Parents' Journal Podcast

Here I am talking about baby sleep with Bobbi Connor (parents' lack of sleep, actually)!

Safety Tips

A mom who accidentally left her son in the car has good advice for new parents: keep your purse in the back seat, so you'll always check back there before you leave the car. Also, position the car seat on the passenger side (or the middle) so it's easy to check if the baby's there.

New Caffeine Study

A new study has found that ingestion of more than 200 milligrams of caffeine a day doubles the risk of miscarriage. Yikes!
Caffeine intake also increases the risk of anemia, apparently.
Too bad!

"Pregnancy Brain" a Real Condition!

"A meta-analysis of the 14 studies that have been conducted over the past 17 years comparing pregnant and/or postpartum women with healthy matched controls on behavioral measures of memory was conducted. The results indicate that pregnant women are significantly impaired on some, but not all, measures of memory, and, specifically, memory measures that place relatively high demands on executive cognitive control may be selectively disrupted. The same specific deficits associated with pregnancy are also observed postpartum."

What is “executive cognitive control?” Self-critical abilities, being able to forsee the consequences of actions or verbalizations, being able to think ahead and to anticipate future needs and requirements.