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To pinpoint what makes your family unique, brainstorm your identity–for each member of the household–by answering these questions.* Click here for a printable version. 1. What do you like most about each family member? 2. What are your goals–in life and for your children? 3. What makes you happy? 4. What are your favorite memories [...]

0–24 months. Adopt these parent behaviors recently found to help babies sleep. By Nancy Gottesman In May 2011, something curious happened on amazon.com’s bestseller list. A little humor book reached #1 months before its scheduled release date—thanks to a wholly unintended viral campaign by parents of young children. The title? Go the [Bleep] to Sleep, [...]

New parents often marvel at how much their newborn babies sleep (as many as 16 to 18 hours a day!). Perhaps even more astonishing: A new study shows our sleeping beauties may be learning as they snooze. Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center monitored the eye movements and brain waves of 1- and 2-day-old slumbering [...]

Protect your baby by heeding the latest guidelines for safe slumber. By Stacy Whitman It’s hard to believe, but a baby spends more time asleep than awake during his first year of life. And you’d think there would be no safer place for him than a crib or bed. Yet each year, thou­sands of American [...]

0–24 MONTHS Since the “Back to Sleep” campaign began in 1994, rates of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) have dropped significantly. But the fact that SIDS remains the leading cause of death among babies 1 to 12 months of age can keep plenty of new parents up at night—and prompt them to seek out anything [...]

The rates of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) have dropped significantly since the “Back to Sleep” campaign launched in 1994, yet it continues to be a terrifying reality—and the leading cause of death—for newborns. There’s still no known cause or surefire way to prevent it, but parents can sleep easier by following the latest risk-reduction [...]

It’s one of the most common questions new parents get: “Is your baby sleeping through the night yet?” But the process of making that happen can only add to your exhaustion. “With every sleep expert offering slightly different advice on the ideal timing and method for sleep training, it can be tough to know how [...]