Sentences with phrase «mouths of sleeping babies»

Milk tends to pool in the mouths of sleeping babies, creating ample time for the natural sugars in the milk to attack your baby's teeth.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, any parent who has ever woken a sleeping baby to stick a thermometer in her ear, mouth, or farther south only to log the perfectly healthy temperature of a now awake and screaming child knows that's not an ideal situation, either.

When she wakes up from a sound sleep and wanders out looking for me in the night, I can hardly breathe for how she is all of the girls at once: she's still my little blue - eyed baby, still my first little toddler, still the preschooler, still my wee girl with the triangle mouth.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

As stated in La Leche League (2003) the following are signs of dehydration in your baby, «listlessness and sleeping through feeding times, lethargy, weak cry, skin loses its resilience, dry mouth, dry eyes, less than the usual amount of tears, minimal urine output (less then two wet nappies in a twenty four hour period), the fontanel on baby's head is sunken and fever» (p. 335).

Milk ducts might become blocked for other reasons: an overabundance of milk, poor latch (when the baby's mouth does not form a firm seal around the nipple), a shift in nursing patterns or compressed breasts (either a bra that is too tight or from sleeping on the affected side).4

If your child is having problems getting to sleep because of soreness in the gums or mouth due to teething, you might want to consult with your pediatrician about giving baby Tylenol or ibuprofen for the pain.

While sucking does indeed help babies relax and it's your choice whether to offer a dummy, please note, this may impact on feeding if given before breastfeeding is established and it could affect sleep at a later stage as the dummy slips out of baby's mouth and needs to be replaced through the night.

KEEPING TEETH HEALTHY: A baby should not sip bottles of milk or juice in bed, because sugar from the drink will stay in his or her mouth while the baby sleeps, promoting decay.

I honestly think that the reason to switch to cups is that most of the babies go to sleep while having bottle in their mouth and that habbit after 1 year (or as soon as they start to get teeth) may cause tooth decay since they will be having teeth by this time.

My doc said it was fine for them to sleep with a baby bottle of water as long as they weren't running around with it in their mouth all day.

As stated in La Leche League (2003) the following are signs of dehydration in your baby, «listlessness and sleeping through feeding times, lethargy, weak cry, skin loses its resilience, dry mouth, dry eyes, less than the usual amount of tears, minimal urine output (less than two wet nappies in a twenty four hour period), the fontanel on baby's head is sunken and fever» (p. 335).

A baby who depends on pacifier use for sleep will often wake up in the middle of the night if the pacifier falls out of her mouth and won't go back to sleep until she has it back.

It's often said that breastfeeding (particularly while lying down at night) will cause tooth decay, just like letting a baby sleep with a bottle of milk can cause «baby bottle mouth.»

Many babies and toddlers are dependent on a pacifier to sleep and often wake up in the middle of the night only to find that their pacifier is no longer in their mouth.

Keep the baby's mouth and nose clear of blankets and other coverings during sleep.

I ended up with an ovarian blood clot at 4 days PP (rare complication), was being assessed in the ER literally as my milk was coming in, supplemented with formula almost immediately because I was so pumped full of drugs I could not coordinate nursing a little tiny sleepy baby, suffered from low supply due to the meds I was put on for my blood clot, did kangaroo care for hours and hours every day for weeks on end, shared sleep, took herbal supplements, pumped frequently, nursed almost constantly, hand expressed the milk into her mouth at every feeding because she was too sleepy to latch well, struggled with massive guilt......................

When she returned, the baby that had been sleeping had rooted to the smell of milk and had latched on to her sister's mouth, preventing her from breathing.