Baby Mindful Maidenhead & Berks

10/10/2020

01/07/2020

Babble back!

When your baby babbles, babble back. When they make funny noises, copy the sounds. When they flap their arms and legs, smile and do it back! Get eye contact as much as you can and respond, respond, respond.

Every time you do, you are recognising their attempts to communicate with you, and you encourage more.

Every time you mimic your baby, you're saying 'Yes, I see you! I hear you! You're a meaningful person, you're important, and I want to hear what you think!' This creates fabulous brain circuitry for a lifetime of communication🤩. When you copy your baby, he learns that communicating is rewarding and fun.

"I must be loved! I must have worth! I must be interesting! I feel so good about myself!"

The technical term is 'serve and return', like in a game of tennis. Babies actually 'serve' a heck of a lot. That's them wanting to start something up. Don't miss it. Once you're tuned in to the little sounds, you'll be able to 'return' a lot more of them, and have many more 'conversations'. This helps connect up the social parts of their brain.

Baby chats! The best! 🥰

30/05/2020

🐝 Stings! Would you know how to treat them ❓
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🐝 First of all make sure you remove the stinger if it's left in (this will be from a bee as wasps take it away with them!)

❌Do not use tweezers as the bee stinger will be attached to a venom sac and you may squeeze more poison in.

✅ Use something with a straight edge, such as a credit/debit card to scrape across the surface of the skin to remove it.⠀
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✅ Wash the area with water to remove the poison. ⠀
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✅ Elevate the area and apply a cold compress on it for 10 minutes. ⠀
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✅ Watch out for signs of a severe allergic reaction. A localised area of redness and inflammation is normal.

🚑 If they have any of the following phone 📞 999
A. Airway - swelling of the face, mouth or throat
B. Breathing difficulties - wheezy, noisy, difficulty breathing
C. Circulation - signs & symptoms of shock.
Pale, clammy skin, feeling dizzy or faint, rapid pulse, loss of consciousness
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🐝 Stings in your mouth, throat or eye area also need medical attention. ⠀
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👀 Look out for signs of infection too! ⠀
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Check this NHS link for more information and advice. ⠀
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https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/insect-bites-and-stings/treatment/

09/05/2020

Day 6 of Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week and today, we’re putting the focus on the Dads!
So do join us throughout the day for videos and information and to find out more about support for dads.

15/03/2020

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02/02/2020

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What do you do when your baby won’t sleep despite all your efforts? Here are some articles to read when you’re dealing with a little sleep thief. Great for those toddler years too!

13/01/2020

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05/01/2020

There are no bad sleeping habits 💚

Babies are all different. The amount of sleep a baby needs in 24 hours varies. Some find it much harder to go to sleep than others. This is due to their temperament, not your parenting. A baby does not sleep 'badly' because they have a parent who helps them. Trust what your baby tells you. If they find it hard to go to sleep, help them.

There are no bad sleep habits to be made here, contrary to what you might hear. An underdeveloped, immature brain needs a lot of adult input to remain calm. And that's just the baseline, some babies need a lot more help than others (again due to their temperament).

This isn't how sleep will look for the rest of your life. This is sleep in the early years, where quite simply, your baby just really needs you.

*This applies to older babies, toddlers & children too. There is no magic age when they should all be sleeping through the night. This developmental milestone is reached naturally in their own time.

01/01/2020

You will be a different parent every morning to a child who will also be different, sometimes changing in just hours, or minutes, or before your eyes. There will be good days and bad days, good minutes and bad minutes, good choices and not so good ones. You will do some things, probably a lot of thi...

31/12/2019

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