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Want answers to Carters baby clothing rashes, well here you go.   Carters baby clothes are causing babies to develop rashes. The clothes which have no tags sewed into them have caused rashes in at least four hundred babies. The rashes have occurred on the babies backs. This prompted a warning to be issued regarding these pieces of clothing
The warning has been issued for baby knit body suits, pajamas, and shirts. The clothes that are causing the baby rashes are from the fall 2007 clothing line. Many people have theorized that the babies are contracting contact dermatitis from the ink that is on the iron on labels that are ironed on to the pieces of baby clothing. The label that is causing the contact dermatitis has a raised surface with a solid background. This warning affects approximately one hundred and ten million pieces of baby clothing.
Many people do not think about the clothing that they purchase for their infants and children. Carters is a very popular brand of infants clothing. Many children could have contracted rashes if this problem was not brought to parents’ and consumers’ attention. Read the rest of this entry »

Baby acne is a common condition of small pimples and reddish area on the baby’s face. Also called acne neonatorum, it starts either at birth or soon after and affects ¼ of all babies born. See the baby acne photo for an example. See a past post for more information baby acne cures. It is caused by a combination of the babies glands and mothers hormones.

My mother put me to sleep on my stomach or my side, that is the way that they did it back then, but times have changed. Due to a fear of SIDS, many experts say to put your baby down on their back allowing freedom for the nose to breathe. One side effect of laying your baby down in the same position every night is they may develop Plagiocephaly or flat head syndrome. Read the rest of this entry »

In this day and age boob feeding is full of choices that stretch from formula vs. breast feeding, pumping and dumping, and of course the different techniques to stop the effects of breast feeding.  If parenting is about sacrifice, boob feeding over formula is where the pain really starts.  Read the rest of this entry »

As if having a baby is not scary enough, you have to consider what will happen to the baby that you have now: your cat. This is one of those topics that everyone will have an opinion on. People will say that cats and new babies don’t mix, they will tell you that there is no problem with having the fur balls, and then others will tell you that they will pass their four legged diseases directly to your baby, by just being in the same room. Read the rest of this entry »