Increasing my calcium (good to take at bedtime because it helps you go to sleep.  Hey, I need to go take some calcium and get off the computer!  Ha.) and iron helped my teeth grinding/clenching and biting the inside of my mouth.  Also going to the chiropractor is helping.   Be sure to never take iron and calcium at the same time because they cancel each other out!Foods like oranges and tomatoes help the b

If you’re like me, being awakened from a sound sleep by a little one in the middle of the night can be very disorienting!  I am so thankful that our children usually sleep through the night from a young age, and this is one reason why: We got an idea from Growing Kids God’s Way called “couch time”.  When your husband comes home from work, you and he have this “couch time” toget

Each night as I go to sleep, I have been trying lately to meditate on Romans 8:28. “For we know that all things work together to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” As I recall the various events of the day, each night it surprises me that they really do work together for good if I love God and am called according to His purpose.  They really do!  Try it sometime.

Q: My baby was awake most of the day (slept only in little spurts here and there when I put him down and let him cry a little, although much less crying than he used to). Then this evening he started getting grumpy because he’d been awake so much and not sleeping or sleeping very lightly when he did. When he starts being fussy and crying about everything, even if I’m holding him, I put him to bed. He

I have had some kids really struggle with this, so I have listed the things that have worked and the things that haven’t.The chiropractor has helped a lot; it was temporary for one of my kids but for the other one, after the treatment she got over it.  Chiropractors are so different — Be sure to have a reputable, very highly-recommended one, and be sure to ask him if he does bedwetting  treatment. Â

Okay. Milk supply. I have so struggled with that!One way to increase your supply is to wake him/her in the night for another feeding. Not our first choice!You can get from kettlebyherbfarm.com two herbs: marshmallow root and goat’s rue. Make a tea with them and also drink lots of water.If you want to, you can nurse more often and longer when you do nurse. Don’t nurse again after 2 hours bec

Q: Hey, Kathy – a departure from our recent topic. My baby isn’t enjoying blanket time, and he spends about 50% of the time crying and sobbing and trying to crawl off.  Today was especially traumatic; I think he played about 8 minutes (out of 20) and spent the rest hysterical, sopping with tears and sobbing for me constantly. He didn’t respond if I tried to show him his toys or get him interested

Question:  This little rounder doesn’t want to sleep!  Any advice? I learned a lot from a book called Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems by Dr. Richard Ferber, who is a sleep doctor and a pediatrician.If your baby has the same basic daily schedule routine  (or “order of service” so to speak!) every day, he might be tired around the same times or at certain parts of the daily routine.  F