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Callum last summer – small car and more reclined seat It used to be that flipping a child forward facing in his car seat on his first birthday was a given. Most car seats do not allow for forward facing before a child is 1 and 20 pounds. In recent years, however, the trend has [...] Last week, the Environmental Law Foundation sent out a press release about their tests that found illegal amounts of lead in packaged products for babies and kids. NPR covered the story, but the news has hardly made headlines. I only came across the news after it was posted from a mom on AP board on [...] My husband often tells me to stop reading. When I am trying to make a decision about something, I am the type of person who has to over-analzye it and over-research every possible option. It is kind of a miracle that I am able to actually make a decision. True to form, I started researching [...] Jan at Sleeping Baby Productions has put together this helpful page on newborn and infant positioning; the information is based on a talk given at the recent International Babywearing Conference by M’Liss Stelzer, a registered nurse who has studied the effects of poor positioning (in particular in bag sling type carriers) on infants’ breathing. As we [...] Callum and I just enjoyed his second round of airplane flights (he’s 17 months). When I booked our tickets a month ago, I faced the “do I get him his own seat” dilemma. As you likely know, children under 2 are allowed to fly for free on domestic US flights if they sit on an [...] Many of us have been told repeatedly to do our Kegels during and after pregnancy to prevent problems such as incontinence. Bio-mechanical scientist Katy Bowman has an interesting alternative to the traditional Kegel, which she sees as inadequate for creating a strong pelvic floor. Check out Katy’s information on the importance of squatting and birth [...] I recently got rid of four bottles of children’s medicine, two bottles of infant Tylenol and two bottles of infant Motrin, based on McNeil Consumer Healthcare’s “voluntary” recall of the products. I’m not sure how voluntary the recall was because they shut the manufacturing plant down and recalled the medicine only after the FDA wrote [...] A new report published in Archives of Disease in Childhood shows that babies who consume sugar during or immediately after receiving a vaccination cry less. The report was based on an analysis of 14 randomized controlled trials. Although previous studies have shown that sugar helps ease the pain in newborns, the authors of this article [...]  |
   
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