Baby Development
Infant cognition, development, cry analysis
14 episodes
#3113: Baby Vital Signs: What Actually Works for Home Monitoring
Pulse oximeters, thermometers, and stethoscopes for infants — what's accurate and what's dangerously misleading.
#3074: Sunscreen vs Stroller: Baby Sun Protection in Jerusalem
What to actually do when the UV index is 11 and you need to walk 20 minutes to the park.
#3053: Why Babies Sleep 18 Hours and Adults Need 8
Newborns sleep 16-18 hours for synaptic pruning, REM wiring, and metabolic survival. Here's how sleep architecture changes across life.
#2902: The 47-Second Gap: Choking First Aid Every Parent Needs
Why most parents' first instinct during a choking emergency is dangerously wrong — and what the 2024 unified guidelines actually say.
#2897: The 2-Minute Baby Cry Diagnostic Algorithm
A pediatrician's structured framework for decoding pre-verbal distress when your baby can't tell you what's wrong.
#2895: What Your 10-Month-Old Boy’s Brain Is Actually Doing
The neuroscience behind motor milestones, sleep regressions, and why social media is making parents anxious.
#2801: Why Baby Babble Sounds Like Foreign Languages
Your baby isn't speaking Korean — but here's why the overlap isn't a coincidence.
#2575: How Montessori Actually Works (It's Not Chaos)
The real principles behind Montessori, from sandpaper letters to the absorbent mind.
#2265: Parenting's Cultural Operating Systems
Why does "good parenting" look so different around the world? We explore how culture, history, and resources create distinct "operating systems" fo...
#2258: How Maya, Inuit, and Hadza Parents Sleep at Night
How do Maya, Inuit, and Hadza cultures handle infant night wakings? The answer isn't a single trick, but a complete "sleep ecology" that redefines ...
#2257: How Maya, Inuit, and Hadza Cultures Engineer Sleep
What can the sleep practices of the Maya, Inuit, and Hadza teach us? It's not about tricks, but about building sleep into the fabric of life.
#2152: A Baby's Mouth Is a Lab-Grade Sensor
Why crawling babies put everything in their mouths, and how to balance safety with exploration.
#2051: Why Can't You Remember Being a Baby?
We have no record of our first years, but our brains were building the foundation of our minds. Here’s what developmental science says that lost wo...
#1703: Why Sloths Don't Send Mother's Day Cards
From sloths to elephants, we explore why most animals break family ties cleanly—and why some grieve for decades.