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See all in Video. Joanna Laurie's bag includes: diapers, clothes for the baby, clothes for mom, snacks, towel for mom, toiletries, maternity pads, iPad, water bottle, medical notes, a blanket and a maternity TENS machine for pain. Story highlights Parents' most common newborn mistakes involve car seats, sleep and burping Pediatricians offer advice on tummy time and fevers. Car seat safety.
Some parents make the mistake of not practicing various baby care chores before the baby comes. While how to change a diaper many be intuitive for most, not everything is. Take car seats , for example. Strollers, car carriers send thousands of kids to ERs. Figuring out how to correctly -- and safely -- install car seats can be a real challenge for many parents, so much so that many fire stations used to help parents with it. Today, fewer do so, but you can find a trained technician through the National Child Passenger Safety Certification site.
Read More. But even while parents may have purchased the seat, and even learned how to install it properly, birth educator Polly Gannon finds that some haven't gone to the trouble of using it before the baby comes. These are the states where infant mortality is highest. Eighty-six percent of those errors were in positioning the newborn in the seat, and most of those mistakes were "critical" and increased the child's risk for injury in any accident.
Over half of the families had older children, which should have given them practice for the task. For newborns, parents should make sure their infant's head doesn't flop forward, which could restrict breathing. That involves installing the seat at the correct angle to keep the baby's feet up, with the body reclined so baby can turn her head to the side and breathe normally. If the baby slouches down or to the side in the seat, the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests placing a tightly rolled receiving blanket on both sides of the baby, or using the newborn insert made for that car seat brand -- do not mix or match with other manufacturers.
Don't place a blanket or roll across the top of the baby's head or put padding under your infant. Back to sleep. Stop using crib bumpers, doctors say. The national " Back to Sleep " campaign of the s brought a great deal of attention to SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, and other sleep-related deaths among infants. Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics insist that every baby should sleep on their back, in their own crib, without any toys or soft bedding.
During and after the campaign, sleep-related deaths sharply declined, but recent data shows the risk continues. Each year, some 3, babies continue to die from sleep-related causes. Tanya Altmann , author of the new book " Baby and Toddler Basics.
Not feeding on demand. Some new parents make the mistake of letting baby sleep too long between feedings, likely due to exhaustion and their own need to get a bit of rest. But that's a mistake, say experts. Myths about baby sleep and SIDS, debunked by an expert.
But in the first few weeks, babies do need to be woken up.
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