Understanding Natural Family Planning through Breastfeeding and Fertility Rates You may have heard that you can’t get pregnant while breastfeeding because of the impact of breastfeeding and fertility rates. This is true, as long as you nurse according to the rules of natural child spacing. The same hormones that make milk suppress the release of reproductive hormones. While breastfeeding full-time most […]
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 […]
How to Teach Children to Apologize Apologizing helps your child accept responsibility for a wrong and provides a tool to make things right again. It helps the child dig himself out of a hole. It clears the air, helps heal the relationship, and gives it a new beginning. To teach children to apologize, try these […]
Disciplining a child who is “differently-abled” is likely to bring out the best and the worst in a parent. Parents try to help a child make up for what’s missing by increasing their love and attention, yet children with special needs trigger special frustrations in parents. Be prepared to run out of patience. We focus […]
Making a Decision on Cord Blood Stem Cell Banking Today’s expectant parents are faced with many decisions about the type of birth they want to have: Birthing center or hospital? Epidural or natural? Rooming in with baby or, “Please take that baby to the nursery and let me sleep!” One of those decisions should be […]
How to Practice Safe Co-Sleeping There are differing opinions on how safe co-sleeping is. See how to safely share a bed with your child and how it benefits the both of you. Facts There has been a lot of media claiming that sleeping with your baby in an adult bed is unsafe and can result […]
Ways to Involve Children in Pregnancy Being pregnant while you have a toddler or preschooler in tow can be both challenging and exhausting, but also very fun and exciting. As children get older, you may find it easier and more fun to involve children in pregnancy. Here are some ways to involve children in pregnancy […]
Simple A.D.D. Behavior Management Skills Every Parent Should Know Children with A.D.D. or A.D.H.D. can test a parent’s patience to the limits. In the midst of the struggles, it is important to think of A.D.D. NOT as a disorder, rather a way that your child learns and reacts to stimuli in the world around him […]
