Infant Parenting Tips
Get advice, tips, and information from other parents on parenting an infant.
Hiring a Babysitter
Review tips on hiring a babysitter for your baby.
Review tips on hiring a babysitter for your baby.
Remember "HALT"
Remember "HALT" when you are feeling mad or cranky and think that you might hurt your baby.
Remember "HALT" when you are feeling mad or cranky and think that you might hurt your baby.
Parenting Tips
Review these general parenting tips, including that you treat your child with respect, be consistent, build confidence, and express love.
Review these general parenting tips, including that you treat your child with respect, be consistent, build confidence, and express love.
Parenting Styles
Review the three main styles of parenting, including parents who are authoritarian, permissive, or authoritative.
Review the three main styles of parenting, including parents who are authoritarian, permissive, or authoritative.
Setting Limits
Review how to make rules and set limits for your infant's safety and guideance.
Review how to make rules and set limits for your infant's safety and guideance.
Baby Shoes
Learn when you should start using baby shoes and how to shop for shoes for your baby.
Learn when you should start using baby shoes and how to shop for shoes for your baby.
Stay Away from Second-Hand Smoke
Learn how and why you should keep your baby away from second hand smoke.
Learn how and why you should keep your baby away from second hand smoke.
Managing Your Time
Learn how to better manage your time so that you can better care for your baby and yourself.
Learn how to better manage your time so that you can better care for your baby and yourself.
Separation Anxiety
Review why some infants develop a fear of strangers and being separated from their primary caregiver.
Review why some infants develop a fear of strangers and being separated from their primary caregiver.
Discovering Your Baby's Temperament
Learn how to figure how what kind of temperament your baby has.
Learn how to figure how what kind of temperament your baby has.
Limits, Rules and Infant Discipline
Review how your older infant may test his limits, say no a lot, and learn to be more independent.
Review how your older infant may test his limits, say no a lot, and learn to be more independent.
Weaning and Sippie Cups
Review how to wean your baby from breastfeeding or bottle feeding to using a cup.
Review how to wean your baby from breastfeeding or bottle feeding to using a cup.
Avoiding Food Battles
Review how to make sure that you don't have battles during mealtimes.
Review how to make sure that you don't have battles during mealtimes.
Security and Comfort Objects
Review how a blanket, a stuffed toy or a silky rag, can be a source of security or comfort for your child.
Review how a blanket, a stuffed toy or a silky rag, can be a source of security or comfort for your child.
Growing Up with Plants
Review these houseplant safety tips so that your kids aren't hurt by poisonous plants.
Review these houseplant safety tips so that your kids aren't hurt by poisonous plants.
Ten Safe Plants For Your Home
Review what safe houseplants you can have in your home so that your kids don't get hurt by eating a poisonous plant.
Review what safe houseplants you can have in your home so that your kids don't get hurt by eating a poisonous plant.
Equipment for Happy Meals
Learn what equipment you should have to make meal times happy for your infant, including a high chair, bibs, dishes, and a baby cup.
Learn what equipment you should have to make meal times happy for your infant, including a high chair, bibs, dishes, and a baby cup.
Finger Foods
Review what finger foods, such as crackers, zwieback toast, cheese cubes, that you can feed your older infant.
Review what finger foods, such as crackers, zwieback toast, cheese cubes, that you can feed your older infant.
Mealtime with Your Eight-Month-Old
Review what foods that you should be feeding your older infant and which ones to avoid.
Review what foods that you should be feeding your older infant and which ones to avoid.
Moving Bath Time to the "Big Tub"
Review when and how you should give your baby a bath in a regular bathtub.
Review when and how you should give your baby a bath in a regular bathtub.
Tips about Your Baby's Playpen
Learn how to choose a playpen for your baby and use it safely.
Learn how to choose a playpen for your baby and use it safely.
Safety and Your Baby's High Chair
Learn how to choose a high chair for your baby and using it safely.
Learn how to choose a high chair for your baby and using it safely.
Is Your Baby Teething?
Review when your baby will begin to get teeth and start teething.
Review when your baby will begin to get teeth and start teething.
Helping Your Baby To Fall Asleep
Review how to help your baby fall asleep and sleep through the night.
Review how to help your baby fall asleep and sleep through the night.
Coping with Stress
Review how to cope with stress that may come from taking care of your baby.
Review how to cope with stress that may come from taking care of your baby.
Taking Care of Your Baby's Gums and Future Teeth
Learn how to take care of your baby's gums and future teeth.
Learn how to take care of your baby's gums and future teeth.
Starting Solid Baby Foods
Review how to recognize if your baby is ready to start eating solid baby foods and how to get started feeding your baby infant cereal.
Review how to recognize if your baby is ready to start eating solid baby foods and how to get started feeding your baby infant cereal.
Things You Can Do To Relax
Review tips on relaxing so that you don't get overly stressed out caring for your baby.
Review tips on relaxing so that you don't get overly stressed out caring for your baby.
Tips on Pacifiers
Review tips on safely using a pacifier for your baby.
Review tips on safely using a pacifier for your baby.
What To Do When Your Baby Cries
Review things your baby may be trying to tell you with her crying and what you can do to soothe your baby and make sure you are meeting her needs.
Review things your baby may be trying to tell you with her crying and what you can do to soothe your baby and make sure you are meeting her needs.
Baby Talk - Talking To Your Baby
Review these tips for talking to your baby.
Review these tips for talking to your baby.