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At Baby Sense™, we know a baby develops best when she is calm and rested and calming a baby is not always easy and sleep problems do occur. Parenting is the one vocation in life for which there is no training, feeling isolated or out of depth is a feeling most moms experience at some stage in baby’s first year.
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March 2010 newsletter
Dear Baby Sense Moms and Dads
You are one in a million
Each month I am asked to dispense advice on a number of baby issues from feeding to sleep and development. I am passionate about helping moms and I know how tough those first few months are. But tonight I was reminded how each baby and mom is so unique and really no advice can be cookie cut and dished out to all and sundry!
A mom who is close to me called telling me that her three month old is waking 3 hourly at night to feed and is feeding 2 ½ to 3 hourly during the day. I know that at this stage he should be stretching a little more, particularly at night, I think she must be exhausted and I wonder how she must feel. But as I considered what advice would be the ‘right’ advice, I realized that there are some very specific pieces to this puzzle: her baby is not gaining weight wonderfully so she cannot try to stretch his feeds until he is gaining well so she has a few options:
- She can go onto medication to increase her milk supply
- She can supplement his feeds with a bottle of formula
- She can continue to feed on demand and her milk supply will increase naturally.
She asked what I suggested. I paused and asked her what she thought and as she answered I realized that because she and her baby are unique, in her heart she knows what she wants to do:
She said: She doesn’t want medication to increase her supply; she is certain she does not want to go the formula route yet. So she chose to demand feed and cope with the sleep deprivation.
Then she asked what I would have done and I knew it really didn’t matter – she is doing 100% the right thing for her and in her heart she knows it.
In the early days it’s hard to hear your gut sense but because you and your baby are one in a million, it really is the only right way to parent!
MEG FAURE
SHOPPING
Find our entire range of products in our UK shop page . Order today and we will ship to you within 10 days. Our newest addition to our shop page is our Baby Sense combo’s. This month get the Baby Sense Sling and Cuddlewrap for just £40. (approximately $60).
Routines are helpful to us moms, but not all routines are good or relevant for your baby. At Baby Sense we believe in Baby Centric Routines and this month Meg Faure gives us 3 steps to help you gently guide your baby into a daily sleep routine.
Just as you are patting yourself on the back for having a baby that sleeps through the night, everything changes again. Suddenly you are waking 2 or 3 times a night to attend to your baby. Why does this happen? Meg Faure explains why your baby’s sleep can suddenly be disrupted and what to do to help your baby to sleep better.
There are currently no workshops or events planned for the USA. If you are interested in hosting Megan Faure or Ann Richardson at your event please contact antoinette@babysense.com
BABY SENSE NEWS
Baby Sense was first published 7 years ago and in March this year we will be celebrating the latest edition being published.
In February Baby Sense exhibited at one of the world’s largest baby show’s in London. Our best selling products as always were the Baby Sense Sling and the Baby Sense Cuddlewrap. Our 100% cotton sleeping bags had their best sales yet.
Join us on Facebook and add your comments and questions. Let Baby Sense and almost 3000 other parents join in your parenting journey. Take our online poll and tell us if you would consider hiring in someone to help you through those early sleepless nights. Last month you told us that over 50% of you still prefer to get around with a pram, while wearing your baby in a sling is gaining traction all the time. Come on mums and dads. Get your baby out of the pram and into a Baby Sense Sling.
Parenting is such a tough job. We are constantly torn between the highs and lows, the joys and the guilt. In March we are talking about parenting and its contradictions. Join our discussion.
A great activity for our rainy day is to make sand patterns. Take some sandpit sand and mix it with some powdered non-toxic children’s paint. Use craft glue and an ice-cream stick to drip patterns of glue onto a sheet of paper. Sprinkle the colored sand onto the page and shake off the excess. The sand sticks to the glue in lovely swirly, drippy patterns. Great messy fun and a lovely visual and textured picture for your baby to look at. Watch out for younger babies who want to put the sand in their mouths.
Giving your baby something non nutritive to suck such as his hands or a dummy is a useful calming strategy. Look in your copy of Baby sense to find out more.
All the groups we have heard about who have organized a “Bring and Buy” in aid of raising money for the Unicef Haiti Children’s appeal.
Why not organize something in your community? A “Bring and Buy” is where you bring something to sell but also commit to buying something. A great way to declutter and to help an important appeal.
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