Recently, we’ve had a couple of readers ask questions about babies and separation anxiety. In this post, we’ll share the basics about separation anxiety and next time, we’ll offer tips to help you deal with those inevitable separations, including traveling away from your baby.The BasicsBy the

You may have heard the recent uproar about Baby Einstein's parent company, Disney, offering refunds on many of their DVDs after research has emerged that "educational" videos for infants and toddlers do live up to their claims. This comes after a growing number of research studies have shown little

  Last time, we talked about howbabies watch their parents in order to learn more about the world around them. Babies use careful observation to learn as much as they can long before they are capable of asking questions or sitting in a schoolroom. Whenever babies are awake and alert, they are

  Over the next few months we will introduce several posts about communication. Today’s post will focus on communication between caregiver and baby while baby is still in the womb.    Babies can hear and respond to sound prenatally and can even develop a preference to a particular sound, voice, or

  As we’ve discussed infant sleep and parental fatigue, both in person at speaking engagements and with readers of this blog,  we’ve gotten a lot of questions about the use of noise machines to help babies sleep better.  While we understand the concept (white noise is repetitive stimulation, which