Newborn - Week 5 - 8
By Kidspot Team |
It is normal for your baby to cry for around 3 hours a day - in these early days it's their best form of communication. Amazingly you will learn the nuances of his various cries. Your baby is also going to find his legs and start kicking for enjoyment - particularly in the bath. Read on for more on what is happening with your baby.
Weeks 5 - 8
Bathing and body care
Bottle feeding your newborn
Breast feeding your newborn
Crying and colic
Ear, Eyes, Nose & Body
- All about your newborn's nose
- Developmental milestones for newborns
- Digestive issues in newborns
- Ear care for newborns
- Growth spurts
- Jaundice
- Newborn eyes
- Thrush and newborns
Just for Mum
- A guide to emotional and physical self-care for new mothers
- Bleeding after birth
- Childcare options for your newborn
- Cramping after birth
- Date night
- Dressing your newborn
- Emotional health for mums
- How to find a babysitter
- How to handle visitors: baby's health and your sanity
- Managing motherhood and you
- Natural family planning
- One breast is larger than the other
- Perineal pain after birth
- Permanent birth control
- Physical healing after birth
- Playing with your baby
- Post natal depression
- Post natal psychosis
- Recovering from a caesarean (C-section)
- Sex and birth control
- Sleep depreivation in new mums: dealing with exhaustion
Nappies & bottom care
What you need to know medically
- Check ups for newborns
- Immunisations
- Screening tests for newborns
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- What you need to know about SIDS
- When to call the Doctor
- A parents guide to whooping cough
- Immunising for whooping cough
Newborn sleep
- Cry it out approach to sleep
- Newborn baby sleep
- No tears approach to baby sleep
- Swaddling and wrapping a newborn
- Training your baby to sleep
- Where should my baby sleep at night
Out and about with your newborn
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