Babycalming: Simple Solutions for a Happy Baby
This book will show you how to soothe your baby and solve any problems you may come across with sleeping, feeding, crying and colic. Drawing on her experience as a mother and advisor to the NCT, Caroline Deacon has devised a simple but effective 3-step plan to help parents understand and care for their baby’s needs without neglecting their own.Summary of contents• The three basic universal needs of both parent and child are comfort, sleep and food. Caroline Deacon works with these three needs to bring you her three-step plan.• Written in five parts, the first three explain and address the needs of:1) newborns 2) from six weeks 3) from six months 4) from the toddler years. The fifth part focuses on colic and babies who cry a lot, giving parents clear guidance and practical solutions.• Includes other parents' shared experiences, providing empathy as well as practical advice.
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CAROLINE DEACON
Babycalming
Simple Solutions for a Happy Baby
Thorsons
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First published in collaboration
with National Childbirth Trust Publishing 2004
© NCT Publishing 2004
Caroline Deacon asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Extracts from Dream Babies by Christina Hardyment (Jonathan Cape, 1983,) are published with kind permission of the author © 1983 by Christina Hardyment
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Ebook Edition © JUNE 2016 ISBN: 9780007380022
Version: 2016-06-29
Contents
Introduction: Why the Three-step Plan Works
Your Baby from Birth to Toddlerhood
2 Getting Used to the World: The First Six Weeks
3 Learning about Routines: Six Weeks to Six Months
4 Getting Sociable: Six Months to Two Years
5 The Need for Boundaries: You and Your Toddler
PUTTING THE THREE-STEP PLAN TO WORK
13 Comforting the Baby Who Has Colic
14 Feeding the Baby with Colic
15 Is Your Colicky Baby Oversensitive?
18 How Sleep Works for Your Baby
19 Can You Train Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night?
20 Helping Your Baby Fall Asleep
21 Helping Your Baby Stay Asleep
22 All Change: Sleep and the Older Baby
25 Putting it All Together: What’s Going to Work for You?
Appendix: Cows’ Milk-free Diet for Breastfeeding Mothers
Useful Organizations and Further Reading
After all the anticipation during pregnancy, when your baby finally arrives, no matter how organized you are, life will feel pretty chaotic amidst the excitement and wonder. New parents in particular are thrown straight in at the deep-end – after all, your baby doesn’t come with a handy manual – and the sense of responsibility can be overwhelming.
What You Need
Like most people, you are probably used to running your life with one eye on the clock and the other on the task in hand: you have a routine and normally expect to do certain things in a certain order throughout the day. Because of this, it is natural to hope that your baby will fall into a routine that will complement yours and enable you to plan and manage your day-to-day life.
At the same time, you also hope that your baby will be happy, feed easily and sleep well. If he cries, you would like what he needs to be obvious, so that you can know how to respond. However, many babies do not appear to behave like this: they cry seemingly without reason, they sleep in fits and starts or they want to feed all the time. They don’t seem to have an internal clock and they show no interest in the clock on the wall!
What Your Baby Needs
Your baby spent his first nine months being held, rocked and moved around in the womb. He was in constant contact with his mum and could hear her heartbeat, her voice, feel the warmth of her body and the sensation of being tightly held. He expected things to continue like this after birth: being in constant contact with another human being, feeling warm, snug and secure. If he thinks has been abandoned, he cries, a response that has evolved over millions of years to make sure a responsible adult picks him up and keeps him safe. If he is hungry, uncomfortable, tired or bored he will cry.
How to Help Your Baby
A psychologist called Maslow pointed out that in order for human beings to be fulfilled, reach their potential and enjoy life – ‘reach self-actualization’ is how he put it – they need to have their basic needs met. You can’t sit and concentrate on a book or film if you are hungry, thirsty or need the toilet. Great philosophy or art will pass you by if you are homeless and worried about your safety.
