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Welcome to Science of Mom! If you are new here, let me introduce you to some of my favorite posts:
About Infant/Toddler Nutrition:
- 10 Tips for Starting Your Baby on Solid Food
- Starting Solids: 4 Months, 6 Months, or Somewhere In Between?
- 4 Signs Your Baby Is Ready for Solid Foods
- The Whole Truth About Infant Cereals: 7 Science-Based Tips
- Amylase in Infancy: Can Babies Digest Starch?
- 5 Practical Ways to Increase Iron in Your Baby’s Diet
- What To Do About Babies and Peanuts: New Study Finds Early Exposure Can Prevent Allergy
- New Research of Gluten Introduction to Infants and Risk of Celiac Disease
- Breastfeeding, Gluten Introduction, and Risk of Celiac Disease
- Does My Baby Get Enough Iron?
- Interpreting Infant Growth Charts
- Fruits vs. Veggies: Are They “Nutritionally Equivalent?”
- How Can I Encourage My Baby or Toddler to Eat More Vegetables?
- BabyC’s 12 Steps to Healthy Toddler Eating
- How Often Should a Baby Poop? And Other Important Questions
About Breastfeeding:
- Caffeine and 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?
- Breastfeeding a Toddler? Should You Be Concerned about Iron Deficiency?
- Can Breast Milk Cure My Child’s Eye Infection?
- Tummy Troubles, Colic, and Mama’s Diet
- Breastfeeding, Gluten Introduction, and Risk of Celiac Disease
- Weaning My Toddler
About dental health:
- Will Fluoridated Water Lower My Child’s IQ?
- Are Cavities Contagious from Mama to Baby?
- What the Heck is Xylitol, and Will it Save my Baby’s Teeth?
About Sleep:
- Should Your Baby Sleep in Your Room? For How Long? Balancing Sleep, Safety, and Sanity
- 6 Tips for Sweet Newborn 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
- SIDS and Bedsharing: A Pediatrician’s Perspective
- Sleep Deprivation: The Dark Side of Parenting
- Bed-Sharing with Young Infants: Is It Safe After All?
- Getting Our 3-Year-Old Back to Sleep: In 9 (Not Easy) Steps
- Nap Strikes Are a Real Thing, Plus 4 Tips for Survival (with VIDEO)
- Should Your Baby Sleep in Your Room? For How Long? Balancing Sleep, Safety, and Sanity
- Learning to Crawl Disrupts Infant Sleep (Or, Science Confirms What We’ve Already Observed)
About Pregnancy:
- Resources for an Evidence-Based Pregnancy
- Are the Ingredients in the Newborn Vitamin K Shot Safe?
- Pertussis Vaccination in Every Pregnancy: Is it Safe and Effective?
- Caffeine Safety in Pregnancy
- How Fit Is Your Fetus? Exercise During Pregnancy and Fetal Heart Rate
- Why Consider Delayed Cord Clamping?
- Can Fetal Movements Predict a Baby’s Sex or Temperament?
About Miscarriage/Infertility:
About Vaccines:
- 5 Evidence-Based Tips for Your Baby’s First Shots
- Measles Is Serious (A History Lesson from My Grandmother)
- Pertussis Vaccination in Every Pregnancy: Is it Safe and Effective?
About Parenting:
- The Magic and the Mystery of Skin-to-Skin
- Potty Training: 7 Lessons Learned
- My Favorite Parenting Strategy (It’s simple, but hard!)
- Mixed-Age Preschool: Benefits and Challenges
- 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
About My Adventures as a Mom:
- A Letter to My 3-Month-Old: On the First Season of Your Life
- A Bedtime Conversation with My Daughter
- 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!}
- Grief and Motherhood
Published elsewhere around the Internet:
- In a world of overwhelming internet advice, here are 8 things parents should know at The Washington Post (10/26/15)
- My interview with Polly Palumbo of Momma Data (10/15/15)
- My Q and A at Brain, Child Magazine (9/6/15)
- Interview on Science & Sensibility with Anne M. Estes, PhD (10/6/15)
- My articles at The Urban Child Institute
- 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
Thanks for reading!
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I enjoyed reading your post about sleep.
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Thanks!
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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.
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Hi! Thanks for stopping by. Your blog looks really interesting, too. I’m looking forward to following you:)
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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
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Hi Jennifer – Thanks for letting me know about the broken link! Glad you’re enjoying the blog, and thank you for reading and commenting!
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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.
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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:)
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As a fellow scientist, I just have to thank you for your science writing style. Wonderful.
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May you give some answers related to baby poo? My baby poo dark green all the time is that something wrong with the milk?
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I’m glad I found this blog. I certainly will use it as much as I need it. As a nanny, science of mom will be a great tool for me and my working family.
Thanks.
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There is so much in this list I’d like to read about! I’m pinning it to my start screen for later use.
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I love your blog and have enjoyed reading various posts. (I also gave a PhD:)).
One thing I was wondering about is if you had researched the benefits of giving formula rather than cow’s milk to toddlers? I live in France where pediatricians strongly recommend formula (“growing up formula”, I guess) for children aged 1 to 3. I breastfeed my 16 month old (in itself exceedingly rare here) but wanted to give her cow’s milk one day and my doctor father-in-law freaked out. Supposedly cow’s milk is “not adapted” to toddlers. Yogurt and cheese, on the other hand, are given to babies (over the age of 6 months) and toddlers frequently here. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks again for your fantastic blog!
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Hello, I was wondering how much alcohol is passed through breast milk to baby after a couple glasses of wine?
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