United States Information Service. Infant Care and Feeding. AVA04519VNB1 – 1944. This video uses animation to show things a mother should do during the prenatal period, while baby is nursing, and when baby changes from a liquid to a solid diet. Producer: United States Information Service. Creative Commons license: Public Domain
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Ways to stop a crying baby; learn how to soothe a crying baby with infant colic in this free child care video with parenting tips for newborns and infants.
Expert: Alisha Folkman
Bio: Alisha Folkman is a mother of two and has worked at the Verde Valley Medical Center for nearly five years.
Filmmaker: Dixon Gillette
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In which John Green discusses his three-week-old son Henry, privacy, Amanda Bynes, misquoting Albert Einstein, dental work, and hot videos about kisses and other.
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Watch gurgle’s guide to holding your newborn baby with confidence… http://gurgle.co.uk
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Daddy Troy reviews maybe the coolest travel crib ever. This piece of baby gear comes to us from Baby Bjorn, maker of some of the best baby products. This crib makes travel easier for parents and their infants. The crib has numerous safety features and folds into compact travel luggage. Babies can sleep nicely in this baby furniture. This Swedish engineering feat comes to you directly from the ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas. (See, honey, it really was for work. DadLabs ep. 88 Gear Daddy.
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Burp a newborn by placing them over a shoulder and patting or rubbing the infant’s back until they burp or spit up. Burp a newborn after every meal to relieve gas that may build up in the tummy with tips from the parents of a 2 year old in this free video on child care.
Expert: Windy St.George
Bio: Windy St.George is the parent of a happy, healthy 2 year old.
Filmmaker: Sam Lee
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Learn to give a soothing massage with this simple, step-by-step video. Massage is a great way to bond with your baby, and it’s also a calming way to help him relax as part of a nightly, before-bed routine.
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Dressing a newborn can seem like a monumental task, but it can also be a lot of fun. Tori Kropp shows you some tips to make it easier!
Tori Kropp, R.N. is a perinatal nurse who has delivered thousands of babies at the prestigious California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Known as the Dear Abby of pregnancy, Tori is the author of THE JOY OF PREGNANCY (2008, The Harvard Common Press). Please visit http://www.thejoyofpregnancy.com to learn more!
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This wasn’t an easy decision in my house when I found out I was having a boy.
I gave birth in March. In January, we “accidentally” discovered we were having a boy. We’re a blended family, and daddy already had two girls, and I have one son. He had never had to decide whether to circumcise before; I had. A few weeks after reading this joyous news (boys sure are nice!), the circumcision decision came into the picture. We always knew we had a 50/50 chance of a boy, and therefore discuss circumcision. But until we knew E was a baby boy, it was something we’d face later. I think Daddy assumed I’d go with his wishes because Heck! Dad’s a boy! My son’s a boy! Dad knows best! And I think that may be the assumption of many men. For many women, as well. They let it happen because “daddy wants it done.”
But I’d given birth to and raised a son for a couple years on my own. And circumcision absolutely never entered my mind for him. My nephews aren’t circumcised. Neither are over 40% of boys born today. That didn’t convince daddy. Honestly, while sparing a bit of our privacy, I will say that this argument was a tearful one.
Dad believed what many dads believe: that he’ll be made fun of, he’ll look “different” in the locker room, he wouldn’t “look like me,” he’d be at risk for infections. These are all common beliefs. And from experience, it’s difficult to come up with the counterpoint to the “look like me” statement, because when you do, your partner may feel that you don’t like the way he looks. It’s a very personal and understandable feeling for men in a culture obsessed with virility. But I was the mama, growing a tiny baby boy inside of me, and protecting him was instinctual from conception.
If this is a hot topic for debate in your house and you are as adamant as I was that your son remain intact, use some of these points:
* Your son will never “look like you” in every way. Would we get him rhinoplasty, too?
* Boys rarely see their fathers’ penises past a young age, and no matter what, grown men’s penises look very different in size and hair content from their baby boys’.
* Your husband’s mother made the decision to circumcise her son in a culture very different from ours. Would you also choose not to breastfeed if she did not?
* It is not your body. This is a huge reason to leave your son intact. It is his body, and he should be allowed to choose whether to have surgery on his most private parts.
* Trauma. Labor and delivery is a harrowing feat for many mothers. Just imagine how tough it is for the baby. Do you really think it’s necessary to subject him to two major events, one of them simply for aesthetics, in the same day?
* Locker room fears: if 40% of boys are now left intact (and more in some places), your son won’t look much different than others in the locker room. And anyhow, why would boys be checking each other out in the first place?! (It’d be the one poking fun with the real problem.)
* Would you do this to your daughter?
On the supposed medical reasons:
* Increased risk for urinary tract infections: UTIs are rare in boys, much less common than for girls. Recent studies suggest there is no difference in the amount for circumcised boys than for intact boys.
* STDs: Some of the studies suggesting that the risk for HIV is lessened are flawed, in that they concentrate on populations in Africa, where HIV rates are much higher. A 2007 study offers that it is the percentage of female sex workers in the female population, not the incidence of male circumcision, that determines the level of HIV infection
* Phimosis, or a foreskin that won’t retract: The foreskin gradually becomes retractable between infancy and 18 years of age. It’s nothing we should either rush or worry about. In fact, only 1 percent of males over 18 still have an unretracted foreskin, and then it can be easily treated with a topical steroid cream. The risks of this happening, however, are small, because stimulation of the foreskin during adolescence helps this happen naturally. (and that’s something that no adolescent boy minds doing!)
Medical “reasons” are simply not compelling enough.
Would we rid ourselves of anything else not “necessary”? Heck, at $400 a pop, could they take off those pinkie toes, too? Toss in an appendectomy?
Any medical professional would think you were crazy for suggesting either. So why not with this piece of skin, this bundle of nerves? On a newborn boy?
If it is truly “preventative” surgery, we would be removing the breast buds of any young girl who has a high risk for breast cancer. We would be removing the appendix at birth.
But we’re not, because those are drastic steps to take for problems that may never occur. And we, as a culture, refuse to perform such drastic surgery on children without their consent, we should not be performing what is essentially plastic surgery on infants.
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Learn how to get your infant to sleep through the night and be a happier, healthier baby!
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