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Starting to watch newborn care videos on youtube

Babybear70Babybear70 member
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So I decided to start watching some newborn videos on youtube of how to bathe your newborn baby, swaddling, installing the car seat base and some other such videos. As if I wasn't paranoid enough, now I'm really nervous for some reason. I know eventually it will all come to me and we will figure out on our own how to get thing to work well for us (bathing and such) but just to hear those baby's cry because they didn't want to be messed with for a bath nearly sent me to tears. I'm going to be a mess when it comes time to give my little peanut a bath. But all of the videos were very informative. So I figure this info on top of what the nurses are going to tell me should at least give me a jump start

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  • kaybee10kaybee10 member
    I have to agree with you that these videos would probably intimidate me too!  But it sounds like a great idea, because besides all the reading we can do- actually watching someone do it is much more informative.  The first newborn bath is a scary thought! I never really go on youtube but I'd like to see some of these, thanks!
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    I have to agree with you that these videos would probably intimidate me too!  But it sounds like a great idea, because besides all the reading we can do- actually watching someone do it is much more informative.  The first newborn bath is a scary thought! I never really go on youtube but I'd like to see some of these, thanks!

    You are welcome kaybee! I have found that the ones that are uploaded by the bump, about.com and any that are vids taken while the hospital nurses are giving the bath seem to be the best. They give you step by step instructions and tell you what to watch out for, they explain why the baby quivers and it isn't because they are cold (which is what I always thought but that isn't the case) so it did shed some light on what we are going to go through. Like clipping baby's nails....UGH!!! I'm dreading that day!

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  • sandy02sandy02 member

    Biggest thing that helped us (besides nice WARM water, not luke warm) was putting a little heater in the bathroom about 30 minutes before the bath and really heating it up.  NB's hate being cold.  So with the heater going and the room pretty warm (you'll likely be uncomfortable, lol) they were so much happier.

    And you'll get it :0)  it is stressful at first, but you find a groove faster than you'd think!

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  • SpankylovesSparkySpankylovesSparky member
    I think the more information, the better...so far I've been poring through books and was excited to see all the helpful videos here on thebump also. It makes me feel much less disoriented.
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  • HoustonmomHoustonmom

    I started watching baby care videos a while ago and I've found they really helped...mind you, this is my 3rd child so I "should" know all of these things, and instinctively I do.

    But it's been 6 years since I had a newborn and the thing that I'm finding most helpful about the videos is seeing how calm and unruffled the caregivers are while the baby is crying.

    With my previous 2 I would tense up when they cried and that would make me awkward and not confident and in turn, the babies get more upset.

    So my takeaway from the videos is that it's ok to tune out the crying when you're trying to bathe them, get a bottle ready, change a diaper, sneak away to use the restroom for a few seconds, etc. 

    I don't know if the Happiest Baby on the Block is on YouTube, but there is a video companion to the book that demonstrates the 5 S's that I also found helpful when my second was a newborn. 

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