It’s amazing how many options are out there for every single product these days. Buying spoons for your baby may feel like a simple task at first, until you walk down the aisle at the store or google “baby spoon” on Amazon. So many different brands, shapes, and sizes…Does it matter which one you pick […]
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Picking eating can be such a difficult and frustrating thing for caregivers to deal with and it is so common, especially with toddlers and young children. Of course, there are a lot of things you can do to improve eating if your child is stuck in restricted diet mode. But this post is about preventing
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If you have ever stepped foot into a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, you know what the title means. The noise, the lights, the busyness. It’s often too much for me, let alone what it must be like for the premature nervous system. And I don’t just mean the stress and chaos that ensues during birth
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Good baby? What does that even mean? I hear it all the time. Generally people are referring to temperament when they say this. Temperament is our nature, it is not something anyone has control over. So how could it be associated as “good” or “bad”? And if there is such as thing as “good babies”,
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Believe it or not you can start working on this skill by 5 or 6 months of age. In fact, some people even offer newborns sips of breast milk from an open cup if they are having trouble latching. Of course you can always hold a glass for your baby and offer them a sip
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