Age specific questions from about 3 months to about 1 year of age. Younger: newborn. Older: toddler.
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How do we stop our child screeching?
Our 3 1/2 month old has just learned how to make an ear-piercing screech, which appears to either mean "happy" or "tired and grumpy".
How can we dissuade her from making this noise, without ...
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Can we switch Vaccine from one manufacturer to other? [closed]
My four-month-old son received a shot for DTaP-IPV/Hib vaccine (Pentacel®). Due to my family emergency, my infant needs to be out of the States for up-to a year. We want to make sure that he gets ...
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2answers
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new tooth has a black color (baby 8mo old)
My 8mo baby has his upper front teeth on the way. Today, I noticed that one of them was black and blue in color. This is scary to me. It looks like one of the teeth is black, but it might be that the ...
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How can one tell if an infant is developmentally advanced?
How can I tell if an infant is developmentally advanced?
For example, in a 10 month old baby boy: he likes to play the piano and drum; he is always making sounds or noises with his mouth or toys all ...
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How can I help my baby poop
My newborn (currently 6 weeks) sometimes goes a few days without a bowel movement. It seems like this makes her uncomfortable and she sometime looks like she's trying to get something going (she has ...
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Alternative to the 1-2-3 rule needed
I have a 1,6 year old son. Today I first put him in "the corner" after counting to three, explaining that this would happen when he doesn´t behave. Then I told him that he should stay there until he ...
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What are the alternatives for a lactose intolerant baby?
I have a 2 month old granddaughter and she is potentially lactose intolerant (she's been spitting up, has runny stools, a low grade fever, fussy, and the doctor suggested it). She's been on a ...
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Is an “Amber Necklace” effective for helping with teething?
My daughter seems to be starting to teethe. She's 7 weeks old and hasn't quite figured out teething toys and we don't want to start with drugs or other medications. We've had numerous friends suggest ...
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How can I encourage my 4 month old to roll over from tummy to back?
I believe my child has the mental knowledge necessary to roll over. My child can do a mini-pushup where head and chest are lifted and the upper body is supported by the forearms. She also "swims" ...
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Does skipping crawling stage affect your child brain development?
My son is almost 9 month old right now, but he still cannot crawl. All he can do is creeping when he want to get anythings in front of him. It seems that he will skip his crawling stage. Or maybe I'm ...
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Could the Jadelle birth control be affecting my breast milk?
I got the jadelle a week ago today and my second daughter is 4 weeks old. Family Planning told me it was fine to get it, but for the last two days my daughter has had a higher temperature, has been ...
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Baby breastfeeds for only 5 mins before sleeping again
My daughter is 2 months old and is exclusively breastfed. After drinking for only 5 mins she falls asleep again and wakes up crying again after 30 mins. We have tried different things like tickling ...
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Do baby massages improve motor skills and emotional development?
I find a lot of parents take their baby to get baby massages. I have heard that babies who receive periodic baby massages (such as once a week) are showing rapid development in their motor skills and ...
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Experience with Craniosynostosis?
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with Craniosynostosis? Specifically I'm looking for help explaining and preparing my other children for this surgery.
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Why is my 3 month old waking up 10+ times a night?
My 3 month old went from starting on a good sleep trajectory (a five hour and 3 hour stretch at 8 weeks regularly) to waking between every 15 minutes and every 2 hours. What I'm trying to figure out ...
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4answers
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What do we do to minimize negative impact to our child when we (the parents) argue?
My wife and I have 8 month old baby boy. Having a fight, for example debating, is something that we don't want to do.
But sometimes, we can't avoid having a fight in front of our son. When the ...
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Is my pediatrician missing something about my 3 month old's gas pain?
My 3 month old has cried out at between 4:00 and 6:00 a.m. for hours in gas pain almost every night for the past 6 weeks or so. There have been 2 or 3 nights in this time where she did not have an ...
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How to encourage a 4 month old to swim
For the last 2 months, we have been taking our daughter, now 4 months old, to the baby swimming twice a week. She enjoys it however she doesn't really swim. She just sits, floats and lounges: allowing ...
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Do dummies (“pacifiers”) hinder speech development?
I have always frowned on the use of dummies, because my mother (who ran a nursery for 25 years) was adamant that they can hinder a child's speech development.
Our new baby is very unsettled and very ...
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Self-soothing and sleep training
I've a 7 months old baby boy. Until he was 4 months old he had no problems getting asleep. Then, he started to cry and protest until he fell asleep, even when he is in our arms and we are rocking him. ...
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Advice on raising trilingual kids
Arabic is my native language and I am fluent in English, my wife is an English/Urdu bilingual but English is more native to her plus she can read Arabic letters without understanding it but she can’t ...
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Is it really that bad to get water in an infant's ear?
My baby girl loves taking baths but, of course, we get conflicting information about how often and how careful we should be of water in her ears. The peditrition said every other day and didn't say ...
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Grey hair on a 14 month old baby
My son is only 14 months old, but we have recently noticed that he has a white hair on his head. Should we worry?
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Does/can it have a negative effect, if newborns/infants are exposed to background noise (TV, …) while awake or sleeping?
A midwife once said that babies might sleep camly in the loudest environment (radio or tv sound, party, etc.), but later they are "reprocessing" all this input and will be unsettled or even won't ...
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Are the “gentlease” and “sensitive” infant formulas anything more than sugar water?
The primary ingredient for the regular infant formula is "nonfat milk". The primary ingredient for the "gentlease" and "sensitive" formulas is "corn syrup". Seems to me we should be going with the ...
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Is it really that big a deal to switch between different formulas?
A doctor told us that the all of the "cow milk based" formulas are all the same so it doesn't matter which one we use. So I say we get the cheapest and use whatever free stuff we can get no matter the ...
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How can I strengthen my baby's arms?
Our 11-month-old hasn't been too interested in learning to crawl. I think she got tired of failing. She pushes her self backwards but can't push herself forwards. While searching for activities that ...
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Is it safe for a baby to suck on bath toys?
We bathe our 6 month old in our bathtub. We fill the tub 1/3 of the way and we sit in there with her to bathe her. The bath water gets a little bit soapy as the bath gets underway. We put some bath ...
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Is it normal for an infant's weight to fluctuate?
Is it normal for an infants weight to fluctuate throughout the day or to not increase from one day to another? I have a feeling it is, fluctuation happen and average weight gain per day is an average, ...
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How concerned should we be about Mice coming into the baby's room?
Our first child is due any day now, and we've got a mouse infestation. We noticed it for the first time at my girlfriend's baby shower (lots of cakes and crumbs out), and since then we've started ...
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How to keep a baby cool in summer?
I have concerns regarding our baby (less than 1 yr) sleeping in an air conditioned room. I live in Mumbai. Its an area with extremely high humidity and very hot temperatures. We all sleep in an air ...
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Is it recommended to use warm water for bathing my baby?
I don't know whether this is a good habit or not for my baby.
But my wife is always taking our baby a bath using warm water.So when the time we would to take our baby to swim in the pool, our baby ...
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How do we break nursing associations at naptime?
We've recently tried Ferber's method of progressive waiting to help our 4-month-old sleep better.
At nights, it's worked extremely well... after his bath in the evening he now falls asleep within ...
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How do you know when a baby needs to be burped?
My daughter just turned two, and over the last two years, I've learned a lot. Most parenting skills were easy to learn, but I never figured out burping when she was in the infant stage. In retrospect, ...
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Immediate reflux/heartburn relief for a baby (8 months old)
Our 8 month old is having a bout of really nasty heartburn after getting over norovirus. Our doctor has looked at him and determined he's suffering from normal gastritis and prescribed zantec. ...
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Baby gift suggestion for third boy?
What is a good idea for a baby gift for someone who has just had their third boy? They do not want to see one more blue stretchie :) - or even any piece of boy's clothing. They have toys and books, ...
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5 month old won't fall asleep because she always turns herself onto her stomach
This question is related to How do dealing with infant flipping over during sleep training?, but not exactly the same.
Our 5 month old daughter flips onto her stomach constantly. When you put her ...
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What types of developmental milestones should we be concerned about? [closed]
A lot of the developmental questions on this site are about Language, but I'm less anxious about missing language milestones than I am about other potential developmental milestones that I may be ...
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Is there any harm to letting an infant's hair grow long?
My niece is 7 months old, and has long hair: around say 20-25cm. We are planning to cut her hair against our wishes because we think it could make it easier for her to catch a cough or cold. Is long ...
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Can Constant Alarm Testing in Building Pose Emotiona/Psychological Concerns for our Infant?
Our building is constantlly having false fire alarms that are extremely loud. These are beyond the smoke detectors in our home, they are the industrial strobe alarms that can be heard over a block ...
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How can I get my 7 m/o to stop rubbing her eyes?
We have observed our 7 month old rubbing her eyes ever since we can remember. She does this especially when she's tired, but also when she's bored or starting to get frustrated.
She'll oftentimes rub ...
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Cleaning up from Gentian Violet
Does anyone know of any way to get Gentian Violet off of a babies mouth/lips? We have to give him 2 more doses I believe and he is already a purple mess after the first dose. I realize that the mouth, ...
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Do we need an electronic breast pump?
Since we plan that my wife is going to be a full-time/stay at home mom, do you think she will need an electronic breast pump?
We are first time parents. We do not sure if we need the electric one or ...
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Is it okay for my newborn to sleep in a travel bed instead of his crib?
My "Pack n Play" is easy to move around the house and it contains things I need such as changing pad or diapers.
Is there any disadvantage for letting my newborn sleep in this for a long period of ...
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What is effect of giving sugar to an infant?
Instinctively I try to avoid giving our 1 year old sugar. However, I don't really understand why it is bad for her.
Often when she doesn't want to eat any more savoury food she is more than happy to ...
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Torticollis: what should we expect?
We have been instructed to take our 4 month old to a physical therapist to address torticollis and flat head. In past visits to our pediatrician we were given stretches to do and have attempted to ...
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Should I be concerned that my infant holds her sneeze in?
My ten-month-old daughter just got stick (seems like cold/flu). What's really strange for me is that she holds her sneezes in. In fact, sometimes she's almost shaking from the exertion of holding her ...
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Should I be concerned with a infant (preemie) that doesn't want to be held?
My son is 30.5 weeks old, 14.5 weeks adjusted (he was a 24-weeker) and has started to get real fussy until we set him down in his swing or crib. It's not happening all the time, but it is increasing ...
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Should we use special detergent/washing powder for the laundry of baby clothes? (UK)
Any suggestions/experiences of the best characteristics for a baby clothes detergent would be appreciated. We are in the UK, in case that influences the options we should look for.
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What are some considerations while preparing for an all day trip in NYC?
We're going to be in NYC on foot and taking the subway around all day. Or daughter is 3 months old.
We're going to bring our usual diaper bag, a baby carrier, a sling, extra change of clothes, water ...
