7 Mistakes That Most First-Time Expectant Parents Make!KidsParentingPregnancy by Kathy Fray - July 15, 2020July 3, 20200 First-time parents make many mistakes which can risk the life of their babies. Kathy Fray who has been in this field for over 1.5 decades also advocates this fact. She is an on-call community midwife and has been a part of the journey of countless mothers.She favors the concept of “Expert Nurturing” where the mothers are provided with factual and non –biased news about the outcome of their pregnancy. She has found some common mistakes that first-time expectant parents make.Let’s check these common mistakes so that the same can be avoided:1. Neglecting the importance of Second TrimesterThe first trimester sees an unusual rise in levels of Progesterone which is a muscle relaxant hormone. It helps in maintaining the pregnancy as
Creating A Smooth Ambiance During Pregnancy TrimestersPregnancy by Kathy Fray - July 10, 2020July 3, 20200 Pregnancy is a boon for the woman as it gives her the ability to create and nurture life. Let us understand the developments and changes that take place in the body during different trimesters of pregnancy.First Trimester Of PregnancyThe first trimester of pregnancy is important for the fact that the entire attention is towards maintaining the pregnancy. This is a scientific process too and ovary which is also the originating egg for pregnancy secrets the muscle relaxant hormone Progesterone. The purpose is to prevent the womb from contracting and thus preventing any kind of miscarriage.This might come with a side effect and you might feel some kind of tiredness. The frequency of this tiredness can vary but you will obviously
Auto-Rocking Bassinets – Evil Or Godsends? Maternity Guru Explains In Detail!ParentingReviews by Kathy Fray - June 18, 2020June 18, 20200 Interview with Maternity Guru Kathy FrayParenting experts say that the auto rocking bassinets disrupts the bonding process during early stages and the development parental instincts (learning your baby’s needs/sleeping habits).Do Auto Rocking Bassinets Disrupt parent - child bonding?With the inventor of SNOO (a renowned auto rocking basinet brand) Dr Harvey Karp, being an internationally renowned and highly respected Infant Sleep Expert (likely far more ‘known’ than the critics of his product) my first reaction would be to ask the question “How” do some ‘parenting experts’ know for emphatic certainty that a SNOO disrupts bonding impacting parental instincts? Having been a University Research Midwife myself, I cannot imagine they received an Ethics Committee approval to confirm this theory, or that
Ptyalin – Why Babies Should Not Be Fed Starch?HealthKidsParenting by Kathy Fray - June 10, 2020October 22, 20200 It is pretty normal these days to start a baby on some solids at around 4-6 months. But don’t feel rushed at four months to quickly get them onto solids, as breastmilk (or formula) on its own is recommended for two more months.However, in conflict to our supermarket shelves adorned with baby-rice, baby-porridge and baby-muesli, much old scientific knowledge warns sternly against feeding infants a diet rich in starchy farinaceous foods (e.g. rice, breads, potatoes, porridge, cereals, crackers, etc), as many believe they are simply the worst meals to feed young babies! What is Ptyalin?For almost 200 years, medical science has clearly understood that the amylase enzyme ‘ptyalin’ (pronounced ty-u-lin) contained within our saliva is a critical chemical involved in
Old-Age & New-Age Healing Therapies For Kids & AdultsHealthKids by Kathy Fray - June 5, 2020June 5, 20200 Over the past 100 years, modern medicine has experienced the most radical, mind-blowing and breath-taking evolutions, which only 100 years ago, would likely not have been even vaguely imaginable, let alone yearned for. Remember, it was only World War II, in the 1940s, which finally escalated the urgent global need for commercial volumes of antibiotics, to cure battlefield wound infections and pneumonia – which had been responsible for killing so many of the First World War’s 40+ Million casualties. One could say, it was only the 1950s and 1960s that marked the real beginning of Modern Medicine.Today, if your child is premature, or they break a bone, or they have an anatomical abnormality, then modern paediatrics can potentially save your
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) During Pregnancy & Tips To Deal With ItParentingPregnancy by Kathy Fray - May 28, 2020June 18, 20200 Excerpt from book “OH BABY… Birth, Babies & Motherhood Uncensored”Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)I don’t believe most of the risk factors individually would tip so many women over the edge. But add them up: the low status we assign to mothering; the high value Western cultures place on a girlish figure; the isolation of today’s nuclear family; the workplace pressure that sends husbands away from home when their partners need them most; the absence of ritual that would allow the new mother to mourn her lost self; the trauma of Caesarean section or high-intervention birth . . . the surprise should not be how many new mothers are depressed . . . but, rather, how many, in spite of all