All babies cry. But there are lots you can do to help them be calm and happy. We begin with some of the basics…step by step. For starters, newborns miss the comforting rhythms they enjoy in the womb. I believe the key to understanding babies is to recognize that they come into the...
Newborn babies don’t do much else besides eat, poop, cry, sleep, spit up, and hiccup. Though most of these actions make perfect sense, hiccups seem like a useless muscle reflex that’s just got to be unpleasant for the child. Well, it turns out hiccups are neither meaningless contracti...
Microbiomes are acquired when babies leave the womb (which is sterile) and enter the birth canal (which isn’t). This is the moment when people inherit a set of bacteria that will later determine whether they are more likely to be thin or obese. So what do we do? We fight back with...