(Lets face it kids are full of honesty, they say it as they see it. This is a new column written from the ‘HONEST’ observations from our children. It touches on all aspects of the process of growing up and how we as parents can improve ourselves from a child’s point of view).
Oh lawdie lord..it’s happened. There’s a more important baby out there than me, His Royal Highness Prince George made an appearance last week and the whole world went wild. That’s okay, I just had a few people at my birth, like maybe Mum, Dad and Me, yeah so what George you had millions but I had the ones that count.
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Though Dad did venture out a lot and looked even more pasty than Mum despite the fact that Mum and I did all the hard work. And so I arrived minus the trumpets blaring or any royal announcement carried by three footmen. Dad, bless his cotton socks, did SMS everyone he knew, telling your dentist though was probably a bit too much Dad. I don’t have teeth yet. But I feel your love.
Wrapped in a hand-me down blanket from my mother’s side and NOT in a few thousands worth of some High street brand unlike George. I remember surveying my parents with great trepidation. Didn’t do badly I thought, but out of the crying two, which one is Mum, with all the tears, red faces and sweaty hair I couldn’t differentiate one from the other.
Dad said later on he was living vicariously through Mum, and felt her pain. That Dad of mine can sure talk the talk, though Mum wasn’t impressed with that one! But wait Mum smelt so good, probably because she comes equipped with milk. My new sense of smell kicked in and I couldn’t wait to be near her, felt so calm and at ease.
Well the rest is history, after the parents, came the wishy washy Big Sister to pay me homage followed by tons of old achchi’s and Seeya’s. Yeah George we know you had Princes and Princess to come visit you and even the Queen paid you a visit with her corgis but HEY whose counting buddy! My thamma has a Valsation that couldn’t hold a candle to your Queenie’s throughbred Corgi nonsense.
So after a couple of days we came home to much hoop la, I inspected my Kindgom, that is our house, it will do I thought. Might not be as big as George’s place, BUT just like him my nappies are monogrammed HRH as well. But mine say his royal HOTNESS and I’m my mummy’s Prince always, beat that Georgie Porgie!
What are the stages of labour and birth?
The first stage begins when you start having contractions that cause progressive changes in your cervix and ends when your cervix is fully dilated. This stage is divided into two phases:
Early labor: Your cervix gradually effaces (thins out) and dilates (opens).
Active labor: Your cervix begins to dilate more rapidly, and contractions are longer, stronger, and closer together. People often refer to the last part of active labor astransition.
The second stage of labor begins when you're fully dilated and ends with the birth of your baby. This is sometimes referred to as the "pushing" stage.
The third stage begins right after the birth of your baby and ends with the delivery of the placenta.
Every pregnancy is different, and there's wide variation in the length of labor. For first-time moms, labor often takes between ten and 20 hours.
What is Kangaroo care for Newborns
Kangaroo care is a technique practiced on newborn, usually preterm, infants wherein the infant is held, skin-to-skin, with an adult. Kangaroo care for pre-term infants may be restricted to a few hours per day, but if they are medically stable that time may be extended.
Some parents may keep their babies in-arms for many hours per day. Kangaroo care, named for the similarity to how certain marsupials carry their young, was initially developed to care for preterm infants in areas where incubators are either unavailable or unreliable.
By Mayuri Jayasinghe
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