An OCD mom raising a precocious toddler.
Allergies can be problematic for anyone. They can be particularly heartbreaking, however, when they affect your child. As a parent you want to protect your child from the things that can hurt them. But when those things that are giving them trouble are in their own home, it can be difficult to know what to …
Finding a nanny for your child or children is an important task that isn’t to be taken lightly. Entrusting someone to help you raise your children, often out of your sight, isn’t something that you do with just anyone. It’s important to have all of your bases covered so that you make the best possible …
For some parents getting your kids to bed at night can be a huge fiasco. When the rest of the little children of the world are sleeping sweetly in their cute pajamas under a moonlit sky, your kids are bouncing around the walls refusing to brush their teeth. It may seem like you’ve tried everything …
While most births in the UK are relatively straightforward with few complications, one issue that can potentially have serious health implications for your baby is if they are deprived of oxygen during the birth. Figures suggest that around 1,200 babies a year are deprived of oxygen during their birth. This is known as birth asphyxia …
When it comes to the health of your children, there are a lot of decisions that you have to make as a parent. Sometimes you make different choices about your first child then you will your subsequent ones, because you’ll have more experience with signs and symptoms, and you’ll have more feedback about what you …
One thing’s for sure, you can never underestimate the power of seeing a child’s smile. It makes you feel alive and sentimental. For parents, a child’s smile can be the most beautiful thing in the world for them. And this is because we have grown intimate with the sight of our precious ones enjoying the …
Trauma can be particularly devastating for a child. In many cases, changes in the personality can be so subtle that parents may not be able to identify right away that something is wrong. Post-traumatic stress disorder is more widespread than people would like to believe and without a proper understanding of the symptoms, things could …
Going to the doctor every year for a check-up, a visit when nothing is actually wrong, is very common and most people do this as a smart preventative measure. For some reason, the same attitude never seems to involve regular visits to the dentist, even though the situation is virtually the same. The great …
Being sick is a part of growing up, and caring for your sick child is a part of parenting. Most childhood diseases are contagious and spread easily among family members, day-care centers and at schools. Many of these are preventable through immunization, knowing the signs and symptoms of common childhood ailments can be helpful in …
The past couple of days Reagan has had these strange looking bumps on the back of her legs and on her arms. At first we chalked it up to hives because she would get them occasionally when she was an infant, but they always went away and didn’t seem to bother her. Then again, nothing …
The ADHD is becoming increasingly important among the population, but sometimes the information appearing on it are not entirely certain and may be confusing or misleading. The aim of this Decalogue we have developed, is to break with prejudices and demystify opinions, in order to improve the general knowledge that people have about this disorder: …
More and more children have allergies of all kinds, also food allergies. The reason for the increase in allergies among children is unknown, although many relate to lifestyle and environmental deterioration. Anyway, we remain alert to alleviate the impact of food allergies in children. The risk of food allergies starts from babies and first manifested …