Tweet Watch this recording of our free webinar, Travel, Time Zones & Infant Toddler Sleep with Dr. Erin Flynn-Evans. Planning a far away vacation and worried how it may affect your baby or toddler’s sleeping patterns? Time zone travel is like daylight savings time – multiplied! It usually takes a day for every hour of…
Tweet Evidence from brain science strongly suggests we can warm up and stimulate the young child’s brain for learning to read. Exciting new research using neuroimaging techniques reveal that parts of the brain develop for reading as early as infancy. A particular region of the left hemisphere of the brain becomes highly aroused by the…
Tweet I rarely felt like doing yoga by myself all alone at home. Being a yoga instructor, though, I thought maybe at least I got in a good stretch while teaching classes. But when I was on maternity leave for three months, I couldn’t wait to start a yoga practice at home, and I returned…
Tweet When I was nursing my first baby 18 years ago, I was forever in search of a comfortable but supportive nursing bra that fit; and in my deepest, darkest, wildest fantasies, I would dream of (gasp) a black nursing bra. Alas, that was not to be: simply finding a bra that fit well was…
Tweet Have you ever wished you had octopus arms? Juggling baby, dog, diaper bag, vacuum, two-year-old, and whatever else you have in your life can be completely overwhelming! While I don’t know anyone who has come up with tentacles for parents yet, I do have a solution for the baby part: babywearing. While the idea…
Tweet There’s been a buzz of concern around the recent press coverage to do with the presence of arsenic in many foods, particularly in rice. This buzz of course has been heard in many of our Early Parenting Groups at Isis and I’d like to offer a word of reassurance. While it’s always valuable to…
Tweet Pediatrician and author Dr. Alan Greene explains the importance of his international TICCTOCC campaign which launched in September during an Isis Parenting live webinar. Watch this recording of the free Optimal Cord Clamping webinar with Dr. Greene. See the link at the bottom of this post. Watch Dr. Greene speak about the TICCTOCC Campaign…
Tweet A recent scientific health and wellness study conducted in England shows evidence that yoga eases depression and promotes maternal bonding during pregnancy. As stated in the abstract, “Overall, this pilot study is the first to demonstrate that M-Yoga may be an effective treatment alternative or augmentation to pharmacotherapy for pregnant women at high risk…