Let’s Talk Babies

I hope everyone enjoys a wonderful Thanksgiving with their family. You can’t beat a day of wonderful food and wonderful company.
We are having a nice, quiet Thanksgiving. We’ll start the day by watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, probably head to the zoo (a little tradition of ours), and then have a very [Read the rest]

Before babies learn to use language to tell us what they want or what is wrong it can be very difficult to understand your little one. When babies are very little they will use variations of crying to get their message across. After a few weeks with you’re little one and you’ll figure [Read the rest]

It is something all pregnant moms wait to hear, that first sound of life, the confirmation that there really is a little person growing inside of them; the heartbeat. The heart begins to develop very early in pregnancy and by the 5th week of gestation will begin to beat. Since it is so [Read the rest]

If you haven’t done so already this is a great time to begin teaching your children about money. With the economy on questionable ground we are all saving more, spending less, spending more consciously and revisiting our budgets. Children have a hard time grasping the concept of money and the value of things [Read the rest]

Extended breastfeeding is breastfeeding beyond the first year. It is a very common practice in other countries but is still a little taboo here in the United States (and much of the western world for that matter). There is a lot of pressure on women to wean their babies by their first birthday. [Read the rest]