Archive for the 'child development' Category

Vaccines

We’ve spread out Tom’s vaccines just a little bit, and mainly because I didn’t want him to have vaccines in the hospital when he was a month premature, and then I didn’t like the bedside manor of the nurse who was going to give him his 12 month shots so I said no, we’d come back [...]

Low Fat or Whole Fat Milk

There has been a lot of conversation lately about whether to feed babies whole milk or low fat milk. Tom’s still nursing, but he does have cow milk with his cerial and smoothies…
Someone sent out a link to new APA suggestions that babies prone to obesity get low fat milk, but there’s a lot of [...]

kisses

Tom is 15 months old now… The last couple weeks we have met several older toddlers at the park that want to give him kisses. The first time this happened, a little girl walked up and kissed him. Tom stumbled back a couple steps, looked suprised and confused, and then got a big smile on his face [...]

walking

Tom is walking all over just holding onto my fingers. Every once in a while he tries to take a step on his own and falls forward, but he only does that when I’m right there to catch him. He is so close to walking on his own.
He is so eager to explore everything, [...]