Most parents can already understand their child’s needs and desires from a very early point – just by learning to know and listen to their baby. But teaching your baby to communicate through sign language from a very young age seems like a wonderful way to develop this even further. Could it be something for you? Does it really provide benefits for all?
Elimination Communication is the name often given to the situation where a baby does not wear nappies from birth. Instead (even from a very young age) the baby and parent/carer learn to communicate the child’s need to go to the ‘toilet’.
Co-sleeping is the term that has been coined to describe where a child sleeps next to it’s parents instead of a separate bed. In many cultures this is the normal sleeping arrangements for young families, but in Western society these days it is not always the ‘done thing’.
Kangaroo care (or Kangaroo Mother or skin-to-skin Care) is the way in which a new-born baby is kept in close and constant contact with the mother. This contact is shown to produce remarkable benefits, especially in low-weight or premature babies.
I thought it may be useful for some new exhausted, struggling mother out there to hear that it does get better and that all the hard work is worth it;
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