New research suggests stress can be "caught"; that is, mothers can pass their stress onto infants by touch. Does this provide support for sleep training? I am going to show you here why I think it does not at all...
Here I want to lay out some critical distinctions between what it means to distract, redirect, or respond to a child, what it looks like, and whether or not each method works, according to research.
At what age does your infant morph from a cute and cuddly bundle to the third person in the room; the onlooker who forces you to defer certain conversational topics to a later time when you and your spouse are alone?
One of the biggest problems facing modern parenting is the idea that babies will cry for no reason. It undermines responsiveness, parental efficacy, and hurts the parent-child dyad. That, and it's a load of...
Basing decisions on things like vaccination should be done from research and evidence, not fear. Finding sources that provide this information can be hard, but hopefully some of these will help.
Many parents who expect and accept their babies waking and crying end up frustrated when this stage doesn't magically pass in toddlerhood. Here are some of the many reasons toddlers wake and cry at night (and why they are deserving of our responsiveness too).
When you realize what awful advice is being passed on to moms by family, friends, and more importantly, medical professionals, you realize how far we still have to go in breastfeeding education.
We all know of the usual booby traps and how they are detrimental to women who want to breastfeed, but rarely do we talk about breastfeeding aversion as a problem for women who have tried to breastfeed.
Do we have a right to be happy? When we aren't, do we have a right to seek support and love? What about our children?
Headlines are claiming homebirth is as dangerous as letting your child ride in the car without a seatbelt. But the authors use one of my pet peeves to make this claim... generalizing data to those it doesn't apply to.
