Mom e-news: March 2009

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. Play Time .
Children need to play
By Diane Oakland, IBCLC, ICCE, Family Education & Support Coordinator
Unstructured play is not a luxury; it is essential to child development, experts agree. Yet in today’s harried, hurried, overscheduled world, children have less free time than ever, and that has consequences. . Children need to play out relationships and fantasies; that it is how they learn about themselves, says T. Berry Brazelton, the preeminent childhood specialist at Harvard University, in his book, The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have to Learn, Grow and Flourish ...

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. What Do You Think?

What Radio Station do you listen to most often?

A. Kiss FM 103.7
B. Lake FM 94.5
C. WMYX FM 99.1
D. WMIL FM 106.1
E. Radio Disney WKSH AM 1640
F. Other

This issue’s poll is closed.


Answer to last issue’s question

Q: What would you like for Valentine's Day?

A: The most popular response (50%) was a romatic evening with your partner, followed by a movie date at home (33%). A surprise took third place (17%). Thanks to everyone who answered the poll!

 
The Doctor Is In
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David Meuler, MD
Consider car seat laws a minimum
By Dr. David Meuler, Pediatrician

Today’s parents do an excellent job of following car seat laws. Almost all parents have infants and children buckled in to the required seats, and we are seeing fewer serious injuries and accident-related deaths as a result. Car seats make a big difference. But the laws provide a minimum requirement. For optimum safety, parents should go beyond what is required.

Most parents follow the guidelines with infants up to one year old in rear-facing car seats and toddlers up to four years old in toddler seats. Most move their four year olds into booster seats and some continue in boosters as they should until their child is eight. To make your child safer, I encourage parents to ...

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Mommy Moments
Mommy Moments .

 

Guess who’s coming!

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. One big question hung in the air in a birthing suite at Columbia Center on April 5, 2008. Were Justin and Melissa Yanke having a boy or a girl?

Justin is one of four boys and Melissa one of four girls, so the chances seemed pretty even.

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Calendar of Events
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March

16 Beyond the Baby Blues Support Group, 10:00–11:30 am#
18 Parent Talk: Parenthood, Fantasy to Reality, 10:00–11:30 am#
19 Breastfeeding Your Baby Class, 6:30 pm–8:45 pm*
23 Beyond the Baby Blues Support Group, 10:00–11:30 am#
24 Childhood and Early Parenting Series (first in a series, Tuesdays through April 28), 6:30 pm–8:45 pm*
25 Parent Talk: Nursing Your Baby, Nurturing Yourself — A Gathering for Breastfeeding Families, 10:00–11:30 am#
25 Childhood and Early Parenting Series (first in a series, Wednesdays through April 29), 6:30 pm–8:45 pm*
30 Beyond the Baby Blues Support Group, 10:00–11:30 am#

April

1 Parent Talk: Parenthood, Fantasy to Reality, 10:00–11:30 am#
1 Childhood and Early Parenting Series (second in a series, Wednesdays through April 29), 6:30 pm–8:45 pm*
2 Breastfeeding Your Baby Class, 6:30 pm–8:45 pm*

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