Listen up, Germaphobes! Yes, you! You with your hand sanitizer and your anti-bacterial soap, and all of your strict rules about not sharing bottles or –gasp!– cleaning your kid’s pacifier by sucking on it. That’s gross, right? Turns out that sucking on your child’s pacifier might NOT in fact be so gross. In fact, this [...]
Baby Steps
Colic Remedies
In this show, I walk through the common ways in which you can treat colic. Home remedies for colic When you’re dealing with a colicky baby, you have to be patient and you have to be creative. The AAP recommends eating and burping your baby really well, a gentle back massage on your lap, and [...]
Colic In Newborns
Several moms have written in asking me to do a show on colic. Colic is a tricky thing. You’ll often hear that doctors don’t really know why colic occurs. You might even see the joke that colic is a five letter word for “I don’t know.” Seriously! Although none of my babies had colic, I’ve [...]
Kids Constipation Remedies
In addition to doing our show about baby constipation, we’re doing a show this week on constipation remedies for kids. I know, we’re like so totally blocked up this week! In this show, I offer up my kids’ experiences with constipation without (hopefully) them too much! No one gets mentioned in particular! I just talk [...]
What To Do When Baby Is Constipated
As soon as a newborn skips out on a poopy diaper, a lot of parents will ask “is my baby constipated?” Quite often, the answer is NO. In this show, I walk through how to determine whether your baby is constipated and some common baby constipation remedies. Have you experienced baby constipation and do you [...]
Introducing The Bottle: When Is Good?
A few moms have written in asking me about when introducing a bottle is a good idea. The general rule on introducing a bottle to a breastfed baby is not before breastfeeding is well-established and not before one month of age. However, with my third who was unfortunately in the NICU, I saw that he [...]
Spoon Feeding: When Do You Stop?
Although she’s been feeding herself since she was two, at times my four-year old wants me to spoon feed her. I try to resist because I certainly don’t want to have her regress, but I have to admit that sometimes when she is tired or we’re in a rush, I do give her a few [...]
Storing Breast Milk in Fridge vs Freezing Breast Milk
A Mom from our Cloudmom community Kara recently wrote in asking about the difference between storing breast milk in the fridge versus freezing breast milk in the freezer, and asked what is best? How Long To Freeze Breast Milk Kara, I have a whole show that goes into the nitty gritty of all the guidelines [...]
Trouble Feeding a 6 month old Baby
Amy from our Cloudmom community has written in asking who to go about feeding a 6 month old baby who is 6 month old rejecting solids. According to Amy, her baby won’t eat anything and clamps her mouth shut! Solid Food for 6 Month Old Normally, babies begin the process of eating solids when they [...]
Having a Second Baby: Making it Work
Mercedes, an active mom in our Cloudmom community (thanks, Mercedes!) is expecting baby #2 and has asked what we recommend to those mommies who are pregnant with number 2. Preparing for Second Baby Mercedes, when you’re having a second baby, I think you need to bring in all the help and support you can, especially [...]
