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Chubby Babies: too fat?
by Jill on 3/23/10 | 0 Comment(s)
In spite of today’s story in the New York Times science section, “Baby Fat May Not Be So Cute After All,” I still think chubby babies are cute…and right on target. But Roni Rabin reports that we should be actively concerned with obesity in our children from, and even before, day one. “More and more [...]
Vitamins: Gummy, chewable…or even at all?
by Jill on 3/16/10 | 10 Comment(s)
As a kid, we ate the fruity, chalky Flinstone’s chewable vitamins. My mother kept them in the cabinet above the toaster (which I now recognize as probably not the best vitamin storage place, given the heat from the toaster!) and she would parcel them out each morning as we ate breakfast. I expect she gave [...]
Vitamin storage turns out to be, yes, important
by Jill on 3/09/10 | 0 Comment(s)
Where do you store your vitamins? We keep our vitamins in the kitchen and I know people who store them in the bathroom. The bathroom and kitchen seem two logical places to store them and for most of us, where we keep them is how we can remember to take them. Apparently then, most of [...]
Study about SIDS finds some new information
by Jill on 2/28/10 | 0 Comment(s)
We have all done it, especially with our newborns: continually check on our sleeping baby to make sure he’s still breathing. Thoughts about SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) contribute to any anxiety. SIDS is defined as an unexplainable death of an infant less than one year old. The randomness of SIDS is part of what [...]
Potty Training: when and how? Two moms’ experiences
by Jill on 2/18/10 | 11 Comment(s)
Jill’s experience: (1 boy done, 1 girl on the path) Potty training: it looms large in every parent’s mind. When and how?! Do we use rewards, naked-running, training pants, at what age, what potty?…help! Our trip to potty training began when we had a new baby and we were, frankly, tired of changing our son’s [...]
Sleep Clocks for an early riser
by Jill on 2/04/10 | 1 Comment(s)
Do you have an early riser? Or a child that comes to your room way before he should be? Sleep clocks might be a good solution for you. We had a newborn and our 2 year old son was getting up at 4:30 or 5am, ready to play. A sleep clock seemed the obvious answer, [...]
Blueberries and your family
by Jill on 1/27/10 | 0 Comment(s)
Even at $5.99/pound, I have been eating blueberries by the fistful, so enamored am I with blueberries’ many health benefits, from neutralizing free radicals to helping reduce belly fat. News flash: your parents (our kids’ grandparents!) should be too! Reported last week in the Science Daily , a new study showed that drinking wild blueberry [...]
Toilet seats that can cause a rash
by Jill on 1/25/10 | 0 Comment(s)
At first, you peg those irritated red bumps on your child’s bum as winter dry skin. And hopefully, that’s the case. But a small study out by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center points to the resurgence of another possible – though rare – culprit: toilet seat dermatitis. Toilet seat dermatitis causes skin irritation around the buttocks [...]
Incorrect Calorie Counts on menus?
by Jill on 1/20/10 | 0 Comment(s)
Your New Year’s resolutions are still hanging on by a thread and you settle in to a restaurant dinner, looking to the calorie counts on the menu for guidance. As you recover from the initial horror of the calories in most dishes, you are buoyed to see a “Healthy Choices” section. Phew. You dive into [...]
