babies
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Your Baby Needs To Sit Less And Play More, According To The World Health Organisation
It isn’t just your older kids who need to keep their bodies moving all day long. For the first time, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has released guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for infants, ages one to two and ages three to four. And they might need to move around more than you’d…
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The Best Baby Hack Is To Have An Easy Baby
A new study published in Academic Paediatrics confirms that mothers of fussy babies are more likely to experience symptoms of depression than mothers of “easy” babies. Researchers pulled data from more than 8,200 children and their parents and found “the less soothable the infant, the more distressed the mother,” a press release states. Caring for…
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Never Prop Up Your Baby’s Bottle
Parents of babies need shortcuts wherever they can get them. Parents do occasionally need to eat or sleep or pee without putting their child in grave danger, after all.
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I’m New Yorker Cartoonist Emily Flake, And This Is How I Parent
On topics from under-boob sweat to Mayochup, Emily Flake has a lot to say. Or, rather, draw. The award-winning cartoonist went from running her comic strip “Lulu Eightball” in alt-weeklies across the country (the jokes were “too vulgar for grown-up publications,” she has said) to regularly drawing for The New Yorker. Her book Mama Tried:…