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How To Keep Baby Happy And Healthy This Summer

How To Keep Baby Happy And Healthy This Summer

Summer is now here, but are you and your baby prepared for the glorious hot weather?

If this is baby’s first summer, you may understandably be pretty concerned about keeping them safe and comfortable. There’s a lot of issues the hot summer sun can cause from heat rash to sunburn and even a potential increased risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). So, how can you ensure your little one is happy and healthy this summer? Below, you’ll discover some of the best tips and advice you can follow.

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The Benefits Of Hiring A Postpartum Doula – Should You Try It?

The Benefits Of Hiring A Postpartum Doula - Should You Try It?When you give birth, it’s natural to feel scared and overwhelmed. No matter how much research you’ve done while you were pregnant, nothing can truly prepare for what will happen once baby arrives. It’s a learning process which all parents go through, but you don’t have to go it alone.

Doctors and pediatricians are there to ensure you and baby are doing well. However, they largely focus on the medical side of how you and baby are doing. That’s why many new parents turn to the help of a postpartum / postnatal doula.

Here, we’ll look at what a postpartum doula does and the benefits of hiring one.

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Which Foods Should You Avoid Feeding Your Baby?

Which Foods Should You Avoid Feeding Your Baby?

Weaning your little one onto solid foods can be exciting, but also pretty daunting too. You’ll obviously want to start feeding baby a range of delicious new foods, including the things on your own plate. However, before you introduce anything new, it’s important to ensure it’s safe.

There’s surprisingly a lot of foods you need to be careful of and it gets even more confusing when you add the monthly age restriction recommendations. Some foods are perfectly fine for older babies, yet not suitable for younger babies. So, it’s important to do your research to see which foods should be avoided.

Here, we’ll look at the main foods you’ll want to avoid feeding your baby during their first year.

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Neonatal Jaundice: Everything You Need To Know

Neonatal Jaundice: Everything You Need To Know

Did you know that almost 60 percent of all newborn babies develop jaundice?

Jaundice is one of the common symptoms to watch out for after giving birth to an infant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines neonatal jaundice as the yellowish discoloration seen in the skin of neonates or newborn babies. Jaundice can also be noticed on the white portion (sclera) of the eye, and the yellow color usually starts from the face and spreads in the baby’s body through a downward direction. The discoloration peaks at around 3 to 5 days after birth.

Jaundice is not a disease but is a manifestation of a condition called hyperbilirubinemia. If left untreated, this condition can lead to a serious complication in the brain termed kernicterus, which can further lead to debilitating effects in the baby’s visual, auditory and intellectual development.

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10 Awesome Tips To Help You Survive Sleep Regression

Are you struggling to deal with your little one’s sleep regression troubles? It can be really tough to finally get on top of your baby’s sleeping pattern, only to devastatingly end up back where you started. However, sleep regression is unfortunately a common and guaranteed problem.

Experts say there’s four sleep regression stages which crop up between 4 and 24 months. The two main, most challenging stages come at 18 months and 24 months. However, the other two are no walk in the park either when you’ve finally started to enjoy some uninterrupted sleep.

If your little one is going through sleep regression, there’s some tips and advice which can really prove invaluable. Here, you’ll discover 10 awesome tips to help you survive this challenging period.

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