How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind! Quotes

“They need to see parents who are tightly connected, reliable and are committed to their family. If they don't have that, they will be forced to find ways to compensate instead of being able to just grow up.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“You can do everything in your capacity to give Baby a great start - buy the best toys, read the right books, pick the perfect carseat - but if you don't do everything you can to ensure that your home is loving and peaceful, all of your efforts will be worthless.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“You can do everything in your capacity to give Baby a great start - buy the best toys, read the right books, pick the perfect carseat - but if you don't do everything you can to ensure that your home is loving and”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“One thing you should not do is offer baby solid food. Her body is not ready for it, and won't be until around 6 months old, according to the American Association of Pediatrics. Until then, she lacks the enzymes necessary to digest solids, especially starches and carbohydrates. She also needs time to develop lipase and bile salts, which help digest fat.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“Allow her to stay on each breast until she stops sucking. This will not only help with milk production, but will ensure Baby gets the fat-rich "hindmilk" that usually comes toward the end of the meal. Also, try "switch nursing" (switching two to three times between breasts) when Baby's sucking slows down.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“Now is not the time to get into a schedule; nurse whenever Baby wants for as long as she wants. Plus, the more you nurse, the more milk you make. ”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“The antibodies in your breast milk are what will protect her from infection until around six months, when her lining will be thicker and she'll produce antibodies on her own. Your breast milk also assists baby in developing good bacteria that will protect her intestines from pathogens.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“In the human stomach, there is a layer of mucous (also known as the digestive lining) that keeps microbes and other contaminants away from the gastrointestinal tract. Baby's stomach does have this lining, but it's very thin, so she is vulnerable to infection.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“Baby's nasal passages are tiny and can get blocked easily. Even simple things floating in the air, like dust, dog hair, baby powder or feathers from pillows can obstruct her breathing.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“Some babies have sensitivities to different materials, particularly synthetic ones like polyester.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“Establish a Variety of Sleep Associations: If you are getting Baby to sleep in one particular way, that is the way she will expect to go to sleep all the time. By mixing up sleep associations, it will be easier to help her fall asleep no matter where she is. For example, start off rocking and then nurse, or vice versa (One of my little guys liked us to roll him back and forth in his bassinet, but that wasn't so easy to do, say, in the middle of the mall. We had to learn to mix things up). Also, parents should switch off putting her to sleep so that she doesn't demand that one be on duty all the time.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“Establish a Variety of Sleep Associations: If you are getting Baby to sleep in one particular way, that is the way she will expect to go to sleep all the time. By mixing up sleep associations, it will be easier to help her fall asleep no matter where she is.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“but from months 0-3, their tiny stomachs can't hold enough food to last them through the night.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“Instead of living with their parents, babies were moved to "baby houses", where they were only given contact with parents 1-2 hours a day. The results were children who did not develop well socially and failed to bond with their families or their peers.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“Though their basic needs were met, the researchers said that "most often they were left alone in their cribs with minimal or no physical contact with the care providers... [they] suffered from severe delays in physical growth and neurobehavioral development, and elevated rates of serious infections".”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“In psychology, this is called "presupposition", which maintains that what we believe about others' potential affects how we treat them, and ultimately plays a part in how will manifest in the future. If, for example, an orphan girl is adopted by a king and queen and treated as a princess, she will grow up believing she is royalty. If that same girl is raised by parents who lack faith in her, who speak down to her, or, more subtly, do things for her they think she can't do herself, she will struggle to build confidence in her own abilities.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“Coming into the world is exhaustingly hard work, and from the moment they're born babies go into growth hyperdrive. Sleep is imperative for baby's development, which is why they should be doing it in the most optimal setting.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“This final maturation process of the nerves and brain takes place during the first three months of Baby's life - some experts even say it's the first nine months - also known as "The Fourth Trimester". This short period of time is vital for your baby's physical and emotional development. Imagine the shock of emerging from the most peaceful, luxurious warm bath into a cold world as bright and loud as Times Square on New Year's Eve. You can't comprehend what's happened and you can't communicate to anyone about it. Meanwhile, you are being bombarded with stimuli your brain and body are not yet ready to process. It's enough to give a fully-grown adult a panic attack. Without the proper support in the beginning of life, babies can carry that initial anxiety with them throughout their development, ingraining it into their nervous pathways.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!

“Most mammals come into the world with most of their survival instincts intact, while we Homo Sapiens are born with only three: breathing, sucking and swallowing.”
― Rea Bochner, How To Raise, Happy, Healthy Newborns Without Losing Your Mind!