Handling babies

[Fuschia]

Http://www.bliss.org.uk/core/core_picker/download.asp?id=325

A leaflet about prem bsbies but lots of tips about handling newborns

[buggie]

that links to a jpeg rather than the leaflet :(

[Fuschia]

try

[buggie]

Wow - really useful - especially the pages describing "nesting". We would nest all babies on the ward (normally as the cots are huge so little one's are easily lost) and with the bugglet being tiny (under 5lbs) I nested her in the moses basket and am sure it helped her sleep so well as she always felt well supported, I'd use a blanket as a 'U' shape from shoulder to shoulder and pop a muslin over the top (so easy to change if she vomited) and have the cardie I wore for middle of the night feeds near her so she could smell me.

For those having wind/reflux probs at the moment, I found it useful to have the moses basket stand propped up on a book (I'd guess a 30 degree angle) and Bugglet nested, swaddled - for first few wks in a muslin (right from birth her arms would escape!) and on her side (the nesting meant she couldn't roll onto her front & I'd alternate the side she laid on). I did this more through what felt right for my baby (was worried she'd possit in her sleep)rather than professional judgement (although my past experience probably had some affect on this), and as she got bigger she would settle on her back.

Is funny thinking of this now, as now at 9mths whenever I peek in on her she's in a different position/place in the cot - thank cripes for gro-bags!

[Fuschia]

I instinctively nestled my more recent babies beside a rolled up blanket and with something to hold

[Belle]

This is v interesting - the midwives at Kings did the u-shaped nest thing with us, so we did follow that initially at home - will def do it again.