Doula Client Resource Lists

Postpartum

THE SAFE SLEEP 7- The REAL information you need from the Le Leche League- you WILL fall asleep with your baby, even in the first hour of their life, learn how to make that safer.

The most recent information on SIDS- Research is uncovering that it is probably seizures.

Dr Karp’s The 5 Ss: Swaddling, Swinging, Shushing, Sucking, Side Lying. These are the magic of soothing babies. Sometimes just need one or two while sometimes you need to enlist all 5. 

Let’s Talk Babywearing YouTube Channel

Baby Wearing Kaytee Crawford- Various Channels: Instagram YouTube TikTok

Can you take time to "lie in" after the birth? What is "lying in"?

Start a Meal Train by having people sign up for bringing meals by during the first few weeks while your family adjusts to its new member. People will ask "what can I do?", this is an easy way to organize their offers of help. The paid version, that can organize various types of offers of support, is less than the cost of a meal.

Baby Sign Language Dictionary The site has an extensive video gallery of signs useful for your baby to communicate with you. Teaching a baby to sign is as simple as making the signs for things like milk, hungry, ouch, and wet when you say them to your baby. Children have manual dexterity an average of 6 months before the verbal dexterity. My child signed to me "I hear birds outside" at 11 months. Most children are unable to speak full sentences until around ages 2 and 3.

PELVIC FLOOR THERAPISTS

Kemper

Decatur Hand and Physical Therapy Specialists

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