Caring for Your Baby

Parents need lots of teaching and support in dealing with colic.

Giving a baby something hard to chew on can help to ease teething pain.

A mother fears that allowing her baby to cry for longer than five minutes might cause a hernia.

Learn whether it is safe to administer live vaccines to a child while his mother is pregnant.

In this Expert Advice column, Henry Bernstein, M.D. helps explain how to take care of your infant's penis after a circumcision procedure and signs to look out for. If a small amount of foreskin remains, it is appropriate to gently pull it back each day during a bath or diaper change. Sometimes the surfaces of skin do stick to each other, resulting in adhesions. These adhesions can be pulled apart with gentle pressure.

Read one father's concerns about circumcision, and our expert's response.

It is a federal law that infants and children must ride buckled in car seats or seatbelts that have been properly installed and are used properly.

By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

Find out why stimulating your baby from birth is crucial to development.

Learn whether there's anything special you need to do to your baby's gums before the teeth appear.

A conventional infant car seat is recommended over the new, built-in car seats.

Learn the best way to handle a colicky baby.