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Making Friends When You Have a Baby

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There are many reasons why you might want to make friends after you have had a baby. Perhaps you were content with only a few friends before but now feel the need to associate with other new parents. Maybe you find your childless friends have grown distant, or perhaps you have recently moved to a new area. Whatever your case may be, there will come a time when you may want to get out and even take some time away from the baby, and having friends makes this much easier and more enjoyable. And if your new friends have young kids as well, this presents great social-development Read More

Options for Working when You Have a New Baby

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In an ideal world, all new parents would have the opportunity to devote all their time and energy to their new babies, and would not have to worry about work for several months at least. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. While some people’s employers do permit ample maternity and even paternity leave, many people are not so lucky. But the good news is that, whether you have to go back within days, weeks, or months, there are options for Read More

Keeping Your Toddler Safe Outdoors

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Before your child becomes independently mobile, there is not much to do outside. To be sure, young babies benefit from exposure to the sensory experiences of the outside world, but they cannot yet interact with their surroundings. Toddlers, on the other hand, especially those who have mastered crawling or walking, are eager to explore the world, and they drink in the outdoors with an excitement that they may never experience again. So while your child is in this stage of exploration, it is a good idea to Read More

Allowing Your Toddler to Explore, Safely

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The toddler years—usually thought of as age one to age three—are an exciting time for children and parents alike. At around age one, babies come to understand that the world is full of interesting places to explore and objects to examine, and the drive to learn and experience at this age is powerful. For parents, while it is fun to watch your child explore, there is also Read More

Life With Baby: How to Get Everything Done

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During the first year or two of being a parent, you will likely have many moments where you feel you just cannot do everything you need to do. In addition to all your old responsibilities, including work duties, chores, and family obligations, you now have to tend to a helpless child’s every need, which can be a full-time job in itself.  But if you take advice from people who have been through it before and also find your own ways of coping, you will find that balancing parenting with everything else, while difficult, is not impossible. Life can be manageable. If you feel unsure how to cope with Read More

Baby’s First Steps: When Should it Happen, and What Can Parents Do?

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The weeks before and after a baby’s first birthday are a momentous time, with milestones happening on what seems like a daily basis. Perhaps the most exciting milestone in this period is learning to walk, and if you read the parenting books and magazines, you have probably heard that this is supposed to happen around the first birthday. So when the first birthday passes and the baby does not seem close to walking, many parents are Read More

Weaning Baby From the Bottle

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Most pediatricians recommend that babies be weaned from the bottle by the first birthday or soon thereafter. But for a host of reasons, many parents do not meet this milestone. Bottles are comforting to the baby, and they can be excellent sleep aids. They are also simple and convenient and produce minimal mess. For these reasons, it is not uncommon to see two- or three-year-olds who are still on the bottle. Although the reasons why parents and babies resist weaning from the bottle are all understandable, there are some very important points in favor of weaning by the first birthday, including Read More

Preparing to Wean Your Baby

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You may have decided that it is now time to begin feeding your baby solids. If so, here is some handy advice about preparing foods and feeding your little one. You want to preserve as many of the vitamins in your baby’s food as you can so prepare her food just before she eats it. Once you have cooked and puréed her food vitamins B and C will begin to deplete. If you want to Read More