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Pediatric Politics: How Dire Warnings Against Infant Bed Sharing ‘Backfired’
December 19, 2014 | 11:39 AM | Dr. Melissa Bartick Every new parent has heard the dire warning: Never sleep with your baby. State and...
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farverm
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More Is Not Better: Limiting Milk Intake to Two Cups May Be Best for Preschoolers
Preschoolers who drink three or more cups of milk a day may get a small height boost, but they’re also more likely to be overweight or...
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farverm
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Make your own baby wipes
What You Need: Round plastic container (Rubbermaid #6 or #9 works well) Thick, strong roll of white paper towels (Bounty select-a-size...
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farverm
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Cloth Diaper Care
If you launder cloth diapers at home, you can save as much as $1,500 over the entire diapering period. This includes all your diapers,...
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farverm
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Rethinking Swaddling
By Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA International Journal of Childbirth Education | Volume 25 Number 3 September 2010 Many of us think of...
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farverm
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Hats Off For Healthy Term Newborn Babies: Important Reasons To Ditch The Hat
By BellyBelly / October 28, 2014 More often than not, those Facebook birth announcement photos feature a gorgeous little baby, swaddled...
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farverm
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Evidence for the Vitamin K Shot in Newborns
March 18, 2014; Updated January 20, 2015; by Rebecca Dekker, PhD, RN, APRN Vitamin K deficiency bleeding, thought to be a problem of the...
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farverm
15 min read
Death by Diagnosis
The Down Syndrome Death Sentence There is a certain inborn genetic condition for which this country heavily promotes the death penalty....
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farverm
21 min read
Does my baby need vitamin D?
By Kelly Bonyata, IBCLC Is your baby at risk for vitamin D deficiency? Recommended vitamin D intake How much sunlight is needed to...
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farverm
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The ARRIVE Study: Does induction of labor for women at 39 weeks gestation lower the c-section rate?
The ARRIVE study, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine...
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farverm
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Unnecessary Medical Interventions in Labor and Delivery May be Putting Mothers, Babies at Risk
Comprehensive Report Examines the Science on the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing and Its Implications for Women, Babies and Maternity...
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farverm
7 min read
The Amazing Placenta: The Mysterious Tree of a Newborn’s Life
The Push to Understand the Placenta By DENISE GRADY JULY 14, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO — Minutes after a baby girl was born on a recent morning...
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farverm
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Placenta Pills: Trendy, but benefits are fuzzy
By Carina Storrs, Special to CNN Updated 11:09 AM ET, Fri June 5, 2015 The practice of eating the placenta has been growing in popularity...
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farverm
8 min read
How To Work With The Design
The ABCs of Birth! Following the design is as simple as A B C. How to work with the design: Learn about what you can do in labor – – take...
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farverm
4 min read
Breastfeeding By Design
There is so much going on in the simple act of breastfeeding! Breastfeeding is more than merely getting milk in a baby’s stomach. There...
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farverm
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Babies By Design
Think of the baby’s life while you were pregnant… What was his life like during pregnancy? For one thing: how often is he feeding during...
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farverm
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The Design of Birth!
1. Human birth is difficult. More difficult than animal births. Animals rely more on brawn than brain, being led by instinct more than...
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