Sentences with phrase «questions after the birth of the baby»

Pregnancy is a time when millions of questions run through the mind of the expectant mother, and then there are always more questions after the birth of the baby.

Not exact matches

However, one of the questions I wrestled with over the term of my wife's pregnancy and in the beginning after my daughter's birth was how would I establish a bond with my baby?

After the birth, a post-partum doula can come into your home, and gently answer questions, show you basic infant care, do daily chores and meal preparation, take care of older siblings, or even take care of your baby so that you can get a shower or a nap.

Make sure to meet with your lactation consultant ahead of time so you get to know that person and feel comfortable asking questions prior to and after the birth of your baby.

around midnight i began to question my decision to have a home birth, & maria was getting tired... she called in a second midwife for support & my doula arrived from another birth... i was afraid of the power - i hadn't felt it like this in kayenn's birth... i was afraid that i would come apart - even though i had to - i know now that coming apart is a part of the process... someplace in the middle of this birth i realized that i did not know how to do this - i was acting against the birth process - literally & emotionally... i had a mental idea of what it should look, sound, smell, be like... after some hours maria checked me again, i had been at 9 cm for 4 hours... she said to me, «some babies can come through at 9 cm, but yours will not, sokhna... sokhna, you are going to have to fight to bring this baby out... go into the bathroom, get in the shower & work it out... «so i did... i went in the cold bathroom alone & remembered every cold detail of kayenn's birth... i wondered if i could get to the hospital on time to have an emergency c - section & i began to cry... & as i cried i had to go to the bathroom - i sat on the toilet & the rushes came down like nothing i can explain - but they didn't hurt - it was just POWER!

They were bound, gagged and given drugs that drove them mad or caused millions of babies born with birth defects... husband weren't allowed to see their wives, new moms were allowed to hold their children but maybe 30 minutes every few hours (breastfeeding was out of the question for many), dads could only see the infants through a glass until after mom and infant were released... Yet we argue that medicine and science are correct??

This discussion has included the questions of whether exclusive breastfeeding is safe and whether all babies should be supplemented in the first week after birth.

The Green Moms Weekly question is this: Why is it as important to begin your journey as an attachment parent during pregnancy as it is after the birth of your baby?

Then again, it's no surprise that we Baby Bunchers are assailed with this question... after all, the number of twin births has risen by 50 percent in the past three decades *.

Afterwards, the women received an educational booklet on the intervention, in Arabic and French, containing illustrations and information on: the benefits of breast milk, the importance of skin - to - skin contact immediately after birth, the importance of early breastfeeding and giving colostrum to the baby, the criteria of good positioning for corrective breast - taking, the signs of effective suckling, the signs of effective breastfeeding for the first six months, on - demand breastfeeding and its daily frequency, breastfeeding accessories, techniques for collecting and storing breast milk, and questions and answers about different maternal concerns (depression, hygiene, nipple pain, quantity of milk produced, duration and number of feedings, mixed feeding, diet to be followed during breastfeeding, mothers» illness and breastfeeding, weaning of the baby, etc..)

CRISTI LEWIS: It's a very dangerous question because there really aren't any because if you are, I tell my women at the end of that 6 weeks postpartum period, that when our bodies are kind of ready to make another baby and so if you are not exclusively breastfeeding, you can have a fertility cycle as early as 3 weeks after the birth.

Feinbloom, Richard PREGNANCY, BIRTH AND THE EARLY MONTHS Perseus, 2000 A family practice doctor answers most of the questions a pregnant mother will have before, during and after the birth of her baby, and offers thoughtful choices based on current research for both common and uncommon conditBIRTH AND THE EARLY MONTHS Perseus, 2000 A family practice doctor answers most of the questions a pregnant mother will have before, during and after the birth of her baby, and offers thoughtful choices based on current research for both common and uncommon conditbirth of her baby, and offers thoughtful choices based on current research for both common and uncommon conditions.

One remaining question is whether these changes persist for longer than 12 to 14 weeks after the birth of a baby.

Let me hasten to add that the question here is not whether or not normal, healthy babies can selectively identify their mom's face or voice; of course, they can turn their head and fixate with their eyes onto the face and eyes of their mother even very soon after birth.

For example, in an 8 - year prospective study by Doss et al. (2009), both mothers and fathers experienced sudden negative changes in relationship functioning after the birth of their first baby that tended to persist over time, whereas nonparents who were questioned at the same points in time did not report such negative relationship changes.