Information to help care for your new baby, including advice on feeding, schedules, and common problems, like colic and reflux.
Parents often ask if their baby's eyes stay gray, which many babies are born with, or if they will they turn brown, green, or blue? The standard reply is that most babies eye color will either stay the same or will darken over the first six to nine months of her life. Did your baby's eye color change? If so, when?
Once your baby is born and you know he is happy and healthy, he will likely be mostly eating and sleeping. Learn how to care for your new baby, such as the one in this photo that is just being born.
A photo gallery of premature babies describing some of the things that you can expect in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) when you have a preemie.
Are you ready to care for your new baby? Take our New Baby Parenting Quiz to see if you know everything you should to take care of your new baby.
Keeping track of your new baby's feeding schedules, whether they are breastfeeding or drinking formula, and how often they are having wet and soiled diapers, is a good way to make sure that they are getting enough to eat.
What to expect from the growth and development of your newborn baby.
What to expect from the growth and development of your child at two weeks.
Review why you might have a crying baby, why babies cry, when crying is too much, and how you can calm your crying baby.
By The Book tips and advice to help you raise a safe, happy, and healthy baby.
Safe Haven Laws allow a parent to leave an unwanted newborn baby in a safe place, such as a hospital, emergency medical services, police station, or fire station, and not have to worry about getting in trouble. The baby will then be given to the state's child welfare department.
Review the changes in baby sleep schedules from newborns to older infants so that you know what to expect and when your baby should be sleeping through the night.
Learn about the symptoms, prevention, and treatment for babies and children with heat rash or prickly heat.
Submit your parenting tips for coping with common issues and problems related to parenting a newborn baby, such as breastfeeding, formula feeding, colic, and sleep, etc. What worked for you?
Learn how you can predict the gender of your baby and tell if you are having a boy or girl.
Learn more about meconium, transitional stools, milk stools, and what you should expect from your babies bowel movements if she is breastfeeding or drinking a baby formula.
Find baby names from our list of the most popular names of 2003 for your baby girl or boy.
Learn more about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and how you can reduce your baby's risk of developing SIDS, including the new American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations that advise against cosleeping, bedsharing, and side/stomach sleeping, and actually encourages pacifier use.
Mongolian spots are flat bluish to bluish gray skin markings that commonly appear at birth (or shortly thereafter). Learn about the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of
Reading to baby is a great way to boost development and early reading skills. Here are the top five choices for baby picture books and story books for babies from your About Guide to Baby Products.
ABO incompatability describes an immune reaction that occurs in the body if two blood samples of different, incompatible ABO types are mixed together. Learn about the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of ABO incompatabilities, which can cause a newborn to become jaundiced.
Learn about group B strep infections, which are the most common cause of life-threatening infections in newborns.
Dealing with unwanted advice is a common feature in the terrain of new moms. Learn how to handle these situations with tact.
Positional plagiocephaly can cause your child's head to be flat and can often be prevented and treated by helping your child spend less time in the same position on his back.
Helpful information that will let you turn your living space into a safe and happy home for you and for baby, including tips on crib, bathing, baby gate and high chair safety.
From pregnancy to beyond, learn how your baby is developing through pictures, drawings, ultrasounds and explanations.
The resources provided in this section will help you raise healthy and strong vegetarian kids and families. From kid-friendly recipes and fun ways kids can help out in the kitchen to tips for feeding the most die-hard meat-eaters, you’ll find it here.
Have you just become a dad? Through natural means, by adoption, or by marrying into a single parent family? In any case, there is a significant adjustment period for new fathers. Check here for information tailored to you that will help in your transition to fatherhood.
Although there aren't necessarily any "best" baby products or essential baby products that you just can't do without, there are some that are rather helpful and will make taking care of your baby a bit easier. Learn how to use these baby products, including a car seat, stroller, playpen, swing, jumper, and sling safely.
