Baby Center Features
- What to Feed Your Baby and Toddler
Experts give the feeding basics for infants and toddlers.
- Is Your Baby on Track?
Check your child's stage of child development and learn the signs of developmental delays.
- Turning Baby Into Baby Einstein
Do educational products for babies really give babies an advantage?
- From Breast To Bottle: Weaning Your Baby
Weaning your baby can be a traumatic experience. Here's how to know when it's time to stop nursing.
- Weaning Your Breastfed Baby
Learn how to wean a breastfed baby.
- Common Breastfeeding Problems
Here are simple solutions for breastfeeding moms.
- Getting On a Breastfeeding Schedule
Is your baby getting enough to eat? How often should they be feeding? Here's how to tell.
- Breastfeeding Basics
6 tips every new mom needs to know.
- A Mom's Right: Breastfeeding in Public
Common sense and a little discretion can defuse awkward situations.
- Breastfeeding 9 to 5
Here are essential tips for the working mom.
- Breastfeeding Basics
Get tips and advice on nurturing and nourishing your baby.
- 7 Myths About Breastfeeding
Breast feeding fact and fiction.
- Day Care Centers Do More
Day care centers are offering more than just babysitting services.
- New Gift Ideas for Newborns
Need a special gift for a baby shower? Gift certificates cover services such as newborn screening and cord blood banking.
- Find Yourself After Having a Baby
As a pregnant woman, people reach out to touch you; you're like a magnet. Once baby is born, the focus shifts to the child.
- Find Yourself After Having a Baby.
You're no longer pregnant, no longer the center of attention. All the focus is on your new bundle of joy. So, how do you regain and strengthen your sense of self? Turn to our handy A-Z guide.
- A Solid Foundation
Giving your infant solid foods is an important development milestone -- but only when they are ready.
- The Formula Conundrum
Parents may have trouble deciding which formula to feed their baby.
- Fat in Formula for Brainier Babies?
Breastfeeding may be best, but for some women, nursing simply isn't an option. Now, studies show there's a way to make commercially prepared infant formulas better, and the important findings could lead to manufacturing changes...and smarter kids.
- Making Baby Genius
Throw out those flash cards. Dump those alphabet videos. The way to a baby's brain is through the heart.
- Bringing Out Baby ... at Home
Home birth is not for everyone.
- Seeking a Killer
A potential test for infant sepsis could spare families anxiety -- and cost.
- The Right Formula?
Parents debate what kind of milk is best to put in baby's bottle.
- Baby's Got Colic and You Can't Cope
Colic typically disappears by age 3 months or 4 months, but unfortunately, there's no tried-and-true remedy for the problem.
- Don't Panic, Use a Pacifier
Don't panic, use a pacifier.
- Keeping Baby Hale and Hearty
Tips for the New Mom
- Do Fathers Bond as Strongly with Their Babies as Do Their Mothers?
Do fathers bond as strongly with babies as do their mothers?
- Growing Pains: What Baby Growth Charts Really Mean
Parents are a competitive bunch. So when the pediatrician whips out a growth chart and ranks baby's height and weight in percentiles, it's easy to wonder if something's wrong.
- Breast-Feeding: Nature's Formula for Success
Suggestions for New Moms
- How to Outfox Your Baby
Avoiding Accidents
- Know When to Hold 'Em
Can You Spoil A Baby?
- A Mother's Dilemma
Formula isn't the only remedy for new mothers who don't make enough breast milk.
- Hearing Trouble
A simple test can tell you if your baby can hear all right, and make early, effective treatment possible.
- Anatomy of a Decision
Cord blood banking has been available for only five years, and parents who hear about it may never have thought deeply about it before.
- Child-Proofing Basics
The kitchen and bathroom are two of your home's most hazardous areas, where curious toddlers can easily find attractively packaged toxic agents.
- Legislative Help for Nursing Moms
is little legal protection currently available for women who wish to pump breast milk at work.
- How Can You Set Up a Breastfeeding System?
Setting up a schedule that allows breastfeeding at work.
- How Can You Set Up a Breastfeeding System?.
How can you set up a breastfeeding system?
- Legislative Help for Nursing Moms.
There is little legal protection currently available for women who wish to pump breast milk at work.Moms
- Donating Nourishment
Donated Human breast milk is also used to help heal babies with infectious diseases, severe diarrhea, and pneumonia.
- A Separate Bed For Baby
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), any child under the age of two should not sleep in an adult bed. The result could be deadly, says a study published by CPSC researchers in the October 1999 issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
- Breastfeeding Update
Here is interesting information to help make your decision easier about whether or not to breastfeed.