Home From the Hospital, Now What?
Many new parents ask themselves the same question upon being released from the hospital with their new baby: "What do we do now?" Leaving the security of a hospital staffed by professional caregivers is at first a scary experience.

New-baby Help
It's difficult for new mothers to process that once you have the baby, you have the baby. Many are so focused on the actual birth they don't think about taking the baby home and caring for it.

The First Day Home with Baby
There are often expectations on the part of many during the first day home with a new baby.

Complications in the First Weeks After Baby
When a snowflake rolls down a mountain, it gains momentum and force. No longer a snowflake, it has become an avalanche.

Supporting Each Other in the First Weeks
Babies have two parents: Mom and Dad. Following labor and delivery, it is important that both parents take an active part in the first few weeks of their new baby's life.

Your Newborn: Birth to 3 Months
They eat, sleep and cry -- pretty simple, right? If only.

A Newborn's Senses
Babies greet the world with open eyes, with open ears and with open arms.

Holding and Cradling Your Newborn
You carried your baby for months, safely tucked inside you where it took little effort to keep him warm, cradled and content. But now that he's finally here, things are a bit trickier.

Deciphering Baby's Cries
You've just come home with your new bundle of joy, but that joy is supplemented by crying – and lots of it. Is Baby hungry?

Today I Am a Mother
For the life of me I cannot figure out how this happened. One day I was thinking about having a baby, and today I have a yogurt-eating monster hiding in my bedroom.