If you learned that there?s a baby care item that could help improve your baby?s language development, support their social and emotional learning, strengthen their core muscles, and reduce their sense of pain and discomfort during vaccinations would you want to try it" If you?re interested in learning what this incredible care item is, read on.
Babywearing
Babywearing is what it sounds like: carrying your baby hands free in a soft sling or carrier. Though babywearing research is new, the practice is not. Many cultures have used babywearing for centuries to hold their babies near while doing housework, gardening or simply wearing baby to keep them close for bonding and nursing.
Kangaroo Care or Skin-to-Skin
A similar practice, Kangaroo Care, is widely used in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) to let moms hold baby to their breast to help baby stabilize their own temperature and breathing, and for breastfeeding. Your nurse will recommend you go skin-to-skin with baby right after birth. Your baby, snuggled warmly against your bare chest without any clothes or blankets in between, is the best way to start bonding and breastfeeding.
Babies held this way feel your warmth, the movement of your breathing and they can hear that familiar heartbeat they?ve known all along. Your voice is also recognizable by your newborn, so speak and coo or even softly sing to your little one. This creates a sense of knowing and attachment between the two of you. Depending on your comfort lev...