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No Quick Fix It's important to step back and look at the big picture when we find ourselves opting for quick fixes.	Maternal singing during skin-to-skin contact benefits both preterm infants, mothers A mother who sings to her preterm infant while providing 'kangaroo care,' or holding with direct skin-to-skin contact, may see improvements in both her child's and her own health.
Editor's Pick: Renee Jain on "Anxious Children" We all want to raise happy, healthy, confident children. But some children seem to have a harder time at managing their anxiety than others. So what, exactly, works to ease our children's anxiety, especially if they're prone to worry?	Tulane University psychiatrist to study how parental bond with children leaves lasting genetic protection Tulane University psychiatrist Dr.
Parents misled by cry-it-out sleep training reports Mainstream parenting media are asserting once again that the cry-it-out sleep paradigm is harmless to babies—this time in the form of a two-paragraph morsel as one of the “sleep myths” Parents magazine “sets straight” in “Rest Assured” (... read more	Measuring nurture: Study shows how 'good mothering' hardwires infant brain By carefully watching nearly a hundred hours of video showing mother rats protecting, warming, and feeding their young pups, and then matching up what they saw to real-time electrical readings from the pups' brains, researchers at NYU Langone... read more
Taking paternity leave makes other dads more likely to do the same The benefits of paternity leave are already known to be widespread (for fathers, for their spouses, for their children), but now there’s another: taking it might induce other dads to follow suit.	World Breastfeeding Week 2014: The History of Formula Use I am very much a breastfeeding advocate, but I hesitate to vilify formula. I myself have bottle-fed two of my three babies with some formula.
World Breastfeeding Week 2014: A Mom-Inspired Milk Bank A mother on a mission can do amazing things, especially when working with an equally passionate parent support advocate.	Normal, Human Infant Sleep: Feeding Method and Development Infant sleep problems represent some of the most common concerns reported by ... read more

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