Poor Eleanor is learning to crawl. I say poor because she has hit the rocking on hands and knees stage in a furious but so far futile attempt to move. It’s the first thing she does when she wakes and the last thing she does before falling asleep. Heck, she even tries to “sleep crawl” [...]
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Eleanor just turned 5 months old. Which means the conversation around “sleep-training” and “cry-it-out” methods is well underway in the mama groups I follow. While I’m admittedly anti-CIO, that’s not really the point of this post. Instead I want to address the pressure that many parents feel to use CIO …even when it’s something that [...] Why Hello World!! I’m a member of a Facebook group of fellow April 2011 mamas – it’s great fun to chat with others who are going through the same things you are and to watch (at least virtually!) as our babies go through all the many milestones of their first year. The first April babies [...]
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Becoming Mamas is pleased to announce our first ever giveaway – Elizabeth Pantley’s The No-Cry Sleep Solution and The No-Cry Nap Solution. To enter, simply become our fan on Facebook. Once we hit 500 fans, we’ll draw a winner!! Pantley’s books are well known as an alternative to “cry-it-out” sleep solutions. Her “no cry” method offers [...] Our bed, stripped of all fluff. I recently attended a conference, and I was excited to see on the agenda that there would be a presentation from my state’s health department on the topic of safe infant sleep. I was really looking forward to hearing some new and exciting evidence-based information regarding safe [...]
“…perhaps no other issue has been so often misrepresented and grossly oversimplified as parent-infant cosleeping.” -James McKenna, Cultural Influences on Infant Sleep Awww! Gavin's favorite way to sleep: in someone's arms. We never planned on bedsharing with our baby. I read about it while I was pregnant, and the idea appealed to me, but the warnings [...]  |
   
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