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Babies are born wanting to suck. Some even suck their thumbs or fingers before they’re born. Beyond nutrition, sucking is often an important method of self-soothing — a comforting, familiar and calming mechanism in a new world.
That’s why many parents rank pacifiers as must haves, right up there with diaper wipes and onesies. But are [...]

Tragedy has struck twice for Salt Lake couple Trevor Collet Merrill and Echo J. Nielsen.
In 2003, they went to sleep with their 24-day-old daughter between them and awoke to find Janessa Merrill had died. The medical examiner’s conclusion: accidental asphyxiation due to co-sleeping.
Three years later: Different child, same nightmare. Their 3 1/2-month-old son, [...]

I got foolish news from Australia. Recent studies of Queensland public health researcher warn breastfeed babies at the risk of overfeeding.
The reason is that breastfeed baby doesn’t grow as fast as the growth charts recommend. Researcher says infants who are breastfed could be misdiagnosed as “failing to thrive” because their normal weight gain is slower [...]

A video in youtube recently show us how to massage a baby. It’s fairly new in the United States and other western countries. However, massaging babies has been a parenting tradition in many cultures for centuries.
In India, mothers regularly massage everyone in their families and pass this knowledge on to their daughters. After studying and [...]