All Entries in the "Newborn" Category
Tips for the Holidays with Your Newborn
As the holidays come around, there will likely be partying, travel and other socializing on the anvil. But what about your newly arrived little bundle of joy? What do you need to do to ensure that baby is well looked after and that you don’t have to eschew the season’s jollity either? Exhaustion and lack [...]
How to Take Newborn Temperature
Parents might get nervous while taking newborn temperature, although taking the temperature is advised when the child has fever or they act cranky, has a hot or pale skin, there are rashes, the skin looks flushed or there is a nasal discharge. Additionally, you are advised to measure the baby temperature if the child refuses [...]
Handling Your Newborn Baby: Some Dos and Don’ts
New parents can likely feel overwhelmed by that tiny, helpless little bundle that they now find themselves in sole charge of. A new baby is so small and fragile looking and vulnerable seeming that new parents may constantly wonder whether the normal handling can possibly cause harm to the baby. 1. Learn to hold baby [...]
A Birth Doula – The Many Reasons Why This Is a Good Idea
A Birth Doula is a person (not necessarily a woman) who gives a woman non-medical support during the final stages of her pregnancy, during labor and childbirth as well as for a time after the baby arrives, in what is known as the postpartum period. Doulas are not required to be certified by law however [...]
Can a Baby Be Born with Teeth?
Recently in Wallsend Newcastle, a little new born girl shocked her parents Karen and Andy when it was revealed that she was born with two teeth! Tough most babies cut their first teeth only at about age 6 months or more, this was precocious at least in the oral sense. Little Summer Whelan was born [...]
A Day in the Life of New Parents
This is actually an idea that we got from one of our commentators who had just become a dad for the first time; to do a post about a typical day in the life of new parents. So what would a typical day be for a new parent of an infant who is say 8 [...]
What Is Ankyloglossia or Tongue Tie?
Ankyloglossia or tongue tie is a congenital condition that some babies are born with, which can cause certain problems in new born babies as well as older children and adults. It is a condition that is said to exist when the membrane connecting the tongue to the floor of the mouth is unusually thick and [...]
How Will Your Newborn Baby Look?
One of the things that parents to be are likely to be busy with, is guessing how their baby is going to look when he or she is born. It is remarkable how little or how much a baby can resemble their parents or even others in the family – grandparent, aunt, uncle, and cousin [...]
