Baby Sign Language

Infants have the ability to understand language soon after they are born. However, they are not equipped to produce speech until after 12 to 24 months of age. Due to this, parents do not understand what their child is thinking. Teaching your child signs and gestures as well as spoken …

Tips to Relieve Your Baby’s Gas

Gas in newborns and babies less than one year old is a common condition, which every mother has faced at some point or the other in her child’s growing years. According to lactation specialists, gas is produced when a newborn feeds for the first time, either breast milk or baby …

Causes of Fussy Baby at Night

When you have a baby at home who cries at night, it’s quite tough to find out what exactly is bothering the baby in the commotion to quieten him/her. You try out many things like changing the diapers, feeding, singing or even taking him out for walks in the middle …

How to Swaddle a Baby

When a baby comes into this world, the environment is very new to him. He finds it difficult to adjust to such a new surrounding. A baby, for a few months, doesn’t even understand the difference between night and day. He will sleep, eat, and cry whenever he wishes to. …

Newborn Baby Nursing

Newborn nursing is more than just ‘how long’ and ‘how often’. It involves a right understanding and education during the pregnancy. It is for this very reason that a number of maternity homes offer symposiums to help the first time mothers. There are a number of things that need to …

Baby Oil Massage

An oil massage is very necessary for your baby and can prove to be very beneficial in many ways. Giving a relaxing massage to the baby is actually an age-old practice that is now more than just a massage, it is almost like an art. The various massage techniques used …

Steps to Effective Parenting

Being a parent is not an easy job, and bringing up the children in a proper way is even more difficult. Most of the parents are least prepared and often confused about this. For the parents who want to bring up their children more properly and effectively, here are certain …

Parenting Styles

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But, don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.” “Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time, when …

What is an Orphan?

Here is what an orphan girl thinks about it: “Childhood is the most beautiful period of our journey here on the Earth, because it is the time when we get to know many things and experiences that contribute and influence our way to maturity. Yet, I don’t know if someone …

Is the Easter Bunny Real?

Little children believe what their parents tell them. Their little trusting eyes light up at the thought of a cute bunny coming to give presents in the spring. The cute chocolate bunny-shaped candies, colored eggs and jelly beans are abundant during the holiday. The candy, the Easter egg hunts, and …