welcome back to baby nuggets with
Danielle today we're gonna talk about
creating the basic those first few weeks
of bringing home your baby are filled
with so many amazing moments of gazing
at each other
snuggling and cuddling and bonding with
your baby but they're also filled with
many moments of kind of not knowing
exactly what to do let's get started
with my nuggets for creating a daytime
game plan number one getting in good
feeds during the day you want to
maximize those feeding times make sure
the baby is awake you can tickle the
bottom of their feet or the back of
their neck to maximize their feeding
time I also really strongly encourage
you to reach out for lactation support
if you have any questions or concerns
with feeding number two chart your baby
when they eat when they sleep when
they're awake when they have wet and
dirty diapers you're gonna start to see
through this charting kind of a natural
rhythm that they have so you can have
your instincts kick in and you can work
together with the baby to create a
daytime schedule number three where
should your baby nap during the day
there are two places I strongly
recommend for nap time sleep number one
to have your baby nap in a sling on you
I even recommend skin-to-skin to contact
to maximize neurological development in
addition when the baby naps up in this
length we get them off the back of their
head baby spend so much time on their
backs in a swing in a carrier and a
bouncer in a car seat and a stroller we
really want to have some time where the
baby is off the back of their head and
up in a sling
the second place that I recommend is
having the baby take naps in the same
place where they sleep at night that
that way they become familiar with where
they sleep during the day and it will
help them sleep better at night
number four watch for those sleep cues
during the day whenever I ask mom's what
fleet cues they see for babies for nap
time I get the same answers fussiness
rubbing the eyes and crying in fact
there are sleep cues long before those
and when we get to those sleep cues the
babies are actually overtired and
overstimulated and getting them down for
a nap is incredibly difficult so we want
to catch them in the right cues so here
are some thorns to look for to maximize
the best nap times possible the first is
they can get kind of a red eyebrow
coloring the second is you might see
some puffiness under the eye and always
with my daughter's it look like a pink
eyeliner had drawn underneath their eyes
when you see those sleep cues that's the
perfect time for a nap go ahead and
swaddle them up and put them down for
their nap or pop them into your sling to
have the better naps because better naps
means better night number five playtime
the baby's gonna be awake only for short
periods of time during the day and we
really want to enjoy that time we have
with the baby a lot of times during
those first few weeks we're taking out
toys and gadgets and gizmos well your
baby's favorite toy during those first
few weeks is your face find a position
that's great the baby can be laying down
you can be up above them with a
face-to-face contact you can make
different faces in fact those first few
weeks if you stick your tongue slowly in
and out your baby will actually mimic
and model back to you they're watching
your face and they're playing with you
back and forth number six we want to
make sure the babies don't get
overstimulated during the day so try to
limit the amount of visitors that come
into your home and kind of pass the
babies around because it can really over
stimulate them and just regulate them
which will make it harder to kind of
regulate them in max
mice their sleep during the day as well
as at night so there you have it some
nuggets that help me with my girls and I
hope that they really help you too next
time we'll talk about creating your
night time game plan I'll see you then