Babies and Toddlers

Music Can Relieve Pain In Newborn Babies
by eNotAlone.com
Mounting evidence suggests that a sound of music can reduce pain in newborn babies during common medical procedures and encourage better oral feeding for premature babies. Music is increasingly being used in neonatal units, where the little patients

Change In Vaccine Order Affects Infants' Response To Pain
by eNotAlone.com
Canadian doctors say that the certain order in which vaccine injections are being administered to infants, affects their response to pain. According to scientists, infants who receive the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) following the combination

Bedtime Routine - A Key To Your Child's Good Mood And Behavior
by eNotAlone.com
Following a consistent bedtime routine helps improve children's sleep habits, as well as their bedtime behaviors and mood, in general, say the psychologists from the United States. The scientists said that sleep problems are one of the most common concern

Baby Boys Are Weaker Biologically Than Baby Girls
by eNotAlone.com
A new study by Tel Aviv University (TAU) School of Medicine, offers scientific evidence that baby boys are born with a bigger package of associated risks than their female counterparts.

Multiple Anesthesia In Children May Cause Learning Disabilities
by eNotAlone.com
According to the scientists at Mayo Clinic, children who underwent 2 or more surgeries under anesthesia by the age of 3, may be at a higher risk to be exposed to learning disabilities at a later time.

Vitamin B12 And Folic Acid Important For Healthy Baby
by eNotAlone.com
Women who do not have adequate levels of vitamin B 12 in their blood before and after getting pregnant, are at a significantly increased risk of giving birth to a child with brain or spinal cord defects, a new study by Irish researchers claims.

Swimming Lessons Dicrease The Risk Of Drowning In Toddlers
by eNotAlone.com
Learning to swim between the ages of 1 and 4, may help to reduce the risk of drowning in young children, according to new findings. The American Academy of Pediatrics has always recommended that kids should be taught to swim only after the age of 5.

Infant Bed Suffocation Rates On The Rise
by eNotAlone.com
The rates of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) due to accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed (ASSB) have quadrupled between 1984 and 2004, reports a new study published in the February issue of Pediatrics.

Breastfeeding Mothers Don't Neglect Their Kids
by eNotAlone.com
Mothers who do not breastfeed their infants are nearly 4 times more likely to neglect and abuse their child, according to a Baylor College of Medicine study in Queensland, Australia.

Early Newborn Screening Saves Their Lives
by eNotAlone.com
A March of Dimes report released on February 18, 2009 says that from now on all the 50 states and The District of Columbia will require hospitals to screen newborns for a range of life-threatening diseases and medical conditions.

Parent Gesturing Leads To Rich Vocabulary Of Their Children
by eNotAlone.com
Infants and toddlers who use gestures more often have better vocabularies upon reaching school age, according to a new study by two University of Chicago psychologists. Pointing, waving bye-bye and other natural gestures appear to boost a budding

Newborn Brain Cells Encode Memory
by eNotAlone.com
We all suffer lapses in memory from time to time. Do you remember how did it happen? Can you remember when did it take place? With these most common questions starts a wistful journey through our memory lane.

Baby Teeth Require More Attention Than Parents Think
by eNotAlone.com
One of the questions that really bothers lots of parents today is "why there is such a rise of cavities in baby teeth?" Some babies are born with yellow or white stains on their teeth or a defective enamel.

TV Is Harmful For Infants
by eNotAlone.com
A review of twenty five years of seventy eight studies found that allowing children under two years of age to watch television can do more harm than good to their ongoing development, a U.S. researchers say.

Discovering the Key to the Sense Types, Part 1
Child Sense: From Birth to Age 5, How to Use the 5 Senses to Make Sleeping, Eating, Dressing, and Other Everyday Activities Easier While Strengthening Your Bond With Child
by Priscilla J. Dunstan
During the months of pregnancy, many of us fantasized about the bond we would soon have with our child. We imagined cooing to each other, holding each other close in a bubble of mutual wonder, fascination, and intimacy.

The Mother and Her Child
by William S. Sadler, M.D., Lena K. Sadler, M.D.
Happy is the mother and fortunate is the home that possesses the intelligent services of a trained attendant during the early days of the baby's career. A century or more ago skilled nurses were unheard of, and both mothers

American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The topic of this chapter may well be prefaced by an extract from Herbert Spencer on the treatment of offspring. He first supposes that some future philosophic speculator, examining the course of education of the present period, should find nothing

The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health
by William A. Alcott
There is a prejudice abroad, to some extent, against agitating the questions - 'What shall we eat? What shall we drink? and Wherewithal shall we be clothed?' - not so much because the Scriptures have charged us not to be over 'anxious' on the subject

Parent and Child, Volume III
by Mosiah Hall
The child is born the weakest and most helpless of creatures. Unlike the young of most animals, which within a few hours after birth move about and perform most of the movements necessary to their existence, the infant is so helpless that all its needs

Maintaining Health
by R. L. Alsaker
If the baby lives to be one year old, its chances of surviving are fairly good, but during the first year the mortality is appalling. Complete statistics are not available, but in places one-fifth or even one-fourth of the babies born perish during