September is NICU awareness month. One year ago this month, I was a brand new NICU parent myself. My daughter was born seven weeks early, following an extended hospital stay when my water broke unexpectedly at 30 weeks pregnant.
This...
I love baby-wearing! My hope is that you will learn to love it too, if you don't already. As a breastfeeding mother and lactation counselor (check out our list of Seacoast lactation consultants!), the ease and ability to nurse...
There are a lot of Seacoast chiropractors offering incredible services. The ones on this list explicitly offer chiropractic care to pregnant women and children.
Arete Chiropractic
875 Greenland Road, Unit A2,
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Specializing in the upper cervical spine. Several of the...
Whether it's so you can work remotely, assist older kids with remote learning or homeschooling, take care of a new baby or (the Holy Grail) drink a cup of coffee uninterrupted, every parent needs their littles ones to play...
Finding out you are pregnant with not one, but two, three or more babies is quite a shock! Once you start thinking about the reality of a multiples pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, you may feel downright panicked. Having realistic...
In this Covid world, masks are an inexorable part of our new reality. As an early intervention speech language pathologist, I hear concern from families about how the lack of face to face communication may impact their children’s language...
In a mom’s group the other day I saw a question from the mom of an 8-week-old baby. She was wondering what to do about her newborn who was waking 2 or 3 times a night. I was the...
I came from a camping family. Every summer, my parents would pack up the minivan to explore the natural beauty of our country by way of campgrounds. These adventures made me love and appreciate a meal cooked on an...
As a sleep consultant, one of the biggest questions I get from parents of young infants is about when to unswaddle their baby.
The Google machine can give conflicting answers…
One popular sleep guru suggests swaddling for as long as necessary...
Q: Everyone tells me to put my baby down "drowsy but awake" but this seems impossible! How can I teach my baby to go into his crib awake without freaking out?! Help!
Putting your baby down "drowsy but awake" may...