Birth: Getting Off to Good Start
How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality
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Creating a Different Kind of Ritual for Your Infant
The time we spend with our infants isn't just to take care of their physical needs. It's to help them learn how to begin to comfort themselves, lisa says. Creating a different type of ritual for your child based on a small set of cues can help regardless of what a brain is con sof that is right now. For example, holding a baby against your chest, the baby can feel your heart beat, and you can feel the baby's heart beat. And for some babies, skin to skin contact is a great way to calm them down. Some new mothers face post mortem depression - it starts soon after birth but also during pregnancy. One reason may be strain from childbirth
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