The arrival of a new baby during the holiday time can be overwhelming for new parents—here’s how to have a sane season.
When Should My Child Be Vaccinated?
The truth about vaccinations for infants, and how to protect your child.
Ask AF: Years of Sleep Struggles
My seven-year-old daughter, adopted at age three, can’t fall sleep without skin-to-skin contact (stroking her arm or back).
Feed Me! Formula Facts
Formulas, nutrition, and feeding — everything you need to know about filling your child’s tummy.
Ask AF: Sleep Routines That Promote Attachment
Our newly adopted, 1-year-old daughter wakes often throughout the night, crying and wailing. If I rub her back or pick her up, she stops almost immediately.
Establishing a Healthy Sleep Routine
Help your child sleep through the night while promoting her attachment to you.
Raising a Sound Sleeper
When we, as new parents or parents-to-be, think about our children sleeping, we all dream of a happy, peaceful child sleeping soundly while we’re in the other room getting a full night’s rest ourselves. This is rarely the reality, however—at least at the beginning of parenthood. How do we make that dream a reality?
Ask AF: Breaking a Dependency on Bottles for Comfort
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Sleep Problems
After two bumpy years, we finally got my daughter, now five, to sleep through the night. But she’s recently had a slew of sleep problems: night wakings, anxiety at bedtime, and so on. Is this because of adoption? What can we do? We are exhausted!
Establishing a Sleep Routine
All parents long for a peaceful bedtime routine: Read your child a story, kiss her goodnight, and don’t see her again until morning. If you understand how children learn to sleep all night, you can help your child manage her sleep and security needs, as you promote her attachment to you.
Ask AF: Treating Eczema
Answers to your parenting questions.
Sweet Dreams
If you thought you’d seen the end of bedtime battles, your preschooler may show you a thing or two!
Milestones That Matter
Every child develops at his own pace. But there are signs you should watch for.
Ask AF: How to Respond to Night Terrors
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: When Rocking Behavior Interferes with a Good Night’s Sleep
Our adoptive son rocks before going to sleep, and it’s started waking him up at night. How can we help him break out of this disruptive bedtime routine?
Ask AF: Transition to Daycare
Answers to your parenting questions.
Is There a “Best” Bottle?
Practical aspects of bottle feeding, tailored to your baby’s needs.
Ask AF: Night Wakings
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Graduating from the Family Bed
Answers to your parenting questions.
Feeding 101
Feeding is about more than just nutrition! Here, answers to all your feeding questions.