Challenge 2: Mama reconnaissance: When
your baby is in a good mood (or better, sleeping!)
Practice with short, pleasant trips when
your baby is in a good mood.
When
your baby is in a good mood (or better, sleeping!)
try it when
baby is in a good mood not when she is crying 4.
Select a time when
your baby is in a good mood - not hungry, comfortable, and alert, to play this simple game.
Experts recommend feeding solids once a day, but you have to make sure the schedule is suitable for you and
your baby is in good mood.
Not exact matches
Cry out method
is good because the
babies will sleep
better n
be in a
better mood, so will mommy.
Many mothers find that feeding an older
baby a half - hour or so before he
is normally hungry keeps him
in a
better mood so that he
is more cooperative during the feeding.
I know this isn't always realistic but if you ever feel like you have a drop
in your supply, spending the day close to your
baby and nursing as much as possible
are the
best ways to boost it (and your
mood from all of that wonderful oxytocin)!
Someday the insurance companies will realize what a treasure postpartum doula care
is,
in keeping mom and
baby together to preserve the breastfeeding relationship, helping to avoid health care costs long term as
well as speeding up healing and providing emotional support to help with any potential postpartum
mood disorders.
Other things that worked
is to make sure milk
is warm enough, put
baby in swing with mobile on as a distraction and she
is semi-upright, have
baby in a
good mood (feed her just after she gets up from a
well - rested nap; and wait about 15 min longer than her regular breast feeding schedule so she
's hungry.
If your
baby nurses
well, seems to
be in a
good mood overall and continues to gain weight, there
's probably no reason to call your pediatrician.
10 times out of 10, when this
baby (and all babes at the daycare, to
be honest - unless they
're sick) wakes up, it
is in a much
better mood, with no crying involved.
Pick a time when the
baby is alert and
in a
good mood because a tired
baby might fall asleep on her stomach.
But if sleep
was shallow, and while you
are changing diapers, the
baby wakes completely, eats actively, he
is in good mood.
With dark eye shadows, you make nocturnal rounds, have pulled all distraction maneuvers out of the bag of tricks, but your
baby is not
in a
good mood and
is tormented.
Taking your
baby out when she
is in the
mood to look around and see the world
is great; taking her out when she
is sleepy or doesn't feel
well is usually a bad idea.
Getting a
good amount of comfortable sleep
is the only way to keep your
baby in a happy
mood when you
are travelling away from home.
For instance, studies have shown that
babies with «easy» temperaments — for instance, those who
are more adaptable, more approachable, less distractible, or who generally
are in good moods — go to sleep earlier and sleep more overall than do
babies with «difficult» temperaments (Weissbluth and Liu 1983; Van Tassel 1985; Scher et al 1992; Sadeh et al 1994; Scher et al 1998).
How
is it that
baby things can put you
in such a
good mood?
It would
be less stressful since our house
is child - proofed, and the
baby can nap
in his own crib so he'll
be in a
better mood to see family.»
My
baby girl (
well, she
's 2 and a half...) isn't much of a cuddler or a snuggler, but when she
's in a
good mood she'll curl up next to me and start licking me.