EverydayFamily - Pregnancy, Baby, Child Information, Parenting Community, EverydayFamily If you’re a new parent you probably have a million things per day running through your head. From right-now questions like how to feed your baby and how to get them to sleep, to bigger questions like how you can raise them to be a good person, you probably don’t have time to do research on every little thing that comes up. One thing you should know about? Babies and probiotics. While you might have heard a little bit about probiotics, we’re here to tell you exactly what you need to know to keep your baby h ..read more

EverydayFamily - Pregnancy, Baby, Child Information, Parenting Community, EverydayFamily I had four babies before I ever experienced what it's like to be a NICU mom. But last month, I officially joined the NICU moms' club when I woke up at 2:30 in the morning to a placental abruption five weeks before my due date.  I was terrified, to say the least, and the ride to the hospital that morning was one of the scariest times of my life — and I stayed scared until I delivered my daughter and heard her cry for the first time. I had a few moments of complete and utter joy holding her until the team as ..read more

EverydayFamily - Pregnancy, Baby, Child Information, Parenting Community, EverydayFamily There’s nothing softer than a newborn baby and, while it’s well known that newborn cuddles bring lots of joy to both baby and grown-up, it turns out that skin-to-skin snuggles have serious benefits for everyone involved. If you’re the parent of a newborn, or soon will be, check out the reasons below that you should consider offering your baby skin-to-skin snuggles early and often!It supports vital health functions post-birthWhen a baby is pulled onto their parent's chest after birth, they release a rush of ..read more

EverydayFamily - Pregnancy, Baby, Child Information, Parenting Community, EverydayFamily Every parent knows to keep small objects away from children in order to prevent them from choking or ingesting a dangerous object. Sounds simple enough, but if you have ever found this rule difficult to execute you are not alone. A new study found that emergency room visits for children under 6 who swallowed objects has gone up more than 90% over the past 20 years.Overall, boys ingested foreign bodies slightly more often than girls and one year olds ingested foreign objects most of all. Coins, especially p ..read more

EverydayFamily - Pregnancy, Baby, Child Information, Parenting Community, EverydayFamily If you're a parent who has tried to wean their toddler or baby off of a pacifier, you know how difficult it can be. In fact, you know how downright impossible it can be. Pacifiers start out as being a type of lifesaver, soothing a crying, screaming baby like magic, but when you're ready to move on to life after the pacifier, you may face a little well, resistance. Toddlers can be the most stubborn creatures on the planet and when it comes time to part with that little hunk of plastic, it can feel like ther ..read more

EverydayFamily - Pregnancy, Baby, Child Information, Parenting Community, EverydayFamily Perhaps this will come as no surprise to any of you, but a new study out of Paris, France, has essentially confirmed that babies are, in fact, capable of understanding a lot more than we adults give them credit for. They are way smarter than we realize! The study was completed on 20-month-old babies and revealed that babies, even at that young of an age, are using a “sophisticated form” of thinking called metacognition. One of the study's authors, Dr. Sid Kouider, described metacognition as an intuitive ty ..read more

EverydayFamily - Pregnancy, Baby, Child Information, Parenting Community, EverydayFamily One day. One day is all I ask, people. Is that really too much to ask, do you think? For Mother's Day, or really just as a sanity-saving-day? I racked my mind to think of what I really wanted this year for Mother's Day–which, yet again, happens to fall conveniently near my birthday, granting my husband a cool two-for-one–and all I could come up with was one thing. I mean, sure, a massage would be lovely, coffee is always appreciated, and I'll never turn down breakfast (although the whole breakfast in bed i ..read more

EverydayFamily - Pregnancy, Baby, Child Information, Parenting Community, EverydayFamily It’s been a long week.  No one feels like cooking or cleaning.  Hungry faces are staring back at you as you try to decide how to proceed.  So you pack the kids in the car and head out to dinner, because everyone needs to get out once in a while, right?  But silly you, you left a little later than expected and you arrive at the restaurant at 7:01 pm.  Sorry, no service for you.A Texas restaurant made headlines several years ago when they posted a message to their Facebook page, stating that they only serve ..read more

EverydayFamily - Pregnancy, Baby, Child Information, Parenting Community, EverydayFamily If you’re a new parent, chances are you’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out what’s up with your fussy baby. Maybe you read every book you could get your hands on before they arrived. Perhaps you downloaded an app that sends you daily or weekly updates about their development. Maybe you spend the hours between when they go to sleep and when you go to sleep frantically googling every odd noise and movement you heard and watched them make today. No matter how you go about searching for information, yo ..read more

EverydayFamily - Pregnancy, Baby, Child Information, Parenting Community, EverydayFamily A mom of a four-year-old tracked me down with concerns about what she feared might be considered “pathological” lying. Her daughter could weave a tale like no other, and mom was worried that this behavior, left unchecked, would become a problem. The problem, however, was that her daughter was such a proficient liar that she seemed to believe her own lies. “I can watch her take cookies from the pantry, she knows I'm watching her, and she still says ‘I didn't do it, it was the cat' when I confront her.”Did t ..read more