Baby Care
When reflux affects your baby’s sleep
If your baby has gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR), it may be a contributing factor to her lack of sleep. GOR is usually caused by...
| Tagged Night Wakings, Sleep AdviceFacts on teething and the effects it has on sleep
Why is it that just when your baby is able to start sleeping through the night, and may in fact, already have started...
| Tagged Night Wakings, Sleep AdviceSolving sleep problems starts with acceptance
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one” Leo J Burke Ask any sleep deprived mother and she will attest...
| Tagged Sleep Advice, Sleep TrainingHow being sick affects your child’s sleep
Illness can affect your child’s sleep, so Ann Richardson gives ideas on getting your baby through the night. It is a fact of...
| Tagged Sleep AdviceBaby skin conditions
An infant’s skin has many functions – it protects the body against ultraviolet radiation, provides a barrier against bacteria and toxins entering the...
| Tagged Sleep AdviceNanny Sense
You have been happily living with a part time domestic worker who comes in twice a week and manages to keep your home...
| Tagged RoutinesMake your New Year’s resolutions happen
At the start of each new year, many of us make resolutions; promises or intentions to do something better or to stop something...
Love them… keep them safe
For those who’s lives have never been touched by the tragedy of and child injured, it is difficult to understand the turmoil associated...
Kangaroo Mother Care for the premature baby
There is no better incubator and home for a fetus to develop than within his/her mommy’s tummy. However, sadly for some babies who...
Kangaroo mother care – the way nature intended
There is no better incubator and home for a fetus to develop than within his/her mommy’s tummy. But sadly for some babies who...
Interviewing and selecting the perfect nanny
The process of interviewing and selecting the prefect nanny is potentially very challenging, there are many wonderful women (and men) with a passion...
| Tagged RoutinesTo give a dummy or not
A dilemma that faces many new parents is whether to allow their baby to have a dummy or not. Prior to having a...
How to get rid of the dummy (pacifier)
Soothing a new baby can be a real challenge and if you are confronted with an unsettled little one, you will be looking...
CPR could save your baby’s life
Every parent’s worst nightmare is to find their baby or child not breathing, or to have to deal with a child that is...