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Playing With Baby

The Wonderful Experience of Playing With Baby Floor play can be one of the most developmentally stimulating activities for your baby between two and four months. As your baby begins to enjoy time on her back reaching for hanging toys and gazing at mobiles, it’s tempting to leave baby to herself for these quiet play […]

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August 23, 2013 October 1, 2015 Dr. Bill Sears

Playing With Your Crawling Baby

Having Fun With Your Crawling Baby In the first few months of baby’s life playtime is mainly stationary. When rolling over starts, baby’s play area spreads out a bit. But when baby begins crawling between 6 and 9 months, watch out! Baby now has complete run, or crawl, of the house, and playtime takes on […]

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August 23, 2013 February 2, 2015 Dr. Bill Sears

Fun With Baby’s First Steps

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Play safety tips to help you and your baby start off on the right foot with baby’s first steps. Remember baby’s eagerness when she first learned to crawl across the room? And how much fun did baby have when she could pull herself up and cruise along the couch? These are fun milestones for babies […]

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August 23, 2013 October 17, 2017 Dr. Bill Sears

Exercising With Baby

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Make Exercising with Baby Simple and Easy Taking care of a young baby takes time and energy, and moms often feel they have little left of either to do anything else. Yet, it’s important that moms stay active and healthy and exercising with baby is a great way to do both. Daily exercise actually boosts […]

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August 23, 2013 October 17, 2018 Dr. Bill Sears

How Baby Brains Grow

Baby Brains New insights into how baby brains grow show that parents can have a profound effect on how smart their child later becomes. The brain grows more during infancy than at any other time, doubling its volume and reaching approximately 60% of its adult size by year one! As the brain grows, nerve cells, (called […]

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August 23, 2013 February 12, 2016 Dr. Bill Sears

Will The Drug Affect Baby

Many drugs taken by a mother make their way into her milk. The important question is not whether the drug gets into milk, but whether the levels in the milk are such that they will affect the baby. Here are some of the factors that influence how much of a drug gets into a mother’s […]

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August 12, 2013 August 12, 2013 Dr. Bill Sears

How to Spend More Quality Time With Baby

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Focus on Quality Time During Your Time Together If you must be away from your baby for many hours each day, you’ll want to make the most of the time you have together. Make baby and breastfeeding your number-one priority during your non-working hours to increase your quality time together. Quality Time In the Morning […]

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August 12, 2013 June 26, 2018 Dr. Bill Sears

Selecting A Breastfeeding-Friendly Caregiver

Finding a caregiver whom you can trust to parent your baby in a sensitive way is vitally important to your baby’s welfare and your peace of mind while you are working. You also want a caregiver who is supportive of breastfeeding. Share information about the benefits of breastfeeding and about how your baby is growing […]

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August 12, 2013 August 12, 2013 Dr. Bill Sears

Dad and Baby Bonding

The Importance of Dad and Baby Bonding Most of the bonding research has focused on mother-infant bonding, with the father given only honorable mention. In recent years fathers, too, have been the subject of bonding research and have even merited a special term for the dad and baby relationship at birth—”engrossment.” We used to talk […]

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August 8, 2013 September 24, 2018 Dr. Bill Sears

Bonding with Baby

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7 Tips for Better Bonding with Baby The relationship with your child begins as soon as they come into this world. Let your newborn know they are loved right away with these simple tips to get bonding with baby off to a loving start. 1. Delay routine procedures Oftentimes the attending nurse does routine procedures—giving […]

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August 8, 2013 July 10, 2018 Dr. Bill Sears

Losing a Baby

How to Deal With Losing a Baby When a baby dies in the NICU, there is obviously tremendous grief felt by the family and the medical team. Great amounts of emotional and physical energy have been invested in your preemie, and it is a terrible tragedy when the story doesn’t end well. Many parents have […]

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August 8, 2013 May 30, 2018 Dr. Bill Sears

Understanding Delivering a Breech Baby

Safe Conditions for Delivering a Breech Baby Vaginally Studies show that delivering a breech baby surgically rather than vaginally has a lower risk of birth injury and newborn complications. The main concern in the vaginal delivery of a breech newborn is that, with the feet or buttocks presenting first, the head will not have enough […]

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August 8, 2013 January 19, 2015 Dr. Bill Sears
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