Newborns and Infants
Welcome to Planet Parenthood, where the sleep is scarce but the love will blow you away. How does it feel to be party to a miracle? Bringing a baby into the world is a sacred act. No less sacred is the work ahead, where you and your baby, together, 
create an intimate relationship that will become the foundation of his emotional health for the rest of his life.
Parenting Your Newborn
How amazing! You Have a New Baby! Now What? In this section, you'll find your new baby's developmental tasks, your priorities, and a simple Parents' Gameplan for stress-free coping, all set up to make your life easier when you've only had an hour of sleep and you've got two minutes to read. (Read article.)
Colic? How to Calm Your Crying Baby
All babies cry, and some cry a lot. Secrets from experienced parents, to prevent as well as soothe crying. And reassurance that this too shall pass, and someday soon you will have a perfectly cheerful, happy baby! (Read article.)
Breast or Bottle?
No mincing words here: Breastfeeding is better if you can do it. The research on why. (Read article.)
Breastfeeding Tips
Nursing 101: A step by step primer to get you started. (Read article.)
Best Breastfeeding Books: Since it takes a village. (Read article.)
Use Your Hormones to Become a Better Mother -- and a Happier Person!
Women’s oxytocin levels after the birth of their baby -- and even during pregnancy -- predict their bonding behavior with their baby. Quite simply, the more oxytocin you produce, the more loving and attentive you are to your baby. So if you don't have high oxytocin levels, are you just fated to be a lousy mother, and your kids are out of luck? Or are there ways for us to increase our oxytocin levels? (Read article.)
Helping Your Baby Get To Sleep So You Can Too
Because when it's 3 a.m. and your baby's crying, what else really matters? (Read article.)
Ferber Sleep Training for Your Baby?
To Ferber or not to Ferber, that is the question. A unabashedly biased view for sleep-deprived parents. (Read article.)
Attachment Parenting Your Baby
Attachment parenting is a style of parenting based on responding to a baby’s needs, which in infancy include keeping the baby in close proximity to the parent. Includes a Q and A and suggestions on getting started. (Read article.)
What's Wrong with Pacifiers?
Every baby is different and some simply have very strong comfort sucking needs. Most of the time, those needs are met by breastfeeding, but there are plenty of breast-fed babies who still need to suck their thumbs. (Read article.)
Cherishing Your Baby
Babies are born ready to engage with their environment. We recognize the voices we have heard in utero for so long, picking them out of the chaos of sound that greets us. Within a day, we recognize their smell...We begin, immediately, to orient ourselves to our special humans, we greet them with adoration, and with the expectation that we ourselves will be cherished. Humans are born ready to love, and to be loved.....(Read article.)
Recommended Books: Infants and Babies
Feeling a little anxious? We've been there. Some fantastic books to help you in developing your own parenting style. (Read article.)
Q & A: Letters and Answers about Infants
Have a question about parenting your infant? Questions from readers, with wise and practical solutions from Dr. Laura Markham to all those questions that keep you up at night. (Read article)
