• Just like breastfed babies have a lower risk of illness, so do breastfeeding moms. Moms who breastfeed have a lower risk of high blood pressure (hypertension), type 2 diabetes, and ovarian cancer and certain types of breast cancer.

Good nutrition in the early years, especially the first year, is crucial for your baby’s development. With all of the different foods, vitamins and minerals to think about, it may seem a bit overwhelming at first, but it gets easier with time and practice.

Parent-led experts don’t recommend being so rigid with the schedule that you would delay feeding a hungry baby if he wakes to eat a few minutes early, but they warn that the parent should be mostly in control of the schedule. The goal is to get the baby to sleep through the night early so that everyone in the house sleeps better.

King cake is said to have originated in old-world France and Spain and is known for its association with the historically Catholic celebration Epiphany, or Twelfth Night, which marks the arrival of the three wise men in Bethlehem who delivered gifts to baby Jesus.