Supplements of Vitamin D During Pregnancy May Lead to Healthier Babies Vitamin D During Pregnancy and Baby’s Growth A lead article in the July issue of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics analyzed the results of 24 studies involving over 5,000 pregnant mothers. The study concluded that those who took supplements of vitamin […]
Most Common Springtime Illnesses When spring arrives, so do allergies. In fact, the only things that “go around” this time of year are allergies and allergy-related problems. Here is a guide to understanding springtime allergic conditions, how to recognize them, how to treat them with over-the-counter medicines, how to prevent them, and when to seek […]
Benefits of Seafood for Babies and Children Parenting, in a nutshell, is giving your children tools to succeed in life. One of the smartest tools you can give them is to shape their young tastes to crave one of the smartest foods – seafood! During a fishing trip with my fisherman friend, Randy Hartnell, owner […]
Natural Ways to Prepare for Cough and Cold Season There’s never a convenient time for your child or you to get sick. While missed school (and work!) days are going to happen, there are steps to can take to minimize them through some natural steps which will prepare your family for cold season. As a […]
Should a Baby “Cry it Out”? Over thirty years ago in all of our writings, we strongly cautioned new parents to avoid the “let your baby cry it out” crowd because sleep-training was becoming fashionable and often harmful. We even added another Baby B to our list of attachment parenting tools – beware of baby-trainers. […]
Dr. Poo’s 10 ways to have healthy poop to be proud of By Bill Sears, MD, America’s Pediatrician My early years as a pediatrician and parent were like an on-the-job poo school. One of my goals as a good doctor was to teach parents how to get their child off to the right healthy poop. […]
How to Set Boundaries and Help Your Kids Have a Healthy Balance with Technology Do you struggle with modeling or helping your kids have a healthy balance with technology use? A study published in June 2018 by researchers at the University of Texas asked subjects to take a series of tests that required full cognitive […]
The Natural Benefits of Breastfeeding and Breast Milk Mothers and babies are the top national treasures in every country. And breastmilk is every country’s top natural resource. Science agrees. The incidence of nearly every serious disease you don’t want your child to get is lower the longer a baby is breastfed. From head-to-toe, a breastfed […]
Bed-sharing with Baby A recent article released by NPR was titled “Is Sleeping with Your Baby as Dangerous as Doctors Say?” and has brought a lot of attention to the topic of co-sleeping, also called bed-sharing or sleep-sharing. We love articles that show that mother’s and father’s intuition trump pseudoscience. In my fifty years as […]
2018 Revised Edition! A fully updated version of the Dr. Sears guide to breastfeeding, a perennial parents’ favorite for nearly two decades. Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning by Martha Sears, RN and William Sears, MD Taking a realistic, contemporary approach, the Searses bring an age-old practice completely […]
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” – Angela Schwindt by Martha Sears, RN This quote came to me in an email from a close friend and colleague in the parenting world, Janet Jendron, President of Attachment Parenting, International. I have known Janet […]
Breastfeeding Rates Are Up and Lives Are Being Saved Our newspapers are so full of dismal news that it’s uplifting to read some good news, especially about babies. The October 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics featured a fabulous article about one of the most successful government health programs on our […]
