I'm a Grandma!!!!
12-27-2009, 10:12 PM
#191
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Central Washington State
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Breast fed babies eat every two to three hours.
One has to be patient with a new baby who is learning how to eat after having spent nine months being fed, not on demand or on a schedule, but continuously.
We adults sometimes can't comprehend the pain of hunger in a child, but for a newborn, it must be intense!
It won't go like that for very long, but newborns need a LOT of input ... food, love, and dry diapers.
My mom helped me understand what it was like to go from being in a quiet, dark, warm place and thrust into bright lights, lots of loud voices, the pang of hunger, the fear of not being held closely, as they were wrapped in the womb ... and, to all of a sudden be an individual, when they have never known "alone" until they were born!
They have been suspended in weightlessness, and all of a sudden they are facing the pull of gravity. And, they have spent their entire life listening to the sound of their mother breathing, her heart beat, the sound of her voice, and always ... that close, very close presence ...
Feed them when they are hungry, change the dirty, wet diapers, and spend time holding them, singing to them, and nurturing them into this new phase of life and living.
There will be plenty of time for schedules and waiting for demands to be met in the coming 80 to 90 years ... the first few weeks, while being very tiring, will pass quickly ... but, they will pass <g>.
One has to be patient with a new baby who is learning how to eat after having spent nine months being fed, not on demand or on a schedule, but continuously.
We adults sometimes can't comprehend the pain of hunger in a child, but for a newborn, it must be intense!
It won't go like that for very long, but newborns need a LOT of input ... food, love, and dry diapers.
My mom helped me understand what it was like to go from being in a quiet, dark, warm place and thrust into bright lights, lots of loud voices, the pang of hunger, the fear of not being held closely, as they were wrapped in the womb ... and, to all of a sudden be an individual, when they have never known "alone" until they were born!
They have been suspended in weightlessness, and all of a sudden they are facing the pull of gravity. And, they have spent their entire life listening to the sound of their mother breathing, her heart beat, the sound of her voice, and always ... that close, very close presence ...
Feed them when they are hungry, change the dirty, wet diapers, and spend time holding them, singing to them, and nurturing them into this new phase of life and living.
There will be plenty of time for schedules and waiting for demands to be met in the coming 80 to 90 years ... the first few weeks, while being very tiring, will pass quickly ... but, they will pass <g>.
12-28-2009, 10:37 AM
#196
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Central PA
Posts: 5,573
Omak, well put - in addition, they are experiencing and learning something new everyday! Remember what it felt like walking into a new classroom the first day of school? or Entering a room full of strangers at a new job or other social gathering? It is scary and unsettling. As these precious little ones explore and learn about this world they definitely need the comfort and security loving arms provide. Just think, everyday they will hear a new sound, experience a new touch or sensation, see a new sight. Even as they start creeping and then walking, becoming more independent, they have periods of clingyness when ever they are in the process of learning a new task.
Terri - your little ones seem to have hit the jackpot with loving arms abounding to surround them!
Terri - your little ones seem to have hit the jackpot with loving arms abounding to surround them!
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