Newborn Care

We couldn’t be Baby Care Classes without teaching you how to care for your baby! As Newborn Care Specialists- it’s literally in our title! If you’ve never held a baby before we break things down with the very basic newborn care 101. And if you do have experience with newborns, we guarantee that we have tips and tricks that will change the way you care for newborns! Because we’ve worked with babies [so many babies] and we recognize that they are all different! As are the parents, parenting choices and cultures surrounding those babies.

We have articles about basic care tasks such as bathing your baby, diapering your baby, and cutting or filing newborn nails. We also have content geared towards calming your baby, soothing your baby, the 5 s’s, and how to swaddle a newborn.. Also learn about newborn baby essentials, newborn baby “stuff” [what you need and what you don’t], baby registry lists and how much to buy.

Learn how to care for your baby from the specialists! Want more? If you’d like all of our insight delivered in an easy to follow video format, then check our our video series!

What is Colic?

Colic is when your baby cries, a lot. The official definition of colic is the rule of three: Babies with colic cry three or more hours a day, three or more days a week for three or more weeks. Seems...

Does Colic have a cure?

Does colic have a cure? I guess that depends on who you ask. First make sure that you understand what colic is. If you ask the medical community they will say that colic has no cause and no cure. If...

What are the biggest challenges of having a newborn?

So you have a newborn, or you're having a newborn. Congratulations! Parenthood is so rewarding...blah blah yada yada. We both know that's not why you're here. Newborns can be hard. Especially if you don't know/understand babies. We polled some local...

5 Best Infant Car Seats of 2022

We all want what's best for our children, especially for our new babies! With dozens of models of carseats on the market it's impossible to know where to start, never mind which one to choose! Today we are going to...

The 5 S’s

Today we're going to talk about the 5 S's. They are five tools that can be utilized to soothe your fussy baby! We're also going to throw in a few bonus tricks of our own, which we call the 5...

How Do You Swaddle A Newborn?

When parents ask us for advice on caring for a newborn- one of our first responses is "Do you swaddle them?" But what even is swaddling? Swaddling: The formal definition is "to wrap someone (usually a baby) in blankets or...

Swaddle Arm Placement 101

If you follow us you’ve learned by now that we LOVE to swaddle. One of the main differences in different kinds of infant and baby swaddles is the arm placement. Babies and parents have different preferences, and babies have different...

But what if my baby doesn’t like being swaddled?

This is a very difficult topic to talk about without sounding insensitive...because nine out of ten times, the baby doesn’t like being swaddled because they aren’t being swaddled correctly! There are some rare babies who sleep better unswaddled, but when...

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