Baby 101

Newborn Kaylee

When we brought our daughter home from the hospital 2 years ago my husband and I were so lost in so many ways.  We had questions and out Pediatrician didn’t know the answers.  Now, we didn’t have a great support system upon bringing home our baby, if you have one then you probably got the answers to those pressing questions.   All of our family was at least 2 hours away.

So, I was thinking about it, especially after reading my best friends post on Geekmom about support systems, and I thought I’d make a list of things that stumped us as parents; the stuff that we really wish someone had filled us in on.  And a little sage advice.

Bathing Baby – This isn’t easy to begin with.  What we couldn’t figure out was how to wash her butt!  Now I feel stupid because I think I was worried I either would break her or maybe I was scared of getting wet.  You just pick her up and wash her butt, lol.  Also, how do you wash their hair?  Especially as they get older?  I found a neat trick here; I tilted her back in the tub until I dunk the back of her hair.  The first few times I did this she freaked out so bad.  But I sang a little diddy and it seemed to make it okay after a few times of it.

Sunning Newborn - She had jaundice

Doctors – They don’t know everything, just because your doctor tells you something that doesn’t mean you have to follow it like it’s the law.  On the hand here though, don’t completely disregard what they say either, why else go at all?  The same goes for books.

Schedules – All babies are different.  I’m a schedule oriented person so I immediately tried to put her on a schedule like all the books said.  My daughter wasn’t having that.  I’d try to feed her and nap her on a schedule and she was not okay with this.  Not all kids like schedules, mine certainly didn’t.  It took me close to 7 months to figure this out.

There is so much more I could say, but I’ll save it for my next “class”.  The most important thing I can tell parents is that there is no owner’s manual that comes with your new baby.  Babies really are a trial and error process.  Don’t worry; usually no babies get hurt in making of this homemade manual.

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