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Myth: Crying Will Hurt Your Baby Emotionally/Crying is Good for Her Lungs

It is extremely hard for a mother to ignore her baby’s cries. Personally, I cannot let my son cry for an extended period if I know he is hungry. I have to drop what I’m doing and nurse him. In other situations, I know it can wait. For example, if he is tired, he will usually fall asleep on his own in a couple minutes if I leave him alone. In those situations, picking him up seems to make him cry harder! Some people worry that a baby will be damaged emotionally if she cries too much. This is simply … Continue reading →

Ask A Baby Blogger: Playing Rough with the Baby

My husband comes from a big family of boys, there are four of them and his dad. Our son is just eight months old, but they are always swooping him up and throwing him in the air. I was glad once when he threw up on one of his uncles. My husband gives me a hard time, because he says the baby is having fun so why am I so opposed. Help? I don’t blame you for being concerned. Honestly, you have to be careful when you are throwing a baby up in the air, your baby can’t communicate how … Continue reading →

The Hidden Dangers of “Shake it Off” Parenting

                What do you do when your child is upset? The answer to that question can be based on the parenting style that you choose to practice. One option is to comfort your child until he or she feels better. Another option is to tell your child to “shake off” the injury or emotion that he or she is experiencing. Parents that do this often feel it is a good way to help their child grow up. However, there are some hidden dangers to “shake it off” parenting that you should be aware … Continue reading →

Should Both Parents Tend to the Baby at Night?

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Whose job is it to get up in the middle of the night to tend to a crying infant? There was a time when the automatic assumption was that this task was entirely for the mother. Today, there are plenty of parents who realize that there are good reasons to share this responsibility. Babies are incredibly cute. They can also be exhausting. Many babies simply refuse to sleep through the night. They loudly let their parents know that they need a diaper change or want to be fed. At least one parent needs to get up to tend to the … Continue reading →

Why is Whooping Cough Back?

Whopping Cough, a disease that had been pretty much eradicated from the United States is back, and it is at epidemic proportions in some areas of the country. Those of us who are older than 30 and have seen Whopping Cough virtually disappear are very confused by its return. Why do we need to worry about Whopping cough now? It is a scary illness, especially for the young. At least 18,000 cases have been reported so far for 2012. According to news reports, bioethicists have an idea. They are blaming it on the refusal of some parents to vaccinate their … Continue reading →

I Scream

You will too after reading about a select group of upscale New York parents who thinks the world begins and ends in their little corner of Brooklyn. Yes, Park Slope parents are making national headlines again for yet another insanely absurd interpretation of one of life’s most basic rites of passages. I guess that’s what happens when you have big bucks and don’t have to take four modes of public transportation to three different part-time jobs that barely help you keep a roof over your kids’ heads and food on the table. Rich people problems; where do I sign-up for … Continue reading →

Diary of a Work At Home Mom – Part 16

Everyone understands the value of learning from mistakes. Once a mistake has been made, the best thing that you can do is to find the lesson in it and move forward, remembering not to repeat the mistake again. Today I made a mistake that made me realize that being eager to please is not always a good thing. Yesterday, I received wonderful news that I had been awarded a job that I had bid on the night before. It is just for a few hours a week, which is exactly what I needed to round out my schedule. Today, I … Continue reading →

Do You Parent Out of Fear?

Do you know someone who parents out of fear? Perhaps you are that type of person. My mother was somewhat like that in her parenting. She would make some of her decisions based on what “might” happen. The world was a dangerous place (which is true to a degree) and so she tried to avoid my becoming a victim. The problem was that she never allowed me to really grow up the way I should have. In fact, when I met my husband I didn’t know how to cook or even how to drive. It took my husband teaching my … Continue reading →

Time Out

For a while in our household we’ve been trying to determine what our child actually understands in order to be able to effectively punish him if he is doing something dangerous or intentionally disobeying his parents time and time again. It is not something we look forward to or enjoy. Our son is infallible in our eyes (at least he was before he started disobeying) and the empathy we feel for him is strong. At the same time we don’t want to create a monster. We’d rather have a child who, at the very least, knows that if he disobeys … Continue reading →

The Waiting Game

So, daughter number two made her entry into the “real world” on December 8. Katie is a quiet, sweet baby and her big sister Maggie just adores her. It’s been a good week – aside from the hormones and emotions that are wrecking havoc on my body. Oh, the crying. It doesn’t help that I have been filled with anxiety over the results of Katie’s newborn screening test. Maggie has cystic fibrosis. And any other child we have will have a 25% chance of having CF as well. So, granted, I’ve been nervous. However, I spent the entire pregnancy trying … Continue reading →