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Apgar
       

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Baby Blues
Baby Sleep


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"Also see Sleep"
Controlled Crying Compromise
Controlled Crying
Cot in parents’ room
Doing it your way
Overtiredness
Own Room
Position
Sharing Mother’s Bed
Teaching baby to sleep
   
    Bathing Safety        
    Birthday - First    
    Birth options        
    Biting        
    Blinking        
    Bonding        
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Choice of teat
Choosing the best formula
Combining with breastfeeding
Drawbacks
Intolerance/Allergy to Cow's Milk
Physical contact and Propping
Practical guidelines
Pros and cons
Quantity
Reducing mother's milk supply
Switching from breastfeeding
Travelling

   
    Bottles - Advice from NUK    
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After Caesarean
Alcohol to boost milk
Basic info
Breast Infection

Breast Infection or mastitis

Colostrum
Difficulty
Effect of exercise
Engorgement


Fear
Feeding Positions
Feeding When Ill
Frequent Feeding
Importance
Increasing Milk
In The Beginnning
Jaundice
Latching
Leaking Milk
Let-down Reflex
Medication
Milk Consistency
Milk Release
Milk Starting
Mother's Sickness
Mother's Stress
Mother's Thirst
Nipples


Overdue Baby
Reasons Not To
Restless Baby
Second Baby
Shape Of Breasts
Simplicity
Sleepy Baby
Some Advantages
Watery Breastmilk
Weight Loss
When To Wean



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Discomfort

Pain Relief
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Healing
Painful
Washing

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Chance of Caesarian
Labour
Turning by Doctor or Midwife
Turning to head down
Types
   
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Breast vs Bottle
Father’s Skill
General info
Volume
   
           

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Correct size
Fitting the seat
Front or back of car
Is is compulsory
Keeping baby happy
Resistance from baby
Safety tips
Safety

   
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Partners
Reason
Recovery
   
    Childcare Options - Why hiring an au pair is the long-term viable choice    
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Description
Is Baby Sick?
On mother's experience
Treatment
When To See Doctor
   
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    Concussion        
    Contradictory Advice        
    Cradle Cap        
    Croup -
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Healing process
Reason for cough
When to call the doctor
   

D:   Dental Care
Development rate
- MAM advises    
    Doula        
    Dummy Debates        

E:   Earache - Causes    
    Eight months old - A bold adventurer explores the world    
    Eleven months old - An escapologist emerges    
    Episiotomy -
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Reducing the chances
   
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    Eyes
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Watery
   
           

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Identification
   
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    Feet issues        
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Alternatives
Description
Reason
   
    Food additives - e Flavourings in baby food    

G:   Genitals -
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Caring For Little Boys
Caring For Little Girls
   

H:   Hair twiddling        
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control
   
    Hearing

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Chance of problems

Normal signs

   
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Discussion
Possibility
   
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Alternative to
Discussion
Questions to ask
   

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Age of baby
Controversy
Chicken Pox
Diphtheria
German Measles
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hib Disease
How does it work
Measles
Mumps
Pertussis
Polio
Reducing impact on baby
Rubella
Safety
Schedule
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Varicella
Whooping Cough
 

 

 

 

 

 










    Induction

Introducing cow’s milk
Internal Examination
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Reasons not to
   
           

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K:   Kegels        

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Overdue Problems
Preparation

Reasons for Inducing
Ways of Inducing
   

M:   Meconium        

N:   Nappy

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Nappy changing etiquette
Appearance
Bloodshot eyes
Circumcision
Colour of eyes
Confusing day and night
Early outings with baby
Going home from
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Sticky eyes
Swaddling
Timing of feeds
Vernix
   
    Night Nurse        
    Night Terrors        
    Nine months old - Your own personal comedy act    

O:   Oral Hygiene - MAM advises    

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Effect on Baby
Epidural
Some Reasons
General Aneasthetic
Other than Medication
   
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After birth not delivered
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Prolapsed cord
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Causes
Father
Father’s Embarrassment
Helping Yourself
Predisposition
Treatment
Postnatal depression or baby blues?
   

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Working mom
   

R:   Recovering from pregnancy and birth
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Food faux pas
Healthy food choices
Role of diet
Role of husband
Simplifying healthy eating
   
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Vigilant mother
   
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Reason
   
    Seven months old - A person with a strong personality emerges    
    Shaking baby in anger
       
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Altered sleep routine
Appropriate sleep routines (Jacqui Flint advises)
Background noise

Dealing with Catnapping (Author Erica Neser advises)
Darkened room
Night Terrors
Reasons for waking
Sighing
Sleep routines for Baby (Author Erica Neser advises)
Surviving Co-sleeping (Author Erica Neser advises)
Toddler Sleep Problems
(Author Erica Neser advises)
   
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    Socialising        
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Avoid in first year
After Rice Cereal
Baby trying to take charge
Best age to start
Changing her mind about a food
Feeding chair
First foods
Getting started
Keeping clean
Is baby ready?
Rice Cereal
Salt content of food
Using a bottle for solids
Very short feeds
   
    Stages of Labour        
    Stimulation        
    Sucking hands        
    Sudden Infant Death        
    Swimming Safety - Seasonal drowning syndrome
(Arlene Williams advises)
   
    Swinging games        
    Sudden Infant Death Syndrome/Cot Death
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Reducing Risk
   
           

T:   Teeth grinding        
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    Toilet Troubles - Mother's Incontinence    
    Tooth - Accidents    
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      - Crooked    
      - Reason for baby teeth    
      - Staining    
    Travel sickness        
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Normal behaviour
   

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    Umbillical Hernia        
    Urinary Incontinence of Mother        

V:     - Vernix    

W:   Walking -
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Regression
The right age
   
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Seasonal drowning syndrome


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Bottle
Cutting down on feed
Demanding dummy
Exhausted mother
Mother’s discomfort
Preparation
Regression
Self weaning baby
Sick baby
Weaning off bottle
   
    When To Call The Doctor - First 6 weeks after birth    
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Baby showing discontent
Baby’s relationship with carer
Childcare decisions
Choosing a carer
Deciding whether to go back
Financial Implications
Guilt at wanting to work
Important considerations

Making the first day easier
Missing baby’s milestones
Returning to work part-time
Spouse doing his share
Stay at home regrets
The downside of working from home
When to return to work
Work from home
Working with baby present

   
             
           
             
           
             
 
 
 
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