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Editor's Note: While World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated August 1-7, and the US National Breastfeeding Month lasts for the entire month of August, Black…

Last week I was taking a road trip with my mother. Hitting our sixth hour in the car, deep into the empty desert, she began speaking to me about a book she was…

Beware the biases against babies. KEY POINTS Studies have shown that babies are not “fine” when they stop crying.Babies expect constant caregiver…

A friend of mine was having a really bad day. Imagine the worst day ever and multiply that by a thousand and you get the kind of day she was having. Now, this…

I had dinner with a good friend the other day—a highly respected professional who is outstanding in her field. Over chips and salsa, she confided that after 25…

An Excerpt From Natural Pregnancy When our ancestors lived in villages, many women would have been at births, or at least have been familiar with the process.…

Why our criticism of parenting media is justified Angela Braden at Science Mommy is primary author Cry-it-out sleep training has not been proven…

There is big money to be made in prescribing medications to kids – especially when those medications are intended to be taken for life, as many psychotropic…

Sleep studies are multiply flawed plus miss examining child wellbeing. First author is Mary Phillips A proliferation of “Sleep Clinics” are charging…

I’ve been having a lot of tornado dreams lately. Freudian analysis aside (please), I finally figured out what they were telling me. I was getting sucked in. I…