Helping Your Children Enjoy Attending Your Birth “How can I support and include my 7-year-old who is waffling on being a part of the birth of our second child? He seems to go back and forth on the idea of being at the birthing center, being in the room during delivery, and last time wasn’t […]
How to Balance Your Time Between Older Children and a Newborn How did you balance your time between older children and newborns, especially high needs babies? Especially when feeling like the high needs of a newborn places most everything and everyone else on the back burner. Tips to Balance Time With Multiple Children Balancing time […]
A Special Note From Martha Sears on the Baby Shower Celebrating Daughter Erin Saturday, December 1st, was a special day for the Sears women to celebrate middle daughter, Erin Elizabeth. We celebrated her (and baby) with a baby shower with family and friends. Oldest and youngest daughters, Hayden and Lauren, are part of this group […]
How do I help my very attached toddler be more independent? Q: How do you get a very attached toddler to be less clingy? He is almost 2 and the youngest of four and I still find it hard to homeschool, cook, or clean because he is so demanding of my attention (i.e. throws tantrums, […]
How to Get Baby Interested in Solid Foods Question: Is it okay for 11-month-old not be interested in solid foods at the table? She is hitting all her milestones, seems completely normal and chubby but still wants to nurse and doesn’t seem interested in any solid foods at the table. Answer: Two of our daughters […]
Note: This article was written by Dr. William Sears and sponsored by Huggies®. Dr. Sears is a member of the Huggies Parent Council. You may be thinking, “I’ve already had one newborn in the house so round two should be a breeze.” You’ve probably already decorated the nursery, stocked up on your favorite Huggies diapers […]
Martha Sears Discusses Nursing & Motherhood by Lauren Sears As a kid, I would usually forget that my mom was a nurse. I never saw her in scrubs, or loop a stethoscope around her neck. In fact, I rarely heard about her nursing days. It was more my dad who reminded me of my mom’s nursing profession by […]
Unmistakably Feeling Baby Kicking in the Womb If the origin of those faint little flutters were previously in doubt, now there’s no question. You are feeling life. The gentle, butterfly-wing flicks of last month are now becoming definite jabs. If you feel the baby kicking in the womb several places at once just remember little […]
Letting Children Attend the Birth of a Sibling Letting children attend the birth of a sibling is a wonderful way to begin family bonding. Here are 8 factors to consider: 1. The Age of Your Child In our experience, children over three can understand the emotions of labor and respect the dignity of birth. For […]
“My husband and I are debating what to do about Christmas for our 20-month-old son this year. Since his birth we have followed the attachment parenting approach and, as such, we think it’s wrong to lie to him about Santa (i.e. building up an idea that there is magic in the world and then letting […]
Is is a good idea to allow older children in the delivery room? Reader Question: “What do you think about a 5-year-old witnessing his younger sibling’s birth in the delivery room? He has seen birth videos on television as well as his own, and we also have a book of the developing fetus month to […]
“Hello, I had a question in regards to a having a second baby. My first born will be 21 months when the second baby arrives. I was hoping that Dr. Sears would have a book in regards to this issue, but I didn’t see one. I would just like to have a reference on hand. […]
