Published April 20, 2011 | 
First time mothers: Keep your cool!
Giving birth to a baby and taking care of it is not an easy proposition and if it happens to be your first time, it becomes tougher. All first time mothers need to keep in mind a few basic things. Apart from that, have fun and enjoy your pregnancy for as long as it lasts!
Shopping for baby: Starting to shop for the baby before it arrives is a good idea. There are a lot of things you need to buy, from clothes, diapers, toys, books, toiletries, baby care products, baby foods, etc. Make a list of all the things you need and finish a part of it every weekend.
Decorating the nursery: This is also a job best done before the arrival of the baby. The baby nursery should have a crib or cot, nursery shelves, bassinet and a few other items. Also, it should have a space allocated for toys and other baby’s stuff. The baby will require a lot of things and it makes sense to have space for all of them.
Get sleep: After you have given birth, it is important that you get enough sleep. This may seem like impossible for a new mother, but you have to manage. A good idea is to sleep while the baby sleeps.
Pet problems: If you have a pet at home, do make sure that it gets adjusted to the new addition to your family. It will take some effort on your side, but with time, your pet and baby are going to be the best of friends.
Published April 20, 2011 | How to introduce your new baby to the pet?
Having a baby is definitely a life- altering event. If you have a pet, then you must be worried about how the pet will react to your new baby and vice versa. What if the pet gets jealous and bites your baby? Many questions such as this will continue to haunt you. There is however a few guidelines you can follow to introduce your new baby to the pet.
Think about your pet’s temperament, more so if it is a dog. You must have heard stories about dogs hurting babies or even killing them. If you are not confident that the temperament of your pet will be harmless to your baby, you can think about giving it up. There are many local rescue groups who will relocate your pet if you want. Your child’s safety is paramount.
Familiarize your pet with the baby furniture some time before your baby comes home. Get the crib out, put the swing in the living room and set up the bouncy chair on the floor. By the baby comes home, your pet will get familiarized with the new furniture and not consider the baby as an intruder into its space.
Try to get a friend or family member to come home with one of your baby’s hats when you are still in the hospital and let it sniff it. This will help the pet get familiarized with the baby’s smell.
Don’t let your pet remain with your baby Alone. Always keep close supervision.
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Leave a commentPublished April 20, 2011 | A Completely Doable Baby List
Are you having a baby? Once the initial euphoria subsides, you will find yourself thinking about things your baby will need once it arrives. If you are too confused about exactly what things your baby will need, it is a good idea to break up the first year into three parts and then do the shopping. Have a look at a completely doable baby list.
0-3 Months (Must haves):
A place for the baby to sleep, such as a crib or a bassinet
10 receiving blankets; for swaddling the baby and wrapping it up
5- 10 onesies; you can use it in multiple layers when it is in winter or as a single layer when it is warm
5- 10 sleepers
Baby soap
Baby shampoo
Nail clippers & hairbrush
Car Seat
Washcloths
Diapers & wipes
Diaper rash cream
Bulb Syringe
Thermometer
Bunting suit for cold days (if needed
Bottles/Formula/Breast Pump (depending on your choice)
Good to haves:
Diaper Bag
Other clothes
Stroller
Play Pen
Rocking Chair
Toys
Soothers
Baby soap
Baby Monitor
Baby Sling
Change Table / Dresser
Baby bathtub
Swing
3-6 months:
More clothes
Baby cereal
Baby spoons
High chair
Bibs
Baby spoons
Jolly jumper
6-12 months:
More clothes
New carseat
Even more books & toys
Easy to do the shopping now, isn’t it?
Posted in Baby Must-Haves | babies, baby, baby list, baby lists, baby must have, baby must haves | Leave a commentPublished April 20, 2011 | How to select appropriate baby furniture
If you are having a baby, it is important that you choose the right furniture for your home. It’s never too early to start searching for baby furniture when you are pregnant. The earlier you begin your search, the more time you get to do it.
Looking online for baby furniture is a great way to go about it. There are various furniture- selling websites available where you will be able to find all sorts of furniture. Not only will you find materials like wood, metal, you will also find artificial materials as well in different colors and models. The internet is also a great place to scout for discounted furniture. But first decide on what you are looking for? Are you shopping for a crib, bassinet, a changing table or an entire furniture set?
If you have had a baby before, a good way to save money would be to re- use the furniture. Make sure that you visit a number of online stores before you settle for one. If you do this, you will be able to know which website offers the least prices.
You may also decide to opt for free furniture for your baby. It is possible to find classified ads in newspapers and magazines where parents give away their baby furniture for free. You may be able to find a few nice pieces if you do this.
Every parent wants nice furniture for their children and with some effort, you are going to do it too.
Posted in Baby Furniture | babies, baby, baby furniture, furniture, furniture selling websites, online stores | Leave a commentPublished April 20, 2011 | Tips to help you with decorating your house when you are having a baby
Having a baby changes everything and if you are pregnant, decorating your house is one of the most fun things to do. Here are tips to keep in mind:
If you are doing up a nursery, it will help if you know whether it will be a boy or a girl. Paint the walls of the nursery in a soft color with a non- toxic paint that is meant to be used for nurseries. Safety cover outlets should be installed as well.
Look around your house and find which items could be hazardous. Glass- end tables and coffee tables are pretty but if your baby gets up on them when it starts crawling and hurts itself, you will have only yourself to blame.
If your house doesn’t have carpeting, it’s time you opt for it. Your baby is going to fall a lot after it starts crawling. Carpeting will help preventing injuries.
Safety outlet covers for all your electrical appliances is important. This is not only for your baby, but for any children that may come into your house.
The furniture in your household should have rounded edges, and not sharp ones. A crib, a rocking chair and a changing table are important pieces of furniture you definitely will need.
It is not easy to remember everything while decorating your house to make it baby- friendly, but with a little effort you can do a great job.
Published April 20, 2011 | Does your baby come with a manual?
When the doctor placed my new born onto my chest, what I felt was indescribable. Feelings of joy, excitement, happiness and love for my baby engulfed me. It was truly the happiest moment of my life. But my baby did not come with a manual. So how do I handle it?
Even if it came with no manual, I slowly learnt a few things about how to handle my baby and take care of it the proper way. The first thing I learnt perhaps was not to take everyone’s advice seriously. Of course, some of it may be helpful advice, but the major part is things that would only stress me out more when I already had too much on my plate. For instance, whenever my baby cried, my mother- in-law would say that I was starving it by breast feeding it. It drove me nuts. I had to say strictly to her that since she had never breastfed any of her children, her knowledge about it was particularly limited. So could she stop bothering me?
I also learnt that trusting my motherly instinct is the best way to go. It is what will alert me if something goes wrong with my baby. Also, learning to relax and asking for help from friends and family so that I could just rest and get some sleep is a good idea.
So even if my baby didn’t come with a manual, I developed one by myself through trial- and- error.
Posted in Baby Manual | babies, baby, baby manual, breastfeeding, manual, mother's instinct, motherly instinct, newborn baby | Leave a commentPublished April 20, 2011 | New parents: You need your sleep too!
As you must already know, sleep is the number 1 casualty for new parents. The thought of sleeping for a full 7 to 8 hours every night seems like a distant dream when you have a newborn at home. But with proper planning and coordination with your partner, it may just be possible to turn the dream into reality.
For a mother, sleeping when the baby is sleeping is the best thing to do. If your baby is taking a day time nap, you take it as well! Forget all your chores and household activities that need to be done; you need to take care of yourself too!
Your bedroom is your sanctuary. While it may be perfectly possible that you may not want to let your baby go out of your sight at any point of time, keeping its crib or bassinet just outside your door at night will keep you and your partner away from hearing every hiccup and coo it makes. Get sleep!
If you are using a baby monitor, turn down its volume. You want to hear it crying, not breathing!
Work out your nighttime schedule with your partner so that both of you can catch up on sleep, even if not at the same time.
Hire a babysitter whenever you can to sleep or just have some fun time with your partner. This is important.
If sleep doesn’t come, don’t think too much about it. Instead, listen to some relaxing music or read a book.
Posted in Parents | baby, baby monitor, babysitter, mother, new parent, new parents, parent, parents, sleep, sleeping | Leave a commentPublished April 20, 2011 | When your baby comes home- A Homecoming checklist for the new Mom
The day that your baby comes home from the hospital is a day that will be filled with excitement, joy and happiness for both you and your partner. Carrying your baby home may also be scary if you are not prepared for it. Like any other big event, a little bit of preparation beforehand goes a long way in smoothing out the bumps. If you are a first- time mom, here’s a checklist to help you remember the important things.
Clean sheets on the crib or the bassinet. You can do this about a month before your baby comes home- that is before you go to the hospital to give birth. Sheets should be out of the packages and the wrappings tossed to the bin. A good idea would be to ask your partner to do this.
The changing table should be set up. Remember, your baby will be wetting its diaper quite a number of times everyday. So even before it comes home, keep the powders, wipes and lotions near hand.
Arrange the baby’s wardrobe. Take out the entire baby’s clothing out of their bags and wrappers and fold them nicely. Throw out all the boxes as well. As soon as your baby comes home, you will need its clothing.
Pack light when you go to the hospital for labor.
Ask for help when you need it. That is why friend and family are for. Call them and ask them to help when mothering becomes too stressful.
Posted in Baby Comes | babies, baby, Baby Comes, baby's clothing, baby's homecoming, baby's wardrobe, bassinet, crib, diaper, diaper bag, diapers, homecoming, newborn baby | Leave a commentPublished April 10, 2011 | There is bliss in tending for your baby, and there is the challenge of making sure the curious little thing doesn’t get into trouble until it grows up and understands what is safe and what is not. Baby-proofing your home is perhaps the best way of ensuring your child’s safety as it eliminates most of the mental and physical effort expended in watching your child.
Child Safety Around the Home
It is obvious that your peace of mind depends on your child’s safety. Making your home a safe place is in principle, a simple deal. Start by focusing on the little things that are often missed as far as the concept of safety is concerned.
Observe that a baby instinctively puts anything it can get hold of into its mouth. This means you will need to pay attention to anything strewn on the floor, kept in low shelves, unlocked cabinets and table drawers. Get rid of pieces of plastics, metal, balloons, plastic covers, etc. as each of them poses hazards of a different kind.
Secure the staircase by putting up safety gates at the top and bottom of the stairway. Also, watch for the gaps between staircase railings. In case the gaps are too wide, install intermediary bars to prevent accidents and falls.
Child Proofing Your Backyard
The backyard can be a dangerous place, for several reasons. For one, there’s no way you can ensure total cleanliness or predictability in the backyard. With old rusting metal shreds, fence projections, nails, used bottles of pesticides or insecticides, the backyard can really contain anything. What’s more, it is very difficult to keep a strict watch on what your baby is doing in the backyard. The backyard should be kept out of bounds for a little toddler, and a safety gate should do the trick.
Pool Safety
Similar is the case with the swimming pool area. The last thing you want is your child toddling into the swimming pool area, unattended. In fact, it is best to bar your child from the swimming pool until he gets old enough to realize what it takes to stay safe. Be sure to cut off access to the pool to pre-empt even a remote possibility.
Kitchen Safety Tips
Take little but important safety measures such as securing your child with childproofing belts when on change tables or high chairs. Put away medications, cleansers, pesticides and other toxic material out of reach – and better still, out of sight.
Even after implementing the most fool-proof of measures with the best of safety equipment, your responsibilities do not end. Your responsibility for the safety of your child starts and ends with keeping a constant vigil on his activities. After all, no work is more important than that of ensuring your loved one’s safety.
Posted in Child Proofing | baby, Baby Comes, Child Proofing, Child Proofing Your Home | Leave a commentPublished April 10, 2011 | First time mothers, a second time or for that matter late pregnancies, we have something interesting and worth reading for all would be mothers. Giving birth is a divine experience. When a woman conceives and became pregnant the glow on her face is unmistaken. But there are many important things that a would-be mother is expected to know.
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