At Baby Sense®, we know a baby develops best when she is calm and rested and calming a baby is not always easy and sleep problems do occur. Parenting is the one vocation in life for which there is no training, feeling isolated or out of depth is a feeling most moms experience at some stage in baby’s first year.
Baby Sense® provides not only sleep, calming and development solutions in the best selling baby care book Baby Sense but calming baby care products and services for parents too.
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March 2010 newsletter
Dear Baby Sense Mums and Dads
Each month I am asked to dispense advice on a number of baby issues from feeding to sleep and development. I am passionate about helping mums and I know how tough those first few months are. But tonight I was reminded how each baby and mum is so unique and really no advice can be cookie cut and dished out to all and sundry!
A mum who is close to me called telling me that her three month old is waking 3 hourly at night to feed and is feeding 2 ½ to 3 hourly during the day. I know that at this stage he should be stretching a little more, particularly at night, I think she must be exhausted and I wonder how she must feel. But as I considered what advice would be the ‘right’ advice, I realized that there are some very specific pieces to this puzzle: her baby is not gaining weight wonderfully so she cannot try to stretch his feeds until he is gaining well so she has a few options:
- She can go onto medication to increase her milk supply
- She can supplement his feeds with a bottle of formula
- She can continue to feed on demand and her milk supply will increase naturally.
She asked what I suggested. I paused and asked her what she thought and as she answered I realized that because she and her baby are unique, in her heart she knows what she wants to do:
She said: She doesn’t want medication to increase her supply; she is certain she does not want to go the formula route yet. So she chose to demand feed and cope with the sleep deprivation.
Then she asked what I would have done and I knew it really didn’t matter – she is doing 100% the right thing for her and in her heart she knows it.
In the early days it’s hard to hear your gut sense but because you and your baby are one in a million, it really is the only right way to parent!
MEG FAURE
SHOPPING
Have you seen the latest addition to our shop? We now have the Baby Sense combo’s so you can get our most popular products at a special rate. Get the Baby Sense sling and Cuddlewrap for just £40 and save £8.90, or our Feeding Shawl and Nurture nest for just £25.
Once your baby is crawling get down on your hands and knees and see the world from their level. You would be surprised at what your baby can get her hands on. Jo Arden from Safe at Home reminds us of what we can do to keep our homes as a safe place for our children.
Do we really need sleep as much as we think we do? Meg Faure explains why sleep is so important and how lack of sleep can affect us and how it can affect your baby.
We have a busy few months ahead. Find us at the Scottish Baby Show for the first time in April this year, plus we will be at the NEC Birmingham and Earls Court Baby Shows later this year.
Megan is back in the UK in May and we have already arranged a workshop for NCT specialist workers in Kent and another parents workshop in London. More events to be added soon.
BABY SENSE NEWS
Baby Sense exhibited at the Excel Baby Show in London in February. Thank you to all of you who visited us on our stand and who bought our range. Be sure to check the website for upcoming events and special offers.
We would like to wish all of you mums a wonderful day on the 14th of March. See these 2 Baby Sense video clips about parenthood that will make you feel all emotional and motherly this Mothers Day.
Video 1 | Video 2
While Megan was in the UK she presented workshops to the NCT as well as parents at Cupcake. Thank you to all of you who attended these. We have had amazing feedback from each event. More events are scheduled for later this year, and we have a big event (currently under wraps – a cuddlewrap perhaps) planned for 2010.
Congratulations to:
Keren and Paul Robinson and Megan De Plooy who all won tickets to the Baby Show in February. It was so good to see you at the show. Gemma Scott who won a Baby Sense Calming hamper when she entered our competition at the Baby Show.
Guess how many people will sign up to our Facebook page in March and enjoy the benefits of our online community. Email your guesses to antoinette@babysense.com and the closest 3 guesses will win a Baby Sense Taglet.
Join us on Facebook and add your comments and questions. Let Baby Sense and almost 3000 other parents join in your parenting journey.
Take our online poll and tell us if you would consider hiring in someone to help you through those early sleepless nights. Last month you told us that over 50% of you still prefer to get around with a pram, while wearing your baby in a sling is gaining traction all the time. Come on mums and dads. Get your baby out of the pram and into a Baby Sense Sling –it was featured on the soap, EastEnders this week!
Parenting is such a tough job. We are constantly torn between the highs and lows, the joys and the guilt. In March we are talking about parenting and its contradictions. Join our discussion.
Bubble Fun – Take 4 drinking straws and cut them in half. Bunch and tape them together. Make or buy some bubble solution. Dip one end of the straws into the solution and blow through the other end sending lots of tiny bubbles in all directions. All babies love bubbles!
Make understanding your baby’s cry your priority, not stopping it. Use your Baby sense book to guide you through the sensory reasons why your baby may be crying.
Clic Sargent who have arranged Yummy Mummy Week (6-14 March 2010) in aid of raising money for children with cancer. Find out more on how to get involved or to register your interest.
We want to know about places, people and services that have made a difference to you in your pregnancy, birth and parenting journey.
Email antoinette@babysense.com so we can hear about them too.
Did you see it? EastEnders on Wednesday 24 February. The best and most stylish baby sling ever was featured on the show. The Baby Sense Sling is Famous. If it’s good enough for the Telly, surely you need one too.
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