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Fast Fact
Precocious puberty is defined as the onset of true puberty before 8 years of age in girls or 9 years of age in boys. (Boepple, et al. Endocrinology, Surgery, and Technology, Vol 1, 1996)
How do you tell if your baby is allergic or intolerant to something?
Usually, you will not see a quick, visible response to a formula or food. Instead, you might see eczema or another skin rash, fussiness, loose stools, hard stools, or blood in...
To get an idea of how Feeding Baby Green may help your family, imagine your child a few years down the road, eating lunch at school. Most of her friends have snagged French fries or chips to complement their meals. Instead, your daughter reaches for...
Don't tell my family, but the whole genre of medieval-period, conquering-the-world, games just leaves me cold. In fact I really don't like any war games. When I saw the box for Dominion, I was prepared to not like it. After a number of times hearing...
In 1989, before she was famous, Martha Stewart wrote Martha Stewart's Christmas. I bought a copy and devoured it. I was inspired by her ideas and especially enjoyed the photos.
There aren't many board games you can play with 2 to 12 people. Sequence is one of those rare games and one of our family favorites. We bought the original version and played it with our kids. We loved it so much that we bought the jumbo version and...
I love this game. Really. Match colors, shapes, quantity of objects pictured, or degree of shading to create sets. If you look for only one (or two) possibilities, you'll miss out on winning options that your opponent might see. The pace is fast, so...
You probably know that Alan recently published a new book, Feeding Baby Green. I wanted to give him a special gift to celebrate his accomplishment. A pen for a writer seemed like the perfect fit, but I had no idea how cool this pen would be. It...
All natural AND anti-bacterial? Is it possible? I don't know how they do it, but the good people at CleanWell have created a product that I love and trust. It's made with Ingeniium -- a patented formulation of essential plant oils proven to kill 99....
When I had breast cancer, I was told I had months to live. I had a decision to make -- If the doctors were right, how I could I invest my life in the best way possible? That was in 1996 and DrGreene.com had just launched. The world didn't know yet...
When we finally got a Wii my mental image of kids in front of the TV zoned out to the world around them shattered. Playing the Wii has my kids interacting with each other, and not just through the TV. Working out schedules and cheering...
I love taking pictures, but find it difficult to share them with family and friends -- especially those who aren't particularly computer savvy. Plus, it's fun to have something tangible to give. That's why I began creating full color, hard bound...
A few years ago, Alan and I went to a beach front hotel for a short get-away with just the two of us. It was magical, but I hadn't packed properly and was cold. In the hotel gift shop we were amazed to find an ecofriendly sweatshirt made of soy and...
Wow these have improved! My son is now 12 months old and when I started weaning him at 5/6 months I started with a Dr Brown 10oz training cup. It was brilliant; it has a really soft spout that means the baby barely has to put any pressure on to get...
I love roses, but I’m very concerned about the amount of pesticides used on commercially grown roses. Dr. Greene and I were at a LOHAS conference a few years ago where we met the good people from Organic Bouquet and found they share our...
Summer fun can lead to some accidental side effects. It's always best to avoid sunburns, but once in a while they happen to all of us -- no matter how diligent we are about limiting time in the direct sun and applying copious amounts for sunscreen....
Boiron Calendula Ointment is great for minor cuts, scrapes, burns, and general skin irritation. It's too greasy to use on large areas, but for that little boo-boo, it does the trick. It's only active ingredient is calendula officinalis which has...
Konrad Lorenz made his mark by studying a special type of learning where key exposures during a critical and sensitive window of development can have a lasting influence - a process he called imprinting. The famous example of this is imprinting in...
Proper skincare for baby’s most formative early years is an essential component to health and a proactive approach to enhanced immunity. As the body’s first line of defense against harmful elements, and the producer of important immune...
Though your child’s skin will eventually perform all of the functions of your skin, her skin is quite different from yours in ways that are not immediately evident. The most important difference is that the functional development of baby skin...
The skin is a selectively permeable membrane. This means the body has some control over what substances pass through the skin’s surface, and what substances are ushered out through sweat. Your baby’s skin becomes more selectively...
As much as we wish it would, nothing remains perfect or forever unblemished. Because of environmental contaminants, and because your baby’s skin is not fully mature at birth, he will probably be affected by some kind of skin condition in his...
Touch is your baby’s most highly developed sense at birth, and was the first sense her brain registered during gestation. Because of this, and because touch is the most ancient sense from an evolutionary perspective, it is known as the mother...
Thank you very much for the info!
The boys and I love to hang around in our 'jammas on the rare occasion that...
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Hi Dr. Greene,
From 5-7 yrs old I had multiple kidney infections and...