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Risk analysis of trampolines

Recently, a story about a three-year old child breaking his femur at a trampoline park went viral on Facebook and popular media. But are...

A friend of mine recently asked for advice on introducing milk to her one year old. Specifically, she had heard that ultra-pasteurized...

An estimated 60 percent of women receive epidurals during labor (range 42-78% according to a 2008 CDC report) But you'd never know it if...

About a month ago, I was diagnosed with shingles (apparently not only for old people...who knew?) and put on a cornucopia of medications,...

Little Bear consistently sleeps through the night now. Around 10.5-11 months, she was waking up about 1-2 times per night still, but Nick...

Little Bear recently went through some additional sleep troubles (she is 9 months old now). After our first sleep training episode, she...

Baby-led weaning (aka skipping purees and just giving your child solid food) seems to be everywhere. Moms tout the ease of just feeding...

After extensive research, which I discussed in my first sleep training post, we decided to use a modified graduated extinction method...

This is probably the most controversial topic in parenting for young children. So I'm just going to be 100% honest about our background...

Not a lot of research for this one, just some personal experience. We went to Washington, D.C. when Little Bear was about 4 months old...