Babycare Bath time
A new baby is a
big challenge and an awesome responsibility! A baby is the greatest gift
that you can ever have! Your child is your living legacy, your bloodline the
continuing of your family tree! Your baby should be your pride and joy! The
apple of your eye! Babies are precious! Babies are defenseless and
helpless creatures. Our job is to nurture, protect, and raise them to
become productive adult human beings. They are our future. Raise
them to pay backward and forward. That paves the way for their future generation
while taking care of the previous generation (older parents) when they/we too
become old, senile, or just helpless.
I have raised two
beautiful babies, they are now two productive grown young men. I was
raised by two beautiful parents, both have passed on. I returned my
love by being one of the ones who took care of my Dad in his last
days. Our Dad took care of our Mom her last days. The
beautiful part was the awesome love and assistance the grandchildren and their
spouses played in taking care of Dad/Granddad. When Dad had to
have his personal hygiene changed, he sheepishly looked up at my
eldest brother and said (with dad's unique humor)” This is payback." All my brother could do is laugh. I have taken care of the parent’s page on this site at littleangles9.blogspot.com
When you bring
your bundle of joy home from the hospital you may be given a packet of
literature with parents magazines included along with coupons. Do take
the time to read the magazines that are included in your hospital packet it
will give you a wealth of knowledge of information very
interesting to read. It will well worth your time reading it. If it
is in your budget subscribe to at least a year’s subscription to a parenting
magazine.
This tiny little bundle is placed into your hands!
Those bright eyes look at you it is love at first sight! To the mom's you
know that your baby has heard your voice, your heartbeat, and experienced your
every emotion. Baby ate what you ate. Actually baby got his/hers
first then you got what was left. That is why it is important for you to follow a sensible diet while pregnant. It has been noted that if you
don't get enough calcium baby will take from your teeth and bones to get his
calcium to develop. Now that baby is here how I take care of this
tiny little creature. Perfect tiny little toes eyes ears nose! What
do I do? Actually, your maternal instants do and will kick in don’t
worry. When my boys were small I hardly slept the first six weeks of
their life making sure they were breathing through the night. Do you put
the baby on his stomach to sleep? Do you put him on his back to
sleep? One thing I must say, never, ever put the baby in the bed with
you to sleep.
When I was
employed, in my field of work I had a client who had just had a new baby, I
added the baby to her case. From all indications, she appeared to be a good
mother. I felt that I may have known her family, grandparents, because of her
Surname (last name) I never pressed the issue to see if I knew any of her
relatives. On my last day of work, someone from our intake staff came to
tell me that the baby's grandmother was in for burial for the new
baby. What the grandmother had told my colleague my client had
the baby sleeping in bed with her. She had rolled over onto the baby in
her sleep and suffocated the baby. My heart went out to the
family. I had just had my on the job injury and was
waiting to be taken to the state clinic. Even in that moment of my pain, I
was awash with grief for my client.
I cannot
stress it enough never ever place a newborn baby in the bed to sleep with
you.
This time is really bonding time for you and baby. Of
course there is the baby bathtub which is essential to bathe baby in.
Gather everything you need first before you put your baby in the tub.
Everything you think you need. Never leave your baby in the tub, not even
for what you think is one second. If your baby slips underwater you will
not know it if you are not there by his side. Your baby will not scream
for help, he cannot. When you discover your baby is underwater it may be
too late. Do not answer the phone, the door nor go see what hubby wants,
do not stop and do anything for any reason while the baby is in the
tub. All it takes is one second for the baby to slip underwater. The
baby seats that help babysit up in the water is not safe enough for you to
leave the baby alone. It is just to sit baby up for a minute while you bath
him.
I say do not leave a child in the tub alone until
they are old enough to bathe himself without help. My son who was a
toddler I did not know then what he was trying to do but I stepped out of
the bathroom right to the linen closet to get his towel.
Before I could get back to him he had gone underwater. I heard splashing
I rushed back into the bathroom with a towel in hand. He was scrambling
out of the tub face wet hair soaking wet gasping. Years later I
believe he told me he wanted to see if he could swim in the tub. You never
know what thoughts cross a child's mind.
I found this article in the Blue Cross
Health Care Health Magazine and thought it was worth including in my baby care
page.
