To Crawl Or Not To Crawl
My pediatrician is concerned that my nine-month-old isn’t showing any signs of crawling yet. Is he right or overreacting?
My pediatrician is concerned that my nine-month-old isn’t showing any signs of crawling yet. Is he right or overreacting?
What works? What’s essential? And what’s a complete waste of your money and time?
My prenatal testing has revealed a very high likelihood that my baby has Down Syndrome, but I won’t find out for sure for a couple more weeks. How do I keep from driving myself crazy in the meantime?
What to do when somebody picks “your” baby name.
An expectant mom has decided that she will not breastfeed and will start formula feeding her baby right after s/he is born. She needs advice on how to handle the potential aggressive and judgey behavior she may encounter at the hospital from doctors, nurses and lactation consultants.
After spending time with my friends’ needy, clingy children, I am having second thoughts about parenthood. Will I really feel that differently about my own baby?
How do you integrate a very new addition into your regular ol’ family beach vacation?
I went off medication so I could have a baby and nurse him for as long as I could. I need to go back on it, but the emotional pain of forced weaning hurts just as much.
I want to cloth diaper but my husband thinks I’m crazy. Can you help me change his mind?
Dear Amy, I’ve been reading Amalah for years — pre-Noah (your first child). I remember you posting one day that you had quit breastfeeding, including pictures of all the pump parts / accessories that you were throwing away. At the time, this was meaningless to…
Dealing with the skeptics and naysayers who think cloth diapering is weird gross crazy hippie talk.
Her husband wants her to quit her job and stay home full-time. She doesn’t want to. Amalah just wants to stop pulling her hair out over this one.
The messy emotional mess of deciding when to quit.
After a difficult pregnancy, birth and newborn experience, a mother wants to know: Am I a monster for hating every minute of those “magical moments?”
BUT WHAT KIND?????
Gifts that please both the parents AND the child: do they even exist?
Some dos and don’ts of reusable baby wipes.
No matter what I do, our fancy cloth diapers SMELL TERRIBLE. Did I ruin them? What do I do now?
A new breastfeeding mom is stuck stressing over the dreaded nipple shield. Why is it a “problem? And what’s the best approach to weaning the baby off it?
A new mom who is exclusively pumping is looking for advice on how to increase her breast milk production.