4 weeks to go until your due date and suddenly everyone starts asking if you have packed your bag! Suddenly it all becomes very real indeed and instead of thinking what is going on in your body you finally have to think about how you are going to get your baby out of your body!

Packing your bag for hospital is a good way to start the changing thought process.

There are several reasons for breastfeeding babies. First of all, pediatricians have discovered that breast milk can bolster your baby's immune system so that they are stronger and healthier. Second, breastfeeding often helps mothers and babies bond with each other while simultaneously helping shrink the uterus to its normal size after pregnancy.

In this day and age in the United States I don't know of anywhere that it is legal to carry a baby in a car without a car seat and if there is a place, they must be isolated from civilization in more than one way. Many hospitals can rent or loan you a seat in case you forgot to get one or forgot to bring one on the big birthday. It really is unconscionable to do without one considering the lives they save.

Here are some fun stats to bank away for future cocktail party conversation. More than 28 million people in our country speak Spanish as their native language. Learning Spanish opens up the door of communication with more than 350 million people worldwide. Adults who enjoyed being bilingual for a majority of their lives experience a four-year delay of the onset of dementia and dementia like symptoms.

In the western world it really is not cool to go without a baby car seat. The life you could save is the baby you love and there is no excuse. If you don't have one, many hospitals will loan or rent you a car seat and if nothing else you can go to the local thrift shop and pick up a used one. If you eat you can afford a car seat.

Because it is really not an option to have a car seat for a baby we will move on to the need to understand what kinds of care seats there are available.

Here is a well known parenting fact: Parents need naptime more than babies do. When my children were little naptimes were sacred. The world would stop during those precious few hours (sometimes only minutes) and I would either do nothing or try to do way too much.

But babies often have different designs on those best laid plans. And convincing a little one that they need to take a break is not always easy.

Staying home with your young children is ripe with daily, simple pleasures -- and profound challenges, as well. Here are six tips that helped me maintain my sanity (and be the best mom I could be) when I was home full time with my three kids:

1. Stay focused on the bigger picture. If you're like me, you've read all kinds of parenting books about how to handle different scenarios that will come up in the lives of your children.

Have you ever watched you child to stumble as he is walking or running? Do not panic! This is only another period of his life in which you should be by his side in order to support him.

In addition, there are different things you can do with your child to help him improve his gross motor skills, which are abilities needed to control the large muscles of the body for sitting, crawling, walking, running, and the whole body movements.

The following article is full advice on things that parents should consider as they try to pick out clothes for a new baby.

Comfortable
The number one criteria for baby clothes should always be comfort. When you shop for baby clothes, especially infant clothing, make sure that you take the weather into account so that your baby is warm in the winter and comfortably cool in the summer.

Potty training or toilet training a toddler poses a challenge to parents. In some situations it the process is smooth and in others it turns into a battle of wills.

The key to successful potty training is that both the child and the parent need to be ready to give it a go. Often a child will show readiness but the parents are not prepared to deal with the unpleasantness that comes along with the training period.