This website gives information and support for those both wonderful and insecure first months of new parenthood.
I am a maternity nurse for around 20 new families a year in The Netherlands. With this site I hope to support and empower parents everywhere!
Few subjects cause so much controversy as the question when you are allowed to take your newborn outside. Not only do generations answer differently to this question, there are also huge cultural and religious differences. Traveling through Vietnam, I hardly saw any newborn baby, while there were lots of 6 months old babies and toddlers […]
Most new moms have an advantage over first time dads; they already spent some time babysitting for neighbors and family to earn pocket money during their teenage years, so they know more or less how to handle a baby. The tinyness and fragility of a newborn freaks out every new parent, but changing diapers or […]
Most babies love water. Not really surprising, it was their habitat for the first 9 months. Bath time doesn’t only wash away the acids of wet diapers from their bums and milk traces from their faces. It also helps them to relax. Every baby is born with a couple of amazing reflexes that potentially makes […]
Listening to advertisers of cleaning and sanitation products, you might come to believe that the world is a very dangerous and dirty place, full of agressive bacteria waiting to attack your, and your baby’s, health. While expecting a baby, our existing fear of infection is carefully fed by manufacturers of antibacterial soap and hand gel. […]
Anxiously, she is waiting for my verdict. She just told me, how terribly wrong things went last night. Her three day old son cried and cried and she didn’t know what to do. Eventually she panicked and ran outside the bedroom, yelling at her husband that she couldn’t do this, so he better found a […]
Plus other good reasons to never let your toddler alone with your newborn, not even for 3 minutes… When I close off the period of maternity care, I always have a conversation with the parents about safety in and around the house. Besides the obvious topics of the approachability of electrical equipment, hot beverages and […]
If your milk supply is plenty and you have to express milk to finger feed or cup feed your newborn, don’t express every few hours. Here is why; Most moms who start pumping within 48 hours after giving birth do so, because their milk supply is insufficient and they need a little help to start […]
Trying to soothe a crying baby for several hours a day can wear you out. No matter how much you love your baby. All babies go through periods of time when they cry a lot, without obvious reason. This increased crying starts around 2 weeks and peaks around 2 months. On average, a baby of […]
Keeping your baby warm The best way to stabilize a baby’s temperature, is to have skin to skin contact. This works even better than the use of hot water bottles, caps and warm blankets together. Besides stabilizing temperature, skin to skin contact is great for bonding. Oxytocin levels rise and stress hormone levels fall, in […]