It may feel a little silly to be reading to your 2 month old.  But researchers have shown that book-sharing helps babies gain language.  Researchers found that when parents share books with their babies they simplify the text and use less complex language.  Most importantly, parents reading to infants had that very important "serve and return" (or back and forth) interaction going.  Both the talk and the "connection" gained with sharing a book help build connections between brain cells!  Your baby will be learning language long before he can talk to you.

It's important to understand your baby's emotions and how to help him manage them. Emotions and stress go together! When we feel fearful or anxious our bodies make a chemical called Cortisol, or the stress hormone.  Cortisol works quickly to give us extra energy and make us more alert. If Cortisol is activated a lot it wears the body down and can cause us to get over weight, not sleep well and get diseases like high blood pressure, heart disease and even contribute to arthritis and diabetes.  Read more

Written by Kathy Ellerbeck, MD, FAAP

When one of my friends told me "she slept like a baby" I asked what was wrong with her!   When my babies were babies - they didn't sleep much! We have funny family stories now - but back then getting our two girls to sleep was exhausting!