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Caroline Deacon. Babycalming: Simple Solutions for a Happy Baby
CAROLINE DEACON. Babycalming
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Contents
Introduction – Why the Three-step Plan Works
What You Need
What Your Baby Needs
How to Help Your Baby
What This Book Can Do for You
1 Why Do Babies Cry?
How Easy Is It to Tell Why Your Baby Is Crying?
How the Three-step Plan Will Help
Am I Spoiling My Baby by Picking Him Up When He Cries?
Tuning In to Your Baby’s Needs
Why Your Baby Might Be Crying
Step One: Feeding
Step Two: Comfort. IS HE COMFORTABLE?
IS HE BORED?
Step Three: Sleep
2 Getting Used to the World: The First Six Weeks
You Need Time
Your Baby Needs Time
Step One: Feeding
Step Two: Comfort
Step Three: Sleep
3 Learning about Routines: Six Weeks to Six Months
Sociable Babies
Step One: Feeding
Step Two: Comfort
Step Three: Sleep
4 Getting Sociable: Six Months to Two Years
Step One: Feeding
Step Two: Comfort
Step Three: Sleep
5 The Need for Boundaries: You and Your Toddler
Times Change – Opinions Change
Step One: Feeding
Step Two: Comfort
Step Three: Sleep
6 Feeding Your Newborn
Bottle-feeding – How to Do It
Bottle Feeding – A Step-by-Step Guide
Breastfeeding – How to Do It
Top Tips for Correct Positioning at the Breast
7 How Much and How Often?
Bottle-feeding
Breastfeeding
WHY DOES EARLY SCHEDULE-FEEDING FAIL FOR SOME BABIES?
FEED YOUR BABY ON DEMAND – IT’S NATURAL!
COMFORT FEEDING
SUCCESSFUL BREASTFEEDING IN THE EARLY WEEKS
8 Night-feeding
Why Does Your Baby Need to Feed at Night? BENEFITS FOR YOUR BABY
BENEFITS FOR MUM
Breast or Formula – Which Is Easier at Night?
An Easier Time of It
9 Your Baby’s Need to Suckle
Dummies – to Suck or Not to Suck?
Is Thumb-sucking Better?
GETTING YOUR BABY TO TAKE A DUMMY
THUMB/FINGERS – ADVANTAGES
THUMB/FINGERS – DISADVANTAGES
DUMMY – ADVANTAGES
DUMMY – DISADVANTAGES
10 Recreating the Womb
What’s It Like for Your Baby in the Womb? – The Five ‘Senses’
Creating Another Womb for Your Baby
Will My Baby Grow to Depend on These Soothing Strategies?
11 Using Sound and Movement
Comforting Your Baby with Movement
12 The Power of Touch
The Earliest Touch – Inside the Womb
HOW TO ‘SWADDLE’ A BABY
Warmth
MAKING BATHS LESS SCARY
What You Can Do. SKIN TO SKIN
MASSAGE
13 Comforting the Baby Who Has Colic
Definition of Colic
Is It Just a Sore Tummy?
Does Crying Have Any Benefits?
Coping with Colic
SHARE THE BURDEN
14 Feeding the Baby with Colic
Why Does My Baby Want to Feed So Often?
Is She Constipated?
Winding Your Baby
Help for Colicky Bottle-fed Babies
Breastfeeding and Colic
Lactose Intolerance
LACTOSE OVERLOAD
TOO MUCH MILK?
15 Is Your Colicky Baby Oversensitive?
Is Colic a Normal Part of Your Baby’s Development?
Overtired?
A Stressful Start to Life?
Sensitive Children – Born, Not Made?
The Sensitive Baby
How to Survive a Sensitive or Colicky Baby
16 Treatments for Colic
Conventional Medicines
Complementary Therapies
CRANIAL OSTEOPATHY
HOMOEOPATHY – ‘LIKE CURES LIKE’
ACUPUNCTURE/ACUPRESSURE – ‘EAST MEETS WEST’
HERBAL MEDICINE – ‘AS OLD AS MANKIND ITSELF’
17 How Sleep Works for You
Adult Sleep
THE FIVE STAGES OF ADULT SLEEP
What Happens to Your Sleep When You Have a Baby?
18 How Sleep Works for Your Baby
Your Baby’s Sleep – How It Develops. WHILE YOU ARE PREGNANT
THE FIRST FEW WEEKS
AT SIX WEEKS
AT FOUR MONTHS
AT SIX MONTHS
When Might My Baby Sleep Through the Night?
19 Can You Train Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night?
Behaviourism, or Learning Theory
Behaviourism in Managing Baby’s Sleep
Extinction
Fading
Reinforcement
Cueing
Does Behaviourism Really Work?
20 Helping Your Baby Fall Asleep
How to Fall Asleep
DEVELOPING A HAPPY BEDTIME ROUTINE
FALLING ASLEEP IN YOUR ARMS
NOISES OFF
PEACE AND QUIET
The Importance of Daytime Naps
A ROUGH GUIDE
Use Her Natural Cycles
21 Helping Your Baby Stay Asleep
What Do We Know about Physiology?
The Art of Getting a Baby to Sleep Through
Making the Night Different from the Day
NIGHT-FEEDING
REASSURANCE
SHOULD I LEAVE HIM TO CRY IT OUT?
If Your Baby Starts to Wake More Frequently at Night
‘CORE NIGHT’
‘FOCUS FEEDING’
Changing Times
Coping with Broken Nights
22 All Change: Sleep and the Older Baby
Bedtime Battles
I WON’T GO TO BED!
I DON’T WANT TO BE ALONE!
HELP! I HAD A BAD DREAM!
OTHER NIGHT-WAKING
Sleep Associations
BEDROOM VERSUS PLAYROOM
Is it Morning Yet?
REWARDS
Some Other Things to Remember
23 Who Sleeps Where?
Bed-sharing – Fashion or Necessity?
Sharing – Does It Disturb Your Sleep?
Sleeping When You Have a New Baby
When Is Co-sleeping Appropriate?
OVERLAYING
MOVING ON
A Smooth Transition
24 Sleeping Safely
Which Babies Are at Risk?
Causes of Cot Death
First Principles – Back to Sleep
Smoking
Good Practice – Breastfeeding
Over-heating
Using Old Mattresses
SIDS – An Arousal Deficit?
HOW USEFUL IS A MONITOR?
Co-sleeping as Protection Against SIDS
Other Regulatory Mechanisms
Safe Bed-sharing
WHEN NOT TO SHARE
Safety in the Cot
25 Putting it All Together: What’s Going to Work for You?
The Cyclical Nature of Parenting Ideas
Influences
The Psychoanalytic Perspective
Conclusions: Whose Problem Is It?
APPENDIX Cows’ Milk-free Diet for Breastfeeding Mothers
Milk-free Margarines
Adequate Energy Intake
Calcium
CALCIUM EXCHANGE LIST
CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS
MILK SUBSTITUTES
Vitamin D
Reintroducing Cows’ Milk
Supplementary Feeds
Please note that goats’ milk is not suitable for babies. Weaning
Link with Colic, Eczema and Food Intolerance
References. Your Baby from Birth to Toddlerhood. 1. WHY DO BABIES CRY?
2. GETTING USED TO THE WORLD: THE FIRST SIX WEEKS
3. LEARNING ABOUT ROUTINES: SIX WEEKS TO SIX MONTHS
4. GETTING SOCIABLE: SIX MONTHS TO TWO YEARS
5. THE NEED FOR BOUNDARIES
Putting the Three-step Plan to Work. Step One: Feeding. 6. FEEDING YOUR NEWBORN
7. HOW MUCH AND HOW OFTEN?
8. NIGHT-FEEDING
9. YOUR BABY’S NEED TO SUCKLE
Step Two: Comfort. 10. RECREATING THE WOMB
11. USING SOUND AND MOVEMENT
12. THE POWER OF TOUCH
13. COMFORTING THE BABY WHO HAS COLIC
14. FEEDING THE BABY WITH COLIC
15. IS YOUR COLICKY BABY OVERSENSITIVE?
16. TREATMENTS FOR COLIC
Step Three: Sleeping. 17. HOW SLEEP WORKS FOR YOU
18. HOW SLEEP WORKS FOR YOUR BABY
19. CAN YOU TRAIN YOUR BABY TO SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT?
20. HELPING YOUR BABY FALL ASLEEP
21. HELPING YOUR BABY STAY ASLEEP
22. ALL CHANGE: SLEEP AND THE OLDER BABY
23. WHO SLEEPS WHERE?
24. SLEEPING SAFELY
25. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: WHAT’S GOING TO WORK FOR YOU?
Useful Organizations and Further Reading
Complementary Practitioners
Further Reading
All about the National Childbirth Trust
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Publisher
