4 Months Old:
- 4 month Sleep Problems
- Baby Whisperer: 4 Month Old Changes
- Everything You Need To Know About Wonder Week 19
- Nighttime Sleep: 9-15 Weeks Old
5-6 Months Old:
- 5-8 Month Sleep Disruptions
- Babywise Sample Schedules: The Fifth Month
- Babywise Sample Schedules: The Sixth Month
Baby Stuff I Love:
Baby Summary:
Summaries of Brinley and McKenna week by week
Bedtime:
Best Things…Stages:
Best Toys For Baby:
Books:
- Book Recommendation: Healthy Sleep Habbits, Happy Child
- Book Review: Super Baby Food
- Book Suggestion: The Wonder Weeks
- Secrets of the Baby Whisperer
- The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems
Bottle Feeding:
Consistency:
- Adjusting for Context Using Babywise
- Consistent Schedule: Start Your Day Right
- Getting a Consistent Schedule
Diapers:
- A Case for Prefolds: Cloth Diapering at its Roots
- Surviving Diaper Rash
- Ultimate Guide to Stopping Baby Poop at Night
Discipline:
Disruptions:
- Adjusting for Context
- Church: Weekly Disruption
- Dealing With Disruptions To Your Routine
- Disruptions Are Good
- Feeding/Napping Away From Home
- Going Out
- Overstimulation
- The More You Do It, The More Your Child Will Get Used To It
Dreamfeed:
Family Dynamics:
Four Hour Schedule
- Baby Whisperer: Four Hour Schedule
- When to Move to a 4 hour Schedule
- Four Hour Schedule: More Thoughts
- Sample 4 Hour Schedules for Your Baby
Fussiness
General Good Info:
- Babywise Milestones
- Baby Whisperer: Baby’s Emotions
- Baby Whisperer: Common Complaints 0-6 Months
- Calculating Age
- Change Your Strategy
Growth Spurts:
- Baby Whisperer: Growth Spurts
- Feed Baby When Hungry
- Growth Spurts
- Growth Spurts
- Growth Spurts (Baby Whisperer)
Language Development
Logs:
Mealtime:
For information on Solids, see the Solids blog index
- Baby Whisperer: Introducing a Sippy Cup
- Dropping a Feeding
- Eat/Wake/Sleep Cycle
- Introducing a Sippy Cup
- Juice vs. Water
Milestones
Moral Training:
More Than Making It Through the Day:
Naps:
- 45 Minute Intruder
- 5-8 Month Sleep Disruptions
- 6 Rules for Using Cry It Out as a Baby Sleep Training Method
- Baby Whisperer: 45 Minute Naps
- Baby Whisperer: 6 Troubleshooting Sleep Variables
- Baby Whisperer: Sleep Disruptions
- Baby Whisperer: Waking Early From Naps
- Chronic 45 Minute Naps
- Chronic Short Nappers {Poll Results}
- Common Reasons for Poor Sleep
- Dropping Naps
- Dropping Naps: A Quick Reference
- Easy Nap Fix
- How to Get Your Baby to Nap
- Importance of the First Nap
- Nap Cues
- Nap Disruptions: Rolling, Standing, Crawling, etc
- Naps: Troubleshooting–Revised and Updated
- New Skills and Sleep Disruptions {Rolling, Crawling, standing, etc}
- Playing in the Crib/Bed
- Problem Solving Tip: Experiment
- Problem Solving Tip: What Has Changed?
- Sample Nap Routines
- Should you wake up a sleeping child?
- Sleep Hierarchy: 3-6 Months
- Sleeping Tip: Vary Sleeping Locations
- Surviving 45 Minute Naps
- The Babywise Mom Nap Guide: How to establish successful naps from birth through the preschool years
- Waking Up Happy
- What To Do When Baby Takes a Long Time to Fall Asleep
- What To Do When Your Baby Wakes Early But Isn’t Hungry
- Why Have Naps?
Night Sleep:
- 5-6 AM “Night” Wakings
- 10-12 Hours of Sleep
- Baby Sleeping Through the Night: Top Tips to Make it Happen
- Baby Whisperer: Sleeping Through the Night
- Diapers at Night
- Early Morning Feedings Before Waketime
- Early Morning Waking and the Sun
- Early Morning Wakings: What to do when baby wakes early
- Night Hunger
- Nightime Sleep Issues–Revised and Updated
- Nighttime Sleep: 9-15 Weeks Old
- Ultimate Guide to Stopping Baby Poop at Night
- What To Do When Baby Takes a Long Time to Fall Asleep
Pacifiers:
Parenting:
- 18 Truths About the First Year of Motherhood
- Baby Whisperer: Developmental Olympics
- Baby Whisperer: Skills of a Good Parent
- The Best Parenting Tool You Will Ever Have
- How I Get Stuff Done
- Just When You Got It, Everything Changes
- “Mom, not baby, decides…”
Pep Talks:
Physical Development:
Playtime:
- Baby Whisperer: Learning Triangle
- Baby Whisperer: Playing Independently
- Benefits of Independent Play
- Blanket Time Info
- Factors that Influence Learning
- Independent Playtime
- Independent Playtime Lengths
- Independent Playtime: The Ultimate Overview
- Resistance to Independent Playtime
- Word to the Weary: Independent Play
- What to Do When Baby’s Awake Time Is Before Feedings
Routine/Schedule:
- Baby Whisperer: Starting a Routine “Late”
- Babywise Sample Schedules: The Fifth Month
- Babywise Sample Schedules: The Sixth Month
- Balancing Time With Children
- Benefits of Structure and Routine
- Combo Schedule is Okay
- Consistent Schedule: Start Your Day Right
- Eat/Wake/Sleep Cycle
- Essential Elements to Any Routine
- Getting a Consistent Schedule
- It’s Dynamic
- Let Your Schedule Serve You: You Don’t Serve Your Schedule (Don’t Stress)
- Reader Sample Schedules 0-12 Months Old
- Sample Schedules
- Sample Babywise Schedules: The Fourth Month
- Schedule Overview: 13 weeks (3-6 Months)
- Spending Time with Baby/Child
- Starting Babywise Late
- The Babywise Four Hour Schedule
- The Value of a Schedule
- What Time Should I Start My Day
Safety:
Sickness:
- Comforting a Sick Toddler/Baby
- Schedule While Mom is Sick
- Surviving a Cold
- Surviving an Ear Infection
- Tips and Tricks: Dealing with a Cold
- When Mom Is Sick
Sleep:
- 9 Effective Tips to get Baby to Sleep in the Crib
- 10 Reasons Your 5-8 Month Old Has Stopped Sleeping Well
- Circadian Rhythm Explained and How It Impacts Sleep
- Cry It Out Sleep Training Tips
- Everything You Need to Know About Cry It Out
- Healthy Sleep Elements and Developments
- How Pacifiers Might Be Ruining Your Baby’s Sleep
- How to Put Baby Back to Sleep
- How to Tell if Baby is Overtired vs. Undertired
- Importance of Exercise and Stimulation
- Importance of Sleep
- Moms on Call: 5 Awesome Ways it Can Help with Babywise
- New Skills and Sleep Disruptions {Rolling, Crawling, Standing, etc.}
- Optimal Internal Temp=Optimal Sleep
- Season Changes Disrupting Sleep
- Sleep Begets Sleep
- Sleep Regulatory Systems
- What To Do When Baby Takes a Long Time to Fall Asleep
- When To Move Baby to Own Room
Solids (see also Index: Solids)
- 5 Stages of Solid Foods
- Easy Tips for Introducing Solids to Your Baby
- Food Portions for Children Baby-8 Years
- How to Introduce Solid Foods To Your Baby
Swaddling:
Teething:
Waketime: