Causes of Milk Allergies in Infants

Children’s allergic reaction to milk is caused when certain proteins found in milk are rejected by the body’s immune system. If the immune system cannot recognize the milk proteins then they are treated as foreign objects and a hypersensitive reaction ensues. The immune system is supposed to identify milk proteins as harmless, but the false […]

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Expecting Twins or Parenting Twins? Don’t Let Older Siblings Lose Out!

Twins are a major attention magnet and that’s true even while you’re pregnant. But what happens to older siblings in the process? They can often lose out on time and attention and only gets worse after the twins are born. Take the attention a new baby usually gets and double it or treble it, especially

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Choosing Baby Names for Twins

Coming up with a name for one baby is hard enough. Coming up with names for twins, or multiples of three or more, creates a whole new level of difficulty, stress, and possibly anxiety. When you need to name twins, it involves more than simply coming up with a baby name, times two. There are

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Are you an Overwhelmed Mama?

Mama, are you tired? Do you feel like you have given and given, till there is nothing left to give? To moms of many young children the days can be a blur of activity sometimes. From the moment we wake, till into the night we are called upon to pour out ourselves for these little

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What to Expect in the NICU

A newborn in an incubator. in the NICU unit

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU, pronounced “nick-you”) may become your home-away-from-home if your baby is born prematurely. This is the section of the hospital tasked with caring for infants who are born early and cannot survive without help. It provides an environment that is safer for your preemie, offering incubators and special services intended

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