Real experiences by a Mom

Don’t disturb the sleeping toddlers!

Toddlers and babies wake up at night, often at regular intervals, and their moms use various routine to get them back to sleep. One such routine is to breastfeed them until they fall asleep. This is a good method to use if the baby is really awake. However, it has been found that mothers often […]

The bottle-raised toddler!

Mrs. and Mr. Roberts were determined to breastfeed their first baby as long as possible from the outset. They had read up on everything there was to know about proper child rearing. They learned that breastfeeding is the best nourishment for babies, and wanted to follow it to the letter.
However, once the baby – a […]

Working Mothers and Breastfeeding Toddlers

Working mothers may find it difficult to breastfeed their kids during working hours, but there are ways to overcome this problem and make sure that the kids are properly fed in the absence of their mothers and ensure their health. The mothers can adopt some strategies that suit them, their careers and above all their […]

Toddlers and Breastfeeding Mothers

Many breastfeeding mothers, at one time or other, experience deficiency in milk production. This puts their kids in quandary forcing them to depend on other sources of nourishment instead of breast milk. But nothing can substitute breast milk, and the health of the kids suffers as a result.

Mothers experience deficiency of milk at different stages […]

Overfeeding Problems and Toddlers

Parents often stuff their kids with too much food, including breast milk, which will lead to over loading of the stomach resulting in indigestion and other stomach disorders. The problems include stomach pain, gripping and flatulence. All these problems will wreck the kid’s health and s/he will gradually become a perpetual health case. Only […]

Milk as a Dietary Supplement for Toddlers

Mother’s milk is always the best for kids up to age 6 months, but if they need to be given any other milk such as cow’s milk we have to make sure that this milk closely resembles mother’s milk. This is possible by mixing two thirds fresh cow milk with one third boiling water sweetened […]

Toddler Breast Feeding Ideas

Mothers need to breast feed their babies as per a well formulated plan for the health of the child as well as the mother. Only a healthy mother could sufficiently breast feed her baby with wholesome milk, and therefore maintaining the mother in excellent health is very important. She needs to have a balanced diet, […]

Toddlers and Teething Difficulty

Normal toddlers have a total of 20 milk-teeth, which starts to appear when they are about age 6 or 7 months and the last ones come out at about age 20 to 30 months. The teeth generally appear in pairs with the tooth at the lower jaw appearing first. These first set of teeth lasts […]

Toddler Breastfeeding Plans

Breastfeeding mothers need to follow a specific plan of nursing their babies from the first day of childbirth. Breast milk may not be sufficient for the infant during the first two or three days of birth because normally it takes that much time for sufficient production of milk, especially in first time mothers. Hence, the […]

Some More Facts on Breastfeeding

Many mothers are often faced with the problem of breastfeeding babies with cleft lip or palate. These babies are unable to latch on to the breast properly and subsequently have to be bottle-fed. But researches have shown that a cleft lipped baby can be breastfed if it is held to the breast properly […]