Most first-time moms have no idea what to ask prospective sitters. There are the obvious questions: How long were you at your previous job? Do you know infant CPR? May I check your references? . . . But how can you really determine if someone is a good fit for your family?

Remember when pushing the clocks back meant an extra hour of sleep? Yeah. That was cool. This Sunday, of course, you’ll most likely be waking up an hour earlier—since your baby could care less what the clock says. In a desperate attempt to salvage those precious morning zzz’s, we asked (begged) the top four baby-sleep experts for their advice on how to survive the time change.

The H1N1 vaccine will start arriving in pediatricians’ offices this week, and we suddenly felt panicked about having to make a decision: to inoculate or not to inoculate? So we fired off a bunch of questions to our trusted MD Moms, who came back with a fantastically thorough explanation of all the issues surrounding the Swine Flu shot.

Here, everything a mom could possibly want to know about the new H1N1 vaccine:

There’s a growing backlash against parents who let their wee ones watch television. And while we more or less subscribe to the ideal-world notion of a TV-less infancy, we feel the need to keep things real. After all, we’re talking about television, not cigarettes.