First time home

            Now you are home from hospital. If there was homebirth, you are alone without any help and advisors. If it’s your first child I can understand your confusion. Baby looks so small, so helpless. Maybe you (and your husband too :) ) are really scared, but you have to follow your intuition. Nature has given you oportunity to be a mother and also some skills to deal with this.

            Baby’s most important need is food and your love. Both of these things can combine, because if you do breastfeeding, your baby feels so happy at the moment like somebody is pouring pure happiness into him. We all want our children be happy therefore this is very good way how to make your child feeling like that.

            You should hug your baby as much as you can, because last 9 months he spent in dark small place and all sounds were much more quietier than now in this huge, colourful and loud world. Your heartbeats he knows and it is calming. 

            At frst you have to be sure that your baby eats enough. Your doctor or midwife will visit you and your baby when he is one week old and the doctor will check your baby’s weight. On first three days baby usually is loosing his weight, it’s normal, but afterwards he has to put on weight. If he’s doing it well, everything is ok, he eats enough, but if there is a problem with weight, your doctor will check the eating process. May be the baby is too exausted or maybe a little bit lazy eater.