All babies need to suck and yours may need more than breastfeeding or bottle-feeding allow. Some babies suck on their thumbs and fingers even before they are born. They seem to have a natural knack for comforting themselves in this way. If your baby hasn’t found his own thumbs, and you don’t want to introduce […]
Most conscientious parents would shy away from using sugar to help their child swallow medicine, even to disguise the bitter taste. Some even check the medicine itself to ensure there is no added sugar. But recent research suggests that cough medicine itself could be causing tooth decay in our little ones.
A report in the February […]
Calcium is essential for bone health throughout our lives. Consumed calcium is stored in our stomachs by the action of stomach acid. From there it converts it into a form that the small intestine can easily absorb for the use of our bodies. The amount of calcium that the body needs all depends on our […]