3rd month of infants life

Posted on June 19, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

3rd month…………The Month of changes 🙂

It is unbelievable how is baby changing every day. As I am observing my son everyday being with him 24/7 it is great to see his improvements. Those little things which tells you how much he is changing. That one week old practise does not work any more. I and my husband have to be really innovative. Our darling became unbelievably curious. If he could be able he would stay awake whole day to keep watching around and catching every new stimulus, but still all the new things are from time to time making him tired and yeah he still sleeps few hours (count 3-4 times 30 min during the day). I have learned how to cook by left hand even I am right handed. My angel keep watching under over my shoulder and sometimes I have feeling that he will put his face even straightly into the pot to see what I am cooking 🙂

Another thing is that he started to be really loud. It is not just this calm baby, which keeps watching around and the loudest sound is only his cry. Luckily not any more like that. He is laughing loudly, he is screaming and making sounds like cat or owl and hundreds other animals and little spirits 🙂 It is so big fun to observe him and keep listening. He also try to crawl already and he made turn in his cradle. It takes so much afford from him to improve but he is big fighter and he is trying hard. I really like that. My friend was laughing that he is as ambitious as his mom is……..hmmm I don’t know but he should have some genes from me, or I hope so.

He also started to hear more and being scared. During the weekend we have been on shooting with my father (he is game keeper). And I was worried that he will get scared by shoots. But not really. He actually got scared by dog barking…..surprise for us. On the other hand since I kept him telling what is going to happened he got used to every new thing and his learning became faster.

So his 3rd month is nearly over. Next week he will celebrate 4th month and I am excited what is going to happened.
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Mom’s bag…..funkie, junkie story of the life

Posted on June 15, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

How young girl became mom 🙂

My bag will be never that perfect but it does not matter……..I love my messy bag 🙂

I Became mom easily. Maybe more easily than I could have ever thought. Once I woke up and instead of flat belly I had big balloon with swimming baby. Instead of my flatter sporty chest boobies like real women. And far more later instead of hand bag full of make up and perfumes and other important “Ladies stuff” I am constantly pulling out peed diapers, wet wipes not for cleaning my hands but for cleaning my son’s lovely bottom and I am not sweating like hell this is just my son’s saliva over production which makes mark wherever he kiss my body.

I really love that. Yes seriously I love that. This is big miracle for me. Something such as changing diapers and wiping the babies bottoms was not really the most desired think I wanted to do, but something really changed. Everytime I see my son and his pixie face when feeding him or just playing with hime I used to forget anything for what I could have blame him 🙂

Many times kids also bring you lot of fun into your life. Like for example now. I just heard that my husband is laughing and screaming at once. Because our son “scored” as we used to say. When they were playing together he managed to drill over his face :). And again we could see his pixie face and shining eyes.

And even I have many diapers in my bag instead of last model of lipstick and eyelash it always reminds me that I have great son waiting for me at home and great husband worth to love and hug.

I would have never changed the content of my mom’s bag
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How to protect fathers……….our hiden angels

Posted on June 15, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

This post will be for all great fathers who takes care about their families, wife’s and kids.

And why to write about them. I think that most of the time we are talking only about hard time of mothers. That they have to take care about their kids all the time, restlessly with full love. But nobody spoke about dads. Those great persons which stand side by side with moms. Who cares about their families and try to help as much as possible by asking many times per day whether we Moms do not need something or what they can do for us. I got a question from my grandfather who was concern whether my husband is sleeping enough and whether he has still enough energy for us to take care. And we said yes he does. But then I started to think more about this question. Because there were cases where the fathers lacking the proper resting over night and helping mothers over day just got exhausted and knocked down. In this case we should think that they are not that well protected by nature as moms are. They were not gifted by the bunch of hormones like moms which drives us over the never-ending baby care. Bug how our angels “dads” should persist.
There is simple answer we have to take care about them too. And from time to time even they want to stay with us all the time and help us we have to send them for a cup of beer or just free walk on their own or with friends or let him sleep a bit longer at weekend morning. The best is to kiss his front head and say ………….”enjoy my love your time and do not worry, we will manage to be on our own for a while”.
I do not know, maybe there are not so many great husbands and fathers like I have. But I would love to say thanks to all of them who are like that and believe me, that even your wifes have got sleepy face and look that they would stay in the bed for ages just to keep resting and we sometimes forget to say thank you loudly for your help we have it in our hearts and minds and we really appreciate your job.

THANK YOU MY DAD 🙂
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Hormones run the moms live – restless days and awaken nights :)

Posted on June 9, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

NATURE IS MIRACLE…………..LETTER TO MOTHER NATURE

How the hormones keep moms alife and protect us against collapse?

I just had a nice chat with my female friends who is pregnant and she has thousand of questions related to the giving births and infant care just after and how the things go. I think that most of the parents which expect their first babies know this feeling. It is great time on one hand but also with the tinge of uncertainty and expectation on the other hand. You know that something big should come, the biggest change of your life. But how it will feel and how it will be? You have no idea what is coming and I think that is actually much better. Because the nature knows how to prepare mom to cope with many new things. Everybody can share personal experience but this is nothing compare to your own.

My friend main fear was that she is going to sleep only few hours per day, that she is used to sleep between 8-10 hours normally and this period might end. I don’t want to scare you or anything but probably there is smaller amount of babies which really sleep about 16-20 hours per day and whole nights since they are born. Most of them is awake every 2-3 hours asking for food, care or just change. But Do not worry at all, nature is miraculous. It gave us hormones which make us stronger than bulls and more efficient than the perpetum-mobile 🙂 The fact is that even sleeping 3 hours per day sometimes more sometimes less I do not feel tired, I even do not look tired………..amazing. And I am performing every daily activity as I was used to. So do not worry about your energy and that you will feel tired. You will actually learn to rest with your baby.

As I said nature knew how to design moms to cope with anything. Just follow your feelings and if you need to rest ask your closest once to take care about your angel for a while.

Big thanks to MOTHER NATURE 🙂

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Nursing fathers………..scandal or practical approach?

Posted on June 7, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

My dear frineds,

I just made my hands free for some time to be able to share with you interesting and bit controversial article with life approach I have read few days ago. NURSING FATHERS this term is used in several articles related to the fathers early involvement in the child care while mom is nursing. But this in not the case I want to write about now.
Nobody mentioned also fact that there are some fathers who enjoyed “being nursed”. Yes there are fathers at least in my home country which actually enjoys more to drink mothers milk rather than cow or goat milk.
In the beginning when I was interested in breastfeeding topics I have read many articles, how to nurse my baby properly, how often, how whole process actually works, how to boost my milk production etc. But once I found this interesting information. Do not think that I am breastfeeding my husband, this is far from reality but at least we have openly discussed the benefits which might nursing of fathers bring.
Actually what most of the moms described was as follows:

when their breast was full of milk and their nipples were already hurting from milk pumps and constant baby drinking the fathers served as great milk pumps because they were softer than any other machine 🙂
It was easy to explain to dad how fast is milk created in the breast and he could help to drink milk especially at night even without waking up the mum and he helped her with milk overproduction
there were cases where the mum did not have enough milk so the father helped her to sustain the milk production because he tried to drink always after his baby finished and he softly stimulated the production system
fathers lost their jealousy feelings towards their infants which were closer to mum all the time because of nursing and in some cases it created closer intimite moment for the couple.
the immunity of whole family improved because of drinking mothers milk rich for antibodies.

So I am not pushing any parents for this practice but I found it interesting to share. So moms feels open to the idea if your husband come and asks whether he can drink a bit of this ambrosial drink 🙂 because as you can see it has its advantages. But rather keep this in your homes not every public could understand this…..ups 🙂
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Project GiftED……….how to change the old not working education system

Posted on May 31, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

My dear friends

I would like to share with you great blog and future project of my friend Melissa Greczy who started to run and collect ideas related to new way of parenting and educating our kids since early beginning till the adulthood. I believe that everybody who likes to think and improve will like to read her articles and learn more from the different scientific corners, latest research foundings and personal experience. I can strongly recommend to have a look and you will see that you will like the content. Our kids are our the most treasurous gift so lets give them as much as we can.

Become a part of educational breakthrough of the world. Join the project GiftED. For free, no harm just gain 🙂

Lets make the change!!!

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10 reasons why to breastfeed……….and there are thousand of other reasons

Posted on May 30, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

Hi dears,

I decided to write one of the many posts on breastfeeding, because I found how much underestimated is nursing still from practical point of view. I think that I do not have to mention here that nursing has one of the most important reasons and it is healthy diet with all the needed nutritious features which your baby should obtain.

Just shortly you can learn more about breast milk:

But what I found really beneficial for practical life is this:

when nursing you do not have to care about the preparation of formula, if your baby is hungry you just give him your breast whenever and wherever. No preparation, no warming up process, no checking whether you have prepared enough for some trip, nothing.
it is much more economical. Some babies eat more some less and in nowadays the formula costs quite a lot.
nursing creates closer tights between mom and baby, it boosts their relationship forever
nursing helps to shape your body back to the previous state, because by nursing your baby it creates stimulus and your uterus is working and shrinking faster than it would do without this stimulation
since nursing especially for mom with smaller boobies, like I had :), I got some extra Cm’s to my perimeter and extra beauty points 🙂
milk brings the most important nutrition to your baby, boosts his stamina and create important base for his whole life
nursing makes your hands free to do some other things :), by using nursing pillow you let your baby drink and like right now I can keep writing this post 🙂 and have dinner in the same time.
nursing gives you control over entertained baby………for example you can cut his nail, clean his eyes, ears.Hugs him, kiss him just to enjoy 🙂 and he will not move so you will not cut more than you wanted 🙂
when breastfeeding you have time to rest, I used to lye in the bed, pull my son closer to me and keep feeling and enjoying our common time
nursing has also calming effect, if your baby has any pain or just can not fall asleep than by chewing your nipple and little of mothers milk will make him sleep like angel and than you have time for yourself and your partner 🙂

So I am strongly encouraging every mom to keep breastfeeding at least 6 month till the baby starts to eat also some small finger food (weaning food).

Breast milk ROCK THE WORLD 🙂
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Babies grow soooo fast……………on the way to independency

Posted on May 28, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

3 Months………….TIME FLYES

I would never think how much can time fly, but now I start to understand all parents and even grandparents which said me not only once………..jooooo once you will have your own family the time will fly you will never live your life like before.

And thats true. Thanks to my son and his permanent everyday change I have no idea which day is it, whether is week or weekend, what time is it and sometimes also whether is daylight or night. He is active all day long and sometimes at night too……….good that I am nursing him because what sooths him always is my breast, he used that manytimes like pacifier, but what to do, the most imporant is that he is happy.

He celebrated now third month and I have to say that many changes happened during this time. From the baby which had vision no more than 30cm became curious baby which is turning his head constantly and sometimes he is not able to drink even because there are so many interesting things around worths to see. So in fact I think that my nipple will be soon long as elephant nose because of that :).

Edie even started to laught laudly and talk (grrrrr, hu huuuuu, ouuuu, euuuu) when we are playing with him. Just the day after he turned 3 months when Carlos play with thim he started to laught soo laudly, like little ringing bells. It was such a pleasure to hear that. Till this time he was only smiling when he ate well or had some bright moment. But since second month he started to havce social smile, curious, beautiful and lovely. I love when he laught, it is such a pleasure to play with him more and more and hear more of that. I think I became addicted of his laughting………… 🙂

Another think…….He is becoming heavy and long. I thought manytimes that I do not have enough milk, because he was able to drink all day long, but since he is growing so fast I think he just needed that and also we play with him a lot so he needs to drink too. This month he became 5,7 Kg and 60 cm. My pediatrician made fun whether I have my son with some basketbaal player, because he is really long 🙂

What I also recognized that since he turned three month his palm became open no more close fist. Which is great on one hand because he can explore more world around himself by touching different things. On the other hand he started to pull my hair which is great fun for him, so I will probably became bold soon and also when breastfeeding him he holds the free nipple, probably to keep his balance or just because it is comfortable 🙂

I was really wondering since he started to explore world how fast are baby untiding themself from parents. And be sure that I will keep helping him. I really do not want like some other mothers have 30 years old sone, hanging still home and asking for dinner. So I promissed myself that I will enjoy every moment with my son as much as possible since I have still time to hug him, kiss him and cares him whenever I want. Later it will be matter of his mood and when He will want………………oh babies are cute.

Lets love tham

PS: even changing diapers and washing his “dirty business” clothes his lovely in some way :0)
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Crying baby…….how to manage this problem!

Posted on May 25, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

Dear friends,

I bet that those who has fresher at home might experienced crying marathon of your baby. Either because it was getting used to the environment as newborn or it just suffers from colic. One or the another case makes the same consequence, your baby is crying and crying and shouting like you would killing him and you try first and last to make him comfortable and stop this horror.

So since Edie experienced yesterday one of those moments, luckyly just for a while I decided to write about our system to soothen him and calm him down.

One of my friend usually say………you know if your baby cry breast will help always, this chewing movements are better than enything else, but I was manytimes desparate because there was no way to connect our crying baby and let him calm down while breastfeeding. And in this moment I recognized that breast is not general solution for every pain. So what we found out with mu husband in case our darling has gasses or colic:

he was moving a lot his body and specially bending his back backward

when breastfeeded he was gettinh impatient and his face was turning red – obviously he was not able to drink because he had many gasses so I dissconnect him evem he started to cry, ket him burb and than connect again………he calmd down and could comfortably continue drinking

when hw has colic nothing seems to help, massages, different carying positions, hot towel over his belly, swinging movments or breast. So as the last option we used to use smole plastic tube which goes from his rectal holw quite deeply into his intensis………..this helps nearly allways. He can farth through out and sometimes he used to make poo too. After his intensins are emptyd it is easier to connect him and calm him down when nursing.

many times when Edie is fussy bathing calms him down perfectly………..simply he loves water.

I read really nice article and I would love to share it with you now:20 Ways to Comfort a Crying Baby it can be helpful for you too.

I would say the most important think to have your baby happy is prevention, especially regarding to moms diet, I can easily predict when my bayby will cry. When I have gasses most probably Edie will have them too.

be sure that your baby is burbed, that he is not too warm or too cold, talk calmly to him but in our case sometimes helped to reis your voice to get him away from crying trans.

The most important is personal approach to your baby. Every is different and reacts differently on stimulous. So hope you will find your way through love and patiency even sometimes you might feel that you do things wrong because your baby is crying and crying but hold on, it will stop 🙂 I felt sometimes down too and not able to help him, I thought that I do everything wrong but in some times he calmed down (sometimes is matter of minutes and sometime long hours)……

Anyway hold on and think in future how great will be time when they will keep playing and jumping around you 🙂
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How to choose a good trolley……..tips from life:)

Posted on May 21, 2009 by zlatavaskova — Leave a comment

Dear parents,

I believe that you are preparing yourself for arrival of your baby that little sunchine which will make your life brighter and happier. As I am new mom for about 3 month now I would like to share with you few tips before you will consider to buy trolley for your little one.

There are thousands of trolleys in the offer and I do rememebr when I was still pregnant and tried to investigate which one is good, how it should look like which features it should have etc…………..I think you know that and feel the same mess in your head as I had when I was in your shoes 🙂

But what is important to consider is this:

would you like to buy trolley or you will teach your baby to be carried? This you should solve ahead enough because if you will not have started with scarf or carriers early enough (after the baby is born) I can guarantee you that your baby will most probably not like it………it is different feeling for them in the trolley and being carried
how much MONEY would you like to invest – another important point, I personaly do not believe that expensive trolley means high quality and I also proofed that already with my friends. So do not search trolleys according their price only
do you believe in BRANDS? this is up to you – I personaly not, I believe in utility value because I can have the most modern trolley but it can be unfonfortable for my baby and the most important babies do not care about the fashion, they just want to feel comfortable
WEIGHT – oh this is really important to consider. Depends if you have to carry the trolley up the stairs in the panel house as I have to…………56 stairs every day sometimes once sometimes few times per day…….and believe me trolley as itself has 15kg plus 5kg baby (so far) and you have easily 20kg without counting bag with simple equipment (diapers, cloathes to change, cosmetics, water for me… etc). So all count together I have to carry up and down the stairs waight about 25 kg….good gym isn’t it? 🙂
SIZE – this is particularly my case from life, when I bought the trolley I did not meassure the space which is left when the flats door is open and when I came home, happy that I bought new trolly, I could not enter my flat, because the door where to narrow………so please check first if your trolley will fit into the place where you want to storage it!
SERVICE VALUE – what I can recomend is trolley with the tires wheels and wheels spring because when Edie is tired and he has sometimes trouble to fall asleep we jsut start to strongly jump with him and he falls asleep immediately…..such easy and so simple. Another good thing is if you have insight of the trolllez special back which is made for that, because it makes the space smaller and infants are not lost there when they are little and second thing is that if he falls asleep and you can not take whole trolley indoor you just simply take the bag from insight without waiking him up. Another good thing is the car seat for infant which is compatible with your trolley, it is usually in threecombination trolley system. In this case you can easily move your baby from the car and than use the same seat as the part of your trolley.
CARRYING SPACE – from my personal experience is good to have big space under the trolley. Never knows how many things you will need to carry, such as daily kids needs plus your ordinary shopping and some another stuff such as your friends presents when you are going to visit them etc. So some free space is always handy 🙂
ADJUSTMENTs – ensure yourself that you can adjust the trolly according to your height. It is really uncomfortable if you have front holder either too high or too low. Your back will suffer!
SAFETY – check how stable is your trolley and consider where would you like to use it (just in the city or also in the countryside)…………I was driving Edie in the forest near by my grandparents house so I was happy that our trolley have big wheels. And also PROTECTION value. Is it well built to cope wit your local weather? In the central Europe we have all possible wather conditions from strong cold winters to really hot summers so it is good to know if the trolley can protect your child when is strongly raining or snowing or against sun rayes.