Use a baby carrier that allows you to carry
your newborn against your chest.
Not exact matches
Newborns love to be bottle fed skin to skin (baby in a diaper only,
against your bare
chest).
A
newborn is happiest curled up
against your
chest.
Particularly if they seem very upset, try cuddling your
newborn skin - to - skin
against your
chest; soothing them really can help work wonders in those early weeks.
Newborns most often rest a cheek
against your
chest when worn while older babies frequently lean their heads back from your
chest and turn to look around while worn.
Nothing in the world can match holding your
newborn in your arms and feeling your baby sleep safely
against your
chest.
Newborns don't have the muscle control to open their airways with their chins
against their
chests, so always avoid this position.
If you have a pouch style sling instead of a ring sling, you can approximate the nice shallow pouch necessary for a
newborn: Just pull the excess fabric up
against mom's
chest before placing baby in the pouch.
Use it with your
newborn, up
against your
chest, for kangaro care.
The said dads held their
newborns, who both weighed less than 1.5 kilograms,
against their
chest, beneath a long robe while holding perfectly still for two hours.
It seems like only yesterday I cradled his tiny
newborn body
against my
chest... Read More
It seems like only yesterday I cradled his tiny
newborn body
against my
chest and let him feed as long as he wanted — which was often for hours.