Babble

"Babies sleep safest alone." If you're in New York state, you've probably seen or heard the TV or radio ads put out by the Office of Children and Family Services declaring this. If you're elsewhere, chances aren't bad that your county has launched a similar effort, trying to...

When my toddler was a baby, I lived in fear of sudden infant death syndrome. The thought that a child, my child, could just die from no apparent malady, affliction or action and there was a chance, albeit slim, that she'd just suddenly stop breathing, totally freaked me out. I like it when there...

Matt Bryant lost his three-month-old son just days ago. The kicker for the Tampa Baby Buccaneers is suited, and presumably playing, in the game today. That can't be easy, and as the network commentators have mentioned it really puts things in perspective. I'm sure Bryant needed to do this. Coping...

Buccaneers kicker Matt Bryant and his wife Melissa have sadly, lost their three-month-old son, Matthew Tryson. It was announced by Bucs coach, Jon Gruden, that the couple's infant son had died. "We had a terrible tragedy this morning. We lost a key member of our family." "My understanding...

Sometimes it seems like we parents can't do anything right. First the "Back to Sleep" campaign urged us to make sure our babies sleep on their backs to avoid the risks of SIDS. So we dutifully followed those instructions and methodically laid down our little ones facing upwards instead...

Every parent with an infant has experienced this, I think — awakening one morning with a strange feeling, and then suddenly realizing that strange feeling is that of being well rested. Because the baby did not wake you up during the night (and for us nursing moms, that realization is helped along by...

I've often complained about how pregnant women are given all kinds of conflicting information and told not to do all kinds of things, even when the evidence against such things is dubious. There seems to be an all-or-nothing approach to pregnancy dangers, which makes it hard for pregnant women to...

Yipes, as if people challenged by various manifestations of mental illness didn't have enough to worry about and enough opportunities to be victims of the stigma attached to it, but now there's yet another thing to worry about: a new study reports that "in families with a parental history...

Is there anything cigarettes can’t do? Cancer. Emphysema. Low birth weight babies. Brown teeth. Such multi-taskers, these tobacco-packed sticks of heaven/hell. Score another point for the downside of tobacco . A new study has determined that smoking during pregnancy causes 90 percent of the SIDS cases...