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Organic alone doesn’t make a formula safe, but avoiding any non-organic formula a good start. Conventional formula likely contains GMOs, traces of pesticides, milk contaminated with antibiotics or growth hormones, and oils extracted with hexane. Organic baby formula is almost always superior to anything conventional.

The Guidelines are designed to support service providers who may be working with same-sex couples, same-sex attracted single parents, and/or their children. They are in part educative, providing some information about terminologies, myths, and facts about same-sex couples and parenting. But they are also designed to provide some ideas about the ways service providers and organizations can ensure their everyday processes are inclusive of same-sex couples and their children.

Studies estimate that between 1 and 9 million children in the United States have at least one parent who is lesbian or gay. There are approximately 594,000 same-sex partner households, according to the 2000 Census, and there are children living in approximately 27 percent of those households.

Sarah’s Sweet Slumber is an Overnight Newborn Care and Sleep Training company based in Massachusetts with service in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut, with the goal of providing healthy days and restful nights to babies and families. Phone: 617-407-4289

Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is the brainchild of Colombian pediatrician Edgar Rey, who introduced it to the Instituto Materno Infantil in 1978. It was an idea born out of desperation. The institute served the city’s poorest—those who lived crammed in the rickety, makeshift dwellings in the foothills of the surrounding mountains. At the time this was the biggest neonatal unit in all of Colombia, responsible for delivering 30,000 babies a year. Overcrowding was so bad that three babies would have to share an incubator at a time and the rate of cross-infection was high. Death rates were spiraling and so too was the level of abandonment as young, impoverished mothers, who never even got to touch their babies, found it easier just to take off.

Elevated side-lying is a bottle-feeding position that’s being used more and more for preterm babies and infants who have feeding difficulties. In this blog post, I’ll tell you why I like it for all newborn babies. I’ve put together a visual step by step guide for you so go ahead and give it a try