Summer is a fun season filled with water activities that kids and families enjoy. However, swimming pools and water activities can present many hazards for babies and children. In fact, drowning is the number one cause of injury-related death for children ages 1-4. Therefore, it is essential for parents to take all the necessary precautions […]
How Can I Protect my Baby from COVID-19?
COVID-19: A Challenge for New Parents Having a new baby is exciting and wonderful, but during this time of coronavirus it can be nerve racking to have a new baby at home. How will you keep your precious baby safe? How can family and friends meet the new baby safely? These are just a few […]
Newborn Care Experts Help Establish Healthy Sleep Habits
What is a Newborn Care Expert? A Newborn Care Expert is specially trained to help create healthy sleep habits from the beginning. It is much more difficult to break unhealthy sleep habits once they have been formed. Therefore, it is important to understand what healthy sleep habits look like. New parents may not know how […]
A look inside Boston Baby Nurse & Nanny: Meet our founder!
This month we are highlighting our President and Founder, Carole Kramer-Arsenault, RN, IBCLC. For over a decade Arsenault has guided parents through pregnancy, labor, birth and the newborn period at Boston’s top birthing hospitals including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital to name a few. As a parent educator, labor […]
Don’t Forget To Pack Safe And Healthy Sleep Habits!
Do you ever feel like you need a vacation from your vacation? I certainly did when I traveled with a newborn, infant or toddler (and I still do even though I have three teenagers and a 23-year-old!). When we prepare for traveling, we think about packing, making flight or driving arrangements and reserving accommodations. However, […]
Breastfeeding Tips Straight From A Lactation Consultant!
I’m assuming by now you have read all the books on parenting and expecting, hopefully, attended your birthing and infant care classes too. But …. how much time have you spent preparing for breastfeeding? I know what you’re thinking….believe me. I was a new parent too and I thought, ‘check the box….yes to breastfeed’. I […]
Boston Baby Nurse & Nanny Wins Family Favorite For The Third Consecutive Year!
We are both honored and pleased to announce that Boston Baby Nurse and Nanny has been awarded as a 2017 Family Favorite by Boston Parents Paper! Having been recipients of the award in both 2015 & 2016 we are thrilled to add on yet another year. The Boston Parent Family Favorites Award was designed to […]
That’s Funny, Mommy!
Isn’t it the best when your child laughs? It never gets old. On the web, tons of “laughing baby videos” go viral. Baby laughing at the sound of a crinkling newspaper. (Newspapers don’t make that sound! That’s funny!) Or baby laughing at daddy making a goofy face. (He doesn’t usually look like that!) Everybody loves […]
