Ease Your Mind if You’re Worried About Back Sleeping For Your Baby SIDS Prevention My mother and mother-in-law think I’m crazy to put my son to sleep on his back. They’re worried about back sleeping and are sure he’ll choke. Until recent “Back to Sleep” campaigns, conventional Western wisdom taught that babies should sleep on […]
GER: How Breastfeeding Helps
How Breastfeeding Helps with Gastroesophageal Reflux (GER) Breast-milk is known as the “easy in – easy out” food. It’s easier to digest and makes easier-to-pass stools. Whey, the predominant protein in breast-milk, forms an intestine- friendly, soft, easy-to-digest curd, unlike the rubbery, harder-to-digest casein curd formed in the digestion of most formulas. Breastfeeding helps tiny […]
Spitting Up
1. Why babies spit up. Babies spit up because they are just being babies. They gulp milk and air, and the air settles beneath the milk in the stomach. When baby’s stomach contracts, like an air gun, the stomach shoots some milk back up the esophagus, and you have sour, curdled milk on your shoulder. […]
Best Dinners for Sleep
Meals that are high in carbohydrates and low-to-medium in protein will help you relax in the evening and set you up for a good night’s sleep. Try the following “dinners for sleep”: pasta with parmesan cheese scrambled eggs and cheese tofu stirfry hummus with whole wheat pita bread seafood, pasta, and cottage cheese meats and […]
Indigestion
Do you suffer from indigestion? You don’t have to. While “heartburn” and “indigestion” used to be discomforts that many adults just learned to live with, new insights and treatments have uncovered the medical reasons and effective treatment for these upsets. While the terms “heartburn” and “indigestion” have no medical definition, if your “heart” burns or […]
Healthy Meat: Concerns About Meat
Healthy Meat: Yes or No? What’s the beef with red meat? This question can be answered in two nutritional words: fat and cholesterol. Recent nutritional guidelines have recommended eating 18 ounces or less of red meat per week. Listed are the top health concerns about red meat, tips on choosing healthier meat options, and getting […]
Benefits of Breastmilk
Let Baby Enjoy the Benefits of Breastmilk Human milk is more than food. It’s a complex living substance, like blood, with a long list of active germ-fighting and health-promoting ingredients. These benefits of breastmilk help protect babies against all kinds of infections, common and not-so-common. A drop of breast milk contains around one million white […]
Ease Morning Sickness
24 Ways to Ease Morning Sickness The term “morning sickness” is misleading, as this queasiness can occur in the morning, afternoon, evening or middle of the night. Although it is inevitable and unavoidable, here are 24 ways to ease morning sickness. 1. Avoid Morning Sickness Nausea Triggers The most common offenders you should eliminate to […]
Heartburn Relief During Pregnancy
7 Ways to Heartburn Relief During Pregnancy Shortly after eating, and sometimes even between meals, many pregnant women belch and burp frequently and experience a burning, irritating sensation just below their breastbone. Pregnancy hormones are to blame as they cause an overall slowdown of the intestines, relax the stomach muscles, and delay the time it […]
Medications to Increase Milk Supply
Medications that boost levels of milk-making hormones, such as prolactin, can boost a mother’s milk supply in situations such as relactation, or adoptive nursing or when a mother has been trying to maintain a milk supply by pumping for a baby who can’t feed at the breast. The medication with the best record for being […]
Attachment Parenting Stories
Incredible attachment parenting stories I was sitting at my desk one evening when my emergency beeper sounded, calling me to the hospital emergency room to evaluate a five-month-old baby who had stopped breathing. Here is one of the most heart touching attachment parenting stories I’ve ever been a part of. Attachment parenting stories in the […]
GER Resources
P.A.G.E.R. – The Pediatric/Adolescent Gastrointestinal Reflux Association. A non-profit organization offering support and information from other parents coping with the heartache of reflux. P.O. Box 1153 Germantown, MD 20875-1153, (301) 601-9541 or (760) 747-5001, www.reflux.org.