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Thula Mama singing for mums and babies
By Sarah Lawson on 25/01/2008 01:14:06
The brainchild of mum Helen Yeomans, Thula Mama is a great singing group to entertain babies and boost new-mums' confidence
The first time your baby cries and you give her a hug, you can feel how, instinctively, soothing singing can help calm her down. Singing lullabies and nursery rhymes evens out the voice and we quickly fall back on songs we haven't sung since we were
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Hero dad delivers and revives baby
By Matt Fricker on 16/08/2010 11:42:01
Dad Jon Lock delivers baby daughter in seven minutes, the second ‘superdad’ in as many weeks
seen on the television. It's face scrunched up and it started crying – it was such a relief. I wrapped it in a blanket and handed it to Lucy.” Jon added.Bizarrely for mum Lucy, she gave birth to her first child Leo, 2, in very similar circumstances
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Most confusing new mum job is breastfeeding
By Kimberley Smith on 16/06/2010 12:01:03
First time mums struggle with breastfeeding, weaning and potty training, finds survey
to breastfeeding and more than 60% wish they’d had more support with their first baby.Other confusions for new mums included how long your baby should sleep for and in what position, how long you should leave a baby crying when doing controlled crying and what age
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Language development in the first year
By ThinkBaby on 28/07/2009 00:32:54
How your baby finds his voice and how you can encourage his speech development
by crying but he'll be able to listen to you and will very soon try to talk back, producing some delightful sounds as he builds the building blocks for speech.Crying is the first step of your newborn baby's journey towards speaking and as you get to know him
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Introducing new babies to old pets
By Monica Stylli on 03/10/2008 02:28:52
Bringing home baby is always an exciting time and can be a little daunting, especially if you have existing family members that may not have come across babies and small children before!
'Sounds Soothing' which is designed to help prepare a dog for the arrival of a new baby. The CD contains a range of noises from crying babies to small children at play in order to help familiarise your pet with the new sounds it is about to encounter
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Bringing up Baby: new parenting series on C4
By Maria Muennich on 20/09/2007 14:42:38
What do Truby King, Dr. Spock and Jean Leidloff have in common? Not much other than that they all believed they knew the best way to bring up a baby - Channel 4's new series puts them all to the test
to between the two world wars and was widely popular in the UK into the 1950s. King's method is a stiff-upper-lip approach that has parents feeding their babies every four hours on the clock and leaving them to cry in-between times, having them sleep
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New Baby: Gurgles, Hiccups and Sneezes
By Laura Lee Davies on 19/01/2009 02:28:58
What noises does a new baby make - and are they all normal?
your baby's cries – when that cry is telling you he is hungry, tired, in pain, needs changing and so on. You'll even notice that your baby's poo can show you how healthy, hungry or unwell your child might be! But what about those gurgles and other
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Baby Cuddles
By Laura Lee Davies on 10/09/2009 02:04:05
Can you spoil your baby with too many cuddles or is it a vital part of parent-child communication?
can!In the early weeks, you may worry that you do not know what your baby is trying to comunicate to you, but very soon you will begin to understand your baby's cries. Attending to these is important: changing a nappy, giving a feed, giving him quiet
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Movement monitors for sleeping babies
By Laura Lee Davies on 06/01/2009 01:05:17
Movement monitors sense breathing patterns in babies when they are in their cots, but how useful are they and do you need one?
carries around a second unit and can hear if the baby is making noises such as crying. Some of these units also contain a camera function so parents can see their child.Check out the ThinkBaby Buyer's Guide to Baby Monitors for more about these
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Key to night sleeping: more daylight
By Laura Lee Davies on 04/06/2006 01:01:52
Allowing babies to sleep or rest awake during the day, without making a room dark could help night sleeping.
and 12 weeks. Parents were given a light monitor to carry with the child at all times, and asked to keep a diary of sleep and crying.Developing the biological clockDr Harrison believes this link between daylight and night sleeping could be down
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