The Baby Reflux Lady's Survival Guide : How to Understand and Support Your Unsettled Baby and Yourself (eBook)

How to Understand and Support Your Unsettled Baby and Yourself

Aine Homer (Autor)

Kris Emery (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
315 Seiten
The Baby Reflux Lady Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-9999574-8-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The Baby Reflux Lady's Survival Guide addresses the desperate need in the parent community for more easily accessible and accurate information about infant reflux, its causes and management. It is the essential book for any family with an unsettled baby who has colic, reflux, and food intolerances or allergies including CMPA.The Baby Reflux Lady's Survival Guide offers information on the causes of reflux, strategies for management of each, and support for parents and carers in resolving the constant pain and discomfort experienced by babies. It includes recommendations and advice on managing sleep, relationships and conversations with GPs to ensure the best support for each child can be achieved easily and quickly. If goes into detail on food and milks, including strategies for breastfeeding mums to give baby a more comfortable start in life.Having a reflux baby reduces confidence in parenting, introduces stress into relationships and can be isolating for mums and dads, as well as potentially life-threatening to the child. This guide offers tips and support for families to improve sleep quality and then quantity.The Baby Reflux Lady's Survival Guide covers what to do when introducing food to a reflux baby for the first time. The approach to solids detailed in the book takes parents by the hand and leads them through the introduction of solids in a gentle and controlled manner to minimise the likelihood of reflux flare-ups. Make this a joyful and fun time for you and your child.Caring for a baby and toddler with reflux is all-encompassing. This guidebook allows you to pick and choose the most relevant sections at any stage of the infant reflux journey. With an easy-to-use reference guide to steer readers to the place that's right for them. You can begin tackling your baby's reflux right where you are and start experiencing more rest and settledness sooner.

Inhalt

PrefaceWhere Do I Start?Part 1 The Common Experience of Reflux

First Steps

Expectations Of Yourself
Expectations Of Baby
What Was Your Baby’s Birth Like?
Is Baby Tired?
How is Baby Feeding?
How Much is Baby Feeding?
Is There Something In Baby’s Food?


You’ve Had a Baby! Now What?

What If Baby Just Won’t Settle?
Where Do I Get Advice?


Colic, Reflux, Allergy or Intolerance?

Symptoms: What To Look For
Red Flag Symptoms
Colic
Reflux & Silent Reflux
Allergies & Intolerances


Managing Reflux, Silent Reflux and Colic

When Reflux Is a Problem
Cause Or Effect?
Tongue-tie & Reflux
Breast-feeding & Reflux
Tummy Action & Reflux
Missed & Misdiagnosis of Reflux
The Basics of Helping Baby
Non-Medical Solutions for Reflux
Medical Solutions & Where To Find Them
Associated Conditions & Symptoms
Summary




Part 2 Understanding Reflux Babies


Anatomy That Impacts Life

Give Baby a Chance…
Baby’s Digestive System
Breast-feeding


What’s In Baby’s Milk?

Formula Milks
Nutritional Macros of Infant Formula
Macros & Intolerance Ingredients: An Overview


All You Need To Know About Food

Intolerances & Allergies: Differences & Commonalities
Minimising Allergen Response
Reflux Flares With Solids




Part 3 Food for Reflux Babies


Food for Babies

Baby Food, The Aine Way
Balancing Nutrition & Calories
The Macros
The Micros
Foods to Avoid
Foods to Never Give Baby
Foods to Eat
Common Allergenic Foods


Figuring Out What’s Going On

Place of Great
Elimination Diets
Journaling Promotes Success
The Baby Reflux Lady’s Breastfeeding Elimination Diet
The Breast-feeding Mum’s Elimination Diet


Introducing Solid Food

Starting Solids: My Story
Weaning/Complementary Feeding
Introducing Food




Part 4 Reflux Repercussions & Relationships


Sleep For Unsettleable Babies & Their Parents

Your Sleep: Quality, Then Quantity
Baby Sleep Routine
Sleep Environment


Relationships and Reflux

Relationship With Myself
Partners & Husbands
Relationship With Your Baby
Relationship With Extended Family
Relationship With Friends


Reflux Through the Eyes of a Dad

In The Beginning
From Memory


A Letter to Partners


Part 5 You Are Not Alone


Real Stories from Real Mums

Jessica & Baby
Lucie & Joseph
Rebecca & Tom
Jen & Chloe
Anna & Lucien
Leanne, Malachy & Lorcan
Shauna* & baby
Sarah & Baby




Afterword
Where To From Here?
Acknowledgements
About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.2.2018
• Illustrationen: Ninocka Design
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
• Schlagworte: baby reflux • CMPA • Colic • cow's milk protein allergy • food intolerance • Infant • mother • Parents • Reflux • silent reflux
• ISBN-10: 1-9999574-8-2 / 1999957482
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9999574-8-3 / 9781999957483