Welcome to the new mummies. Congratulations on your new littlins.
Thought i might add this for the mums worried about their babies and sleeping. This is another insert taken from the book i was given on discharge from the hosptial! Hope it helps.
Sleep and Settling
For the first couple of weeks, on average, your baby needs 16 hours of sleep per day. This sleep may be broken up between many short naps. In general, most babies have one long sleep per day. Unfortunetely, this usually happens during the day time!!
In the early days, crying is the only way your baby can communicate with you. Crying is a normal part of a baby's development and most babies cry a lot. It can be unsettling for parents, but it is important to remember that babies cry for many reasons. Your baby may be hungry, tired, too hot or cold, have a dirty/wet nappy or may be uncomfortable. There may be no reason why your baby is crying!
Breastfed babies need to stimulate the supply of milk and will be very demanding for the first few weeks while the milk supply is being established. It is important to let your baby demand feed.
Babies will cry bcause they are tired and do not know how to settle themselves. For the last 9 months, your baby has been happily tucked up with you and been gently rocked. It is important to recognise the tired signs in a newborn baby. These are:
* Changes in facial expressions such as grimacing and/or frowning
* No longer focusing or looking away from you
* Clenched fists, stiff rigid limbs
* Jerky movements
* Yawning
* Grizzling
* Crying
If after you have fed, changed and spent some time with your baby, you start to see these signs, it is best to put them in their cot for a sleep. After a few weeks, babies should start to settle better.
Hope that helps some of you a bit.
Not much else to report here. Colby is still feeding and sleeping pretty well. We still have'nt developed a routine yet but i am not going to try and rush into one. She will tell me when she is ready for one.
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