“I have an 8-month-old girl who is a very happy breastfed baby. My question is about solid foods. She is not interested. I feel like I am doing something wrong with the way I am introducing food because this feels like a repeat of my first child. He is a very small almost 3-year-old weighing […]
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I Think My Child is Having Night Terrors
“I think my child is having night terrors.” It’s the middle of the night and you are awakened by your child screaming from his bedroom. You rush in to see what’s wrong and you find him sitting up in bed with a blank stare but very agitated. You try to wake him, asking him what […]
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How Do I Help My High-need Baby Transition?
“I am 31-years-old and have a 14-year-old daughter and a 4-month-old daughter. I am a single mom. My infant is a “high need” baby. I am worried about going back to work. I obviously have no other options as I am the only bread winner and living on a tight budget. My maternity leave will […]
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High Need Baby Needs to Be Held All the Time
HOW CAN I CHANGE MY 3-M-O HIGH NEED BABY SO SHE DOESN’T NEED TO BE HELD ALL THE TIME? “I’m desperate for your help. I have a beautiful, alert, healthy, strong and happy daughter (3 months). When she was born, the nurses at the hospital suggested I sleep with her for the first few weeks […]
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Grinding Teeth
“My 12-month-old grinds his teeth while awake and sleeping what can I do to stop him and will it hurt his teeth?” In general, grinding the baby teeth is not a problem. It is often a sign of teething, very likely for a 12 month old. When he starts losing his baby teeth, the grinding […]
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Father – Daughter Relationships
“I am a divorced father in the middle of a pretty bitter custody battle. I have two daughters, 6 and 7 years old. When the kids were young, and my ex and I were married, we practiced attachment parenting. We never spanked, my ex breast fed them until about 18 months, and we all slept […]
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Falling Out of Bed
“Our 9-month-old baby is 25 pounds and walking. In the middle of the night when he wakes, he will sometimes want to stand, crawl, etc. and I fear for his safety (he has already fallen out of bed once when I was in a deep sleep). I am losing so much sleep because of this. […]
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Does Breastfeeding While Lying Down Cause Ear Infections?
“After 10-11 months of nothing worse than a cold, my one-year-old daughter has had constant ear infections. I know that giving a child a bottle while lying down can contribute to ear infections, but what about breastfeeding while lying down? We have recently started co-sleeping full time to allow me to get more sleep, so […]
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Daddy is Favorite
“I’m looking for information on how to handle a young toddler’s (14 months) need of having Daddy all to herself. This particular child spends all day with Mom, and when Daddy comes home, she won’t leave his side. She gets angry if Mom and Dad try to spend time together. She sleeps with Dad and […]
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Chapped Lips
“My son is 7 1/2 months old and seems to have chapped lips. It is red on the right side of his mouth, on the upper lip. It does not seem to bother him, but I feel the pacifier (only uses to go to sleep) is irritating it. Is there anything we can use to […]
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Is Breastmilk Nutritionally Useless After One Year?
“I am looking for a source of good, non-biased scientifically backed-up info on certain aspects of breastfeeding/breastmilk, and was wondering if you could help.. My daughter has just turned one, and is still fixated on breastfeeding. Although I instinctively think this is probably OK, I could do with something to backup my feelings, and to […]
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2nd Baby on The Way
“Hello, I had a question in regards to a having a second baby. My first born will be 21 months when the second baby arrives. I was hoping that Dr. Sears would have a book in regards to this issue, but I didn’t see one. I would just like to have a reference on hand. […]
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