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TRAVELING WITH A BABY OR TODDLER? READ THIS. The holidays are here, and traveling with your baby or toddler might very well be topping your list of anxieties. Rest assured, we’ve recruited help in the form of esteemed sleep consultant Angelique Millette (the same lady behind our much-read baby sleep-training guide). Below, she’s listed some of her top tips for traveling with a baby or toddler, as well as adjusting sleep habits accordingly. Good luck, mamas and papas! General Tips for Traveling with a Baby/Toddler: -If you will be using a travel crib, the week or two before your trip, practice setting it up and having your child nap in it. -Good travel crib brands: BabyBjörn, Lotus Travel Crib, or Graco Pack N Play. Be sure to check limits on age/height, as well as airline restrictions for size/weight of the travel crib. -Check out baby gear rental company Baby’s Away. It rents items such as playards, highchairs, cribs, pack-n-plays, and bouncy chairs and will deliver and set

How To Choose a Travel Cot For Your Baby Chances are that you landed on this page because you are considering buying a travel cot for your child. What is it anyway? Simply put: it’s a bed you can use for your baby or toddler. It typically collapses into a pack easy to carry on. It’s generally lighter than a normal crib. If you are anything like me, you would have experienced that travelling with children can be stressful. These little angels can be handful to entertain, feed and take care of during your journey. Once at your destination, you can’t help but ask yourself if the hotel, the family member or any other place you are visiting will have the adequate cot for your baby or toddler. One way I dealt with this concern about where the baby will sleep; was to invest in my very own travel bed for the child. I recommend you do the same in order to have peace of mind about your child’s bed in your upcoming travels. First, you need to know what to look for when sho

11 Sleep Tips for Traveling With Children When a friend told me she packs a suitcase full of her daughter’s favorite stuffed animals when they travel, I wasn’t surprised. My family resembles a traveling caravan at airports as we transport all our gear. Although trips with kids aren’t quite as blissful and relaxing as those pre-kid vacations, advance planning helps. With summer vacation season around the corner, here are my sleep tips for babies and toddlers to alleviate some stress while on the road. Start your trip well-rested.  Travel, whether by car, plane, or train, can rob anyone of shut eye, but it especially takes its toll on young children and babies who accumulate sleep debts quickly. Aim to have your child well-rested before leaving for your trip, taking restorative naps, and sleeping well at night for the days preceding your departure.. Babies and children whose sleep tanks are full can adapt much easier to schedule changes and a little lost sleep here or there.

Researchers develop vaccine jab for newborn babies right out of the womb Having to wait two months after birth to administer the first round of vaccines to an infant (with the exception of the fraudulent Hepatitis B vaccine) is apparently too long for the money-hungry vaccine industry, which is hard at work on a new vaccine technology that will allow vaccines to be administered immediately after a child is born. According to a new study published in the open-access journal  PLoS ONE , scientists have already concocted a synthetic substance they say is capable of effectively triggering an immune response in newborn babies, a fresh feat for the industry. Previously, the vaccine industry has been unable to come up with a plausible way to administer vaccines to newborn babies because the freshly-born infants' immune systems typically do not respond well to foreign immune stimulators. But as reported by  Boston Children's Hospital , a team of scientists from the Massachusetts