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A:   Anxious father
Apgar
       

B:   Baby Blues
Baby Sleep

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Controlled Crying Compromise
Controlled Crying
Cot in parents’ room
Doing it your way
Overtiredness
Own Room
Position
Sharing Mother’s Bed
Teaching baby to sleep
   
    Bathing Safety        
    Birthday - First    
    Birth options        
    Blinking        
    Bonding        
    Bottle feeding -
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Advantages
Choice of teat
Choosing the best formula
Combining with breastfeeding
Drawbacks
Intolerance/Allergy to Cow's Milk
Physical contact and Propping
Practical guidelines
Pros and cons
Quantity
Reducing mother's milk supply
Switching from breastfeeding
Travelling

   
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After Caesarean
Alcohol to boost milk
Basic info
Breast Infection

Breast Infection or mastitis

Difficulty
Effect of exercise
Engorgement


Fear
Feeding Positions
Feeding When Ill
Frequent Feeding
Importance
Increasing Milk
In The Beginnning
Jaundice
Latching
Leaking Milk
Let-down Reflex
Medication
Milk Consistency
Milk Release
Milk Starting
Mother's Sickness
Mother's Stress
Mother's Thirst
Nipples


Overdue Baby
Reasons Not To
Restless Baby
Second Baby
Shape Of Breasts
Simplicity
Sleepy Baby
Some Advantages
Watery Breastmilk
Weight Loss
When To Wean



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Discomfort

Pain Relief
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Healing
Painful
Washing

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Chance of Caesarian
Labour
Turning by Doctor or Midwife
Turning to head down
Types
   
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Breast vs Bottle
Father’s Skill
General info
Volume
   
           

C:   Caesarean -
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Description
Partners
Reason
Recovery
   
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Description
Is Baby Sick?
On mother's experience
Treatment
When To See Doctor
   
    Competitive mothers        
    Concussion        
    Contradictory Advice        
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Description
Healing process
Reason for cough
When to call the doctor
   

D:   Development Rate
Doula
       
    Dummy Debates        

E:   Earache - Causes    
    Episiotomy -
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Discussion
Reducing the chances
   
    Exhausted mother        
    Eyes -
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Watery
   
           

F:   False labour -
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Description
Identification
   
    Father - Too involved    
    Feeding Chair Safety        
    Feet issues        
    Flat Head        
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Alternatives
Description
Reason
   
    Food additives - e Flavourings in baby food    

G:   Genitals -
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Caring For Little Boys
Caring For Little Girls
   

H:   Head Control        
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Discussion
Possibility
   
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Alternative to
Discussion
Questions to ask
   

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Age of baby
Controversy
Chicken Pox
Diphtheria
German Measles
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hib Disease
How does it work
Measles
Mumps
Pertussis
Polio
Reducing impact on baby
Rubella
Safety
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Varicella
Whooping Cough
 

 

 

 

 

 










    Induction

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Reasons not to
   
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    Internal Examination        
           

J:   Jaundice - Breastfeeding    

K:   Kegels        

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Overdue Problems
Preparation

Reasons for Inducing
Ways of Inducing
   

M:   Meconium        

N:   Nappy Decisions
Newborn

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Appearance

Bloodshot eyes
Circumcision
Colour of eyes
Confusing day and night
Early outings with baby
Going home from
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Sticky eyes
Swaddling
Timing of feeds
Vernix
   
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Night Terrors
       

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Effect on Baby
Epidural
Some Reasons
General Aneasthetic
Other than Medication
   
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After Birth
After birth not delivered
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Solitary
   
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Postnatal depression or baby blues?
Causes
Father
Father’s Embarrassment
Helping Yourself
Predisposition
Treatment
   

Q:   Quality time -
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Stay at home mom
Working mom
   

R:   Recovering from pregnancy and birth
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Food faux pas
Healthy food choices
Role of diet
Role of husband
Simplifying healthy eating
   

S:   Separation Anxiety -
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Reason
   
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Altered sleep routine
Background noise
Darkened room
Night Terrors
Reasons for waking
Sighing
   
    Smoking Mother        
    Socialising        
    Solids - Amount    
      - Avoid in first year    
      - Baby trying to take charge    
      - Best age to start    
      - Changing her mind about a food    
      - Feeding chair    
      - First foods    
      - Getting started    
      - Is baby ready?    
      - Keeping clean    
      - Rice Cereal    
      - Using a bottle for solids    
      - Very short feeds    
    Stages of Labour        
    Stimulation        
    Sucking hands        
    Swinging games        
    Sudden Infant Death Syndrome/Cot Death
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Facts

Reducing Risk
   
           

T:   Toilet Troubles - Mother's Incontinence    
    Tooth   Accidents
Care
Reason for baby teeth
   
    Travel sickness        

U:   Umbilical Cord        
    Umbillical Hernia        
    Urinary Incontinence of Mother        

V:   Vernix        

W:   Walking -
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Helping the process
Regression
The right age
   
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Bottle
Cutting down on feed
Demanding dummy
Preparation
Regression
Weaning off bottle
   
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First 6 weeks after birth    
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Baby showing discontent
Baby’s relationship with carer
Childcare decisions
Choosing a carer
Deciding whether to go back
Financial Implications
Guilt at wanting to work
Important considerations
Missing baby’s milestones
Returning to work part-time
Spouse doing his share
Stay at home regrets
The downside of working from home
When to return to work
Work from home
Working with baby present
   
             
           
             
 
 
 
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