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Baby Clothes For All Seasons

By Nancy Macdonald

Few things seem more important at a baby shower than duckies, monkeys and theme colors.

Once you get the baby home though, the most important thing about baby clothes is how well they protect your baby.

Depending on the time of year that your baby is born, and the type of climate you live in, there are a variety of concerns to take into consideration for your baby's very sensitive nature.

For summer babies, or babies in warm climates, overheating is not the only concern.

A baby's skin is incredibly sensitive to light, especially with the increasingly less protective o-zone layer.

Sunscreen is not the only necessity for baby's sensitive skin.

Keeping a towel or blanket over the baby's carriage or bassinet during summer play is a great way to keep the sun from harming your baby.

Umbrellas and pop up tents are also great for beach days.

Make sure there is plenty of ventilation but little to no sun—that way your baby won’t get sunburned or have to squint at the bright sun rays.

For daily summer wear, onesies that are made of a lightweight cotton are a great alternative to pants and shirts.

In addition to being comfortable, they will easily fit in a small bag or purse that you can bring along in extra in case of a spill or accident.

Another bonus of your baby being born in the summer is that it will keep shoe costs down, since a baby in a stroller in seventy five to eighty degree weather does not really need to wear shoes!

Keeping a blanket in the stroller is important, especially if you're in air conditioned buildings a lot, since babies are a lot more sensitive to the change in air temperature.

For winter wear, bundling babies in layers is a good way to combat the difference between heated buildings and the outside.

Avoiding long stretches of being outside in colder temperatures is probably a good idea, but for short walks or trips between cars and buildings, warm bundling is vital.

If you live in a climate that has a lot of snow, the danger of sun burn is even more prevalent than in the summer, since it attacks from all angles.

Warm socks, mittens, and hats will do a good deal to keep most of the baby's body heat in.

Buntings that button down the front are a great way to let the baby escape from the heat a little bit when you are inside without too much effort for you or discomfort for the baby.

Layers work in almost every weather.

As any New mother will tell you, the ability to put on a layer or take it off is the key to combating shifting climates.

This is particularly important for your baby, who is much more sensitive than you to slight changes in temperature or outside conditions.

So keeping an extra sweater around, or putting an onesie underneath warmer clothing is a great way to prepare for anything that Mother Nature has in store. She likes to keep new mothers on their toes!

One thing in paticular , is when you live in an aptment building and you are up lets say on the 8th floor, do not bundle your baby up for the outside till you are down in the lobby.

Lesson one learned by Grandma on fall outings with my grandaughter, babies get hot very quickly in the transition from the apartment to outside.

Have a wonderfull day thanks for stopping by.

Nancy Macdonald RPN

http://www.Go2parent.info http://www.preciousbabysite.com

Is your baby up all night

When To Start Teaching Your Baby
By Nancy Macdonald RPN


When is it that I should start teaching my baby?

That is a question that may come to mind for many first time parents; other parents may never consider the question at all, and just leave things to evolve naturally.

In a way, that is an unnecessary question as, whether you like it or not and whether you mean to or not, you begin teaching your baby while it is still in the womb, and then continue through its early years, teenage years, and even into adulthood. So, perhaps it is better to rephrase that question slightly to "when should I consciously start teaching my baby?"

Even with the rephrased question, the answer is the same: while the baby is in the womb. How can that be?

While the baby is in the womb it starts to learn about its environment after about six months of pregnancy, when it is capable of hearing external sounds.

Of course, it is aware of its internal environment earlier than that, but there is little you can do to enhance that.
But when it comes to the external environment, you are in a position to have some influence even from that early stage of development.
What Can You Teach Your Baby In The Womb?
With the baby in the womb there is clearly a very limited scope for teaching as such. However, you can provide additional stimulation that will form an important part of their learning at that stage.
You can provide many hints as to what the outside environment is like, in a way that sets a good foundation for their feeling of love and security.
The main external awareness of a baby in the womb is sound.
If you can make the external sounds comforting and welcoming then that will help the baby more than you may think.
Music is a proven stimulation to babies, especially classical music; a daily dose of Mozart will stimulate the baby's brain and senses.
With any luck, they will become a musical talent, but that is not an issue at this stage of their development.
You do not, of course, have to restrict her to classical music.

Whatever music you like, just turn the volume up a bit more than usual to ensure she hears it.

The sound will be muffled, but by the time baby is born, she will be used to your musical tastes.
Your aim should be to make the outside environment familiar to the baby.

Most of that will happen naturally, and she will become used to the daily sounds, such as vacuum cleaner, liquidizer, lawnmower and other domestic noises that are penetrating.

. If you want to insist on having a most important sound in the womb, then it must be the voices of the parents.

Getting to know the voice of mum and dad will come naturally, but dad especially can get up close and talk to the baby in the womb.

It will not talk back of course, but you can rest assured, if she is awake, she will be intrigued by your up close and personal voice.
It is something I did every evening withmy daughter. That also had the effect of keeping her awake as long as possible during the evening, so she was less restless at night.
That can be very helpful for mum to get a good night's sleep

. Another external stimulation which I never learnt about for my now grown up children, and that is light.
This can be even more useful for keeping baby awake in the evening.
If you take a powerful flashlight, switch it on, and hold it close to mum's tummy, the baby in the womb will respond to it.
I must say I thought it a silly idea, until the then unborn Saffron started moving every time the light was switched on.
So, the flashlight became another tool in the "keep baby awake in the evening" campaign to stop mum being kicked so much during the night.
Maybe Saffron did not appreciate my "keep her awake" tactics. She was probably wondering "who is this guy keeping me awake all the time; doesn't he realise I want to get some sleep?" However, she does seem to have done well on it.
She has slept like a log all night, every night apart from one, since she was just a few months' old. The odd night? Apparently, a bad dream at 11 pm.
A quick cuddle and words of reassurance, and she was back to sleep again.
Whether that has any connection to her in-the-womb experiences, I cannot say for sure.

But I will definitely be using the same tactics again next time, if we are asked how did we get our precious baby to sleep.

Tell me your experience of getting your baby to sleep. I would love to hear them.


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