April 14, 2012
I’ve always believed in mother’s intuition, even more so when my daughter, less than two years old had a strain of flu she couldn’t shake. I was taking her to the doctors everyday because the antibiotics didn’t seem to be working and she was losing energy. One particular day, I got a doctor who listened to her chest ...
April 1, 2012
If you google baby sign language you’re sure to get a lot of results. But what you may not realise are all of those results derive from the years of research by Dr. Linda Acredolo & Susan Goodwyn. In fact, today’s parents almost don’t give it a second thought when they incorporate baby sign language into their families ...
March 22, 2012
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 ...
March 18, 2012
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 ...
March 17, 2012
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 ...
March 17, 2012
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 ...
