Parenting Tips

  • LifestyleYahoo Canada Style

    Lauren Toyota opens up about breastfeeding difficulties: 'I got pretty frustrated'

    The former "Much Music" reporter shares her best parenting tips and gets real about her breastfeeding journey.

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  • LifestyleSimone Olivero

    This mattress may put an end to your baby's sleepless nights

    It might sound a little space-agey, but CEO and Founder of Familings Mattress, Hannah Sissala, swears this mattress will allow parents to finally rest easy. “We slept badly, our baby cried for hours every night,” Sissala says in a video describing her invention. “We found no product that would have helped so I decided to invent a solution.” She explains that before using the mattress, her son would only take naps for about 10 minutes and would wake up crying, tired and stressed out. One of Si

  • NewsSimone Olivero

    Bet you didn't know about this breastfeeding technique

    Carriage House Birth recently posted an image of Rebecca McKeever on their Instagram account feeding her newborn daughter Andromeda moments after birth. “A lactation consultant came to our hospital room to ask if we needed help,” McKeever tells The Huffington Post. “She smiled and melted with each drop,” McKeever says.

  • NewsErica Rae Chong

    Letting babies cry themselves to sleep not harmful, study says

    If you have a restless tot who cries himself to sleep, researchers suggest you should let him. In a recent study published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics, Australian researchers found that allowing babies to “cry it out” can help babies fall asleep sooner and sleep more soundly throughout the night. The study randomly divided 43 sets of infants and parents into three groups – “graduated extinction,” “bedtime fading” and a control group.