Feeding Time

As our baby got a little bigger, she could join us at the table in her high chair. Of course when we were hungry, sometimes she wasnt hungry, so getting her to eat was a major problem. Usually it wasnt a problem, but the way I overcame the problem of getting her eat, was to put exactly on my spoon what was on her spoon, and we would eat it together.

Baby's and little ones spend their early lives as 'monkey see, monkey do'. So I learnt to use both hands to eat, one for me and one for her, raising both hands at the same time, one to my mouth and one to her mouth.

Most of the time it worked, she just followed me and ate what I ate, at the moment I was eating. It made life a little easier, as if she ate especially at just before going to bed, it made her night's sleep better, and that was good for all of us.

I wrote a book about my first year as a new Dad. It's called 'My First Year as a Dad'. You can find it at :

http://www.1stbaby.info

You can download and enjoy the read.

Knowing when to catch up on sleep

Before our baby was born, I read somewhere that parents on average lose about 2 months sleep during the baby's first year. I knew that sleep deprevation was always going to be a challenge. I'm sure that like you, I love it when I've had a good deep, 8 hours worth of sleep. I'm ready for any challenge.

However, when your sleep is constantly broken many time each night over a few days, you soon realise that you're not as easy to deal with and the little things tend to become big issues.

I found the answer to this, was to try and get some sleep at the weekends. I always thought that if i could give my wife a break from the baby, this was a good thing. So on Saturdays, I would tell her to go out and enjoy herself, and I would then have 4-6 hours with our new baby.

If I could get her to sleep even for a couple of hours, then I went to sleep too, in order to catch up on the sleep I had missed. I found by doing this, it really helped. Usually it worked. I slept very close to her, so if she woke, it woke me too. But 2 hours more sleep was a great help.

So my advice is always get any additional sleep you can.

I wrote a book about my first year's experiences as a new Dad. It helped me understand what I went thru. It's called 'My First Year as a Dad'

You can find it at : http://www.1stbaby.inf0

You can download it and enjoy.

How to calm her when she's seems angry

The one thing I could never understand and that is one moment our new baby would be all quiet and smiles and giggles, and the next moment something completely out of the blue could turn her mood into anger. It might be if we were out, and she wanted to linger at some place, and we needed to move on. It would cause her some distress. It could even happen at home, when there could be something that could change her mood.

What I found helped was to scold the very thing that has caused her to get angry, so if it was that she knocked into a piece of furniture I would scold the chair or table, and treat it just like a person. If we were out, I would try and look for something that was colorful or moving, for her to look at or to catch her attention.

I found if I was out I my own, in a Mall, I would look for things that would amuse her, so I could use these things if she suddently lost her temper.

I found the more I did these kinds of things, the less of a problem her crying became.

I wrote about my first year in a book, that tells of all the challenges, the funny times and the things I had to learn about.

The book is called : 'My First Year as a Dad' and you can locate it at : http://www.1stbaby.info

You can download it and enjoy. I hope this helps you.