Conflicting advice is the bane of the literate parent in America these days, but most of the questions that get answered so many different ways have actually been rigorously tested. If you're looking for solid evidence with which to make parenting decisions, you've found it.
Topics will include conception, pregnancy, birth, feeding, sleeping, care and development. Please post requests when there is a question you want me to research. Every post will cite at least one source of information so you can look deeper and learn more.
We parents today are the first generation to have facts at our fingertips instead of having to depend on cultural folklore, as Meridith Small describes beautifully in the ethnopediatric review of Our Babies, Ourselves. We can decide what's best for our children based not on what our parents did or what others tell us. We can make our own decisions using facts others have worked hard to discover.
Let's do. We want our kids to do our grandkids the same favor, right?
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