Babble

My son is destined to become obese, anxious, wracked with low self-esteem and beset with emotional problems. At least this article in Time -- entitled " How Not to Get Baby to Sleep " -- certainly makes it seem that way. The story, based on recent research on sleep patterns in infants and children...

Finding a baby who sleeps through the night is a lot like looking for the Holy Grail: no one expects you to really find it, and along the way you'll probably be beseiged by killer rabbits . And although I've swung wide swaths of the spectrum between attachment parenting and out-and-out Ferberizing...

Somehow, every conversation about babies winds up being about sleep. This is an observation and not a judgment. When babies are wee, you can get a little obsessive about the things you don't have, like sleep and sex and clean laundry. Usually, the conversation is about how to make the baby sleep...

I think I'm in love. Combine sleep and weight loss in one package? This is totally something I can get behind. And you can too, that is, if you've been lamenting the difficulty in losing the baby weight. It turns out that new mothers who sleep less tend to hang onto more of their baby weight...

When my daughter was an infant, my mom got this tape of that great ukelele guy who sings "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," whats-his-name--Iz. Anyhow, whenever she wanted my child to sleep on car rides or at sleepovers, she'd pop in that tape and I'm telling you, it worked like a tranquilizer...

When I first saw the Zewi Fix Decke, I had to do a double take. What the...?!? Is it a sheet? Is it a sleeper? Is it a blanket? Why yes, actually - it's all three, and it's seriously freaking me out. Basically, the Zewi Fix Decke (made in Switzerland) is a fitted sheet with a vest attached. There's a...

I knew it was only a matter of time before someone would find out what we parents already know to be true: that the sleep difficulties of our kids cause health problems in ourselves. I'm just wondering why it took the experts so long to figure this out, because as a parent, it's clear. 10,000 Australian...

When Emmeline was about five months old, I performed the usual bedtime routine -- bath, massage, bottle, book -- then hoisted in her in her crib, turned off the light and let her fend for herself. Dana had to work through the night and into the early morning, and so I was the only one around the hear...

The first night we brought Archer home from the hospital, my husband asked if we could please put him on EBay. Archer had been crying for five hours straight and we were both at wits end. "I just can't live like this," he said. "I think we should put him up for adoption." I would like to say that he...