The Baby Reflux Lady's Survival Guide: How to Understand and Support Your Unsettled Baby and Yourself
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Overview
The Baby Reflux Lady’s Survival Guide Second Edition 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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781999957469 |
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Publisher: | The Baby Reflux Lady Ltd |
Publication date: | 08/10/2018 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 320 |
Sales rank: | 370,171 |
File size: | 5 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface
Where 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