Product Safety Alert

    Late last week, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Fisher-Price issued a warning about the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play sleeper due to reports of infants rolling over and dying in them: The CPSC is aware of 10 infant deaths in the Rock ‘n Play...

Setting The Clocks Forward

  Whether we set our clocks to “fall back” one hour each November or “spring ahead” an hour with Daylight Saving Time every March (this year, it’s this Sunday, March 10), our internal, circadian clocks must adjust. It doesn’t...

Good Night, Sleep Tight

  This is what a successful bedtime looks like to sleep expert Alexis Dubief: Your child falls asleep independently. Your child sleeps in a safe space.* Your child falls asleep in less than ~15 minutes.   Adds Dubief, they don’t have to power down...

*Flashback Friday*

*This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on December 14, 2012.   TVs In The Bedroom     Are you shocked? A television in the bedroom raises a child’s risk for obesity, a new study suggests.   Previous studies have looked at BMI — body mass...

*Flashback Friday*

*This post first appeared on The PediaBlog on November 30, 2015.   “Bare Is Best”   In a 2011 policy statement regarding “SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Deaths,” the American Academy of Pediatrics expanded their recommendations to make a baby’s...