No matter how many kids you babysat as a teen, how many baby books you read in preparation for parenthood, or how much you wanted to have a baby, when you strap your baby into their car seat and
head home from the hospital there's inevitably a moment where you're shocked that you've been entrusted to the total care of another human being.
Now that your sweet little one is nestled into his car seat, and you're
headed home from the hospital, it's time to review some very important rules for maintaining the health, dignity, self - esteem, emotional resilience and future intelligence of your cherished offspring.
Not exact matches
Before you
head to the
hospital, stock your larder, fridge and freezer with a range of nutritious foods so you don't have to worry about meals your first few days
home from the
hospital.
Let me just say that feeling my baby's
head emerge while I'm still at
home, a mere 3 miles
from the
hospital, is something I'd prefer to avoid.
The thought of a wired and squirming child was what ultimately stopped me
from attempting to sedate my daughter, but if you decide it is the route for you, Dr. Jeremy Friedman,
head of pediatrics at The
Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, has this suggestion: Administer a test dose at
home in the week or two preceding the trip to see if it makes your toddler drowsy or hyper.
In the days after she came
home from the
hospital, she was too weak to eat, and the doctor made me force feed her with a bottle on a strict schedule showing me how to hold her
head so the food would go down.
I said «no i took my own
from home» she said «that's against
hospital policy» I said «tell that to ur weekend nurses they refused to care of me only my son nurses did» she was shocked and told me to tell the
head nurse I did but it didn't matter the new nurses wouldn't help me either.
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