Did You Know: Babies

Anti-Spasm Medcines: Soothing Crying Babies into a Stupor

From the 1950s to the 1980s, doctors armed parents with millions of prescriptions of anti-cramp medicine.

Dads – The Swaddlers Supreme

If women are from Venus and men are from Mars, then mothers are from Cuddleland and fathers are from Jiggleland!

Great Swaddling Moments in History

History has recorded that Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Jesus were all swaddled as babies.

The Great Surprise About Swaddling

The biggest myth parents have about wrapping is that it’s supposed to quiet their fussy baby. Wrong! Swaddling by itself doesn’t turn on the calming reflex.

How Big is Your Baby’s Head?

Imagine giving birth to a baby half the height or weight of an adult. Of course, a three-foot-long, eighty-pound newborn would be ridiculous.


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