Can I Stay Vegetarian While I’m Pregnant?
Women who choose to follow a vegetarian or vegan diet during pregnancy need to take extra care to get all the right nutrients.
Women who choose to follow a vegetarian or vegan diet during pregnancy need to take extra care to get all the right nutrients.
By now you have seen all the press reports about the new study concluding that watching Baby DVDs/Videos may hinder, not help infants’ language developments (for children 8 to 16 months old). Of course this news makes for an attention grabbing headline. I got my…
Pregnancy symptoms can include some odd things — but not typically peeling lips, which may be a case of angular cheilitis.
A mom is returning to work full-time and will be leaving her toddler at daycare and is concerned that his reluctance to drink may increase there leading to dehydration. What can she do prevent these problems?
When I first learned that this is National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, I was determined to ignore it. Because lead terrifies me. And the primitive monkey part of my brain runs from scary things and then hides under a bush. We live in an ancient…
We approach our fitness goals from very different starting points but I hope we’re giving our kids healthy attitudes toward exercise somewhere in the middle.
Roots vs. Embryo: Can you take care of both?
My breasts are leaking at five months pregnant! And leaking a LOT. Is this normal?
It’s National Clean Hands week. We know that getting kids to wash their hands effectively can be difficult so we found some soaps that may help.
Is it safe to fight the flakes?
A mom is thinking of having a second baby but is concerned about the severe skin condition she experienced during her first pregnancy.
First, I think you should know that I spent two hours at the dentist yesterday, and my teeth have been ground into nubbins and my tiny tiny jaws don’t cotton to being pried open for hours–and now my face, well, it hurts. (Your face hurts?…
Making sense of warnings and “natural” ingredients while pregnant.
How safe are the “green” house cleaning products? Amalah is on maternity leave so, Izzy Mom of the Smackdown Virtual Village steps in.
A trying-to-conceive mom needs strategies to help her during the two-week-pregnancy-confirmation-waiting window. She has lots of anxieties about utilizing her typical de-stressing strategies. We have some advice.
National Child Health Day was founded in 1928 by President Coolidge to bring public awareness to various health issues facing children.
A reader facing a very difficult decision checks back in.
Kids will experience a myriad emotions growing up and it’s our job as parents to help them learn how to cope.
Did you know that every day, around the world, more than 25,000 children die from causes that could have been averted? Let’s change that!
Update: FDA committee decides that children under 6 should not be administered OTC cold medication. Boy, oh boy, there has been a lot of confusion in the press about the safety of over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medicines for children. And, more news is expected…