Baby Advice and Baby Tips by Babble Soft

Below are several articles that you might find helpful you in your baby journey! They are full of baby advice and baby tips written by our founder. You can see the full article by clicking on the images or the "Read more..." links.

7 Tips For Successful Breastfeeding

Our son was born by emergency c-section making my post birth recovery time challenging because a) I was exhausted, b) he didn’t seem to sleep very much and c) I developed a breast infection.  Now a) and b) are par for the course when having a baby but c) knocked me senseless. Read more...

Why Keeping a Daily Journal is Important for Moms and Nannies

When a new mom leaves her infant in the care of a nanny or newborn care specialist, what are her concerns? What does she want to know? How can a nanny help her feel more connected to her baby and help her deal with possible feelings of guilt over leaving her baby? Read more...

Life With A Premature Baby

A premature baby, or preemie, is born before the 37th week of pregnancy. Approximately 12 percent of babies in the United States — or 1 in 8 — are born prematurely each year. In 2003, more than 490,000 babies in the U.S. were born prematurely. (source: Wikipedia)  In fact, the rate of premature birth increased almost 35 percent between 1981 and 2005 (9.4 to 12.7 percent). (source: March of Dimes). Read more...

Your Baby's Growth In The First Year of Life

The first 12 months of life are very important in the growth and development of your baby. Dramatic changes are taking place in all areas of their growth and development, sometimes it seems as if they are growing everyday, and they are. Most babies will double their birth weight by gaining an average of 0.5 oz to 1 oz every day for the first 6 months of life, and triple their birth weight between 9 to 12 months.   Read more...

Getting Better Sleep After Baby Is Born

I know that people have strong opinions about co-sleeping but we found a happy medium.  I strongly recommend using a co-sleeper that attaches/sits next to your bed for several months after baby is born.  We used the Arm’s Reach Original Co-sleeper with both of our children.  With our son we placed it right next to our bed.  First on my husband’s side because I was recovering from a c-section so when he was hungry my husband would give him to me so I could breastfeed him.  Read more...

5 Ways To Reduce Baby Spit Up

We were blessed with two kids who were pretty good spitter uppers…our son more so than our daughter.  If scary, eerie music had started playing in our house when they spit up, I would have been looking for a nearby exorcist. :-)

Here are some ideas that we tried that may help you bring the amount of new baby spit-up down a notch in your house. Read more...

5 Parenting Trends That Affect How We Communicate About Childcare

The more things change the more they stay the same.  We have all heard that saying, but what we sometimes don’t realize is that even though things stay the same, the ways we go about doing those same things change.  For instance, 100 years ago when we needed to get to work most people would walk, ride a horse, take a train, or take a trolley to get there.  Now we still need to get to work but most of us drive a car or take a subway.  50 to 100 years ago if we needed to get a message to someone we would send a telegram or a handwritten note.  Now we still might send a handwritten note but more often than not we send them an e-mail! Read more...

5 Potty Training Tips That Will Make You Smile

My kids are now 5 ½ and 3 years old and fortunately the potty training gods smiled on us because both were day-time trained around 2 ½ years of age.  Thankfully, our oldest (a boy) was trained about 2 months before our daughter was born.  He wore Pull-Ups at night until he was 4 but our daughter quit wearing pull ups when she was about 2 years and 9 months old.  Ah, it’s so nice not to have buy diapers or Pull-Ups anymore! Read more...

How to Trim Your Baby's Nails Without Being Reduced to Tears

When our son was born we were told to cut his nails while he was sleeping in his crib.   Being the sleep-deprived, paranoid mom that I was, following are the reasons why this did not work for me: Read more...