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Dealing with Infant Breathing Issues: Our story of a terrifying night.
That night, father was sleeping next to his daughter in bed. She was on a changing pad with sides curved up to stop her rolling anywhere. He woke up to hear her making strange sounds. As he looked closely he saw that her eyelids and lips were blue. She was deathly pale and unresponsive.
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Delighting in Development, What Can Baby See?
NanaKim chose decorative garden wind chimes for supporting visual development. My granddaughter’s parents shopped for beautiful and engaging mobiles. What would you choose?
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Diapers are a Chore!
Anyone involved in the care of a baby will need to change a lot of diapers. This is no one’s favorite task but it’s a wonderful opportunity to have eye contact, exchange smiles and develop language with songs and conversation. The diaper changing area is also a good place to hang a mobile for baby…
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From Mother to Grandmother
I am now a grandparent. I can remember bringing my daughter, my first baby, home from hospital and being very nervous about the responsibility of caring for this small person I loved so much. My daughter and her husband are now parents. I recognize how their new baby will upend their lives and I am…
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Peace of Mind with CPR
Back in my former life in working in preschool, I have taken many CPR/First Aid classes to keep up my certification and to meet state licensing standards. Depending on where you live, this needs to be renewed annually or every two years. I am well aware of the importance of this life saving training. My…
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Wait a Minute! I’m Not Ready!
With so much preparation you would think I would be ready for the main event. Not so. The due date is at the end of the month and of course, like her mother, her daughter’s first child is obviously going to be a week late so nothing’s going to happen until next month right? Well…
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The Birth Plan
For all generations, the plan for a pregnancy is to have a healthy baby after a wonderful labor and delivery experience. Nowadays there is a written plan reflecting the information presented in ante natal classes, which were first offered in the mid 20th century. The last century saw birthing gradually shift from the midwives assisting…
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How to Relax to Manage Pain
This is wisdom and experience from a loving family member who has given permission to share her words. I have edited the contents slightly to change it from a personal letter to a more general communication, that is still full of love for mothers giving birth. It may also work for other types of pain.…
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Check it out!
We are living in the information generation. There has never been so much knowledge available to us on just about everything and in so many formats. However, we are huge fans of books and libraries. My daughter had some book recommendations for me that I want to share here. Back in the 80s and 90s, I…
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A New Role
I remember my grandmothers and how each of them lived into their role differently. I remember my mother’s relationship with each of my grandmothers. I saw how my mother and mother-in-law built connections with my children, their grandchildren. Now it’s time for me to live into the grandmother relationship. I am NanaKim, wanting to be…
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I think I’m hearing Things
We’ve spent months making plenty of time for face to face talking and singing. We’ve narrated all the diaper changes, feeding times, going for walks in the stroller and every little thing we could think of. We’ve read books with our baby multiple times a day. Honestly, to listen to myself chatter on is sometimes…
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Crawling – quick! Baby-proof the house!
Once the baby becomes mobile, life will never be the same for any of us. Get Ready!
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Messy Art Fun
What a joyful thing to let children get familiar with playing with art supplies. Always join them because it’s a creative activity for you too.
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Grey Eyes Bring Focus
We spend a lot of time looking into the eyes of our precious little grandchildren. I love the way that eye color can change. My granddaughter’s eyes are changing from blue to a grey shot with gold. We don’t know anyone else in the family with that color. My mother in law’s eyes are the…
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Daycare Dilemma- How to Choose
Socialization is a key part of development for babies. Where can we find our friends? This is not easy for today’s working families unless there are plenty of young family and young neighbors to hand. My daughter and son-in-law are ready to look at child care centers, firstly on a drop in backup care basis…
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Musical Babies
Music is a wonderful thing for baby development. Baby Mozart was the new way to develop baby brains to their full potential when I was a mother of young children in the 90s. I learned through my studies that music contains important information for math, rhythm and harmony and that songs of course are the…
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Endless Teething
If only we could develop a mouthful of teeth without any discomfort. Like many other mammals who feed on mother’s milk, humans are born with no teeth and then gradually develop their milk teeth as they begin to try solid food. It’s all very logical and makes sense except for the pain! My mother remembers…
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Sitting Up and Seeing the World
Every stage reached in a child’s development brings a sigh of relief. We can’t help but be anxious to know that this child is growing up to be healthy in every way. Most children do have a happy start to life but we always worry about being the exception. The fact that many families have…
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The Trials of Tummy Time
Tummy time has so many benefits for strengthening the baby, and is good preparation for crawling. However it doesn’t always come easily.
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Grand parenting a new generation
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