Medical Care

Immunizations Immunizations protect your child from certain potentially serious diseases. Since many of these illnesses occur in the first years, it is important to immunize your child early and keep to a regular schedule. Immunizations are given at your... Read more

Newborns Behavior

Some babies are much more difficult to look after happily than others. You cannot choose your baby’s temperament any more than you could have chosen his or her sex. You may have the “kind” of baby you find easy to understand, sympathize... Read more

Newborns Senses

Each of your baby’s five senses is in working order from the moment of birth. A baby does not have to learn to see, to hear, to sense touch through the skin, or even to smell or taste. The equipment for all these activities is in-built. What is... Read more

Newborns Body

There is much to learn about looking after very new babies and, because they have not yet settled down, caring for them is a very demanding job. It is easy to get so involved in daily care that you find yourself treating your child like a very precious... Read more

Excreting

Normal bowel and urinary function varies considerably from baby to baby. Regularity and frequency of bowel movements varies not only between babies – it can even change in the same baby from day to day. During the first six weeks, newborns generally... Read more

Diapers

Disposable diapers are available in a vast range of sizes, shapes and qualities. You can often find Rolls Royce diapers at Ford prices among supermarket own–brands, so look for features rather than best-known name: Absorbency need not go with bulk.... Read more

Cleanliness

Babies do not need to be kept nearly as clean as most of us keep them. It is adults who like them to smell of baby powder. The chief purpose in washing a new baby is to remove from the skin anything which might irritate and make it sore. The skin would... Read more

Dressing And Undressing

Dressing and undressing upset many babies. They fear the feeling of air on bare skin and dislike being pulled around. So keep nakedness to a minimum and try to pull the clothes rather than the limbs. At the beginning you will probably feel that you do... Read more

Everyday Care For Newborn

Handling your Baby New babies have an instinctive fear of being dropped which shows whenever their heavy heads are allowed to flop or their uncontrolled limbs dangle in space. They can neither support their own heads nor control their own muscles and... Read more

Sleeping and Waking

After an initial period of wakefulness after birth, many babies sleep deeply until they are twenty-four hours old. They rouse only briefly and may not be very interested in feeding; others are just the opposite, waking, fussing, and feeding frequently.... Read more

Newborn Sleeping Basics

Newborns sleep a lot – typically 14 to 18 hours a day during the first week and 12 to 16 hours a day by the time they are a month old. But most babies do not stay asleep for more than two to four hours at a time, day or night, during the first few... Read more

Sleeping

New babies sleep exactly the amount that their personal physiology tells them to sleep. There is nothing that you can do to make your baby sleep more than this amount and nothing that the baby can do to sleep less. Unless he is ill, in pain, or extremely... Read more

Starting Bottle Feeding

Your baby’s bottle, nipples and the equipment used to prepare the milk need scrupulous attention to prevent a build-up of bacteria. The amount of equipment you buy depends on which type of formula you use and on how you organize your sterilizing.... Read more

Food And Growth

New babies need as much breast milk or properly made formula as they willingly drink and the offer of some cooled boiled water a couple of times each day. They do not need anything else until they are at least three months old. Once the birthweight has... Read more

Burping, Bubbling, Or Bringing Up Air

There is always air in your baby’s stomach. He swallows some while crying or just breathing as well as when he feeds. If you feed with the baby in a fairly upright position, the heavier milk will find its way to the bottom of the stomach and the... Read more

Bottle Feeding Basics

If you are formula feeding your baby before one year of age, a commercially prepared formula is recommended. Evaporated milk formulas are not as well suited to your baby’s nutritional needs. Whole, 2 percent, 1 percent, skim, and goat’s milk... Read more

Bottle Feeding

. . . but a baby can revel in bottle-feeding too. We have no real alternative to the breast-fed baby’s colostrum, so while the bottle-fed baby may start life with one or two drinks of sugared water, formula will be offered by the second day. This... Read more

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