Newborns

Daniels Law was passes in 2000 to protect babies from being dumped and giving parents the options of leaving them in the hands of someone who will protect them and find them a good home. The problem is that firemen and nurses are claiming that not enough people know about the law and that this is causing more harm to newborns that would otherwise be fine.

To read more about Daniels Law and how to spread the word visit goupstate.com.

After nine months in the womb, your baby will be equipped to say hello to the world with these universal reflexes:

• Grasp: His little hand will grip your finger when you stroke his palm.
• Startle: When he’s startled by a loud noise or a quick movement, your baby will thrust out his arms and legs, then draw them back and cry.
• Rooting: When you rub the corner of your baby’s mouth, he’ll immediately turn toward your finger. This rooting instinct is what helps him to latch onto your nipple for feeding.
• Sucking: Your baby is ready and willing to suck for feeding; sucking also comforts him.
• Tonic neck: Lie your newborn on his side, and watch how he extends his arm and leg on the side he’s lying on, and flexes the arm and leg on the opposite side.
• Walking: Although he’s far from ready for the real thing, if you support your baby upright in a standing position, you’ll see him naturally try to step out.

MANY FIRE STATIONS HAVE SIGNS POSTED THAT they will accept certain items that can be dropped off by the public.  These range from jugs of pesticide to toy donations and even unwanted babies in some areas.

But one woman in Calgary, Alberta, didn’t quite follow the rules when she dropped off a live hand grenade yesterday.  She was doing some cleaning out of a rental property that she owns when she came across the grenade.  Instead of calling for help, she just picked it up and took to the firehouse.  The engine crew was out at the time, but they came right back when they were notified by the medic crew about the donation.

For the next 90 minutes the street was closed, the firehouse was in lockdown and the neighborhood was evacuated while the bomb squad transferred the device into a sandbox.  It was later determined that it was a “live fuse, dead grenade” which is normally used in training.

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1. Touching the soft spots on baby’s head. If you’ve done this, don’t worry about it! When you touch your baby’s soft spots, known as the fontanels, you’re not touching his brain. So what are you touching? A thick, very protective membrane. The soft spots exist because, in order to safely negotiate the narrow birth canal, a baby’s skull is flexible, so your little one’s downy head has already survived a pretty rough ride with no harm done.

2. Seeing baby’s pulse in his fontanels. What you’re seeing are the normal workings of your baby’s circulatory system. Because the fontanels cover areas of the skull that have not yet fused together, they’re soft, making veins and arteries visible.

3. Blood in your newborn girl’s diaper. During pregnancy, a surge in maternal estrogen levels can stimulate a female fetus’s uterus. Within the first week of life, it’s not uncommon for baby girls to have a mini period in which the uterus sheds a little blood.

4. A small hollow in baby’s chest. Relax, this isn’t a heart problem. According to experts, the breastbone is made up of three parts. The indentation you see is likely the bottom piece, angling backward. As your baby grows, her chest and belly muscles will pull it straight. Even before then, layers of yummy baby fat will cover up this very normal bit of newborn anatomy.

5. Soft, squishy poops after every feeding. Breastfed babies may poop after each feeding because breast milk is so quickly digested. (Bottlefed babies may have less-frequent bowel movements.) As far as the squishy issue is concerned, most newborn poops are soft simply because babies are on an all-liquid diet.

A shoe salesman in Maine never went to college and wants to offer this opportunity to those born in 2008 and in the state of Maine. $500 will be put into an account for each child and is expected to grow to $2,000 by 2026. He recommends to all parents adding an additional $50 a year and that will increase the college fun to $25,000 by the time the child turns 18.

To read the full story go to ABC News website.

Every time I am looking for information on Newborn I see the sweetest pictures that I would like to share with you. Here is one of the links…

Dragonfly Design

As moms in this day and age, we are bombarded daily with media about the safety of the things we are eating, using, cleaning with, etc… Studies are popping up constantly linking potential toxins in our foods and products we use daily as being the causes of the rise in cases all sorts of diseases, especially affecting our children. It can become very overwhelming and scary quite frankly…

…Wait, it gets better, or worse really… a recent study conducted by EWG found over 200 common household toxic chemicals from cleaning products and beauty products found in babies placenta at birth. This is scary. So we know to watch what we eat while pregnant, but now it’s even more than that, now it’s also what we use on our bodies and the products we use when we are going through that inevitable nesting thing we do towards the end when we have that overwhelming desire to scrub everything in sight senseless and re-organize all the closets. Our babies are polluted before we even start wiping their bottoms with toxic baby wipes.

For the full article visit Mom2momlounge.

This is hilarious!

So, this guy has proof of his thoughtful side through the poses of his newborn baby, which is absolutely adorable.

Check it out here.

Infants are born with a number of instinctual responses to stimuli, such as light or touch, known as primitive reflexes, which gradually disappear as the baby matures. These reflexes include the:

• sucking reflex, which triggers an infant to forcibly suck on any object put in the mouth
• grasp reflex, which causes an infant to tightly close the fingers when pressure is applied to the inside of the infant’s hand by a finger or other object
• Moro reflex, or startle response, which causes an infant to suddenly throw the arms out to the sides and then quickly bring them back toward the middle of the body whenever the infant has been startled by a loud noise, bright light, strong smell, sudden movement, or other stimulus

This day and age everything is downloadable…. including soothing sounds to put your baby to sleep! That’s right newborn Napster but not so illegal. It is said that babies cry to create a white noise that will soothe them to sleep by reminding them of the noises made in the womb.

Many of the noises you can create yourself like a hairdryer, vaccumm cleaner, dryer and an electric fan. Although if you want to get a little noise variety you can always download some ocean surf, a relaxing river or simply the original womb.

Take a peek!

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