My oldest child hated tummy time. Miserable, she would flail on the floor and wail like a marooned walrus. Although she eventually learned to tolerate it for periods of time, she disliked…
Newborns
-
-
Squeezed through the birth canal, many babies are born with pointy, cone-shaped heads. Others, delivered by caesarian section, start off life with round heads. No baby begins with a flat head.…
-
“Calling” all moms and dads with cell phones! We discovered a new free service from the US National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. The service text4baby texts health maintenance tidbits three times…
-
We asked Dr. Raymond Wu, the doctor behind the popular new infant iphone app babyCPR, to talk about how to perform CPR on babies under one years old. We even convinced him…
-
This post was inspired by a newborn whose mom asked me about his eyes. “Here’s looking at you, kid!” What is this goop in my baby’s eye? Blocked tear ducts: About 25…
-
Pertussis is “whooping cough,” also known as the “100 day cough.” In children and adults, the disease starts out looking like a garden-variety cold, complete with runny nose, runny eyes, and…
-
Yes, yes, yes. There are many deadly diseases we can’t prevent, but we do have the power to prevent a few. We now have the ability to prevent your children from…
-
I just watched “The Miracle Worker” with my oldest son. This classic 1962 movie depicts Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind, struggling to understand language, with the help and supreme patience…
-
Gas is another topic most people don’t think much about until they have a newborn. Then suddenly gas becomes a huge source of parental distress, even though parents are not the ones…
-
Recently I’ve seen some very tired parents of newborns in my office. Sleep deprivation, while common, leaves you prone to emotional distress and more susceptible to illness. Driving sleep deprived is as dangerous…