Facts about infant crying – the “healthy reasons”
Infant crying can be frustrating and frighteningly for parents. When you are unable to calm your baby, you forget that all babies cries, crying is the way babies communicate. An average infant cries an average 2-3 hours per day. As we all...
Is It A Boy? Is It A Girl?
I Don't Know... Find Something Green!
Purchasing shower gifts without foreknowledge of the baby's gender:
There are some things we take for granted in today's world. Day in and day out we know the sun is going to rise in the morning and set at...
Mother in Good Humor
Children - the little buggers can drain your energy, break your valuables and absolutely send you to the moon sometimes. The range of trouble can go from babies with their high decibel crying to toddlers with their never-ending, cluttering curiosity...
Returning To Work After Baby
Some new mums have their career on their mind, other mums
don't have a choice and have to return to work and then of
course there are mums who can't even stand the thought of
heading back to the workforce. Here we'll provide you with
some...
The Sleepless Challenge
For me, it was "welcome to motherhood". Ready or not, I was in for a wonderful experience. But my first challenge was to overcome the first few months of literally no sleep. It was my first baby, and I felt the pressure of doing everything "just...
Intersting Baby Facts... Strange But True!
* A baby is born every seven seconds.
* Babies are born with very poor vision but can recognize their mothers almost right away.
* Babies are always born with blue eyes, within a few moments of delivery their eye color can change.
* Babies are born with swimming abilities and can naturally hold their breath. However, they shortly lose this instinct.
* Newborns usually double their weight by six months.
* Playing classical music will increase a baby’s intelligence.
* Reading to your child at ANY age will increase their knowledge.
* Babies and toddlers are, pound for pound, stronger than oxen. This is especially true of their legs.
* Babies are born without kneecaps.
The human body is a fascinating study to subject. You may be surprised by the following facts.
* Women blink twice as many times as men do.
* Eyes are the most active muscles in the whole body.
* There are about 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
* The
life span of a tastebud is 10 days.
* Humans have almost 10,000 taste buds.
* The colder the room you sleep in, the more likely that you will have a bad dream.
* The human body is better suited for two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
* The jawbone is the hardest bone in the human body.
* It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.... talk about a lot of celebrating.
* The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan”
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