Babies and Toddlers
88 Articles & Excerpts
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
Reduce the Risk of Sudden Infant Death syndrome (SIDS): Crucial Advice for New Parents
by National Institute of Health
If you're a new parent, you want to do everything you can to keep your baby healthy. You probably already know that putting your baby to sleep on his or her back will reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the sudden and unexplained death
What's wrong with the idea of readiness?
 Diaper-Free Before 3: The Healthier Way to Toilet Train and Help Your Child Out of Diapers Sooner
by Jill Lekovic, M.D.
The parents of a healthy one-year-old boy, Jake, bring him in for his regular checkup. His growth is normal and his parents report that he started taking a few steps on his own over the last few weeks.
Nearly 40 Years of Success!
 How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby
by Landrum B. Shettles, M.D., Ph.D., David M. Rorvik
How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby explains the simple, at-home, noninvasive Shettles method and presents detailed steps to take to conceive a child of a specific gender. The properly applied Shettles method gives couples a 75 percent or better chance
Choose a Name
 The Experts' Guide to the Baby Years: 100 Things Every Parent Should Know
by Samantha Ettus
So, have you settled on a name yet? As the clock winds down many parents find themselves surprisingly stumped, still searching for the perfect name to express their tastes-and satisfy the whole family.
The Truth about Crying Babies
 Colic Solved: The Essential Guide to Infant Reflux and the Care of Your Crying, Difficult to Soothe Baby
by Bryan Vartabedian M.D.
For generations, doctors have been diagnosing babies with colic, offering little comfort and few solutions to worried, weary parents. But recent medical advances made through cutting-edge technology now reveal that many if not most cases of colic
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Facts
by National Institute of Health
Always place your baby on his or her back to sleep. Make sure that all caregivers place your baby to sleep on his or her back. This is the single most important thing you can do to reduce the risk of SIDS.
Adventures in Parenting : 0 -3 Years: Responding to Your Child, Risky Behaviors
by National Institute of Health
Abby spends the day at a day care center while Caroline is at work; Caroline drops her off at 7:30 a.m. and returns for her at 5:30 p.m. When they get home in the evening, Caroline gets dinner ready while Abby sits in her high chair.
Newborn Hearing Screening and Testing
by CDC
All infants should be screened for hearing loss before 1 month of age, preferably before leaving the birth hospital. The age of a child when a hearing loss is diagnosed is important to the development of the child's speech, language, cognitive
Infant Formula : Nutrient Requirements
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
What about sterilizing the bottles and nipples? 'Dishwashers tend to sterilize bottles and nipples fairly well,' says Klish. They can also be sterilized by placing in a pan of boiling water for five minutes.
Infant Formula : Iron, Cooking Lessons
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The infant formulas currently available in the United States are either 'iron-fortified' - with approximately 12 milligrams of iron per liter - or 'low iron' - with approximately 2 milligrams of iron per liter.
Infant Formula: Second Best but Good Enough
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
When breast-feeding isn't possible, babies can thrive on today's infant formulas, prepared under strict quality control procedures to ensure healthfulness and safety. A century ago, babies who couldn't be breast-fed usually didn't survive.
Preterm Babies Get a Double Breath of Life
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A lifesaving drug has cut in half deaths from respiratory distress syndrome in low-birthweight babies born prematurely. New, high frequency ventilators are also being used to help such preemies.
Infant Apnea Monitors Help Parents Breathe Easy
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
All infants sometimes pause when they breathe, but some infants pause longer than others. When newborns go more than 20 seconds without breathing, their lives may be in danger. Home monitors are helping parents detect these too-long apneas.
Feeding Baby : Formula Choices, Vitamins
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The most common sources of protein in infants formulas are either cow's milk or soybeans. 'For term infants, soy formulas appear to be as nutritionally sound as milk-based formulas, and their use is unlikely to expose infants to nutritional risk
What My Daughter Owes Me
 Callie's Tally: An Accounting of Baby's First Year
by Betsy Howie
I am not one of those women who has always known. In fact, they amaze me-those women. They fell in love with the idea of babies back when they were barely more than babies themselves.
Day Care: Sick Plus Bad Equals Good?
by Mary Eberstadt
For parents who do not have options apart from institutional care, the increased likelihood that day care children will be sick and unhappy are facts of life.
How Do You Spell 'Aggression'?
by Mary Eberstadt
Another immediate harm caused by institutional care, well documented if still bitterly resisted, is that day care makes some children more belligerent and aggressive - and we are talking not only about the longer term here, but also about the here and now
Day Care as Germ Factory
by Mary Eberstadt
The reason for beginning with institutional care, as opposed to other forms of substitute care, is simple: That is the chosen battleground of advocates who have argued over the years that such care is as good as or even better than maternal care
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