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

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?

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

About Pregnancy:

• How Fit Is Your Fetus? Exercise During Pregnancy and Fetal Heart Rate

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
• 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:

• 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 and Mamamia
• Iron and Your Baby – on Sixty Second Parent
• Delayed Cord Clamping: Resources for an Informed Decision – on The Feminist Breeder
• How Becoming a Mother Has Changed the Way I Eat – on Fooducate

Thanks for reading!