Recommended Web Sites

Healthy Baby Center - The MayoClinic covers lots of baby topics here, such as calming and comforting, feeding, and vaccinations.

Colic - The Mayo Clinic presents this information about colic.

FamilyDoctor.org - Click on this site, type "infant" in the search box and read the hundreds of excellent articles from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

KidsHealth - This site was created by the Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media and aims to provide the best children's health information on the Internet. KidsHealth has separate areas for parents, teens, or kids.

Spitting Up in Babies - The doctors at the American Academy of Family Physicians discuss when to be concerned over babies who spit up.

Childhood Vaccines: What They Are and Why Your Child Needs Them - The American Academy of Family Physicians offers this advice.

Babies' Sleep: Help Them Make It Through the Night - The Mayo Clinic offers these tips.

Baby Safety: How to Baby Proof Your Home - The Mayo Clinic covers this issue too.

Baby's First Month: Medical Concerns - The American Academy of Pediatrics explains these concerns.

CDC - Infants & Children - Information from the Centers for Disease Control on such topics as: baby bottle tooth decay, bicycle helmets, birth defects, child safety seats, disabilities, dogbites, earaches, head lice, immunizations, pink eye, school health, vision and hearing impairment.

Circumcision Information and Resource Pages - Information presented here is mostly slanted against circumcision, but it does explore several cultural and religious aspects of the concept.

Circumcision Policy Statement- Direct, unbiased information from the American Academy of Pediatrics about circumcision.

Common Baby Rashes - The Mayo Clinic provides this slide show.

Infant Care/Parenting from NOAH - These links are provided by the librarians at the NY Academy of Medicine and the NY Public Library.

Infant Formula - This list of frequently asked questions (and their answers) comes from the Food and Drug Administration.

The March of Dimes - Presents information on caring for your newborn as well as excellent information on problems of newborns.

Medical Care and Your Newborn - KidsHealth has created this information for parents, and they have similar information for different age groups, such as 1 month - 3 months old, 4 month - 7 month old, and 8 month-12 month old babies.

MEDLINEPlus:Child Development- Excellent resource from the National Library of Medicine which includes a large section in Spanish and one Chinese article.

MEDLINEPlus: Infant and Toddler Health - Links for information on infant health from the National Library of Medicine, this site contains a number of links to Spanish language sites.

Newborn Baby: When To Call The Doctor - The Cleveland Clinic offers these tips on when the doctor needs to be called.

Newborn Care - The Mayo Clinic has created this information for stressed out parents of newborns.

Respiratory Distress Syndrome and the Newborn - American Lung Association offers this information.

Tips for Your Baby's Safety - A huge compendium of information and checklists about the safety of baby equipment from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Treating Jaundice in Healthy Newborns - A good explanation of jaundice and its treatment from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

VeryBestBaby - The Nestle company (which makes infant formula) has created this web site, so expect them to be promoting their brand of formula.

What a Newborn Really Looks Like - The Mayo Clinic provides this slide show about newborns.

What To Do When Your Baby Is Sick - More great advice from the Mayo Clinic.

When Your Baby is Born With a Health Problem - KidsHealth offers parents this advice.

When Your Baby's in the NICU - More great advice from KidsHealth for parent's whose baby is in the intensive care unit.