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Mini is doing so much better with 2 weeks on only Breast Milk. Her moods were much better since her tummy was happy. She does not seem as uncomfortable either and has gotten lots of cute baby chub. Plus her skin was much less dry and flaky.
Then I suddenly ran out and (more…)
My aunt taught me this tip for Baby Bear.
She got us the Baby Buzzr when Baby Bear was born. I just pulled out this toy when I heard it buzzing around in our baby toy bin and tried it with Mini.
Tip to Calm a Baby During a Diaper Change
Play a classical music toy near them. {we have the Baby Buzzr} You can see Mini listening intently on the sound.
She was fussing when I put her on the changing table, but when I put the music on, she stopped and listened.
Baby Bear liked to hold this toy during a diaper change when she got older and it is also fun to up in their mouth.
I know that the thought of flying with little ones, especially a baby, can bring terrible fear to the heart of a young mother. Believe me: I’ve known it. When my daughter was about five months old, I took her on her second flight, this time sans my husband. We had two connections and to make everything lovely and complicated, at that time, I was feeding my baby pumped breastmilk, meaning I had to find a time and place every few hours to pump while juggling my baby in public. Fairly nightmarish, I will concede.
BUT! Let’s not lose hope. Here are some tips and tricks that can help you fly without cause for concern when you’re toting an infant along with you.
1: What to expect from the airlines
*You will still have to go through security. Many airlines have a special, expedited lane (more…)
As I was writing up my post on development for months 12-18 I realized that there is so much great information about the first word, that I needed to dedicate an entire post to them! Yes…I am going to use hundreds of words to talk all about your child’s first.
I often hear people say that their child’s first was mama or dada. And that it was at 6 months of age. But is this mama or dada a real word? At 6 months? (more…)
Welcome to Hot Topic # 4. Gonna make this one a quicky…. gotta get back to doing laundry, lol. Eli has a bacterial infection and is super clingy. She’s taking a nap, so I thought I’d type this out real quick before she wakes up…..
I wanted to talk about something I have been thinking about since having another baby (she’s going on 10 weeks now!). It’s not really a “hot topic” just a “What do you think” type blog today. It’s something we all do and I think we should enjoy it…
Bath time to me is a chore and I feel like a bad mother if I don’t bathe my girls everyday. But I don’t! My oldest daughter, who’s now 8, use to love to take a bath. When she was a baby I would bathe her atleast 4-5 times a day. And then I stopped taking her a bath when she started school at around 5. I gave her the excuse that she’s a big girl and if she wants to be stinky then she didn’t have to take a bath. And now she also sees bath as a chore and usually whines when I tell her it’s time to take a bath. With her, I know that she now does have to take a bath daily because she sweats and is starting to stink, especially her feat, lol.
Then when we had baby number two (more…)
Well you have survived the first year and hopefully the big first birthday party Your little one is crawling or walking around and getting into E V E R Y T H I N G and life is suddenly getting busy! If you haven’t finished yet, be sure to child proof everything. Your child’s curiosity could get her into trouble! Not only are those gross motor skills developing at rapid speed these days but so is her speech and language. In fact, at 12 months she may have said her first real word. But what is a real word? If you didn’t catch last week’s post on first words, go check it out and then come back for speech and language development from 12 to 18 months!
Cognitively, your little one is beginning to use common objects appropriately. For example, she is trying to learn how to use a spoon, put keys in the door, and puts your phone to her ear. She is imitating new motor movements she sees you do (like stomping your feet) and she is starting to be able to remember that she was playing with her favorite bear in the living room and will go back there to look for it. She may be starting to be interested in stacking objects like blocks and may be able to make a 3-4 block tower by the end of this time!
Socially and communicatively, your little one (more…)
We’ve had the same set of stacking cups forever. I have no idea exactly when we got them or where we got them; they are just a part of the decor, moving around occasionally from bedroom to bathroom to living room and, heck, sometimes the car. Now that Andrew is able to (mostly) sit up, I brought them out and let him go to town.
The first thing I always like to do when I have a new toy is to just kind of put it out there and see what happens. I’ve learned a lot of structured play ideas over the years, but I have a great appreciation for the organic. (Plus, what better way to get 10 minutes of time to fold laundry, or eat lunch, or sit and read than to toss a new toy at a kid and say, “Here! Have at it!”)
I know that, when I first got the cups, I was mystified by them. I knew how to make a tower with them, but baby Eric couldn’t do that. So now, enlightened as I am in baby play, here’s how Andrew and I roll:
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If you are a parent or a parent to-be, you have undoubtedly been part of a conversation or two revolving around the pacifier. Carrie, a fellow SLP, mama, and blogger, shares her experience of how parenthood changed her views on this sometimes controversial soother. I personally had babies that only took paci’s for a short while…and then refused them! So I love hearing the perspectives of other SLP Mommies~Katie
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Back in the early days of my career, I had a love/hate relationship with pacifiers – leaning strongly to the hate side. Working in early intervention, the majority (strikethrough) a lot of the children on my caseload had, at one point in their short lives, used a “binky.” Many times I felt as though my job would be so much easier if parents would just take that silly thing away. I often felt as though I was fighting an uphill battle. The “Love” was strictly from a job-security standpoint.
You see, I operated from a very strong oral-motor standpoint (and from a very high horse). Children need to develop their mouth muscles to coordinate articulation. Without proper strength, coordination, and endurance of articulators, there is no way speech can properly develop. Persistent and habitual use of pacifiers, binkies, dummies, whatever you call them, impede proper development of oral motor abilities. The majority of sounds in English require tongue tip elevation. Sucking on a pacifier typically depresses the tongue tip and exercises the BACK of the tongue. Quite useful for development of /k/, /g/, and /ng/, but not so much for all of the other sounds. Blah, blah, blah.
I would see children using pacifiers at the supermarket, at Wal-Mart, at the park and I would silently judge their parents. If they only knew the damage they were causing…Do they even realize the kind of orthodontic bills that are inevitably in their future?…Don’t they know the sucking reflex (more…)
Diaper rash is, in some ways, inevitable with small babies since they always have their diapers on their precious little bums. Usually, a little bit of diaper rash cream will go a long way, but sometimes, even Desitin seems insufficient. If you’ve seen a bad diaper rash, you’ll know what I mean. Bleeding, red, sore skin that hurts your baby to even touch it. I guess diaper rash is on my mind, as my daughter just recovered from a bad one and these are some of my few tried-and-true tips and remedies.
*When changing your baby’s diaper, it can be helpful to rinse their bum off in the skin or shower, using a sprayer with warm water, rather than a wet wipe or sponge, which can further irritate their skin.
RATING: 6: SOMEWHAT HELPFUL
*Baking Soda Bath. In a small bath, dump 1/4- 1/2 box of baking soda into warm water and allow your baby to sit/lie in the water for as long as possible.
RATING: 9.5: HUGELY HELPFUL
*Naked Bum Time. (more…)
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly this child grows and learns! He has been discovering how to use his hands, and I can just sit and watch as he stares intently, then works so hard to open those tiny fingers just at the right time. He is getting it down, and has discovered the joys of bringing stuff to his mouth – nom nom – as well as grabbing stuff he shouldn’t, like plates on the table. He is so pleased, though, giving these little squawks and squeals and noises that also amaze me.
But I have to work to trust it all. I have this urge to compare him to other babies, and to check and obsess constantly with milestone lists and charts. Is he keeping up? Is he slipping behind? Should he be doing this or that?
I know it’s no use comparing, all babies go at different rates, but after having to work so hard with Danny and watching him slip further and further behind, it’s hard.
Breastfeeding has been much the same. (more…)
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