Infant
Eggs, Fish, Milk, Nuts, and Peanuts for Babies?!
Get ready for some surprising recommendations. Eczema, asthma, and food allergies are all on the rise in children, each having more than doubled in the last several decades. This rapid increase has le…
Babies’ Social Insight
Dr. Greene's take on the amazing social insight of babies... Young babies notice and assess the actions of those around them and use this to decide who they want as play partners, according to groundb…
Phi Baby Kappa
We all want our babies to have the best start possible. How much do infant educational videos really help to boost the brain? Each hour of educational baby DVDs or videos that babies watch per day is …
Breastfeeding, Diarrhea, and Pneumonia
In the modern United Kingdom, about 12 percent of all normal, healthy, full-term babies are hospitalized at least once in their first 8 months of life. Many of these hospitalizations are for pneumonia…
Brain Building
Today in the United States, 1 in 6 children suffers from a disability that affects their behavior, memory, or ability to learn. More than $80 billion dollars are spent each year in the U.S. to treat n…
Changing Colic Culture
How about a fresh approach? What if simply giving probiotics to babies would dramatically reduce the vexing symptoms of colic? What if the crying and distress of colic were related to the mix of bacte…
Living Green?
2006 is now behind us and, like my family, you may be celebrating successes of the past year and setting goals for the new one. Hopefully among your successes are new levels of "greenness" - living in…
Breastfeeding and Epidurals
I think that all women who have had epidurals deserve breastfeeding support during their babies' first week of life. Of course, a lactation consultant can be a great idea for any new mother, but recen…
Flying High or Plunging Low: Postpartum Depression
Blue is a normal color in the rainbow of parenting emotions. Postpartum depression is much less common than the blues. But, if the blues are lasting more than a week or two, if you find you can't slee…
Sleep When the Baby Sleeps!
You may be more exhausted than you have ever been. Whenever people are sleep deprived they are more subject to swings of emotion and to feelings of inadequacy. This, by itself, is enough to cause a bl…
Bedwetting and Baby Food
Early childhood nutrition is fundamental to how the brain and nervous system develop. Babies' brains are structurally different, depending on what they eat in the first two years of life. Optimal nutr…
Over the Rainbow
Around the same time your baby is consciously reaching and grasping, he undergoes a gradual transformation that is as remarkable as the scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy leaves the black-and-whit…
Fifteen Minutes of Magic Massage
If you've ever had a massage, you know how soothing and wonderful touch can be. Infant massage has been the subject of recent studies and shown remarkable benefits.Dr. Marshall Klaus reported that in …
Is That a Real Smile or Gas?
Around the same time as the peak of the fussy period, most babies start to have a real, joyful, social smile. Again, we see the balance of parenting. By now, babies are clearly tuned in socially. They…
How Do I Leave?
When you really leave, do not make a big fuss over going and do not sneak out. Children need a simple, affectionate, direct "Bye-bye, I'll be back." Be sure to tell them when you'll be back. Anxiety c…
What Can We Do in the Meantime?
Once children have learned about leaving, you want them to learn about returning. Separation/return games, and short practice separations are quite helpful. The classic separation/return games are pee…
Will This Ever End?
Most healthy babies and toddlers exhibit at least one phase of stranger/separation anxiety as part of normal development. The first peak of separation anxiety usually takes place in the second half of…
What’s Going On?
Separation anxiety and stranger anxiety both coincide with a new intellectual skill called object permanence. Your baby now remembers objects and specific people who are not present. He will search fo…
A Fantastic Opportunity
We lost the last generation to healthy nutrition before they were 18 months old. Parents found their children rejecting baby foods. And they didn't know what or how to feed the babies they loved. They…
Memories
Dr. Greene's take on baby memories... Babies have a deep body memory. Your baby remembers the foods you ate when you were pregnant. She remembers the foods you ate while nursing her. She will remember…