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Baby's First Year: A Guide to Development Month by Month
New moms and dads, you are setting out on an adventure! We've got the advice, ideas and developmental information you need to track your baby's first year of amazing milestones. You’ve anticipated baby’s arrival for nine months, poring over parenting articles and tracking his or her development in
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Get Out with Your Baby (and Save Your Sanity)
After we brought our newborn daughter home, once the initial excitement of learning how to keep her alive wore off, I started wondering, “What exactly are we supposed to DO with a baby?” I started researching ways to prove I was incompetent or that something was wrong with her. I read parenting book
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Things We Love: Baby Gear
It’s downright overwhelming. The brimming store aisles, the endless array of equipment, the infinite brands and colorful gadgets that promise sanity and miracles — all vigorously vying for your new-baby dollar.In an era when strollers feature iPhone chargers, MP3 players and LED light shows, new par
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Understanding Your Child's Temperament
Brought to you by Liliana Lengua, Ph.D., University of Washington Center for Child and Family Well-Being Understanding Your Child’s Temperament Children are not born blank slates upon which their well-intentioned parents write a life story. Each of us is born with a unique te
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15 Unique Ideas for Creating a Baby Book
Up, up and away!Chock-full of baby photography inspiration, Mama Drew shares all of her tips and tricks on her blog Momtog. We love this idea for a monthly photo shoot for baby — using the same setup and backdrop, and adding one balloon for each month, you can really see how baby changes from month-
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Preemies: Loving and Nurturing the Tiniest Tots
When it comes to pregnancy, labor and delivery, there’s a general understanding that something might go other than planned. For most families, it’s a minor surprise, still resulting in a healthy mother and child. But even seemingly risk-free pregnancies sometimes involve serious circumstances, inclu
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Earliest Learning: Latest Findings in Baby Brain Science
Whether you’re a parent or researcher, everyone agrees: Babies are amazing! “They’re these little geniuses who have a lot to share,” says Sarah Roseberry. Roseberry is an outreach specialist at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS), which studies brain dev
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Does Your Baby Have Allergies? Signs, Symptoms and Solutions
Any nursing mother will tell you that, whether you’re in line at the supermarket or asleep in your bed, it’s an eternity between the time your infant starts to howl for milk and the moment you successfully unhook your bra, yank up your layers of clothing and throw her on the breast.Within seconds, a
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