Bathing
If your baby has uncurled his body and begun to kick, he is probably ready to enjoy being bathed. Instead of lying tensely in the water, on the edge of panicked crying, he feels the water floating his body and it makes him feel light and free and powerful.... Read more
Everyday Care For Settled Baby
Handling your Baby Tiny babies feel insecure and frightened when they are unbundled. That is why changing their clothes and bathing them and generally mucking them about needs to be kept to a hygienic minimum. But gradually, as babies get confidence in... Read more
Settled Baby Sleeping Basics
At three months, most babies sleep a total of 12 to 15 hours a day, including night time sleep and naps. Sleep training opportunity Typically, by age three months or so, babies have started to develop more of a regular sleep/wake pattern and have dropped... Read more
Excreting
Sleeping
While newborn babies often drift randomly in and out of sleep, sometimes spending long periods suspended between the two states, settled babies are much more definite about the difference between the two. Once asleep you can be fairly sure that they will... Read more
Teething
Cutting teeth is not one of those milestones a baby reaches all at once. Transitioning from that gummy grin to a mouthful of gleaming teeth is a rite of passage that can take your little one three years to complete. Whenever the first tooth peeks through,... Read more
Causes And Cures Of Crying
All the causes and cures of crying that were suggested for the newborn baby may still apply to this older one. But there are some new aspects to consider now, too. Sucky Babies Some babies are better soothed by sucking than by anything else and it may... Read more
Crying And Comforting
Some babies cry more than others. Even once they are “settled” there are babies who seem more inclined to the miseries, more jumpy or just generally less contented than other babies. But there are changes during the second and third months... Read more
Starting Solid Foods
As soon as your baby begins to take a real interest in solid foods, it is time to get organized so that meals are quick and easy for you and comfortable for him. This is no longer a tiny baby to be held on your lap to suck a tiny portion of puree off... Read more
Your Baby’s First Solids
There is no hurry; go slowly. Learning to eat solid foods is a big task for your baby. Up to now he has connected being hungry with sucking for milk. Now he has to learn that hunger can be satisfied by foods other than milk and that these foods can be... Read more
Mixed Feeding
Breast milk or formula is a complete food and drink except that some breast-fed babies may need a little extra iron by the time they are four months old. In theory your child could go on living on milk alone forever but in practice a milk-only diet would... Read more
Night Feeding
Most bottle-fed babies will go on needing six feedings in the 24 hours until they are at least six weeks old. Many will need five feedings until they are somewhere around four months. If you are breast-feeding, you may not differentiate between a “feeding”... Read more
Bottle Feeding
Underfeeding Underfeeding is rare in bottle-fed babies but it can happen. A baby who cries a great deal, seems generally discontented with life and is gaining weight slowly, is probably not getting enough to eat. Check the following points: You may be... Read more
Breast Feeding
Underfeeding Underfeeding in a breast-fed baby can creep up on you very gradually in a way which is unfairly difficult to spot. What often happens is this: having got breast-feeding started, your milk supply is plentiful during the first two or three... Read more
Feeding And Growing
By the time your baby is around two weeks old, he will have learned about feeding either at the breast or from a bottle. Those first confusing days, when neither of you knew quite what you were doing, are over. The baby wants to eat. He wants you to feed... Read more
The-Settled-Baby
The First Six Months One day you will find that you have stopped regarding your baby as a totally unpredictable and therefore rather alarming novelty and have begun instead to think of him as a person with tastes, preferences and characteristics of his... Read more