How to Prepare For The Highs and Lows of the Fourth Trimester Question: I am due in a couple of months and I am trying to prepare myself as much as possible for a healthy 4th trimester. What should I be thinking about realistically? I think you brought up a question/thought that is on the […]
Easing Shortness of Breath During Pregnancy
7 Ways to Ease Shortness of Breath During Pregnancy Shortness of breath during pregnancy increases in both frequency and intensity during the third trimester as your expanding uterus limits your lungs’ ability to expand with each breath. To compensate for cramping your breathing space from below, pregnancy hormones stimulate you to breathe more often and […]
Attachment Parenting Babies
Attachment Parenting Babies are Raised the Way Nature Intended The 7 Baby B’s Attachment parenting is a style of caring for your infant that brings out the best in the baby and the parents. Learn how attachment parenting babies grow up happier and healthier with these 7 practices. 1. Birth bonding The way baby and […]
Raising a High Needs Baby
How to Raise a High Needs Baby Our first three children were relatively “easy” infants. They slept well and had predictable feeding routines. Their needs were easy to identify and satisfy. In fact, I began to suspect that parents in my pediatric practice who complained about their fussy babies were exaggerating. “What’s all the fuss […]
8-M-O Recently Started Night Waking
Baby Started Night Waking: What to Do? “My 8-month-old son used to sleep through the night just fine. But for the past 2 months, he started night waking 4 or 5 times a night fussing and wants to nurse. He sleeps in our bed with us. I know it may be teething, but I am […]
Mastitis
Mastitis: Prevention, Symptoms, and Treatment Mastitis means that the breast is inflamed, and there is swelling, redness, tenderness, and pain. There may be an infection, so it is wise to consult your health-care provider to determine whether or not an antibiotic is necessary. A breast infection can become a breast abscess that requires surgical draining, […]
8 Reasons Breastfeeding Reduces SIDS
How Breastfeeding Reduces SIDS: The Milk, The Mother, Or The Method Whether it is the milk, the mother, or the method that is responsible for the lower SIDS risk in the breastfed infant is hard to tell. It’s probably a combination of all three, which proves breastfeeding reduces SIDS. THE MILK There are hundreds of […]
Last Month of Pregnancy Physical Changes
How Your Body Feels During the Last Month of Pregnancy Your last month of pregnancy will most likely come with a little more discomfort and exhaustion. Hang in there; it’s almost over. This is what you can expect to experience in pregnancy’s final month. Feeling Bigger You may find the muscles in your abdomen hurt […]
Your Changing Body in the Sixth Month of Pregnancy
Sixth Month of Pregnancy Physical Changes Toward the end of the sixth month of pregnancy, most women continue to feel delighted in being big enough to look pregnant. They usually feel relatively well. Nevertheless, as you round the bend into the last trimester, you may begin to get a hint of the discomforts to come. […]
Night Weaning: How to Gently End Night Feedings
What is the Best Way to End Night Feeding? This is one of the top questions we get from our friends, from the parents of our little patients and our website followers. The night weaning information you are about to read is gleaned from Dr. Bill’s experience in fifty years of pediatric practice, Martha’s experience […]
Croup Symptoms and Treatment
Recognizing and Treating Croup Your child has had a mild cold for the past day or two, and then around bedtime, you hear it starting. That barky, raspy cough that sounds like a seal asking for his next meal. If you have heard a “croupy” cough before, there’s no mistaking it. If your child has […]
Head Injuries
Evaluating Head Injuries When evaluating head injuries, it helps to appreciate the difference between a skull injury and a brain injury. The skull acts as a protective helmet for the delicate brain, and the skull is covered with a richly vascularized scalp. Most falls involve injury to the scalp only. The scalp will bleed profusely […]