The Natural Benefits of Breastfeeding and Breast Milk Mothers and babies are the top national treasures in every country. And breastmilk is every country’s top natural resource. Science agrees. The incidence of nearly every serious disease you don’t want your child to get is lower the longer a baby is breastfed. From head-to-toe, a breastfed […]
Q&A: Only Urine Potty Trained and Co-sleeping Tips My son is only urine potty trained Question: I need some help with potty training. My son is “potty trained” successfully for urine, however, he’s continuing to do his business in his pull-up during nap time/and or bedtime. He has used the potty for poop before, but now […]
Q&A on How to Adjusting your Child’s Sleeping and Breastfeeding Habits Q: My Son is 18 weeks, and I will be going back to work in 2 weeks. He is exclusively breastfed. In past months he has taken the rare bottle from Grandma or Dad, but it’s been at least a month now. He is […]
Q&A for Parenting Advice Q: If you had one bit of advice for a 20-year-old girl with a passion for health and nutrition who is in the last weeks of Dr. Sears’ Wellness Institute health coach training, what would you tell her? A: Find a way to share your passion that feels true and unique […]
My Bradley Instructor was Right about Delayed Cord Clamping? 22 years ago, during our Bradley childbirth class, I remember our instructor teaching us about some crazy idea called delayed cord clamping. At the time I didn’t even know it was a thing. But we listened and begged our OB to delay the clamping of baby’s […]
Good Advice for New Parents A new baby coming home is a time significant change in the dynamics of the relationship between mom and dad. You can never truly be ready for how this will affect the two of you. Often in this circumstance dad can wind up feeling left out. Mother and baby are […]
The Challenge of Sleeping While Pregnant As your pregnancy progresses and your little passenger starts taking up a lot more room, sleeping while pregnant becomes more of a challenge. You get more tired and need more sleep, but the changes of pregnancy can keep this from happening. Here are some explanations as to why sleeping while […]
Treating A.D.H.D. Now In the past couple of years many pediatricians, especially those in Sears Family Pediatrics, have changed the way we diagnose and treat A.D.H.D. Once upon a time, it was primarily treated with the pills model: “Child diagnosed with A.D.H.D., take this drug…” The new and improved way of treating A.D.H.D., and the […]
How to Tell if Your Baby is Too Sick for Daycare It’s seven in the morning and family rush hour begins. The tea kettle is whistling, the toaster’s popping, and the traffic report is the usual bad news. Enter a whine that will turn your already overbooked day upside down. By reflex you lay hands […]
“My infant has been sleeping in our bed, and this has been wonderful. But now she is getting very active and I am worried that she will fall out of the bed. I have tried to place her in a crib after she falls asleep, but she usually wakes up and cries. I like having […]
“My daughter is 13-months-old and sleeps from 11 at night to seven or eight in the morning. She also has one or two 45-minute naps during the day. Is this enough sleep? How much sleep should she be getting?” Most 13-month-old infants sleep 11 to 12 hours a day, including naps, so your daughter is […]
“My seven-month-old has suddenly stopped nursing. He has refused to take the breast for two days now. He won’t take the bottle either. I have heard this referred to as a “nursing strike.” How to I deal with this? I am not ready to let him wean.” Nursing strikes are very common. They are sometimes […]
