Baby Language

A newborn baby may seem like a mystery to you where you don’t know how to communicate with them. But newborn does have a surprising ability to communicate. They will communicate with you by expressions and gestures. Try to understand the expression and gestures then you will understand what your baby trying to tell you.

If your baby eyes is widely open and he has worry expressions, he seem like having little effort to suckle and long pauses this show that the milk flow is insufficient. But if you feel that you have sufficient milk, then something wrong with your breastfeeding. Try to adjust the position of your breast in order for the baby to latch properly.

If your baby shut his eyes, show signs of sleeping but still firmly attached to the breast. This indicates that the flow of milk slowed down until baby fell asleep while waiting for the milk flow. Removing baby from the breast will make him start to root and fuss.

Baby pulling off the breast, screaming, flails arms, attempts to relatch. Baby is frustrated by the slow flow of the milk, but he is not rejecting the breast yet but may eventually do so if the flow remains at low level.

Your baby is sucking and swallows well for few minutes only then settling into a drowsy state. Normal and health baby will feed steadily until full as long as there is a good flow. If you need to keep on stimulate your baby to suck, this show that the milk flow is too slow. Newborns will suckle slow flowing breast for few minutes then become lazy.

Gripping on nipple but jerks head away from the breast showing the frustration towards the slow flowing milk.

Your baby is startled, eyes is widely open, show noisy gulps and almost no pauses. This shows that the milk flow is too fast. So hold the baby upright and try to lean after latching to make sure baby’s throat is higher than the nipple.

When your baby pulls off and relatches frequently and he does not maintain a deep latch, this baby is probably overwhelmed by the flow of milk. So the baby is having a shallow latch, in order to control the flow of the milk. The overflow of milk also cause milk drips and sprays each time the baby pulls away from the breast.

Baby show he is very hungry after the first breast but refuse when offered the second breast, the baby is most probably still hungry but the flow of the second breast is too fast and he prefer to latch to the first breast for more leisure feeding.

When the baby needs to burp? Some babies burp during breastfeeding and continue without a pause. Do not interrupt a feeding to burp the baby unless they seem uncomfortable where they are swallowing well but the upper body is wriggling or twisting.

Basic Parenting

Basic parenting for all the new parent in the world. Cover all the topic that new parent will need to know and learn in order to take care of their infant and give the best to their baby.Every parent wish to give everything the best to their new born. In order for you to give the best to your newborn what you need to do? You need to learn and know more. Welcome to parenting world.

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Breast Feeding Problems

Ouchh........It is pain! I suffer sore nipples. Breast feeding's mother suffering from nipples sore. Feel helpless, no idea how to treat them? What is the main cause of nipples sore? This happened because your baby doesn’t latch on properly.
It is easier to prevent sore nipples than to treat them. Prevention is better than cure. To avoid nipples sore make sure your baby latch on the right way. If it does not, take off your baby from the breast by releasing the suction using your finger in the corner of baby’s between the gums. Make sure your baby is latched on the correct position during breast feeding. If you feel your baby sucking hurts, this indicates that your baby is not latched on the correct position. Try to a position when your baby sucking do not cause any uncomfortable to your nipples. Other than that, if your baby is position and latch on the proper way, the sucking pressure, his tongue and gums action will be concentrate on the areola but not the nipple.

Breast engorgement

New mothers normally will face a lot of breast feeding problems. Among the commons problems are pain due to breast engorgement and sore nipples. Why do this happened and how to overcome it? First of all, understand what breast engorgement is and why this happened first. Breast engorgement basically is the milk level contained is greater than the areola or the size that they should contain in. Just imagine a 500ml container is filling with 550ml of water what will happen? This is breast engorgement.

Breast engorgement happened because your baby does not take the milk out as the body produce, the imbalance between milk produce and infant demand. Or it may happened if you normal breast feeding routine is interrupted, your baby suddenly stop breast-feeding due to poor appetite or increasing solid foods.

How to reduce the pain of engorged breasts? Get your baby to help you. When you are having breast engorgement, try to breast feed your baby. But, during engorged period, the nipple will be flattening. So you might need the help of hand or electric pump to pull off some milk first. You can also use hand, where finger on the bottom and thumb on the top and roll it from top to bottom. This will help to press the milk come out slowly. This will reduce your pain and eventually baby will attach and complete the job. Your baby is the most efficient comparing to any pump. So try to be patient and encourage your baby to help you.

How to breast feeding

How to breast feed your infant/newborn?This is specially brought for new parent who never experience breast feed before. But for those parent who are not sure about the proper way of breast feeding do have this as reference. It is simple and easy seven steps during breast feeding.

1. Put your thumb on top of your breast and other fingers below the breast.Dont touch the arelo (dark skin around your nipple) because this is where your baby's lips will be.
2. Try putting your baby's lips to your nipple until he opens his mouth widely.
3. Slightly push your nipple all the way in your baby's mouth and push baby's body close to you.This help by letting your baby's jaw squeeze the milk ducts under arelo.
4. To make sure your baby is latched on the correct position, check the lips of the baby, it should be pout out (not be pulled in over his gums) and cover nearly all of the areola.
5. Newborn will make some low-pitched swallowing noises.Baby's jaw may move back and forth.
6. If you feel pain, this indicate that baby is not properly latched on.
7. Your baby's nose may touch your breast during nursing.If you fear that your baby cant breathe, gently press down your breast near baby's nose to give him more room to breathe.

Infant's Sleeping Hours

3 months infant tend to sleep 15 hours per day. Normally 9 hours at night and 6 hours during daytime.Sleep cycle may varies for every hours.

6months infant tend to take 2 naps and 2 hours a pieve.THey will rest at night time sleep.

9months infant need to sleep 14 hours per day. The nap decrease of about 30 minutes for every cycle.

1year old and above, baby tend to sleep 131/2 hours and 11 hours at night time.

Infant Sleeping

Infant sleeping for the early months is full of interruptions because their sleep cycle is shorter than adults. Adults need six hours deep sleep and two hours light sleep and adult can sleep in one uninterrupted nighttime period. But babies don’t. Babies need a lot of sleep but they are having two times more light sleep cycles comparing with adults. So babies overall sleep cycles are shorter and they are having more light sleep than deep sleep. This cause they wake up frequently.

When they move from deep to light cycle of sleep they frequently wake up. Babies need help to fall asleep and getting back to sleep. So a lot of parents spend much time in helping their babies to fall into sleep. Parents face frustration situation- Where when they rock/hold their baby until fall asleep but when try to laying baby down, the minute baby’s head touch the mattress, baby wake up. This happened because the parent let the baby down when they are having light sleep. Make sure your baby is having deep sleep before putting her down to the mattress. Check whether the baby is in deep sleep by limp limbs. Try to pick up her arm or leg and if the arm or leg flops back down and baby doesn’t jerk it or awake this show that baby are in deep sleep.

Sleep is very important for baby. Baby needs a lot of sleep and normally they sleep for 16-18hours a day. Normally baby will tend to sleep two to three hour increments even at night time and they normally wake up for feeding and socializing. This will cause headache to parents. But don’t worry as infant grow, infant sleeping pattern will develop. They will start to wake up on regular rhythm. This will reduce a lot o hassle to parent.