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 […]
Nipple Confusion
Understanding Nipple Confusion and How to Undo It There are some basic mechanical differences between how a baby gets milk from a bottle and how it gets milk out of the breast. Giving bottles or pacifiers to young, breastfeeding babies often leads to nipple confusion. Baby tries to use the bottle-feeding technique on the breast […]
Thrush
Learn About What Thrush Is, How to Treat it and Breastfeeding With Thrush You are laughing and playing with your baby. She is laughing back at you; her mouth open wide. You notice a white patch on the inside of her cheek that wasn’t there before. You explore her mouth further and find the white […]
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 […]
My Toddler is Touching His Privates!
My son is almost 2 1/2. Ever since he was a newborn, he has been fascinated with sticking his hands in his diaper and feeling his penis. We understand that this is “self-soothing” and don’t want to make it seem like it is “bad” or “wrong” to touch his penis. However, it has been causing […]
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 […]
6 Ways to Help the Angry Child
Calming Down the Angry Child While no person or no family can be anger-proof there are ways you can help your angry child get a handle on their temper. 1. Help Your Child Have Inner Peace Research has shown, and our experience supports the observation, that connected children and their parents get angry with each […]
Co-Sleeping: Yes, No, Sometimes?
Co-Sleeping Is Not Necessarily Bad Our first three babies were easy sleepers. We felt no need or desire to have them share our bed. Besides, I was a new member of the medical profession whose party line was that co-sleeping with babies was weird and even dangerous. Then along came our fourth child, Hayden, born […]
5 Reasons Why High-Need Infants Sleep Differently
High-Need Infants Sleep Differently “Why do high-need children need more of everything but sleep?” a tired mother once asked me. Until we had a high-need infant, I would have guessed that these babies would be worn out by the end of the day and would actually need more sleep; certainly, their parents do. A tired […]
Transitioning from Co-Sleeping to Floor Bed
Tips on Transitioning from Co-sleeping to Floor Bed “I am looking for advice on transitioning our two yeard-old from co-sleeping to a floor bed in our room. We night weaned a few months ago and so we are ready to make another change.” You are not alone in the quest to want to make a […]
Head Injury
Learn What to Do in Case Your Child has a Head Injury The skull acts as a protective helmet for the delicate brain, and the skull is covered with a richly vascularized scalp. It is designed to withstand the hard bumps and bruises of childhood. It helps to appreciate the difference between a skull injury […]
Breastfeeding Twins
Tips for Breastfeeding Twins It’s important to realize that your breastfeeding twins may have different and distinct feeding personalities. One is probably bigger than the other, and one may want to nurse more often than the other. As the babies become more adept at latching on it will be easier to nurse them at the […]