Teach Your Baby To Swim The Diagrams Part 3

By Dad

No baby swimming lesson this week, so I spent some time on diagrams for the assisted underwater swim.

For some reason I thought it would be clearer to ditch the swimming pool I created for the previous teach your baby to swim diagram article, and replace it with a clear glass pool.

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Mother and Baby Yoga Class - Lesson One

By Mummy

Amélie and myself had our first Mother and Baby Yoga class today. I have done yoga before but I was still not sure what to expect. Both of us had a fun time so whilst the class is still fresh in my mind I will tell you more about it.

The Mother and Baby Yoga Class consisted of 18 mothers and their babies. The baby age group ranges from 6 weeks old until the baby is walking. The class can be attended by Mothers once the Midwife is happy with the Mother's health. This is usually when the baby is 6 weeks old. No equipment was needed for the class. A mat is provided for you and a smaller mat for your baby. I wore tracksuit bottoms, t-shirt and trainers. The class costs £4.40 for both Mother and baby and the class lasts for an hour.

There are two other Yoga Classes one of which is Pregnancy Yoga, which I will attend if we are lucky to get pregnant again. The other class is Mother and Toddler Yoga class. I will attend this class in the future if the Mother and Baby yoga class turns out to be good

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Parents put their questions regarding baby vaccinations to a Doctor

By Dad

We agonised over the first round of immunisations that were due at 2 months. The controversial MMR jab is months away yet, but we were still concerned about any medical intervention. In this article we put our questions to a Doctor.

A very good friend of ours had a lovely baby girl a month before ours.

She is a General Practioner which makes her an ideal person to put our questions to. As she works as a GP and is bound by professional duties she has asked to remain anonymous so she can give frank honest answers.


Alex:

Firstly thank you for giving us the opportunity to put these questions to you. I suppose most parents have simliar fears. You have a happy healthy baby and you are then asked to give permission for them to be injected with agents you know very little about.

After a long labour we were asked about a Vitamin K injection. I wasn't too concerned about distress to the baby, she had been through so much that a simple injection wouldn't make too much difference so I said yes. I assumed the midwife would know best, and this far she seems unaffected by it. But a friend of ours told us that is was bad news and we should have said no, which leaves me feeling unsure I did the right thing.

Do you think we did the right thing?

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Baby's Post Immunisation Update

By Dad

I think my previous article proved too good to be true. It may be a coincidence but 2 days after her first set of immunisations Amélie isn't doing too well.

Amélie had her first set of immunisations 2 days ago. On the day she was fine, the day after she was fine but today (2 days later) she isn't too good.

When she woke up she had a bit of a blocked nose and was sneezing a lot. I went swimming at around midday and Clare took Amélie to watch. Over the space of an hour she had got much worse, her cheeks were very red and we could now hear some rattling when she was breathing. We took her right home and took her temperature which was normal.

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Update - Day After First Immunisations

By Dad

Just a little update as we took Amélie for her first Jabs yesterday morning.

Amélie seemed pretty normal all day yesterday after her immunisations. She took her feeds well and slept right through the night just like usual. We took her out this morning almost exactly 24 hours after her injections, she cried for a few minutes while we were getting ready to leave but seemed quite happy after that. We must have been out walking the dogs with her for at least an hour and a quick stop off to buy some supplies on the way back. She slept some of the time, the rest of the time she seemed quite happy, no crying or face pulling.

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First round of childhood immunisations

By Dad

This morning we took our baby for her first round of immunisations. Two injections, one in each thigh. One of many decisions we will have to make for her during her lifetime, I hope we made the right call on this one.

If you haven't read many of our articles you may not know about my fear of injections. I've avoided the hypodermic for well over 2 decades, and once passed out during a visit to the Vet with my dog.I wasn't always this way, it was a gradual fear that built up over time. My only other fear is flying, again a fear that built up gradually. My father had a fear of flying and a fear of all things medical and it would seem more than a coincidence that I'd ended up with the same 2 fears.

I'm mindful that I could pass this on to my kids, so Clare and I decided that I would hold Amélie for her injections and never show any outward fear. I'd managed to visit my Mother in Hospital before she sadly passed away, and I'd got through a 27 hour Labour, so it seemed I could control the fear when needs must.

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6 Week Postnatal Check Up

By Mummy

What happens at the six week check up? I know that before we went I did not have a clue what to expect.

For the first few weeks after the birth your life is full of midwives, health visitors, hearing tests, visitors and before you can blink it is time to book in for your post natal 6 week check up for you and the baby.

Our life has been pretty hectic lately so my six week check up ended up being when Amélie was 7 weeks and 5 days. I had no idea what to expect but all three of us went along to see the doctor.

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