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In the early day’s baby will sleep in short rounds randomly through out the day and night. As the months pass, baby’s longest period of sleep coincides more and more with the hours of night, and wakeful time becomes longer. However case may vary from child to child, so don’t worry if yours takes longer time to sleep through the …

As you enter pregnancy, you may realise that food can be a great source of joy or sorrow. You may crave for some foods, while some could put you off and in fact, have you rushing to the bathroom – to throw up. You will get an irresistible urge to eat something in particular. A lot of women prefer pickles …

The soppy details about their relationship that some couples post on Facebook may actually be strengthening their marital bond, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) found that people who post about their relationship on Facebook are more satisfied and secure in their marriages than those who do not. It may seem obvious …

Excerpts from “Home Cures and Popular Beliefs” from the book “Where There is No Doctor”, published as a health guide by The Voluntary Health Association of India. Please do note however, that home cures are effective only in mild diseases. Always treat a serious illness with modern medicine. Cough and Cold If a child has a cough and cold: Crush …

“Parents Know Best”. Or do they? This has been a dilemma for most children and now this question has become a hotly debated topic in psychology. It is true that as children we might not able to distinguish between what is wrong or right for us and it is here that our parents with all their experience and better ability …

Children need to be protected from over-exposure to television. Watching too much TV is detrimental not just to the physical health of your child but adversely affects his mental well-being too. Children who watch TV from a very young age and that too for long intervals at a stretch often suffer from weak eyesight and attention disorders. Spending a lot …

Breastfeeding improves brain development in infants, according to a new study. Breastfeeding alone produced better brain development than a combination of breastfeeding and formula, which produced better development than formula alone, the study found. Researchers from Brown University used specialized, baby-friendly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to look at the brain growth in a sample of children under the age of …

Breastfed kids are smarter, according to a Harvard University study that found the longer babies are nursed, the greater their intelligence. The research, which followed more than 1,000 women and their babies, found that each additional month a child was breastfed resulted in better language skills at 3 years old and intelligence at age 7, compared with babies not breastfed. …

I was planning to stop feeding when my son started cutting his teeth. Mainly because I used to have nightmares of running frantically to a doctor to stitch a bitten nipple back into place. Or even resigning myself to a nipple-less existence for the rest of my life. Until it happened. It was not as bad as I had imagined …

When food or any other foreign body goes into the lungs instead of the stomach, your child will try to eject it out with a lot of sputtering or coughing. It is nature way of removing alien bodies from the lungs and getting it back to the throat. As long as the child keeps coughing and is not turning blue …