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7 Mistakes Parents Make When Kids Wet The Bed

If youre one of the millions of parents with a bedwetting child, you know.You know how awful it makes you feel when you see your child frustrated at another middle-of-the-night accident. You know how ashamed they are when younger siblings make jokes about still wearing diapers. You know how terrible they feel when they have to turn down another sleepover invitation because they are worried their friend will find out.What you might …

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Weaning Your Baby: Debunking Common Myths

So, you feel it is time to wean your baby and you are wondering how to approach it. Ask yourself these questions before you make your final decision. Is it intuitively correct to stop nursing, or are others influencing me? Since breastfeed babies eat more often than formula feed babies, nursing women are falsely told that their babies are hungry – lacking the nutrition of formula.

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Common Baby Allergies

Hundreds of things you come into contact with every day may trigger allergies — tree pollen, dust, mold, insect droppings and even the contents of your refrigerator. Allergies can develop at any stage of life, but food allergies are more common in infants and children than they are in adults, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

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4 Facebook Mistakes New Parents Make

After you become a parent, it seems your Facebook personality can grow a new life as well. All of a sudden, youre faced with an unbeatable way to share pictures of your little one, join the cause of boycotting those unsafe sippy cups, and check out who else is up at the ungodly hours youre now intimately familiar with. And thats all fine and good. But certain common behaviors among new parents can spell trouble. Are you guilty of any?1. Paging Dr.

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Mistaken Facts of Pregnancy

Part of the experience of being pregnant is being inundated with advice from family, friends and even strangers. While all of these people mean well, some of this advice may be myths and can cause unnecessary fear. Many of these myths sound reasonable, while others are completely unbelievable. If you are in doubt about whether a piece of advice is a myth, check with your doctor.