Briggsy's girl - I thought about saying putting the toy/ blanket in with both mumma and daddy but it didn't sound politically correct to me - seeing as there are single mums out there... ridiculous huh??
It's definitely a great idea to have both parents scent on them
I thnk that is a lovely idea. My sister did that for her daughter and she slept a lot better once she had the toy. My sister didn't sleep with it for 9 months tho, just stuffed it down her top. It was amzing, my neice wouldn't sleep without it.
That has given me an idea for another friend who is pregnant......
I have read that babies settle well wit a shirt of mum's or something with her scent on it so this makes sense. Like you do with puppies! When we got our last dog the breeder gave us a toy which she had with her mum so she would have the familiar scent to sleep with.
Its a lovely idea - they actually suggest people do this with cloth nappies for the bitty babies in NICU and SCN, they suggest mum wears a cloth nappy under her shirt for a day or so then to pop it in with bub for comfort.
Its a great way for bub to feel some sort of security when it is alone
On the flip side - I read somewhere for parents to do this with a shirt or blankey and get babies smell along with the parents smell for pet dogs and cats so they get an association with this new little bundle before it comes home
The hospital where I had DD had 'wookies'...so if the mum and bubba was separated (ie - prem or sick) then bubba had one wookie and mum had the other, then when you see each other next you swap...
I don't know whether the whole scent thing worked as we were swapping them daily - but for me (as silly as this will sound) i felt the wookie 'was' my baby, until I managed to get her home from hospital 6 wks after her birth...It made me feel closer to her, even when I wasn't there.
Congrats on your engagement Leesa!
(Also congrats on your next arrival!)
That sounds like a beautiful idea that the hospital had.
Were they little soft toy star wars wookies??
That would be amazingly cute!
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