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Motherszone is an open online community where ladies can get lots of recipe ideas for their kids or for family. Motherszone is not only for ladies but also ensures advice and guidance for development of your kids and expose them to many aspects of life with some great tips.

Motherszone is an open online community where ladies can get lots of recipe ideas for their kids or for family. Motherszone is not only for ladies but also ensures advice and guidance for development of your kids and expose them to many aspects of life with some great tips.

Getting a good night's sleep with a newborn baby in the house, as many parents know, is not going to happen anytime soon. Despite the odd waking hours of babies, the first 6 months of life are critical to helping a baby set their circadian rhythms (regular sleeping and rising patterns) that will stay with them for years to come. Some babies, however, may have some hurdles to overcome as a new study explains babies' with depressed mothers experience disruptive sleep.

Perhaps adding additional credo to the reasons to breastfeed list, China is in the hot seat again with yet another tainted children's product. Only this time, the product in question is infant formula. In response to reports of a contaminated milk-based formula, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Health Information Advisory.

As the saying goes, breast is best, but deciding whether or not to breastfeed your new baby is a big decision. Mum Mum's regularly highlights new scientific studies illustrating the many health benefits of breastfeeding yet many women are still not entirely sold on the idea. Here are 10 reasons to breastfeed your baby

Its likely you've noticed a few extra isles at the grocery store that are now jam packed with candy for Halloween trick or treaters. However, being a health conscience parent, you are unsettled about the idea of passing our gobs of candy to little ones. So, how you can treat without getting tricked? Here are some healthy Halloween treats, both edible and not, that are sure to bring a smile to even the spookiest ghost or goblin ringing your doorbell.

With the economy not looking like it is going to recover anytime soon, the majority of people are turning inward and looking at their own familial economic status. The green movement was pushing at full steam, but with tightened family budgets the concern might be shifted more on being able to provide for your family instead of the environment. What if you could have your eco-friendly cake and eat it too?

Bonding is the intense attachment that develops between parents and their baby. It makes parents want to shower their baby with love and affection and to protect and nourish their little one. Bonding gets parents up in the middle of the night to feed their hungry baby and makes them attentive to their baby's wide range of assorted cries.v

WHY MASSAGE
Besides the fact that it is just plain fun to touch your baby, infant massage helps babies grow and develop better. Other cultures highly value touch to help babies grow. In some Eastern societies a mother is reprimanded if she doesn't give her baby a daily massage. One of the most exciting areas of research is the connection between touch and growth. Touched babies thrive, and here's why.

Every child is born a genius. Long has the question been asked: Is intelligence a predisposition, a special gift found in a child's DNA or is it the opportunities that present themselves in a child's life that mold that child into a genius? By going back to the true essence of teaching and what it really means to learn we may discover that it is the relationship between both nature and nurture that unlock the potential within every child. It all starts with you!