Being able to fall asleep minutes after hitting the bed is something many can do, but there are others who toss and turn all night trying to achieve a good night of sleep. Having a hard time falling asleep can lead to an exhausting day and another sleepless night. Using a sleep aid to fall asleep at night is something many have to do, and sleep aids can be either natural or prescription.

The most common ingredients in natural sleep aids include Valerian and Lemon Balm, two plant derived ingre
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Baby swaddling is a technique that involves safely wrapping your baby in a blanket from the shoulders to the feet. It helps to promote sleep patterns and can help to comfort your baby. The practice of baby swaddling has been used for centuries and is common in many different cultures throughout the World from America to Europe and the Middle East.

Things go in and out of fashion and swaddling is definitely one of them. For millennia babies were swaddled but a couple of hundred years ago the i
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SIDS or sudden infant death syndrome is the number one cause of death among children from a month old up to one year. The syndrome causes more deaths between the ages of two and four months than any other time during their first year of life. The mysterious syndrome kills at least up to 2,500 children a year and even though the number of children who have died from SIDS has declined over the past 4 decades, it is still very much the concern of many parents and pediatricians.

The child was on
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Dehydration occurs when you lose more fluid than you take in and your body doesn't have enough water and other fluids to carry out its normal functions. If lost fluid remains unreplenished, you may suffer serious consequences.Common causes of dehydration include intense bouts of diarrhea, vomiting, fever or excessive sweating. Inadequate intake of water during hot weather or exercise also may deplete your body's water stores. Anyone may become dehydrated, but young children, older adults and peo
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Baby led weaning (sometimes referred to as infant-led weaning) is becoming a popular approach to weaning babies on to solid food.In basic terms, it means forgetting about pureed food and letting your baby feed herself (appropriate) whole foods. It is arguably the natural way to introduce solids. Although it still remains a recommendation of many childcare professionals and institutions, there is actually no research to support the widespread notion that babies should be weaned first on to solids
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