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It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.
Dervla Murphy
Can babies really learn to read? This site tackles that question and offers a video and information to help stimulate learning and teach your baby to read, using a multisensory approach. Also offers Q&A, news, parenting resources, and educational links.
Offers the full gamut of information relating to the mental, physical, and social health of infants through young adults. A searchable, easy-to-navigate site filled with valuable information for parents.
Go here for information on caring for your babies and children. Articles by staff members as well as stories and photos submitted by readers (you can submit yours too). Includes product recall information, product reviews, listing of healthcare organizations, home-safety information, links to other sites, and more.
The Baby Bumpers company sells HEARTHGUARD bumper products to help safeguard babies and toddlers against the dangers of a fireplace hearth. Products can be special ordered—free quotes available.
This site has an alphabetical listing of free products, offers, services, coupons, and contests of interest to parents. Also links to other baby/new parent Web sites, as well as other (nonbaby) freebie sites.
Sells Baby Games, computer software designed to introduce young children ages 18 months through 4 years to the computer. Software teaches the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, and animals.
Offers an audiocassette that helps soothe colicky babies by playing “pink noise.” Also offers a tape for preschoolers and expectant moms of all-instrumental music that calms the listener and evokes positive feelings.
Twenty full-screen photos show beautiful baby bedding sets available for order. Also links to other baby resources. A narrowly focused but visually pleasing site.
Offers baby and parenting information, including pregnancy and birth FAQs, parenting FAQs, and baby care. Also gives links to baby-related newsgroups, sites offering services to new and expectant parents, and the Baby Web Store. A good jumping-off point for additional baby info.
Offers health, safety, and medical information for infancy through adolescence. Includes searchable references for dental health, common injuries, medication, illness symptoms, nutrition, immunizations, genetics, and much more.
Focuses on babies birth to 24 months. Baby home pages, childcare, health and safety, parenting, products and services, read-aloud, recreation, and miscellaneous categories are all available at this site. Also has some cute baby pictures.
A storefront offering Baby’s Art Gallery—a set of high-contrast images designed to stimulate newborns. You can download and print these ’90s versions of the traditional black-and-white images (in JPG format) or view them onscreen with your baby. Includes a list of baby links.
An excellent searchable site with a wealth of information on childcare, pregnancy, birth, and baby products. You could easily spend all afternoon exploring the related pages and links.
Offers baby-naming software for sale. Also gives hints on baby naming, provides baby shower games and gift-giving ideas, and lists other interesting baby-related Web sites.
This site offers an online catalog of cribsets, bedding, and accessories with a Christian (railroad) theme. Also offers tips on arranging and lighting your baby’s room for safety and security. A “Hot List” leads you to an extensive list of sites related to babies, children, and parenting. A wholesome, helpful site.
Be sure to visit this site if you are having difficulty choosing a baby name. Selects boys’ or girls’ names at random. Also includes listings of most popular names and latest names and allows you to add names to the list. Offers links, a name forum, Java chat, and baby cards you can send via email free.
Visit this site to order the Super Baby Food Book, a 460-page reference book on feeding your baby. Site offers various example chapters so that you can sample before you buy. Includes links to other sites of interest.