While not every preschool demands that your child needs to be potty-trained before entering preschool, the fact of the matter is that many, if not most preschools do indeed require that your child be potty-trained before entering their preschool.  The good news for working parents is that few, if any, day care facilities follow the [...]

Most babies enjoy bath time. And depending on how and when you choose to give your baby her baths, bath time can be a great way to start the day, or a fantastic way to help baby start relaxing and settling in for a (hopefully) long night’s sleep. Babies only need to be bathed about [...]

About one in every four babies will develop colic at some point, so it’s a good idea to know what it looks like and to be prepared just in case your baby is the one. Colic is essentially when a baby cries for three hours or more at a time without any obvious reasons. Colicky [...]

During the first twelve months of your baby’s life, she’s learning a tremendous amount of things. Most importantly, perhaps, she’s learning how to use her body, and motor skill development in the first year is truly significant. If you know what kinds of milestones to watch for, you can encourage your baby in that progress [...]

When you’re a new parent, any possible condition your baby may have sounds daunting. We simply don’t want to think about the possibility of anything being wrong with our babies, especially in their first few days of life. One of the most common problems babies experience in their first couple months is jaundice. Don’t worry. [...]

SIDS is short for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. SIDS is the death of a baby that is less than a year old, in which there is no other known or identifiable cause of death after an autopsy and a thorough investigation of the environment as well as health history. The cause of SIDS is not [...]

Your baby’s skin is, like most of the rest of your baby, a rather delicate thing. Your baby’s skin is more vulnerable, for example, to the harmful rays of the sun than, let’s say, the skin of an adult. Because of this, there are a we things that you ought to consider doing that will [...]