Sleep
Building a Bedtime Routine With Music: Age-by-Age Guide (0-3 Years)
A bedtime routine that uses music well is one of the most reliable sleep tools parents have, but it does not work for the reason most people assume. M...
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Articles on Baby Health and Development
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Sleep
Creating a Sound Environment for Your Baby: A Room-by-Room Guide
The visual environment of a nursery gets all the planning attention. The colour of the walls, the curtains, the pattern of the cot bedding. The acoust...
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Parenting
Balancing Responsibilities and Recovery
The honest version of parenting young kids is that you're under-recovered for a long time. Not because you're doing it wrong — because the workload is...
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Health
Vomiting in Young Children: When to Manage at Home and When to Call
Vomiting is one of the most common reasons parents call a health professional in the first three years. Most of it is a stomach bug that runs its cour...
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Health
Reading the Growth Chart: What 'Normal' Actually Means
Parents are handed a lot of numbers in the first three years — a birth weight, a length, a head measurement, a centile position. Most of the worry tha...
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Health
The First Six Months of Vaccinations: The UK Schedule
The first six months pack in three immunisation appointments, four different vaccines, and protection against ten diseases that used to routinely kill...
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Health
Your Baby's First Vaccinations: How to Prepare and What to Expect
The first round of vaccinations sits in most parents' diaries as the appointment they're quietly dreading. The needle, the cry, the worrying about whe...
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Health
Vernix on Your Newborn: Why It's There and What to Do With It
Most newborns arrive with some amount of waxy white coating on them — sometimes a thin film, sometimes thick deposits in the creases and the hair. It...
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Health
Tonsillitis in Children Under Three: What to Look For
A toddler can't tell you their throat hurts. They go off their milk, get clingy, run a fever, and you spend the afternoon trying to work out whether t...
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Health
Tummy Troubles: How to Help Your Baby
The first three months with a baby contain a lot of unexplained crying, and most of it is rooted somewhere in the gut. Wind, reflux, colic, evening fu...
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Health
How to Tell Teething Apart from Other Causes of Crying
Teething gets blamed for an enormous amount of crying between 6 and 12 months. Sometimes it's the right answer. Often it isn't — and the reason that m...
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Health
When a Baby's First Teeth Start Coming In
The first tooth is one of those milestones that gets blamed for almost every miserable few days in the second half of the first year. Most of the time...
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Health
Signs That a Baby Is Teething
Teething gets blamed for almost everything that happens between 6 and 12 months. Some of the time it's right; a lot of the time it isn't. The useful t...
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Health
How to Help a Baby with Teething Pain
Teething does cause real discomfort, even though it isn't responsible for the long list of unrelated symptoms it gets blamed for. Several genuinely he...
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Health
Should You Use Teething Gels
Teething gels sit in an awkward middle ground in the pharmacy: prominently shelved, marketed straight at sleep-deprived parents, but actually carrying...
5 min read
Health
Fever and Diarrhoea During Teething: What to Do
The belief that teething causes fever and diarrhoea is one of the stickiest pieces of received parenting wisdom. It also has a long track record of le...
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Health
How Dangerous Is Ringworm in Infants
The name does most of the damage on its own. Ringworm sounds like a parasitic infestation; it's actually a fungal infection of the skin, and in health...
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Health
How Long Teething Lasts and What Is Considered Normal
Teething isn't a single bad week — it's a process that starts in the second half of the first year and continues until the second molars settle in aro...
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Health
How to Recognize Illness in a Newborn
Newborns can deteriorate fast and they can't tell you what's wrong, so the question parents really need answered isn't 'what's the diagnosis?' but 'do...
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Health
Why Reflux Occurs in Infants and How to Manage It
Reflux is one of the most over-diagnosed and over-treated issues of the first year. Most of what looks like a problem is healthy newborn physiology wi...
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