newborns, Pregnancy
Posted in: Baby, Health, News
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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 [...]
Tags: adorable babies, moms, newborns, strangers
Posted in: Baby
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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 [...]
Tags: baby products, newborns, sids prevention, sleeping bags, sleepsacks, swaddling
Posted in: Baby, Products
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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 [...]
Tags: babies head smell, newborns, perfume
Posted in: Baby
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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, [...]
Tags: healthcare errors, iatrogenic events, newborns, unintentional
Posted in: Current Events, Health
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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. [...]
Tags: clipping fingernails, newborns, parental responsibility
Posted in: Baby
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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 [...]
Tags: babies, newborns, sleeping
Posted in: Parenting
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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. [...]
Tags: Breastfeeding, newborns, nursing
Posted in: Breastfeeding
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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.
Tags: cold, Health, Healthwise, Jan Nissi, newborns, winter, young babies
Posted in: Baby, Health
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