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To Spoil or Not to Spoil
No worries … it’s not possible to spoil your newborn. If you have been taught that answering your baby’s cries immediately or holding your baby frequently will spoil your baby, you have been...
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Your Newborn: How Power Napping Helps You
Power napping gives you increased energy for newborn care. Sleep When Your Baby Sleeps The most common advice given to new parents is to sleep when your baby sleeps. If you’re not used to sleeping...
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Being Born is Challenging
A Few Hours Old Challenges An awareness of the challenges your newborn faces at birth when transitioning from the warm, fluid environment of the womb to the cooler, dry environment of our world helps...
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Having a Baby
What does it really mean to have a baby? When you have a baby, if you think about it, you don’t just have “a baby” but you truly create another human being, a person who will make a difference, large...
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The Power of Human Touch in Baby Care
The power of human touch is life affirming. We know from historical events that babies deprived of human touch will not survive for very long. Here is a more recent event that again demonstrates the...
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Bottle or Breast for My Newborn?
Gathering information will help you choose for your newborn. Making the decision to feed your newborn by bottle or by breast can be confusing for some new mothers. Here are some thoughts that may help...
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Benefits of Bottle Feeding
Here are some benefits that bottle feeding provides. Benefits Bottle feeding is usually easier for mothers and babies to learn. It’s comforting to see how much your baby is taking at each feeding. Any...
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Benefits of Breastfeeding
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health article “Why Breastfeeding Is Important” breastfeeding is not only beneficial for your baby, but as you will soon...
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Nipple Confusion: A Misnomer
It is my observation as a baby nurse that “nipple confusion” is not what it seems. Bottle versus Breast When you introduce a bottle to a baby who is learning to breastfeed, some babies do refuse to...
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The Magic in Baby Care
Because it’s Christmas, and because I’m a baby nurse, I found myself thinking about the baby care that Baby Jesus received. Without strollers, car seats, and separate bedrooms, Baby Jesus must have...
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The Magic of Human Touch
Human Touch Makes Baby Care Magic Holding your baby, wearing your baby, stroking your baby’s downy head and tender skin are ways you can provide loving human touch in your baby care. Intentionally...
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The Magic of Love
Love makes baby care magic. Love is the primary building block that permeates intentional baby care. As you remember, intentional baby care is the phenomenal care you give to your newborn (or baby or...
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The Magic of Attention
Paying attention to your newborn makes baby care magic. This mom is showering her newborn with undivided attention … and her newborn is paying attention right back. They both are offering human touch...
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Tips for Changing Baby’s Clothes
Here are a few tips for changing your baby’s clothes to make it easier for both of you. Two Hands Are Better Than One If your baby is lying down while you’re changing the clothes, not only will you...
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Dressing Your Newborn: How Many Layers?
Deciding how to dress your newborn can be challenging at first. How Many Layers? There is a simple rule of thumb that you may find extremely helpful when wondering how many layers to put on your baby....
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When Babies Rock
Rock your baby … every chance you get. It seems that Mother Nature has given us a natural response to rock back and forth when holding a fussy baby. And, sometimes you’ll even find yourself rocking...
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New Baby New Emotions
Having a new baby awakens new emotions. Emotions Although everyone’s experience is different, most every new mother feels her emotions are overwhelming at some time in the days to weeks following...
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Tips for Happy Bathing: Part I
Bath time can be a fun part of baby care, for both of you. Two keys to happy and safe bath times are warmth and hands-free bathing. Warmth Warmth applies to the room temperature as well as to the water...
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Tips for Happy Bathing: Part II
Another important tip: Gather supplies first! Supplies Here is a screen shot of the supplies used in the video Sponge Bath. Having all of the supplies you need at your fingertips allows you to work...
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Can’t Stop Staring at Your Newborn?
The natural response to newborn babies is to stop and stare in wonder. Whether your newborn is asleep or awake you’ll find you can hardly take your eyes off of your new baby. You’ll catch yourself...
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Tips for Scheduling Your Newborn’s First Appointment
Perhaps this inside information will be helpful for scheduling your baby’s first visit with the doctor. Magic Words When you call the doctor’s office to schedule your baby’s first appointment, mention...
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How to Wake a Sleeping Baby
You might ask, “Why would I want to wake my sleeping baby?” Wake My Baby? The most common example of when you will need to interact with your sleeping baby is when you have arrived at your destination...
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Your Baby’s Language
Yes … your baby has a language! Baby Talk Your baby’s language is composed of coos, cries, and body gestures universal to all babies, no matter where you are in the world. This means that your baby can...
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Babies are Smart!
Perhaps you have already noticed … your baby is smart! Even your newborn gets this praise. Babies, from Day 1 of life, are smart. They are born with a way of “talking” to us that doesn’t necessarily...
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Ease Your Fears About Having a Newborn
Is it possible to ease your fears about having a newborn? I believe … yes, it is. Experience Is a Good Teacher My own experience as a baby nurse allowed me to observe first hand that new parents’ fears...
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First Time Holding Your Newborn
Holding your newborn baby is both exciting and scary. The First Time When you are handed your newborn baby for the first time your heart races as you tentatively reach out to encompass the tiniest...
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Here’s a special Mother’s Day message for you. If you have a newborn in your life … past, present, or future … this is for you. I hope you enjoy it. For you and yours, D. Fravert, RN Music “Tomorrow’s...
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Will You Be Helping Someone Through Labor?
Here is a guide to help you prepare. Deliver! —A concise guide to helping the woman you love through labor by Julie Dubrouillet and Simon Firth. Deliver! is an easy read, detailing how you as the...
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Talking to Your Newborn Increases IQ!
Talk to your newborn and raise your baby’s IQ Perhaps it comes naturally for you to talk to your newborn baby about most anything that crosses your mind. Or, perhaps you have never really thought about...
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Tips About Your Newborn’s Head
The shape of your newborn’s head may surprise you! At Birth When your baby is first born you may notice the shape of your newborn’s head is not what you expected. In all of the pictures you see,...
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Your Newborn’s Skin
Your newborn’s skin is interesting. Amniotic Fluid When your baby is in the womb, the skin is in constant contact with amniotic fluid which is mostly composed of water. Mother Nature provides this...
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Can We Influence Breastfeeding With a Positive Expectation?
The role our thoughts and expectations play in breastfeeding. When you first know you want a baby in your life, you begin to plan for the best experience for both of you. You realize you have many...
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SF Bay Area Birth and Baby Fair
The SF Birth & Baby Fair is coming! If you are in the SF Bay Area you might want to check out the Baby Fair! Next weekend, June 22nd, there will be a variety of exhibitors with wonderful things for...
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Happy Father’s Day!
For all Dad’s everywhere … A special Father’s Day message just for you! I hope you enjoy it. D. Fravert, RN Music Stock Audio File # 1576249 http://www.istockphoto.com. ©D. Fravert, RNFiled under:...
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Look Inside Newborn Baby Manual
The Table of Contents The complete list of Baby Care Videos The important benefits provided by Newborn Baby Manual For you and yours, D. Fravert, RN The Table of Contents Filed under: Newborn Baby...
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Simple Tool to Guide Your Baby Care Choices
A Tool to Guide You I’d like to offer a tool to help you when you are trying to choose the best care for your baby. There are so many choices to make throughout your day. The benefit of this particular...
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Fourth of July Newborn Tips
Happy 4th of July! Today is traditionally a time to celebrate with families and friends, with most of us getting together to share food, fun, and fireworks. If you have a newborn, here are some tips...
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Tummy Time
Tummy time is the perfect complement to back to sleep. If you practice “back to sleep” for your baby’s safety, you’ll want to practice “tummy time” for your baby’s overall health and development. Back...
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Pacifiers are Good
Pacifiers are good when used to help your baby. Learning to Feed When your baby is in your womb, nutrition is easily provided without requiring your baby to do any work. From the moment your baby is...
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New Version of Newborn Baby Manual
If you have a copy of this ebook you will be interested to know that an updated version is now available for your added reading and viewing enjoyment. What’s New Font change in the videos makes it...
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When Your Baby Needs a Break
Sometimes even your newborn may need to take a break. Activity Like adults, babies sometimes get overly tired and need a change from the current engaging activity. Perhaps there are a lot of people...
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A Valuable Tip for the Early Days of Breastfeeding
Here is a tip that may help you in the early days of breastfeeding. Story As you may remember from one of the stories in the book my son happened to be born in a hospital without rooming in and without...
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Choices that Shape Your Baby’s Future
Research shows how baby care choices shape your baby’s future. Abundant Research Perhaps you remember the (linked) post “Intentional Baby Care” that talked about human touch, love, and attention, and...
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What’s In a Hug?
Hugs are pretty powerful … let’s take a look. Definition According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of a hug is “to put your arms around someone especially as a way of showing love or...
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The Golden Hour
The Golden Hour and Your Newborn What Is the Golden Hour? Golden Hour is a term used in photography, labor and delivery wards, and in war … and it refers to that small window of opportunity when the...
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Golden Hour Benefits
The Golden Hour offers benefits for both of you. What Is the Golden Hour? As you may remember from the last post, the term Golden Hour is used to refer to the time immediately after your baby is born...
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A World of Beautiful People
I believe the future holds a world of beautiful people. Beauty Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And beauty can mean different things to different people. But for this particular...
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Learn Newborn Care Before Your Baby Is Born!
Be safe and confident learning newborn care. I Want to Help My passion as a baby nurse is to help you enjoy your newborn baby from the first moments of your new life together, without letting fear of...
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Baby’s Stuffy Nose Keeping You Awake?
Your baby’s stuffy nose may sound really bad. First Cold When your baby gets older and has his or her first cold it can be very distressing. It is very difficult as a parent to see your baby suffering...
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CONTEST! WIN YOUR FREE COPY!
Enter to win your free copy of Newborn Baby—Tips & Videos ‘TIS THE SEASON In the spirit of giving I would like to give away my book to 6 lucky winners in this easy contest. There will be 3 eBooks...
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