The Beginning

This is my first blog entry as I try to navigate WordPress. As I learn more skills this will be shinier and prettier.

SO, you’re pregnant! Congratulations to you! Did you know that you can start right now to love your baby and make him/her feel secure and loved? You don’t have to wait until your miracle is born. Talking, singing, reading to your baby while you’re pregnant does have a positive effect on your baby. Moms, dads, sisters, brothers, and other significant family members can communicate with the baby. Playing music, reading aloud, and direct talking all count. According to WebMD on January 3, 2003, there are a myriad of positive reactions that occur in the baby when attention is paid to her/him before birth: https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20130102/babies-learn-womb#1

For more information, you may want to search “benefits of talking to a baby in the womb”.

BIRTH

Now you’re holding your newborn. You’re so full of emotions, worries; happiness, insecurity, ecstasy,  fear. You’re also tired, in pain, and tired…Just by holding and feeding your baby you are well on your way to creating a loving, caring, future adult. Positive youth development begins the day a child is born and includes the infant beginning to know that their needs will be met and when they cry, someone will care for them. Food, clothing, shelter are what most of think about when considering basic needs but every human, the tiniest of us all included, has many more needs than those three.

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This article from Scientific American, May 6, 2010 explains more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infant-touch/

From Babble.com: https://www.babble.com/parenting/cuddling-babies-study-benefits-touch/

There are so many resources available that I can’t list them all. If you want to read more, search for “benefits of holding infants” or something similar.

Summary:

Making Baby feel loved and secure starts with pregnancy with reading, singing, talking to the baby in the womb. There’s no such thing as spoiling an infant by holding her/him too much or too often. You CAN, however, foster insecurity and lack of trust by leaving her/him to “cry it out”. For the first year of your baby’s life, they need you or a loving caregiver to be there for them when they signal a need. Go ahead and hold your baby with reckless abandon!