Tips for Having a Healthy Baby
1. Healthy baby requires a healthy you
2. Teaching the baby starts with you
a. Babies explore the world around them, so be the canvas for exploration that babies need to learn their place in the world.
3. Self- awareness develops over time for both baby and parents.
a. Self-awareness is knowing your emotions, strengths and challenges, and how your emotions affect your behavior and decisions.
b. Social and emotional development counts and begins when we understand that balance and healthy social and emotional development begins with communication even as infants
i. Research shows that those with higher social-emotional skills have better attention skills and fewer learning problems, and are generally more successful in academic and workplace settings. (http://www.parenttoolkit.com/topics/social-and-emotional)
4. Enjoy each moment
a. Rid of expectations and allow the baby to show you what is new
Mothers and fathers, you are the reason for existence of new life. You were fruitful and multiplied. Big ups to you, not everyone has the opportunity to be used as the instrument to birth life, yet alone care and nurture for it until it is old enough to care for itself.
Fathers, see this as growth vs. crisis..
Curtis, J. A., Blume, L. B., & Blume, T. W. (1998, January 01). Becoming a Father: Marital Perceptions and Behaviors of Fathers during Pregnancy. Retrieved February 06, 2018, from http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mfr/4919087.0003.104?rgn=main%3Bview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBlDixgQk0I
