Parenting 101

Exclusive Pumping 2024 Guide – Schedule, Tools, Tips

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Exclusive pumping often referred to as Eping can be really stressful for you as a new pumper but as you step ahead in your motherhood journey, it becomes a daily routine.

What is exclusive pumping (Eping)?

Eping is a perfect alternative solution for breastfeeding. It’s a method used by mothers who have difficulty breastfeeding due to several reasons I’ll highlight in this post.

Exclusive pumping promises that the child will get nothing less than the full nutrients breastfeeding will give.

Although, health care organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and Healthy children recommend breastfeeding only for the first year of a child’s development.

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How Long Does It Take A Baby To Adjust To Formula Change – 2024 Guide

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Whatever reasons you have for changing your baby’s formula ranging from costs, allergies to not getting the feedback you were expecting, and doctor’s recommendation. Whatever it may be, it is important to note that serious considerations have to be made before using a different one. Another important aspect is how long it will take for your baby to show considerable and satisfactory results towards the new formula.

Picture an inexperienced and tired mother singing to her four months old son who isn’t listening but crying and vomiting and is red all over, occasionally giving out gas. A half-filled bottle of baby formula in the table right beside the duo and another almost empty bottle of another formula on that table.

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How To Entertain A 1 Year Old Baby On A Plane – 2024 Guide

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Like every other thing associated with children, traveling with a child can be an arduous task, especially with one-year-olds. This age is usually a difficult age for parents. Now that you are planning to travel with your 1-year-old child on a plane, what’s next? This post will guide you on how to entertain a 1-year-old on a plane

1 year-olds are often overactive, disturbing, playful, and rough. Keeping them from disturbing or driving you is very difficult. A possible solution is to keep them strapped under the belt while the plane is on a flight, but how easy is this process? The baby might end up crying and calling on your attention, which might lead to increased disturbance.

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18 Best Baby Bath Products – 2024 Guide For First Time Moms

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Baby skin is really fragile and sensitive than adult skin of which can be easily susceptible to diseases, and so needs some sort of gentle bath products applied on this tender skin.

Newborn needs particular attention in terms of what is being applied to their skins because anything used on the skin goes directly into the liquid that coveys nutrients and oxygen, which is the bloodstream.

Hence,a substantial amount of natural treatment should be used on your baby’s skin.

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Why Is My Dog Obsessed With My New Born Baby – 2024 Guide

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It may be quite difficult to understand as a parent, bringing your new born baby home for the first time and your dog is all over the baby. Of course, you would want to know why this happens.

Then the big question comes, why is my dog obsessed with my new born baby? Many dogs see infants as strangers and all of a sudden center of attraction because the attention would no longer be as much as it used to be for the dog and so this could be disconcerting to your dog.

This change can make the dog behave in a strange and unusual manner. The fact still remains that dogs are very friendly and loving creatures and most of these dogs love people a lot, most especially babies.

And this is one reason why they are called man’s best friend. Just like human, dogs are extremely social creatures. All dogs have a mating drive and den instinct which is part of the so called pack drive.

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