How not to classify this ingenious invention (coff coff … …) if not under “Nonsense”. Eh Yes, dear, ridi, ridi Aprovadimamma fact is that there are two different brands that distribute and sell these essential accessories for the return of the newborn.

Ah, the birth, childhood memories (mental).

For large fortune of * dear friend * this is his second son, but usually is a ritual that will consume the first appanzatura, i.e. before the birth of her first child. Behold, in this sense, the list should be banned, because birth inevitable source of sensational waste and errors.
You’ve never had a child, you don’t idea … er, change of life that awaits you, and you don’t realize absolutely what you need, nor what it will need him.

Now, far be it from me to the usual episode of what to put in the list, but let me bring to your attention a couple of little things.

1. Why do list. Because even if we put in two or three things that you will not end, it is always better to discard two or three things that several. I, on my list, I did write letters to the order “ANNE GEDDES”. And just because at the time was not yet resurrected Hello Kitty.

2. When do list. The answer is only one: in the late seventh and early eighth month of pregnancy. Not before, not after. Because if you do first, the Commission will show you the wonderful spring outfits that will die of heat that will be born baby at the end of summer, or rather will present you a nice ivory dress in cotton chenille with whom the child will immediately settembrino pneumonia. If you do, you risk after it is too late, and left without the list. Timing is the keyword: shop of the season, which is better.

3. How to make the list. To Be PRECISE. Avoid things like “cosmetic products” vague and generic, or you find a crate of oils and creams from culino. Choose the individual pieces, the exact model, the color that you like, and if you prefer no clarified which you don’t want, otherwise you give just that, sure. Get given the guarantee that you will be delivered exactly what you have chosen, and that if it is exhausted (from which I reiterate the importance of item 2) will be given the chance to choose another personally.

4. what not to put in the list. Maybe for you it is granted, but I was at the time, but very much conditioned by my iperurania idea of “having a child”, and this in my imaginary meant only one thing: baby bottles. Now, nothing forbids you to put bottles, sterilizers, teats, scolabiberon (Yes, they exist) and pacifiers in the list, but as you will realize is absolutely not saying that you need, because you could BREASTFEED, and we will quietly bottles planting flowers. I wasn’t there.

As a MOM, I realize that pictures like these are very strong: they induce in us a sense of guilt or call us at our responsibilities? Although I am one of those who struggled with herself, with sleep and fatigue of the first month not to bring the fledgling Pupattola in bed with him, I confess that sometimes I happened to fall asleep beside her with tit. But also remember that those hours of sleep were actually hours when was sleeping not really, always with an ear on and a neuron (or what was left) alert.
And remember also that if I were to get up for returning it endeavoured in his bed, and so would have been such fear of waking her up and having to start all over again, that I probably should be desisted.

The supporters of the co-sleeping do indeed note that mothers and children sleep together ever since (although once there were live news to inform us about any incidents, and the infant mortality rate was higher, although for many other reasons). Also claim that advertising like these should be directed to parents with poor social and cultural conditions, and not directed to the general public who does of neutral co-sleeping a conscious and informed choice.

In one of my usual out overseas online said Bishop a post asking you to parents as they saved (if there ever were) their Christmas tree from an attack of small gattonatori. Here are the responses of over 100 mothers, summarized in 10 tips anti-collapse tree-saving (and save-baby!).

The most interesting is surelyeducation‘s. In practice, we teach that the tree does not touches, and you didn’t touch.
Ok.
In principle, I absolutely agree. If like me you are a fan Tracy Hogg to know that she supports exactly the same thing: kids are smart people by nature, understand perfectly your sense of what communicated them. Things prohibited without explanations are much more interesting than explained calmly, and so disobedience is an exciting challenge. Then it is up to you to be able to communicate with them effectively, accompanying them to new knowledge and new skills, rather than impose, and they will learn.
Basically I tried d apply this method with my daughter and I have to say even with excellent results, but this does not mean that we cannot always be present, that we cannot always be calm and patience to explain (especially to a 18mes-enne that captures exactly fly, maybe …), that we cannot always be so “perfect” (uhthat ugly word!) as the books would teach us to be.
And then via workarounds‘s!

The vast majority of mothers used modular enclosurea, one of those used for delimiting a zone game, or as a gate to close access to the stairwell. Basically the equivalent of a box, that only leaves the child on the ground instead of inside the box. For this is often used even with randicelli children to limit their scope but leave them a suitable surface to move and play.
There are many brands and models, especially those of modular, as Bambino World in order to assist the individual elements one after another and create a perimeter customized to our needs (and availability) of space, or a middle way between Gates and box, asEasy Box the of OkBaby.

However, there are children that the fence is a whisker: the rise, tugging, and we know even go below. Another valid solution is then exhaust them. The children quickly tire of repetitive games, and on this point method “detach and attack”. You use only unbreakable, and decorations for a few days you can grant them to remove them from the lower branches of the tree, and maybe even play with them, the evening before going to sleep, to put them back on the shaft. After a few days, the game has lost its appeal, and decorations you will enjoy a well-deserved peace.

Alternatively you can try to give the child a Christmas tree, small, concise, with some unbreakable decorations small (perfect example rubber toys “from bath” wedged between branches directly. Or opt for a tree for the whole family but without decorations, such as those optical fibresat.

Photo comes from Historyofthechristmastree. comAncora best decorating the tree with the old method anti-crisis, eco-friendly, reusable, or (depending on the age of the child) biscuits Corollas with threaded hole, directly on the branches, dried orange slices, drawings made by the child itself and cropped, and so on, who has more (pantry) and so forth.

The most essential moms have found a solution to two dimensions: one vinyl sticker sticker in the shape of a Christmas tree, plate, indestructible and removable. Have a piece of the wall completely free of the sticker is daunting, and then folds on the closet door, or on the door. The result, however, is as “flat”:-/.

Recently was spread a leaflet for families in which they highlighted the advantages of industrial foods for specific childhood nutrition of children. Products safer, more controlled, more nutritious and healthy. To recommend these types of products was directly.
But after a few days in a statement said that the increased quality and safety of the baby food industry compared to natural products are not scientifically proven and then dissociates from Fimp’s recommendations.

At this point I wonder: “Are pediatricians against paediatricians. To whom should we trust? “

In the brochure States that: “The 50% of the fresh fruit contains pesticide levels not suitable for infant feeding” and that: “the 35% wheat in Italy contains residues of pesticides too high for infant feeding.” For the Acp data reported by Fimp on release to support the validity of these claims are largely debatable.
1) intend to reassure and encourage all those parents who, around the sixth month of life, use complementary feeding at the request of the child, using foods that take themselves;
2) reaffirm the importance of adequate information to parents for a healthy nutrition for the whole family and undertake to make print ad hoc campaigns;
3) encourage a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and plants for the whole family, including when it is possible to produce short chain and in this case often also organic (also through participation in cooperative purchasing groups, so-called Gas).
4) believe that industrial foods intake affects their food culture of different peoples and different families through delegated to third parties ‘ experts ‘ even the simple act of nurture his own son;
5) undertake to continue to fight to raise the food safety agencies to improve more and more laws and regulations, together also associations to consumer protection;
6) believe that the actions of advocacy to put safe food at table within the largest chapter of the protection of the environment, public health priority. The nterventi should be ‘ politicians ‘ and must fall on the entire population, including of course the most vulnerable groups (including foetuses and embryos);
7) emphasize that the promotion of the food industry for children penalizes less affluent families, and worsens the quality of the environment through the multiplication of packaging waste and their disposal and transportation through the territory.

Finally, the Acp believes that, under the general principle of transparency, “documents of this kind involves – as happens in the world – the need to declare the source of funding at the base of information campaign”.

I believe that for mothers who do not have time to prepare meals and vegetable soups, baby food and reassuring to know that industrialized foods are equally good and healthy for children. In addition to extremely comfortable!
We want to talk about the fruit jar when you’re around? Never without!

My pediatrician, when I started weaning Marco told me: “Madam, if you know the provenance of the food prepare well everything, but if you must take the fruit from the supermarket, then it is better than in the jar, is more controlled!

Homogenised meat made at the time by MOM. And the fish? In Puglia … fresh!

Now that I’m older, I cook a lot on weekends (sauces, meatballs, meat broth, etc.) and put in the freezer. During the week wonder what want to eat, scongelo jars, et voila, the dish is ready. And I am sure that they eat well … or almost!
The keeps? Also one made with tomatoes grown by grandparents!! You do in summer and is eaten all year round …

With older children you speak. If they accuse their pains we explain, make us understand what is wrong.
But with a newborn. He’s not talking!
The only way that has to communicate a need, a need is to cry. A weeping exhausting, uninterrupted that often, especially in the first days of life, manda panicking moms and dads.
Will hunger? Thirst? Cold? Hot? May Experience? Did the bisognini? Or just wants a massive dose of pampering Extras?
And if not even taking the small arm, cullandolo, making him feel the warmth stops crying? What to do? What is the right attitude that the parents should be used?

What do I think?

I think it’s easier said than done.
With the first child is still very inexperienced. And weeping exhausting and does lose the uninterrupted light of reason to anyone, let alone the new mother who finds herself with hormones gone mad (:)) and what complicates even more when you fail to understand why so much despair.
Think about it, basically, is the first time you have to do with a guy that is at 100% by us, which we must take care … and that we do not understand. It still speaks our language …

After the first few weeks you will learn to recognize the crying, or at least I admit it’s realized (more or less)!
However, the anxiety also took over after a tot of minutes of uncontrollable weeping. So the first advice I followed partially. Or better to say was my rational side that tried to follow it! The other part of me is decidedly not.
I still remember the first and only Marco colichetta (still not sure that it was colichetta!). Luckily there was my mother to give me a hand. Marco wept bitterly on one side and myself on the other. I didn’t know what to do, I was desperate.

The second tip is pretty easy. Ok, you can do.

The third … well! Depends on what the stress factor.
We say that with the first child, with a little effort, you can stuff with wadding the environment. But with the second …

When Luke was born, my second son, his major stress factor was Marco …
I would say a “failed” from deleting

Yesterday for the first time we made the crib at home.
To ask directly. A few days ago we went to buy the figurine. He chose every shepherd boy and all the other characters.
Last Thursday we went to collect the MOSS. I refused to buy it: cost 9 euros a box. Absurd!
And yesterday we finally put there all 4 to compose the work of art. To be honest two elements were constructive (I and my husband), a collaborative and one literally destructive Kallis.
It was an undertaking. We employed an eternity for a metro just crib. But the result, I must say modestly, was satisfactory.
Yesterday evening I approached the artwork to admire it and noticed immediately of new elements: a Tyrannosaurus rex that poked out from inside a cave.

I called just Andrew and I asked him: “have you been?”
And he: “Yes. You told me that Jesus is born so long ago. Even though dinosaurs existed so long ago. So … lived together! “

The various consumer associations, in USA and abroad, they repeat periodically testing car seats, to evaluate the effectiveness, the ability to protect our children while travelling in the car against the dangers of the road.

Needless to say the car seat is an obligation, a legal obligation (resulting from the European Directive 2003/20) and a moral obligation. As the famous slogan of campaign promoted by Parents Grow and from other websites: “If you love him, tie!“.

All car seats, to be placed on the market, must be approved, or undergo manufacturing and performance criteria expressed by the European directive in force. Every child must bear a label indicating mandatory upgrading of legislation whereby the child is approved: the most recent is R44/04.

Although all approved, some seats have features that better help to protect children in the event of any accidents. I have long observed the results of tests and I made a rather precise idea of what makes the difference.

Obviously the issue of the pillow front is not free of problems, above all the reaction of the child: many children have difficulty accepting being so “tucked” into limited spaceone. Often the child, especially in the first year, fails either to support the arms above the pillow, and has the lowest freedom of movement: is a price to pay to be “insured” in the event of an accident, but smaller is really difficult to explain.
Also there is the problem of to pick up and drop off the child from seat. In these models, the cushion is restrained by seatbelts in the car, and manoeuvres to drop the belt buckle and are therefore often hindered by clutter.

Another feature that is common to the winners of the test is headrest controlthe. These are the Side Impact Protection systems, side impact protection. The models depicted above, if we take the case, they are all very headrest with wrapping. This is an important guarantee to protect the head of the children in case of collision, particularly side impacts.

It so happens that I  and always we dress similarly, varying between a outfit ” engineering estate from which goes to kindergarten” for her, “go out to buy bread and to weld some tubes” for me. I often get accused of male dress, always with the usual catsuits “soiled as well so I have a closet full“. The fact is that there I doll dress, as well as I think if I had a male can’t ever to put the shirt with collar starched and the vest. Obviously we are not talking about the amount of skirts which macerated in my closet as doomed without air now. And as for the heels … what’s heels?

So yesterday I came into this shop (it is an outlet store, to tell the truth, then with all stuff of old collections in balance, but seeing as I’m “fashionable” is just fine!). And I’m in love with!
I found many heads at decent prices, designed to be stylish but comfortable at the same time.
GAPunfortunately, I visited the outlet store, do not pay me to write this post, but I speak well, because that stuff is just like me! (apart from the shoes, I must say: an indescribable amount of dancers: but how does a duenne to walk?!?)  Male outfit also made me crazy: the classic rumble revisited on a baby from newborn, while on garments from “toddler” skulls, sharks and diving planes.

Accessories are the most original collections, those little touches that enliven even my catsuits laborer! (note the Crown-shaped headband for her, and the hat with headphones from rapper for him).
For Christmas summing-up for sure, so maybe I find something a little more feminine for the Pupattola, and tollerabilmente “da man” for his friends.

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How to change your life when you become parents? And what does the couple?
There are still a him or her and the two lovers-friends-accomplices become hopelessly only dad and mum?
I know that this theme we discussed on other occasions, but as chatter between friends.
This time, instead, I wanted to know the opinion of an expert.

Something on the importance of being a couple “even when we become parents.
“We talked about the role of Dad when a baby is born and what happens to women when they become mothers, I conclude with a reflection on what happens to the pair when they become parents”.

Is a completely normal and saline. When our puppy enters for the first time to be part of our lives, everything changes and everything takes on a form and a new meaning.

Priorities, motivation, energy, space and time, rotate all around him and of course, even as a matter of “chemistry” (continuous production of the hormone oxytocin which will remain throughout the period of breast-feeding) in new moms is all magnified a thousand times!
This time, indeed hopeful … godiamocela perche is a unique moment. But beware, there is a risk if we keep this one thing: too often, this phase extends, until it became eternal, often until our little puppy turns 18 years!
The couple turns, alien, disappears … and it becomes “just” MOM and dad! But where they go to finish this man and that woman are known, chosen, who designed, dreamed, idealised their lives together?
In my work very often see couples and families in crisis, of all ages and walks of life and when I ask them: “I told what to do when you were engaged or married or before becoming parents?” or “remembers what is that he did fall in love with her husband?”, or “when was the last time you went out to dinner alone?”, on their faces often axle empty!!!

Here’s what I’m referring to: we forget the couple! You become MOM and dad and the loving couple fades, often becoming only a distant and sweet memory.
We find ourselves only living every day with its usual problems, to talk about school, diapers or than we have angered the children, paediatricians, medicines, commitments, things to pay … and you easily forget that “we”, to see each other, to listen, and listen to him, not to mention the share as we feel us, our thoughts, of what we have inside.

Fatigue often, little time … everything makes the accomplice created this situation.

Behold care mothers, we must learn to protect, safeguard and pampered a little more that being a couple!
Two parents must provide their children the importance of defending their own spaces and their privacy, they should teach them respect for the individuality beyond the imposition of these roles must be gratified and fulfilled, the lovers United, and first of all as a couple in order to provide solid foundations that have family!
Two parents as far away as the couple, sooner or later pay the Bills somehow …
I don’t want to scare you, for charity! But just make you think ….

I, like all my colleagues dealing with psyche, wellness, couples and families, we recommend a lot on this aspect to give greater guarantees to “long term” to the family and the couple that you format.
What to do? First legitimizing this truth, think about what I told you, observe your routine, your couple, your get-together.

If you are part of those couples who realize that he “lost” something of all this, it is never too late! Treat yourself to a basic rule: take the time and space just for you, both individually and as a couple.

Do not judge or blame yourself if one evening per month, an afternoon or a day, you ask friends or relatives (or even a babysitter) to keep your child and organized a moment “by sweethearts” far from everything that is connected to the routine (so no expense, gifts for children etc.).
Rituffatevi in memory of when you were just the two of you and …. EVATEDETE from everyone and everything!
Do something fun, relaxing, you love to do …
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that then mental children suffer because they feel too your lack … you are the first to be in trouble! And this little perceived!

If you do all this with great serenity and naturalness, even your children will be accordingly! And you think, that you are doing something for them, because the state teaching something important and you are offering two parents who return home more happy, satisfied and maybe even a little more in love: and this can hurt your children! “