Baby Articles

Baby proofing the kitchen

There are many potential possibilities for disaster in a kitchen. A few examples are: hot liquids and hot dishes, equipment that can cause burns, spills that make floors slippery leading to bad ... Full article »

Encouraging your baby to sleep through the night.

There comes a point in life of most new parents when they desperately need some unbroken sleep, and getting a baby who is a poor sleeper on track can seem like an impossible task. Often this point ... Full article »

Day care centers and family day care

These valuable resources vary quite a lot about food. Larger day care centers often ask parents to send their young children in with all milk and food. In this case, you can use our suggestions for ... Full article »

Friends and relatives

some neighbors and members of your extended family are wonderful about food. But others, however much you love them, can drive you crazy. And it can be hard to confront the problems, since after ... Full article »

Babysitters, nannies, and housekeepers

These caretakers will benefit from being left some prepared notes and/or a simple list of instructions. It is surprising how poorly many people feed small children, and you can head off problems by ... Full article »

Helping babysitters feed your child right

Many parents, including ourselves, rely on people outside the immediate family for help with childcare, and part of that care, of coarse, is feeding. Just as you expect the person or people who look ... Full article »

When to stop nursing

The American Academy of pediatrics recommends nursing throughout the first year. This is certainly good if you can manage it. If you can't, or if your baby guides to wean herself early, remember ... Full article »

When should you introduce solid food?

Most babies start to need extra calories at some point between four and six months. This milestone is also the point at which breastmilk no longer supplies your baby's total requirements for ... Full article »

Should you give your baby multivitamins or fluoride?

Multivitamins and fluoride are not usually considered necessary when a baby is breast-fed up to this time. One exception: babies whose mothers don't drink vitamin D -- fortified milk and who either ... Full article »

How long can you nurse?

By four to six weeks, your baby will have worked your milk supply up almost to its maximum. So how will you continue to satisfy her? In fact, while her body weight is increasing, her growth is ... Full article »

What should your babies growth look like?

Many parents of breast-fed babies worry that their baby is gaining too much weight in the first few months. Let us reassure you: this is perfectly normal. The growth charts that most pediatricians ... Full article »

Babies put everything in their mouths

Your newborns sucking reflex gets him started on the milk he needs for early growth. A few months later he develops and other important instinct that can be one of your best allies when it comes to ... Full article »

Refrigerating baby formula

Saving milk or formula. When you use less than a full can of evaporated milk, concentrated liquid formula, or ready to use formula, you can save what is left for the next day. Leave it in the can, ... Full article »

Bottling baby formula

How much in each bottle? Most babies want to be fed more frequently at first, especially if they start small. Bottle fed babies may want to be fed 6, 7, or eight times in 24 hours. You may have ... Full article »

Artificial milk baby formulas

Artificial milk formulas are for babies and children who are allergic or react to cow's milk. They are made from a mixture of foods, such as soybean flour and granulated sugar. They should only be ... Full article »

Prepared commercial baby formulas

Prepared commercial formulas are commonly made from cow's milk. They come in three forms: ready to use liquid, concentrated liquid, and powdered. In order to make them somewhat more like human milk ... Full article »

Evaporated milk formula

Evaporated cow's milk is whole milk from which half the water has been removed by evaporation. You dilute it and add sugar to make the formula. The purpose of the water is to reconstitute the milk ... Full article »

What is a formula

What is a formula? You can make a formula with evaporated milk, or use a prepared commercial formula. Your doctor will advise you about which kind of formula will be the best for your baby. If the ... Full article »

Metabolic programming: the power of childhood feeding

Behind the big eyes that scan your face and the tiny hand that grasps your finger, an event known as metabolic programming is unfolding in your child. Metabolic programming is the new term being ... Full article »

Promoting healthy weight gain and preventing obesity

More people are overweight in the United States now than at any precious time in history: well over half of all adults, and now about 15% of preschoolers -- double the number 20 years ago. At the ... Full article »