One of the greatest joys of parenting is sharing your interests and hobbies with your children. Well, I like to eat. So once my son had the pediatrician’s OK for solid foods, we made a beeline for the baby food aisle. After a month or so of opening package after package, multiple times a day, [...]
Pediatrician and new mom Laurie Jones, M.D., just couldn’t get her first-born daughter, Caroline, to latch. She’d been to three lactation consultants. Nothing worked. “I knew how important it was to breastfeed her,” Jones says. “My mother had nursed me until I was a year old. My husband supported me. But I was bleeding and [...]
In Michaela Zach’s imagination, breastfeeding her newborn son for the first time would be no less than glorious. “I felt like the heavens were going to open and the angels would sing and it would be this wonderful thing.” But that wasn’t how it went at all. Getting her baby to “latch” correctly took patience [...]
Parents should select a pediatrician who understands and supports breastfeeding and does not routinely supplement infants with formula.
Were researchers for the CDC trying to discourage women from breastfeeding? Were they trying to push vaccines in lieu of breastfeeding? What’s the rotovirus anyway? I’d never heard of anyone catching that in this country.
While high breastfeeding initiation rates show that most mothers in the United States want to breastfeed –and are trying – the CDC interprets the low rates later on as an indication that moms may not be getting the breastfeeding support they need.
A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an [...]
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MAY 2013
$6.00Our 2013 directory of Valley aquatics programs — everything from learn-to-swim programs to diving, racing and synchronized swimming!
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April 2013
$6.00Our April 2013 issue features the 2013 Summer Solutions directory — more than 500 day camps in Maricopa County!
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March 2013
$6.00Our March 2013 issue features the 2013 directory of Overnight Camps in Arizona and the Southwest!
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February 2013
$6.00Our February 2013 issue is all about babies! Learn how to begin building your baby’s bookshelf, make your own baby food, find parent/tot classes and Daddy Boot Camps around the Valley. Plus: gifts, gadgets and great new looks for baby.
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January 2013
$6.00It’s our annual pregnancy issue! Learn about the latest trend among expectant parents: “gender-reveal” parties. Plus: Should you bank your baby’s umbilical cord blood?
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December 2012
$6.00Ice hockey in the desert? Our December issue tells you how to get your kids started. Plus, an insider’s tour of the Arizona Doll and Toy Museum. And two terrific holiday crafts your kids will love!
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