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Is Your Infant or Child Constipated? Here’s How To Help
If you’ve ever had to potty train a toddler, you're familiar with the best-selling children’s book “Everyone Poops.” But what happens when your baby – or older child – suffers from constipation?
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Getting Sick May Help Your Child Later in Life
As a parent, it’s natural to worry when your child gets sick. But understanding how infections affect the immune system – and that they can actually keep your child healthier later on – can help ease your concerns.
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How was your day?
Every day since he’s been old enough to answer, I’ve been asking my son that question when I pick him up at the end of the day. Usually, I get a relatively enthusiastic “good” and not much else. Sometimes, he’ll offer a little more: a few details about kindergarten drama in the cafeteria, maybe a tidbit about how he and his buddies dug a hole on the playground big enough for them to fit inside (that explains the grubby, little fingernails!).
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Fighting Birth Defects with Folic Acid
Did you know there are things you can do even before you become pregnant that can help give your child a healthy start in life? Making sure your body has enough folic acid is one of the most important ways to protect your baby from birth defects.
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Preparing for Baby's Arrival
Deciding to have a baby is probably one of the most exciting decisions that you will make in your life. In addition to those feelings, it is perfectly normal to also feel a bit nervous. Your body will experience changes during pregnancy that you have never felt before, and you might worry about what it will be like to take care of your new baby. You may wander down the aisles of the baby store and wonder if you really do need all of this stuff to take care of the newest and smallest member of your family. Pregnancy is a time of excitement and anticipation as well as uncertainty.
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The Secret to Baby Talk: Lip-reading
There’s something to be envious of babies about: their ability to lip-read. A new study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has recently been published to show how babies use lip-reading as a way to learn how to shape their mouths to be able to produce words. It’s the process that takes place when a baby goes from babbling to saying words like “mamma” or “dada”. THIS is the moment where a parent scrambles to find the video camera to capture one of their baby’s first milestones!
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It’s time to get up and get outside!
With summer just around the corner, what better time to get your kids more active? Concern over kids’ health and the growing obesity rates has been a hot topic for years, bringing to attention the fact that physical activity is a crucial part of kids’ health. Not only does it help to keep kids’ weight in check, but also plays a role in the development of cognitive and social skills.
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Breastfeeding is making headlines, but take a closer look before you change the way you feed your baby.
A new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics addresses the issue of whether formula supplementation within the first days after a baby’s birth can actually prolong breastfeeding in the long-term. The study has gained a lot of publicity since its conclusions seem to contradict current recommendations of exclusive breastfeeding for infants.
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Is Facebook the best place to get health advice?
It happens about once a week. As I scroll through Facebook and peruse the latest happenings, I notice that someone (usually a mom of small children, like me) has posed a question to their Facebook friends about some type of health dilemma.
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Communicating with your child about the death of a family pet
I am an animal lover. For years, my pets were my “furry kids.” I played with them, loved them, and took care of them. They were my babies, especially my favorite cat, Zip. Then, like many other parents, I had an actual baby, and my “furry children” sort of slipped off their high-status pedestals! However, Zip was always special to me. She was a true member of our family.
