Newborns spend a huge share of their sleep in the active phase, the one that in adults carries dreams. That's when the baby twitches, grimaces, smiles, moves their lips. Parents read it as nightmares; it's simply how that phase looks. What a baby could be dreaming about, nobody…
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The iPhone keyboard carries a hidden list of words and phrases it will not suggest, researcher Derik Kauffman said on 6 November. He published the English list and those for other languages, decoded from Apple's own data files. Most entries are vulgar or about drugs, sex and…
A bit of snuffling during a cold or in an awkward position is ordinary and passes in a few days. Regular loud snoring, several nights a week, with no cold in sight, is a signal. Most often what's behind it is enlarged adenoids or tonsils. The list worth taking to an ENT: pauses…
We did two things differently: a sidecar cot from the first day, and no attempt to train him to silence. He napped in the living room with the kitchen, his sister and music going, and at night he lay beside me but on his own surface. He moved into his own cot later almost…
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Grinding (bruxism) usually comes from teething, a changing bite, or tension the child didn't manage to let out during the day. The worms theory is an old myth that still sends parents to the pharmacy for no reason. Short episodes need no treatment at all, and most children…
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Daytime and night-time are two different stories. A child stays dry at night when the body starts making enough of the hormone that concentrates urine overnight and the bladder can hold it until morning. That usually lands somewhere between three and five, and wet nights up to…
Normal is 40-60%. At 20-25% the lining of the nose dries out, crusts make breathing harder, and by morning there is a cough and a child who keeps waking. It is not a cold: no fever, fine all day. A humidifier or the improvised equivalents, saline rinses, airing the room before…
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