Archive for March, 2012

Sleeping with your baby

Sleeping with your baby

March 22, 2012 1 Comment

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When I became a parent, co-sleeping with your baby was deemed a big fat no no.  As a new parent I always put my first born in his cot, never entertaining the idea of co-sleeping with him or any other baby, or so I thought.  The day my daughter was born I discovered that she only settled when nestled between my chest and arm, with her ...

Babies fed on demand do better

Babies fed on demand do better

March 18, 2012 1 Comment

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Parenting debates about how to parent your child will always go on and in my option do nothing but confuse parents and put unnecessary pressure on them. However, more and more research is being conducted which puts to bed a lot of these parenting debates, which is great as it allows parents to get on with what they ...

Babies and Words

Babies and Words

March 17, 2012 No Comments

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It turns out that for those parents who use words rather than “baby talk” or sounds to communicate with their babies are helping them to categorise objects with words. Researchers from Northwestern University have found that babies were able to categorise pictures better when they heard words rather than sounds. “Three-month-old infants were shown a series ...

There’s more to babies interactions than meets the eye!

There’s more to babies interactions than meets the eye!

March 17, 2012 No Comments

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With cameras attached to babies to see how they interact with the world, researchers have made the discovery that babies conduct complex social interactions with each other. Australian experts say that babies in settings such as daycare have been shown to use deliberate techniques to make friends, attract attention, manage group situations and even make each ...

Gratitude and Baby Signing

Gratitude and Baby Signing

March 17, 2012 No Comments

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Most people would all agree that gratitude is part of our lives, whether through a pray, a lot of thank yous when someone does something special, or when you stop just in time before an accident occurs. But is having gratitude for the things and service done to us that important? Well in a study conducted by ...

Welcome to Baby Signs Australia

Welcome to Baby Signs Australia

March 17, 2012 No Comments

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Over the years we shared some fabulous stuff with families and their babies about baby communication, baby sign language and we have now set up a blog site that puts all of that information in one place!  If you have any baby signing stories, articles etc, let us know and we will post it here. If ...

Attachment Parenting or Intuitive Parenting?

The other day I had the opportunity to truly understand the long-term effects of attachment parenting or as I...

Music to Baby’s Ear

“Toot, toot, chugga chugga, big red car” sings out daily in homes around Australia.  Though the tunes of the big...

Social skills are part of Parenting

Is it me or has everything beyond the necessities of parenting grown to mountainous proportions.  We are encouraged to factor into our parenting...

Mother’s Intuition

I’ve always believed in mother’s intuition, even more so when my daughter, less than two years old had a strain of...

History of Baby Sign Language

If you google baby sign language you’re sure to get a lot of results. But what you may not realise...

Sleeping with your baby

When I became a parent, co-sleeping with your baby was deemed a big fat no no.  As a new...