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Month: July 2008

How to Wean Baby From a Bottle

May 2, 2020July 10, 2008 by valplowman
Baby holding a bottle

How to Wean Baby From a Bottle to a sippy cup. Get baby drinking milk from a sippy cup each day instead of the bottle. Kaitlyn was basically an easy …

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Categories Eat Tags in action, sippy cup, weaning 42 Comments

Why You Shouldn’t Over Stimulate Baby During Playtime

May 26, 2021July 8, 2008 by valplowman
Mom holding her baby while sitting on a couch

How Over Stimulating Baby During Playtime negatively affects your baby. Babies do not need a lot of action to be perfectly content and to learn from the world around them. …

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Categories Baby, Wake Time Tags overstimulation, waketime activities 12 Comments

What was/is baby’s approximate optimal waketime length for ages 6-8 Weeks? (waketime length includes feeding time)?

March 29, 2019July 7, 2008 by valplowman

Results: 30-40 minutes: 8 votes (10%) 40-50 minutes: 17 votes (22%) 50-60 minutes: 28 votes (35%) 60- 70 minutes: 17 votes (22%) 70-80 minutes: 5 votes (6%) 80 minutes or …

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Categories BabywiseMom Tags poll results, waketime length 2 Comments

It is Okay If Your Baby Sleeps “Only” 10 Hours at Night

May 2, 2020July 4, 2008 by valplowman
Baby sleeping in a basket

Why It is Okay If Your Babywise Baby Sleeps for 10 Hours at Night. 10 hours of sleep at night is in the range of normal for a healthy Babywise …

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Categories Night Sleep, Schedules Tags sttn 64 Comments

Don’t Stress Mama: Good Behavior Progress is a Spiral

March 10, 2021July 3, 2008 by valplowman
Spiral staircase

When working on obedience with your child, progress is a spiral. Good behavior comes in stages. Positive results from discipline happens incrementally. As you walk up a spiral stair case, …

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Categories Discipline, Tantrums Tags progress is a spiral 8 Comments

Why Your 9-10 Month Old Is Frustrated

May 24, 2023July 2, 2008 by valplowman
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Why Your 9 or 10 Month Old Is Frustrated. What you can do to help your baby be more content and even sleep better. You might be noticing that your …

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Categories Baby Tags waketime activities 8 Comments

How To Do Babywise with a Preterm Baby

June 29, 2022July 1, 2008 by valplowman
Preterm baby in the NICU

How To Do Babywise with a Preterm Baby. You can implement Babywise even with a preemie. When I was pregnant with my second child, I knew we would start Babywise …

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Categories Babywise Tags preterm babies, twins 20 Comments
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Valerie Plowman

Valerie Plowman, known as "the Babywise Mom", is the happy mother of four children. She has been helping parents with their parenting concerns since 2007 and loves helping others absolutely love being a parent.

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