DISCOVER: how to train your baby without stress and tears If you want your baby to be a good sleeper, a healthy eater and a happy explorer, then this might be the most important practicalguide you read during the crucial period of the baby's first year. These first months are crucial because during this time, your baby develops his personality and learns major survival skills. This book starts with a description of conscious parenting principles as the basis for successful baby training. Bringing up a child is very much about patience, positive attitude, persistence and respect, so to make any technique work, caregivers must adopt these habits first. The following chapters give proven advice on easy feeding, sleeping, diapering and potty training, but not only these! You'll also find sections on bathing and playing as integral parts of baby's daily routine. SAVE YOUR TIME: learn 61 tips in less than one hour Written by a working mother, this book aims to help busy parents facing time limits find effective problem solutions fast. The major source of the book comes from the author's grandmother, a professional nurse and midwife in a maternity hospital for 35 years helping thousands of women to give birth and take care of their new babies during first days afterwards. LEARN: insights into the practices of other cultures The book includes insights into the practices of other cultures which may be very interesting to the readers and describes simple tools that really work with explanations on how to do them exactly and provides no-cry methods to help your baby: sleep through the night, escape gases and colic, avoid skin rash, choose the right diapers in proper amount, potty train by 8, 15 or 24 months, and other proven tips to raise a happy and healthy child. Please, note that this book is heavily based on the traditions and medical experience of Asia, where neither crib sleeping nor formula feeding are popular. Therefore, it does NOT include tips on these methods, but provides instead for alternatives. In addition, the author does not offer professional advice, but shares experiences in handling the daily problems of baby care.

1. B A B Y ’ S F I R S T Y E A R : 6 1 S E C R E T S O F S U C C E S S F U L
F E E D I N G , S L E E P I N G , A N D P O T T Y T R A I N I N G
BREASTFEEDING & SOLID
FOOD INTRODUCTION

2. CHAPTER 2. BREASTFEEDING (SOME TIPS FROM THE BOOK)

3. 9. LEARN BABY’S CUES.
Babies give signs when they are hungry, like licking or smacking their lips,
sucking their hands or fingers, or crying. If Daniella is hungry, she is always
hiccupping. That was always her cue.

4. 10. BURP AFTER FEEDING!
It is extremely important to put your baby into a vertical position after
feeding and gently pat his back to burp. If you do not do that, the air
gulped during feeding will be trapped, and the baby will get gases,
which cause colic, pain and a lot of crying. Sometimes it takes up to 20
minutes to get a good burp. More gases are trapped when your baby is
feeling hungrier and eating too quickly. There are many baby bottle
configurations now to reduce air inflow. I used Philips Avent BPA Free
Natural Bottles and tried regular Avent bottles for expressed milk. Daniella
did not like the regular bottle nipples and preferred the Natural Avent
Bottles.
She did not have gases or colic during breastfeeding or afterwards.

5. 13. WAIT TILL HINDMILK.
If you take a close look at mother’s milk, you will notice that first it will
come out light blue, and later it becomes white and yellow. “The milk the
baby receives when he begins breastfeeding is called the ‘foremilk,’
which is high in volume but low in fat. As the feeding progresses, the fat
content of the milk rises steadily as the volume decreases. The milk near
the end of the feeding is low in volume but high in fat and is called the
‘hindmilk’” (Mohrbacher and Stock, p. 34). My grandma and the hospital
nurses insisted that feeding should not be less than 20 minutes on each
side. Otherwise, the baby would miss hindmilk fat essential for his growth;
however, if you latch the baby quite frequently and in intervals no more
than 2-3 hours, the length of feeding should not matter.

6. 20. SOLID FEEDING: EASY TRANSITION
BY SPOON METHOD AT 6 MONTHS.
1. Start from one vegetable only without adding any salt, sugar, corn
starch, or other food thickening.
2. Introduce solid food only if the child is healthy.
3. Give a new product only in the morning at breakfast. If the baby is to
have any reaction, you will have time to take necessary measures.
4. Boil vegetables for 15 minutes or steam them for 5-10 minutes until very
soft. Then blend them very well; the result should be a liquid. After 8-10
months, you can make a thicker texture with small, soft pieces of
veggies. For cooking, I used a Beaba babycook, which steams, blends
and warms food.
5. First give vegetables, then fruits. The fruits will be sweet, so babies will
surely prefer them and may refuse veggies.
6. Puree should be warm.

7. 20. SOLID FEEDING: EASY TRANSITION
BY SPOON METHOD AT 6 MONTHS.
1. Use plastic, soft-tipped spoons to avoid gum injuries.
2. The baby needs to try the vegetable 10-15 times before he will get
accustomed to it.
3. Start with only one spoon a day of a new puree. Then, you may give
either breast milk or formula. The next day, add another spoon. On the
third day, three spoons. The traditional method includes one kind of
puree per week, which equals to seven spoons by the end of the week,
though I did only five consecutive days.
4. From the second week, add one spoon of a new veggie (or fruit), in
addition to the first one.
5. By the end of the first month, you will be able to change one milk or
formula feeding to puree in the morning.

8. AND MANY OTHER TIPS
• Chapter 1. Conscious parenting: communication, routine and stress
• Chapter 2. Baby feeding: breastfeeding, solid food introduction, and
making a schedule
• Chapter 3. Getting your baby to sleep through the night
• Chapter 4. Bathing babies: how, where, and when
• Chapter 5. Diapering. Potty training by 8, 15 or 24 months
• Chapter 6. Let’s play! Early childhood development

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