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Newborn Nail Care: How and When to Trim Your Baby's Nails Safely
It is somewhat unexpected that fingernails become a source of significant parental anxiety in the first days and weeks of a baby's life. They are smal...
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Baby Bath Temperature: How Warm, How Often, and How to Make Bathing Safe
Bathing a newborn can feel nerve-racking at first -- the baby is slippery, they often cry, and there are a lot of things to keep track of simultaneous...
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How to Care for a Baby's First Teeth
The first tooth deserves more attention than it usually gets. Dental caries (tooth decay) is the single most common chronic health condition in childh...
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How Often to Change a Newborn's Nappy and What Normal Looks Like
The volume of nappy changes involved in the first months of a baby's life surprises most new parents. This is not just a practical matter of supply pl...
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How to Choose Clothes for a Newborn: What You Actually Need
The temptation to overbuy for a new baby is nearly universal, and clothing is the category where most of it ends up going to waste. Newborns need rema...
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Caring for Skin Folds in Newborns and Infants: Preventing and Treating Irritation
Babies have a particular topography that creates skin care challenges: all those gloriously rounded rolls and creases are also environments where mois...
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Thumb Sucking in Babies and Children: When It Matters
Thumb sucking is one of the oldest and most instinctive of infant self-soothing behaviours. Some babies begin in utero. Most parents of thumb-sucking...
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Swaddling a Newborn: Benefits, Technique, and When to Stop
Swaddling has been used for centuries across many cultures as a way of calming and settling newborns, and it remains popular today. Done correctly, it...
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Swaddling a Newborn: Benefits, Risks, and How to Do It Safely
Swaddling — wrapping a newborn snugly in a cloth — is one of the oldest infant care practices across nearly every culture, and it remains a standard r...
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Potty Training: When to Start and How to Make It Work
Potty training is one of the parenting milestones that generates the most anxiety about timing and method — and one where the pressure to achieve it "...
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Oral Health in Babies and Toddlers: Teeth, Brushing, and the First Dental Visit
Tooth decay is the most common reason children aged five to nine are admitted to hospital in England. Many of those admissions involve extractions und...
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How to Care for a Newborn's Umbilical Cord
The umbilical cord stump is one of those aspects of newborn care that looks more complicated than it is. For most families, a handful of simple habits...
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Newborn Skin: What Is Normal and How to Care for It
The skin of a newborn is one of the most commented-on things in those first days and weeks — often by concerned parents who have noticed something tha...
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Newborn Skin Care: What to Use, What to Avoid, and Common Skin Conditions
The infant skincare market is extensive, and the marketing directed at new parents can make simple newborn skin care feel more complex and product-dep...
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Newborn Care in the First Weeks: A Practical Day-by-Day Guide
Bringing a newborn home is one of the most significant transitions a family goes through, and the practical day-to-day tasks of care — feeding, bathin...
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Nappy Rash: Causes, Treatment, and When to Get Help
Nappy rash is probably the most common skin problem in infancy. Most babies will experience it at least once, many will have it several times, and a s...
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Kangaroo Care for Premature and Sick Newborns
A premature or sick baby in a neonatal unit, surrounded by monitoring equipment and lines, can seem untouchable. The impulse parents feel to hold and...
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Infant Massage: Benefits, Technique, and When to Start
Infant massage has been practised in many cultures for centuries and has become more formally popular in the UK through structured programmes and heal...
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First Shoes for Babies and Toddlers: When and What to Buy
Parents are often surprised to learn that the best thing for a new walker's foot development is no shoes at all. Bare feet, or soft socks, allow the m...
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Dummy Use in Babies: Benefits, Risks, and When to Stop
The dummy (pacifier or soother) is one of the most common and most debated items in infant care, generating strong opinions on both sides. The evidenc...
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