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So the day’s finally here. You’ve gone through your pregnancy and despite whether it was a difficult pregnancy or not, you made it out the other side with your precious baby in hand. Walking through the threshold of your home, you realize that things have changed and that you’re about to embark on a new [...]

Baby massage may seem superfluous or silly to some people, but it’s popularity is growing in the U.S. and it has actually been practiced for centuries in many cultures around the world. But, does it have any significant health benefits? You might be surprised at how much it does. In fact, touch plays a much [...]

Colic can be very distressing both for babies and their parents. Parents often feel their baby’s screaming is an indictment of their parenting ability: there’s something wrong with me; there’s something wrong with my milk; or there’s something wrong with my baby! It’s no wonder that so many feel frustrated, exhausted, guilty, angry, or helpless. [...]

I have a 7-week-old who is very fussy. All he does is cry. He is in pain and I feel so bad for him. He barely sleeps at all. When he is fussy he is also extremely gassy. Any…

My baby won’t sleep unless she is swaddled, but then she fights to get her arms out and wakes herself up. She is 3 months old. Should I still be swaddling her?

Related concepts: Turned-in feet Introduction to tibial torsion: When a baby starts toddling around the home, many parents notice that one or both feet turn in. What is tibial torsion? The most common cause of in-toeing in toddlers is internal tibial torsion (the large bone in the calf is rotated inward). Some children are pigeon-toed [...]

Introduction to thumb sucking: When Jacques Cousteau first took cameras under water, he opened up an enchanted new world for us to see. When ultrasound was first turned toward the wombs of pregnant women, an even more marvelous world appeared. Sights that had been hidden for ages were now open to our view, and one [...]

Related concepts: Candida, Oral pseudomembranous candidiasis, Yeast Introduction to thrush: Wordsworth says that we come into this world “trailing clouds of glory.” We also come trailing hosts of microorganisms. Even before an infant has completed her trip through the birth canal, she is already being introduced to the complex interplay of different species of life. [...]

Introduction to milia: When you first meet your baby, there may be tiny bumps on his or her face. These may catch your attention or you might look right past them and not even notice at first. What is milia? Milia are little plugs of keratin in the glands of the skin of the face. [...]

Related concepts: Thick meconium; Particulate meconium, Inhaled stool. Introduction to meconium aspiration: We might think of amniotic fluid as pristine, clear water, but your growing baby was already making a mess. Old skin cells and hairs, which would become dust in the outside world, began to build up in the fluid. Unlike later in life, [...]