baby in the belly meet our first ouch baby family remy carter and bo william
and their mum and dad lisa and sam who's in there
and this is carrie his dad mickey and mom susie where's the baby ah he rubbed mommy's belly
both families are waiting for their new arrival exciting isn't it
every baby starts as a tiny single cell deep inside the woman's uterus when a woman is pregnant
that cell divides and keeps dividing creating billions of cells which make up the baby's bones
organs in fact their whole body what i'm enjoying most about being pregnant is the fact that we're
expanding our family that carries going to get brother or sister i'd say my least favorite things
about being pregnant are definitely that i'm much more tired now and also the fact that you have to
go for a week constantly baby's position changes and such and then as the baby gets bigger presses
down on your bladder suzy and lisa's babies have been growing very quickly in their bellies
after only four weeks their babies heart and lungs begin to develop along with their limbs
and nerves but incredibly baby is only the size of a poppy seed by week nine the babies
are developing eyes and hands they can even sense touch but they're still only the size of a cherry
at 34 weeks baby is the size of a melon and is well on the way to being fully developed
he can't see her we can do the cowbell for the cover the bailey stepped over remy carter and bo
william can't hear her yet but they can feel their baby sister kick it's normally in the
first 16 to 25 weeks of the pregnancy that a mum will first feel her baby move the baby move these
will feel like butterflies but as baby grows mum will feel kicks and stronger movements who do you
give cuddles to mommy and the baby just like us babies need to eat but inside mom's womb they get
this for an organ called the placenta the placenta develops within a mother's womb during pregnancy
as well as providing oxygen and nutrients it also removes waste products from baby's blood
everything goes in and out through the umbilical cord which comes out of the baby's belly button
it's amazing that your belly button was once your mouth and your bum all in one yes aunt catch our
next video when we'll have a peek at our ouch babies as both families go for an ultrasound scan
baby for both our ouch baby families one of the most exciting times during a pregnancy is having
an ultrasound scan and today we're joining them you can hear both our babies heartbeats it's a
pretty unique sound it's a good sound isn't it very reassuring your heart beats at an average
of 60 to 100 beats a minute a baby's heartbeat is normally a lot faster at over 110 beats a minute
why do we have to smear jelly all over susie's belly so the jelly make sure you
have a really good contact if you don't use jelly you get a very poor picture
an ultrasound scan works by sending sound waves through the uterus and these waves bounce off
the baby as echoes and it's these echoes that are turned into an image on the screen
so all the sound waves will hit different tissues at different speeds reflect back at
different rates the image is always in black and white in an ultrasound scan if you're
seeing black you'll see fluid during pregnancy babies are surrounded by amniotic fluid which
protects and nourishes them and when you get to um bone it looks very bright and white
and that round circle there's the baby's stomach and when anything is hollow and the baby's
obviously swallowed fluid from around the baby into its tummy you'll see it little black circle
on the screen and that looks very normal and the babies are swallowing the fluids
the whole time that they are bathed in absolutely we swallow and the wee and they swallow yummy
so yeah so that's what happens inside time to see how lisa scan is going
so lisa's getting extra scans to make sure that her baby is growing really well
christine are you measuring the head is that right you tend to measure the head the tummy
and the leg and those measurements will show us how well the baby is developing this is a
section through the tummy baby's stomach is here actually looks like a little smiley face oh yeah
what do you think madison you're seeing your your newest baby sibling
really happy yeah it's nice to see her you stick your
just thinking about what she's going to look like when she's born wow see what happens in our
next video when both our ouch babies are born so what do we say might be happening tomorrow
baby's birth after nine months in mum's belly both babies mums are in early stages of labor
what do we say might be happening tomorrow a baby will come out okay how do you feel about that
happy every contraction is my uterus tightening and it means the baby's head is coming down which
is really good when a mum goes into labor she will start having contractions this is when the muscles
in the uterus start to tighten to help push baby out at the moment they're kind of at the point
where i'm getting one every 15 minutes and they're lasting about 30 seconds so it's just important to
make sure i breathe through them when i have them and also to make sure i keep bouncing on the ball
and balancing on the balls good just because it's really comfortable and opens my pelvic
outlet and lets gravity assist the head coming down which is the most important thing as well
so we're just waiting lisa has also gone into labor oh can i see that a little bit that's
her moving in there
just feeling excited to meet baby a few hours later lisa and sam had their baby at home
with the help of their midwife mary congratulations can i say that
lisa how are you feeling really happy for newborn babies skin-to-skin contact like this is really
important as it can help regulate babies heartbeat breathing body temperature and it helps them to
bond with their parents our other ouch baby family have traveled to the hospital to have their baby
hi baby boy susie gave birth minutes after they arrived it's looking very healthy it's been
feeding continuously that first milk that comes out of the breast the colostrum isn't just food
it's also got antibodies that make up the immune system and that first gulp he has is going to
be really important for him it's important for new babies to get weighed soon after birth 3.51
kilos she's more than we thought she's 3.6 here we go they are both around the
average weight for a newborn which is about 3.4 kilograms or the same as three and a half bags
of sugar hey boys how you doing and now both our ouch babies have very important visitors
so your sister's looking pretty cute isn't she who's this the baby if you've
got kisses for the baby in the next video we find out our ouch babies names
baby's first week last time we saw both our ouch babies being born they now both
rely on mum's milk for nourishment but during pregnancy they relied on something else the
placenta and the umbilical cord provided oxygen and nutrients which help them grow
after a baby is born the umbilical cord is cut
today it's done by dad and that's what makes the baby's belly button
so my parents kept the clamp and the bit of umbilical cord as a souvenir and forgot the
chris as well after baby is born the placenta also leaves mum's uterus it's a gross alert
this is uh placenta here so this is the umbilical cord that's where it's cut this is the sag
where the baby has lived attached to the umbilical cord for the last nine months a few hours after
birth the midwives do a series of routine checks on our ouch babies to make sure they're healthy
making sure the head is the right size make sure that the heart sounds so good for your heart yes
i know making sure the eye reflexes are there that's it good we've also checked our baby peas
and with that important matter out of the way it's time for carrie and his new baby brother
to go home hey our other ouch baby is having a very important party today is the naming ceremony
it's usually a week after they're born gracie marie mariah lua margo ray wow that's a lot of
names she will be known as margot ray for short mickey and susie have also now decided on her name
well hello joseph and joseph has a community midwife visiting one of her first jobs is
to weigh him you may remember the midwife weighing joseph as soon as he was born 3.51
let's see how much it's changed so joseph weighs less now this is common in newborns
and he'll gain this weight back as he grows carrie wants to get involved too
i see a future doctor next up joseph is having a heel prick test
this involves taking small spots of blood from the baby's heel the reason for the test is to test for
nine different medical conditions all of these conditions are rare but they are quite serious
with the test completed joseph is back in mum's arms and what's margot ray up to her
umbilical cord has come off come on dr zen maybe you want one lady add it to the ouch
collection check out our next film when we'll be looking at our babies food and their poos
babies food to poo today we're looking at what our ouch babies are eating
and what comes out the other end both our ouch babies are being fed with their mum's milk
through this milk babies are able to pick up tastes of things their mum has been eating
and drinking and this means babies get used to different flavors from a very early age
as baby's tummies are about the size of a walnut they feed frequently like in every two to three
hourly thing and obviously more if he needs it for comfort as well how long on average
does it take to feed josie sometimes it could be on 20 minutes and other times he could be on
over an hour he feeds a lot more in the evening just and you produce more milk at night as well
when you're older it's usually very easy to burp if you need to but babies need a
little help burping helps to get rid of any air that joseph might have swallowed during feeding
not being burped can cause air to get trapped which can be very painful and we don't want
that and today both our ouch babies have some very important visitors bearing gifts that's it oh wow
can you open it okay thank you very much this is an official operation ouch baby grow there
are only two of these in the world here and we're not leaving the big brothers out
here is your operation ouch sticker as you know what goes in must come out and that means
babies can produce a lot of poo nappies you could change his nappy up to sort of 12 13 times a day
at least at this stage it's just constant pee poo feed peepers basically you must be really busy
absolutely let's get this nappy change then have you ever changed to nappy no well you are about
to learn how let's have a look has joseph done a poo as joseph donna poo she's still healing where
her umbilical cord was cut making the belly button so that's all sealed up with a bit of wii luckily
no poo poo and look at the collar this might look very different from your poo and it also
changed a lot from baby's first food which was called a meconium poo this is what you'd expect
from a baby's first nappy it's this unusual color because it's made up of things like amniotic fluid
bile and mucus that the baby would have swallowed in the womb baby's poo color changes from black to
yellow over the first few weeks because mum's milk changes as baby grows also because their digestive
tract matures now which way round does it go do you boys remember that way okay ready she's been
amazingly good how did i do boys 100 out of 10. mum are you happy very happy all done and joseph
is very happy check out our next film where we'll be looking at the world for our ouch babies eyes
babies senses today we're joining our ouch babies at home
to understand how they see and feel the world around them
at birth babies can only see about five percent of what you can see
the rest is grey outlines and they can only make out faces at about 30 centimeters away
at the moment things are still a little bit blurred but babies are attracted to
strong black and white patterns like the ones in these baby books
these were given to us by the health visitor it's what they can see at this point
look at that sticking their tongue out yeah so we do this every day these patterns also help
babies eyes to develop their focus nice way to get carrie involved as well newborn babies can't see
color as it takes time for certain cells in their eyes to fully start working by two months babies
can tell red and green colors apart and a few weeks later they can also tell blues and yellows
by six months baby's vision has more or less fully developed newborn babies have an excellent
sense of smell as they cannot recognize their mums by sight they can recognize
her by smell they even start using their sense of smell when they're still inside mum's tummy
newborn babies are also equipped with reflexes that help to protect them
one of these reflexes is the mammalian dive reflex infants up to six months old who are submerged in
water will naturally hold their breath another amazing reflex is the grasp reflex she'll
automatically grip my finger and she's doing it really hard and she doesn't have to think about
that it's just a reflex and scientists think that that evolved to help babies cling to their mothers
now babies at this age also have another reflex called the startle reflex or the morrow reflex
if we just make her think she's falling
just pick her up and drop her like that you can see her arms spread out and that's one of
the reflexes it's really important to check when babies are born and make sure it's working well
our ouch babies have also been learning new skills tummy time each day helps babies to build muscles
so they can eventually support themselves so soon he'll be sitting up he'll be rolling over
eventually crawling and then walking we've been so lucky to follow our two ouch babies from
inside their mum's tummies to their first weeks in the big wide world yeah baby jason
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