Welcome to Science of Mom! If you are new here, let me introduce you to some of my favorite posts:
About Infant/Toddler Nutrition:
(This is one of my areas of focus because (A) I have a baby, and (B) I have a PhD in Nutrition and obsess about it, probably a little too much. I hope you can benefit from my obsession.)
- Does My Baby Get Enough Iron?
- 5 Practical Ways to Increase Iron in Your Baby’s Diet
- 10 Tips for Starting Your Baby on Solid Food
- Interpreting Infant Growth Charts
- Fruits vs. Veggies: Are They “Nutritionally Equivalent?”
- How Can I Encourage My Baby or Toddler to Eat More Vegetables?
- Shareworthy Recipe: BabyC’s Baked Oatmeal Muffins
- Will Fluoridated Water Lower My Child’s IQ?
- What the Heck is Xylitol, and Will it Save my Baby’s Teeth?
- BabyC’s 12 Steps to Healthy Toddler Eating
- Are Cavities Contagious from Mama to Baby?
About Breastfeeding:
- Why Is Breast Milk So Low in Iron?
- Breastfeeding Beyond a Year: Why Stop Now?
- Breastfeeding Beyond A Year: Why Is the AAFP Stretching the Truth About the Benefits?
- Can Breast Milk Cure My Child’s Eye Infection?
- Tummy Troubles, Colic, and Mama’s Diet
About Sleep:
- The Cry-It-Out Controversy and My Family’s Sleep Story
- Why Sleep Matters to Babies and Parents
- The Importance of Self-Soothing to Infant Sleep (and how to support it!)
- Sleep Solutions for Every Baby
- Infant Sleep Research: Cosleeping, Self-Soothing, and Sleep Training
- Helping Babies Cope with Stress and Learn to Sleep
- 6 Little Secrets of a Sleeping Baby
- The Last Word on Sleep Training?
- Using Benedryl for Travel with a Toddler: A Cautionary Tale and a Little Science
About Pregnancy:
- How Fit Is Your Fetus? Exercise During Pregnancy and Fetal Heart Rate
- Why Consider Delayed Cord Clamping?
About Parenting:
- Toddlers and the Power of Choice
- 20 Tips for Smoother Travel with a Baby or a Toddler – Fresh from a Travel-Weary Mama
- Toddler Travel: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned
- TV, Tots, and Tired Parents: The Backlash to the AAP’s TV Policy
- Babies and TV: New Media Use Guidelines from the AAP
- A Dozen Things Reference Books Won’t Teach You About Raising a Baby (Brilliant guest post by Kristine Wise)
About My Adventures as a Mom:
- Dear Cee: About Those Tantrums and Tears
- A New Baby
- Are You Ready to Potty?
- A Gift from my Father, Twenty Years Gone
- BabyC Explores Gravity, and Mama Learns to Step Back
- I’m Taking Gentle Back
- Can a Stay-at-Home Mom Raise a Feminist Daughter?
- 10 Things I Don’t Want to Forget About My First Year of Motherhood
- Living in the Moment with a Baby and a Dog
- Exploring and Enjoying Food with Baby
- My Child is a Scientist {I bet yours is, too!}
- Stay-at-Home Mom Angst
- Grief and Motherhood
Published elsewhere around the Internet:
- On Parenting, Science and Trust – and Choosing to Vaccinate – Published on The Mother Geek (now sadly defunct), Mamamia, and Double X Science
- Forget Perfection, Embrace Goodness – on First Day Walking
- How Becoming a Mother Has Changed the Way I Eat – on Fooducate
Thanks for reading!
I enjoyed reading your post about sleep.
Thanks!
I liked your post on sleep too. I have just written one about sleep training myself and Dr. Craig Canapari referred me to your post. I think there are some similarities between our blogs.
Hi! Thanks for stopping by. Your blog looks really interesting, too. I’m looking forward to following you:)
Thanks for looking at my blog too.
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Hi Alice,
Just a quick line to let you know that the link to “Iron and Your Baby – on Sixty Second Parent” does not work. I suspect that the site is down, as I could not access it through a Google search, either.
Thanks for the awesome posts. I was particularly moved by the 10 things you don’t want to forget, which inspired several of my own memories (as the end of my first year as a mom creeps up on me.)
Jenn
Hi Jennifer – Thanks for letting me know about the broken link! Glad you’re enjoying the blog, and thank you for reading and commenting!
I’m calling confirmation bias on this one; ignoring research (despite saying you weren’t selective) to make a retrospective justification for your choice. Also shows a misunderstanding (as does the follow up on self soothing) of infant sleep patterns.
If you want to use CIO that’s up to you, it’s your baby; just be honest about why and don’t damage your credibility with flawed analysis.
When I reread my posts on sleep training, I can see that I was a bit defensive, so some confirmation bias is entirely possible. But then again, I literally read hundreds of studies. I spent months trying to get a handle on what normal infant sleep means, what happened in the studies on sleep training, and what we know about stress in infants. I tried my best to present the research from a place of curiosity – not to prove a point so much as to understand the controversy and the evidence on both sides and to be better prepared for the next baby. While I completely understand the philosophical objections to sleep training, I wasn’t able to find much solid evidence supporting the claims that it is damaging, and I found some reasonable evidence of benefit, at least in some families. Is it a perfect solution? Absolutely not. Is it right for all babies and their families? Absolutely not. Is it a flawed analysis? Probably. Most of what I do is in some way, no way around it:)