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]]>By Erica Weber
Going on holiday with an infant? Erica, who has visited 38 countries with her younger daughter shares 20 awesome tips!
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On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: 10 diapers and wipes, 9 poop explosions, 8 oz of breast milk, 7 hrs of travel, 6 impending germy relatives, 5 pieces of baby gear, 4 overexcited grandparents, 3 modes of transportation, 2 nervous parents and a crying baby in an airplane.
Worried about taking planes, trains or automobiles for the first time with your new ornament in tow for the holidays? With these tips, you’ll be flying high with your infant and only worrying about the unidentifiable ingredients in your Aunt’s holiday cake. At 15 months old our little one has been on 85+ flights so I think it’s safe to say we’ve had some experience!
- Extra Extra Extra – read all about it, diaper days are here to stay! Regardless of the length of flight, I bring 1.5 days worth of diapers and wipes in my carry-on baby bag. Is it overkill? If everything goes to plan then yes. But if you get stranded somewhere, heavily delayed, or snowed in by a poopocalypse then you’ll happily take cover under your pile of diapers. I usually say minimize everything, but when it comes to diapers, the more the merrier in my book to avoid the shit hitting the airplane fan (literally).
- Bring more pads than the NFL starting lineup – pads in your carry-on for here, there and everywhere are necessary for a new moms lady bits…because postpartum is gross.
- Outfits galore for your baby Zsa Zsa Gabor – bring multiple extra outfits for the baby (aka more than just 1) and throw in an additional shirt for you and your partner as well.
- BYOB = Bring Your Own Bibs – dress the baby in a bib so you only have to change that, instead of their entire outfit every time they spit up. And, needless to say, bring lots of extras to keep switching out wet ones for dry ones.
- Baby toiletries bag – plan for any scenario by packing a solid baby toiletries bag in your carry-on with all your essentials to treat that nasally baby on the go. Check our Baby Travel Toiletries post to point you in the right direction.
- Pick your seat wisely to avoid the baby getting Julia Gulia’d by a drink cart – a window or middle seat is best for whoever is holding the baby, then choose an aisle seat for the diaper changing pit crew for easy bathroom access. Tip: Choose a window and aisle seat in the hopes of the middle seat remaining empty; worst case scenario one of you moves over or you can make someone awkwardly sit in between you and pass the baby over their lap.
- You’re going to an airport, not the Arctic Circle – don’t go all Joey Tribiani and dress the baby in everything they own. Put them in a max of 2 layers and bring a blanket in your baby bag in case it’s cold on the airplane.
- Leisure suits are back – fly babies in zippered jammies such as Carter’s 1-Piece Snug Fit Cotton PJs and avoid buttons or snaps like you dodge your Grandmother’s lipstick layered kisses.
- Easy access – we’re not talking about your lingerie here (I think that’s how we got ourselves into this situation!). Breastfeeding moms are best in easy access attire such as Rosie Pope’s Seamless Nursing Cami with padded shelf bra beneath a comfy sweater, and like your lingerie, no bra is required.
- Time is on your side, until it screws you – pack a few days ahead of time, leave for the airport earlier than you would have pre-baby, and assume things will take you more time than usual as you fumble through your first airport attempts with a baby.
- Check yo self before you wreck yo self – being a former carry-on only traveler, it took some time to adjust to the checked baggage stage of life, but it’s by far the way to go when traveling with a baby. Free hands, full checked bags can’t lose, so ditch those bags as early as possible (curbside even) and leave that valuable hand space ready for your baby.
- Give your baby gear abandonment issues – check the car seat, and even the stroller, at the check-in counter and just wear the baby on you, or use a travel friendly stroller like the Babyzen Yoyo to minimize your life. Car seats and strollers are free checked baggage on almost all airlines, so don’t worry about the cost.
- The welcomed kind of preemie – TSA Precheck is the golden ticket to make you fly through security without removing your computer or shoes so you can focus on the baby.
- Like with losing your virginity, it’s best to set expectations – tell the flight attendant it’s your first flight. They are magical keepers of all things baby travel wisdom.
- Neck and arms need love too – bring a travel pillow that you’d normally use for your neck and wedge it under your arm to comfortably hold the baby on an airplane armrest.
- Use boob, bottle or beer to pop it like it’s hot on takeoff and landing – keep those jaws moving and decrease ear discomfort for all ages during times of pressure changes in the cabin. Beer is obviously for the oversized children we call our partners.
- Don’t poke the bear – if your baby falls asleep before takeoff or landing, do not wake them up to feed them for ear pressure issues. Letting them sleep through those moments is just as effective.
- Replace toys with the original FaceTime – since we’re talking 0-6 months of age here, your baby requires little to no toys for a flight. For 0-3 months toys are just extra things to fumble and drop, and your newborn doesn’t need them at all. For 3-6 months bring one or two teethers with clippable straps. In general, use your face to entertain them, and they’ll find it hysterical. Can you blame them?!
- Strap ons for the win – don’t ever let that pacifier hit the germ infested airplane floor. Strap it to your babe or to yourself and bring extras along with sanitizing wipes. Pretend like you’re playing the “hot lava” game we played as kids using the airplane floor as the no-fly zone.
- Be mindful about germs – bring a nursing cover even if you’re not breast feeding so the baby can eat, sleep and be protected by strange coughs from seat 3E.
Like bees, babies can smell fear, so CHILL OUT! Traveling with an infant is really no different than going out on the town with them, so stop worrying yourself sick about a few hours on public transportation – it’ll be totally fine if you are prepared and stay calm. Just avoid getting snowed in with no supplies or leaking like Edward Snowden by taking the advice above. So fly yourself towards some family babysitting and have Happy Holidays, from our family to yours!
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]]>How to Swaddle a Newborn Baby Safely | Easy Technique | Video
What is Swaddling? How do I swaddle a newborn baby safely? Swaddling is an ancient practice of wrapping a newborn/ baby snugly and gently in a blanket or sheet to help them feel calm, relax and eventually fall asleep. Being swaddled reminds babies of the womb’s embrace and it is a similar experience to being cuddled skin-to-skin, which may make them sleep more deeply. ( See Video for how to swaddle safely at the bottom of this page).
Most importantly, swaddling promotes safe sleeping in infants and improve the quality of sleep in young babies If you are going to swaddle, evidence suggests it is safest to do it from birth.
Swaddling prevents:
- Your newborn baby from startling herself and disrupting sleep.
- Your baby from scratching or rubbing as they go to sleep, lots of babies scratch or rub as they fall asleep.
- Babies from turning from their back to a face-down position, potentially protecting them from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
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Safe Sleeping Swaddling Guidance
If you decide to adopt swaddling, please follow the safe sleeping swaddling guidance for babies.
- Use thin materials
- Do not swaddle above the shoulders
- Never put a baby to sleep on their front
- Do not swaddle too tight
- Check the baby’s temperature to ensure they do not get too hot
- Not a good idea to swaddle a baby when bed-sharing. A swaddled baby is not able to effectively move covers from the face or use arms and legs to alert an adult who is too close
- Stop swaddling as soon as your baby shows any signs of trying to roll over.
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]]>Top 6 Reasons To Call Your Doctor For Your Newborn
- Fever
- Jaundice
- Vomiting
- Urine output
- Poopy Diaper
- your newborn isn’t having a daily BM in the first few weeks of life.
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Reasons To Call Your Doctor For Your Newborn
There are some important newborn essentials that you need to keep in mind in your maternal newborn nursing stage. Newborn baby care(at home) and newborn assessment should surely be at the top of your priority list. You must make sure that problems like intense newborn baby crying is properly addressed. Moreover, you must invigilate your newborn baby’s routine to avoid any such issues. Stressing it further, we have created a video in which we have mentioned six instances when you should definitely call the pediatrician. You should definitely watch it to make yourself aware of the problems that might occur in your parenting journey.
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What are the odds! A 25-year-old mother from Florida is experiencing quadruple joy after welcoming two sets of twins boys in 2019. All of whom she conceived naturally.
She became a mom to a second set of twins on Dec. 27 when she delivered fraternal twins Kaylen and Kayleb.
Wolliston said that prior to giving birth to Mark and Malakhi, she was unaware twins ran in both sides of her family.
“When my mom told me, and my aunties and uncles on my dad’s side told me, I was like shocked”. She said “Both of my grandmothers are no longer here, so I feel like they’re watching over me,”
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Wolliston said her doctor told her she had better chances of winning the lottery than having two sets of twins and delivering them in the same year.
Wolliston is also the mother of a 2-year-old girl. She was scared about how her body would handle a back to back twin pregnancy.
She said “I never thought that it could happen that fast and it did”. Adding that she was worried about how her body would be able to handle a back-to-back twin pregnancy.
It turned out that Wolliston’s second pregnancy was easier than the first:
She said, her first set of twins were considered high risk. Because they were in the same sac using only one placenta. Because of this, she would visit her doctor weekly or bi-weekly. But her second set of twins each had their own sac. She was only required to visit her doctor once a month throughout her pregnancy.
The mom of 5 has had to move back in with her mother for extra support.
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By: ChildrenLearning
Learning to read at a young age is important for the development of the child. It helps them develop a better understanding of their surroundings, allows them to gather information from printed materials, and provides them with a wonderful source of entertainment when they read stories and rhymes. Children develop at different rates, and some children will develop reading skills quicker than other children; however, what’s important is that as the parent, you are keenly aware of your child’s maturity and reading level to provide them with appropriate books and activities to help them improve.
As parents, you are the most important teacher for your children. You will introduce your child to books and reading. Below we have some tips to help you teach your child to read.
Teach Your Child How to Read Tip #1
Teach your child alphabet letters and sounds at the same time. Studies have shown that children learn best when they are taught the letter names and letter sounds at the same time. In one study, 58 preschool children were randomly assigned to receive instructions in letter names and sounds, letter sound only, or numbers (control group). The results of this study are consistent with past research results in that it found children receiving letter name and sound instruction were most likely to learn the sounds of letters whose names included cues to their sounds. [1]
When teaching your child the letter sounds, have them slowly trace the letter, while saying the sound of the letter at the same time. For example, if you were teaching your child the letter “A”, you would say:
“The letter A makes the /A/ (ah) sound.”
Then have your child say the /A/ sound while tracing the letter with his or her index finger.
Teaching a Child How to Read Tip #2
When teaching your child to read, always emphasize with them that the proper reading order should be from left to right, and top to bottom. To adults, this may seem so basic that anyone should know it. However, our children are not born with the knowledge that printed text should be read from left to right and top to bottom, and this is why you’ll sometimes see children reading from right to left instead – because they were never explicitly taught to read from left to right. When teaching your child how to read, always emphasize this point with them.
Teach Your Child How to Read Tip #3
Teach final consonant blends first. Teaching words such as “at” and “and” can lead your child directly to learning words that rhyme with these. For example, for “at”, you can have:
Lat
Pat
Mat
Cat
Sat
Bat
Spat
Chat
For “and”, you can have these rhyming words:
Sand
Band
Land
Hand
Stand
Bland
Brand
Grand
and so on…
You can start teaching blends once your child has learned the sounds of some consonants and short vowel sounds. You don’t need to wait until your child has mastered the sounds of all the letters before teaching blends.
Learning to read is a long process, but it doesn’t have to be a difficult process. Broken down into intuitive and logical steps, a child as young as two years old can learn to read, and older children can accomplish even more.
Notes:
1. J Exp Child Psychol. 2010 Apr;105(4):324-44. Epub 2010 Jan 25.
Learning letter names and sounds: effects of instruction, letter type, and phonological processing skill.
Piasta SB, Wagner RK.
Preschool Language and Literacy Lab, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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]]>Woman Gives Birth To Twins:
A 20-year-old Bangladeshi woman gives birth to twins. Just 26 days after giving birth to her first child.
Moreover, her twins were found to be healthy and were discharged with no complications.
“All three children are safe and healthy. I am very, very happy that everything went well” Dr Poddar said. “The mother is also fine.”
Sultana had two uteruses, a condition called uterus didelphys. Her first baby and the twins were conceived and grown in separate wombs.
She did not get an ultrasound before the first delivery, so it was missed.
According to Dr Poddar, Sultana and her husband are “very poor” and she had “never had an ultrasound before”, in the run up to her first delivery.
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The 20-year-old and her newborns were discharged on 25 March after four days in the hospital.
“It is not very common to have two uteruses. When the uterus develops, it comes from two tubes, and those tubes fuse together. For some women, the fusion does not occur, and the dividing wall does not dissolve,” said Dr. S.N. Basu, head of obstetrics and gynecology at Max Healthcare hospital in New Delhi.
A uterus didelphys is a rare congenital abnormality, and the occurrence of twin gestation has an overall incidence rate of 1 in a million, according to the National Institutes of Health.
For it not to be discovered before the birth is even less common. Often women who have the condition do not have symptoms and it is usually discovered during pregnancy when an ultrasound scan is given.
“From rural areas, people don’t know what is wrong with them. They don’t know how many children they are pregnant with and sometimes whether they are pregnant also,” Dr Basu said.
“If you go for a scan beforehand it would be very obvious to see two sets of uteruses. But obviously they are from a more rural area [and might not have access to ultrasound scanning],” Dr Christopher Ng of the GynaeMD Clinic told the BBC.
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When To Call the Doctor For Your Newborn ( or go to the ER ) By Dr. Cathryn.
Congratulations on your new baby! It’s such an exciting, overwhelming, confusing, joyous, and scary time. The first few weeks can be particularly challenging. All of a sudden you’re totally responsible for another human being—and you may not have any previous experience with babies or any friends or family nearby to guide you.
My goal is to help make the beginning of this journey easier for you. Babies are strange little creatures and they’re not always easy to read. Many new parents feel hesitant about calling their doctor and wonder whether they’re over-reacting. So, I’ve put together a list of a few common newborn problems that require a call or visit your healthcare provider in the first month of life. It will help you for knowing When To Call the Doctor For Your Newborn.
FEVER: Newborn babies may get a fever as the first and the only sign of a serious infection. Call your baby’s doctor immediately or better yet, go to the Emergency Room, if your new baby is younger than 1 month old and has a rectal temperature of 100.4°F (38°C) or higher. This isn’t a situation to watch and see whether the fever goes away on its own.
JAUNDICE: Yellowing of the skin and eyes is very common in the first few days of a new baby’s life. For most babies, jaundice will go away on its own. However, some new babies will require treatment in the hospital. You should see your baby’s health-care provider if your little one appears more jaundiced or feedings aren’t going well. Also, watch for signs of dehydration, such as fewer wet diapers, or urates in the diaper. (Urates are a red-orange stain found in your baby’s diaper that may be caused by dehydration).
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VOMITING: Many babies spit up. But it’s important to be able to differentiate between vomit and spit-up because vomiting needs a trip to the hospital, while spit-up can be discussed with your doctor. How can you tell the difference? Spit-up effortlessly spills out of the mouth, is typically a small amount, and sometimes comes up with a burp. While vomiting is more forceful and is a larger amount. If your baby’s vomit is consistently forceful or dark green in color or spit-up is copious, you should take your little guy to the hospital. If you’re not sure whether your baby is spitting-up or vomiting, err on the side of safety, and have your baby seen by a doctor.
INS & OUTS: Since your baby can’t tell you how she’s feeling, you’ll partly need to depend on wet and poopy diapers to guide you about her hydration and nutrition.
Urine output—-In the early days, a baby typically has one wet diaper for each day of life. In other words, 1 wet diaper on day one, 2 on day two, and so on… Once your milk comes in, you can expect approximately 5 – 6 wet diapers in a day.
Poopy diapers—- Newborn poop comes in a variety of colors and consistency. Pooping is also a reflection of your baby’s wellbeing. First comes meconium, the black tarry stool that filled your baby’s intestine when in utero. Next comes a transitional stool, which is a dark green, yellow, yellow-green, loose, and possibly seedy stool. Then within a few days comes a mustard-like color, watery, or seedy stool for breast-fed babies. A bottle-fed baby’s poop can have a more brownish colored stool that is soft but formed.
So here’s the deal. There’s a lot of variation of normal newborn poop! So, what’s average? In the first few weeks of life, a breastfed baby may have 1 – 10 bowel movements per day with the average being 5. A bottle-fed baby will typically have 2 bowel movements a day, but this number may also vary.
When should you contact your physician regarding your baby’s Ins & Outs in the first month of life? (It’s important to realize we are talking about the first month of life—as your baby’s digestive system is changing quickly and what’s considered normal will change after this time).
Call your doctor if:
1️⃣ your baby has urates in several diapers
2️⃣your little one isn’t having adequate urine output.
3️⃣your newborn isn’t having a daily BM in the first few weeks of life.
4️⃣ stools are white or light-colored stool (especially if your baby is jaundiced, as this may reflect liver problems)
Other reasons to see your doctor would include non-stop crying, feeding problems, sleeping more than usual, breathing rapidly, and anything that makes you feel worried.
Finally, if anything about your baby’s condition is making you feel uncomfortable, please see your healthcare provider. Trust your instincts—they’re typically right!
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About the Author: Dr. Cathryn is a consulting and general pediatrician for more than 30 years. Her work has been featured in NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Globe & Mail, Dear Abby, Parents, Todays Parent, Canadian Living, etc. She’s also the mother of four successful and lovely young adults, and one wildly playful puppy (who’s causing her more grief than her children ever did). Find more of her @healthiest_baby
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A Maryland Nanny Convicted of Murder after prosecutors successfully argued. She poured almost 8 ounces of formula down a baby girl’s throat in less than 30 seconds. Essentially drowning her.
Oluremi Adeleye, 73, from Maryland, was convicted Monday. After a judge found her guilty of child abuse and second-degree murder over Enita Salubi’s death in 2016.
Footage from a nanny camera showed 8 month-old Enita pulling on the nanny’s dress and patting her leg as she lay on the couch.
Prosecutors said that Adeleye then poured nearly eight ounces (0.25 liters) of milk down Enita’s throat in less than 30 seconds.
The footage showed Adeleye picked up Enita after she fell to the floor and tried to give her another bottle.
The baby eventually went limp.
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Adeleye, a mother of five and grandmother of 10, declined a trial by jury. She opted to have a judge weigh her case.
When she testified in her own defense, Adeleye said she didn’t mean to hurt the child.
Adeleye said she was merely trying to ensure that the baby didn’t go hungry. Contended it is customary in her home country of Nigeria to force children to eat.
“I did what I needed to do to make sure the baby had food in the stomach”. She testified through an interpreter.
In announcing the conviction, the judge noted that Adeleye lied to homicide detectives. During a recorded interview about how she fed the child. Adeleye at first denied removing the lid of the bottle to feed the baby. Then later admitted to unscrewing the cap. After a detective told her there was a video of the incident, testimony showed. The lying “demonstrates a consciousness of guilt,” the judge said. He also mentioned that the nanny’s actions were “cruel and inhumane.”
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