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Toddler-Approved Veggies: Grated Carrot Salad
As promised, I’m sharing a few of BabyC’s current favorite veggie recipes this week. We talked kale chips on Monday, and today we’re on to carrots. Karen Le Billon, author of French Kids Eat...
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Toddler-Approved Veggies: Roasted Beet and Broccoli Slaw
We’ll complete BabyC’s series of veggie recipes (see kale and carrots for more) this week with my favorite – a roasted beet and broccoli slaw. This recipe comes from Alton Brown’s I’m Just Here for the...
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Will Fluoridated Water Lower My Child’s IQ?
A couple of weeks ago, my husband sent me a link to a Reuters press release with the following title: Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ – Published in Federal Gov’t Journal Husband and I have been...
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Are You Ready to Potty?
“Boop? Boop?” “Yup, BabyC. Mama’s pooping.” BabyC watched me on the potty. Then she pointed to her diaper. She wanted to go, too. I helped her wiggle out of her shorts and unsnap her cloth diaper. She...
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A New Baby
No, not mine. But I got your attention, didn’t I? Our closest friends have a newborn, and his arrival has changed all of us. We don’t have any local blood relatives – all of BabyC’s grandparents and...
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The Last Word on Sleep Training?
In a study published in the journal Pediatrics this week [1], an Australian research group found no evidence of harm in kids that were sleep-trained, 5 years after the fact. This is the longest...
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Transition Time
Oh my goodness, things have gotten hectic. I know I have neglected the blog, but I’m gearing up for teaching next week and I’m suddenly juggling more a few more responsibilities than I’m used to. Once...
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Guest Post: The Twinkle Light Model of Autism and the Brain
By Nathalia Holt Little wisps of blonde hair peek through before Eleanor’s head pops up from behind the chair. She gives me a big smile, a wave, and then runs off, yelling ‘bye-bye’ at the top of her...
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Dear Cee: About those tantrums and tears
Dear Cee, We have had a lot of change in our lives lately. You have started day care, and I have started going to this strange place we call “work.” (I always wonder what you picture when I say …...
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Why Consider Delayed Cord Clamping?
I first heard about delayed cord clamping as a doctoral student in Nutrition at UC Davis. One of my professors, along with her graduate students, was conducting research on delayed cord clamping in...
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Potty Progress Report
Cee has been experimenting with using the potty for months now. 6 months, actually. I wrote about it here, where I expressed some ambivalence about the process and pledged that I would be an...
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Reclaiming Happy Hour, Toddler and All
When Cee was an infant, I remember lamenting to a friend about how difficult the evening hours could be. Cee was often fussy. Husband was usually returning home from work hoping for some quality time...
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Almost Two, Strong-willed, and Sweet Through and Through
If you’ve followed my spotty blog posts this fall, you may have gotten the feeling that parenting has been a struggle for me lately. You would be right. We had a super-smooth transition to part-time...
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Beyond Baby Talk: A giveaway and a call for your questions!
You can’t be a parent and not be fascinated with development. A child’s growth – from newborn to toddler and into childhood – it’s such an incredible transformation. It’s quite a privilege to witness...
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Your Baby Talk Questions… Answered
We had just an incredible number of interesting questions about language development submitted on the Beyond Baby Talk post. I love how our kids make us so curious, how they compel us to think about...
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Dear Cee: Celebrating the Two-Year-Old You
A much belated letter to Cee, in honor of her 2nd birthday. I swear I started this just a day or two after her birthday, but that was several weeks back. I’m just beginning to catch up on things as I’m...
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I’m Writing a Book!
I have always wanted to be a writer, long before I thought about going into science. I have a stack of journals going back to when I was nine-years-old, wire-bound notebooks with frayed covers. They...
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Weaning My Toddler
So, I have some more big news to catch you up on. I weaned Cee a few weeks ago, soon after her second birthday. I took a few notes along the way, but I never pulled it together to post on the blog...
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Does My Child Drink Too Much Milk?
A couple of nights ago, I had the pleasure of going out for drinks with a couple of other moms, sans kids. Predictably, we ended up talking about our kids, among other things. One of my friends...
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Pregnancy Lost
It has been a hard couple of weeks for me, even with all the warmth and joy of the holidays. On December 21, 10 weeks into pregnancy (as yet unannounced here), we watched as my OB scanned my uterus. We...
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