All it takes is the same attention and observation as you used in
the very first few weeks of his life, when you were busy learning all his other signals.
Not exact matches
Nights feeds did trail on into the second year for both dc, which I admit got wearing, but overall bf made my
life and my mothering so
very much easier and more pleasant in a whole host
of ways, and was a lovely experience apart from those
first few nightmare
weeks.
In fact, during the
first few weeks of life, a newborn will spend the majority
of her days and nights sleeping (though it may not seem like she's sleeping
very much at night), waking every
few hours to eat or to have a diaper change.
Very rarely, a baby is born with a tooth or two, or grows a tooth in the
first few weeks of life.
The
very first few weeks of a kitten's
life can play a big part in how it reacts to human company in later
life.
Nor are puppies born
of accidental matings so likely to have been given the expert attention
of a
very experienced dog breeder during the
first few formative
weeks of their
lives.
And this doesn't even account for the fact that I didn't even own Betsy for the
first 9
weeks of her
life, a
very formative time for a young puppy (there's probably a whole other blog post worth
of research on the topic
of a puppy's
first few weeks and its relationship with its mother and how it affects the rest
of their
life...).
Because they are
very delicate creatures, they are also quite susceptible to infections at the
first few weeks of their
life.
Chloramphenicol use may accumulate to toxic levels in
very young animals (in
first few weeks of life) and as they are not able to remove it from their bodies as effectively as adult animals.
As I am about to set off on long term travel for the
first time in a
few weeks, I repeatedly think that I am being
very selfish in my decision which is full
of self - indulgence... then again, it's my
life and I only get one!
Presto was
very sick for the
first few weeks of his
life, but overcame huge odds to beat his illness.