What to Do If Your Child Has Diarrhea You are playing happily with your baby when you suddenly detect a rather unpleasant odor emanating from the diaper area. When you open up the diaper to change it, instead of the usual soft yellow stool, you find a greenish-brown, runny, foul-smelling mess that’s all over both […]
Colic Relief Tips for Parents with Colicky Babies Even though no one completely understands colic, let’s make two assumptions: First, baby has pain in the gut. Secondly, the whole baby is upset as a result. Treatment for colic relief, therefore, is aimed at relaxing the whole baby and particularly the baby’s abdomen. While parents need […]
How to Know if Baby is Getting Enough Breast Milk How do I know if I’m producing enough breast milk and that my newborn is getting enough milk? I had a low supply at the beginning with my first baby, so I am hoping to plan better for baby number two. I was so stressed […]
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 […]
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 […]
Goat Milk Compared to Cow’s Milk What does goat’s milk give you that cow’s milk doesn’t? In many parts of the world, goat’s milk is preferred to cow’s milk. Even in the United States, goat milk is gaining popularity. Goats eat less and occupy less grazing space than cows, and in some families the backyard […]
Dr. Bill’s Outlook on Nighttime Baby Formula Will nighttime baby formula help my baby sleep longer stretches? Dr. Bill gets this question a lot in his Pediatric practice, so I am passing this question along to him: Most of our learning as parents, and most of our books, were literally learned and written on the […]
Parenting Strategies for Children Who Push Our five-year-old daughter is generally kind and considerate. However, she tends to push other children around on the playground, sometimes causing them to fall. How should I handle this? Reacting to the Push Remember our mantra: Parenting is equipping your children with the tools to succeed in life. I […]
Down Syndrome Occurs at the Cell Level Trisomy 21 Down Syndrome occurs when a baby is born with 47 chromosomes instead of 26. Let me explain. Normally, a sperm and an egg each contain twenty-three chromosomes. At fertilization they combine to form a cell with forty-six chromosomes. Sperm and egg cells undergo normal divisions, called […]
Potential Medical Problems Associated with Down Syndrome Babies with Down syndrome are prone to a number of potential medical difficulties and problems. Heart Defects Around 40 percent of babies with Down syndrome are born with an abnormally developed heart. Most of these conditions are now surgically correctable. Intestinal Defects Around 4 percent of these babies […]
Our Down Syndrome Story As Martha gave her final push and I eased the precious head out of the birth canal, out popped a pudgy little hand with a curved little finger. In a flash, I realized that we were parents of a baby with Down syndrome. The baby we expected was not the baby […]
Tips on Parenting a Baby with Special Needs Weighing how your baby looks and acts in relation to other babies will tear you apart. As I was coming to terms with parenting a special-needs baby, every time I examined a baby in my office I would think, “Our baby doesn’t look or feel like that.” […]
