{"id":301561,"date":"2008-04-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/baby-doesnt-feel-well-what-should-i-do\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T15:00:00","slug":"baby-doesnt-feel-well-what-should-i-do","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/baby-doesnt-feel-well-what-should-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Doesn&#8217;t Feel Well? What Should I Do"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how hard you try to protect your child from germs, your baby is eventually going to get sick.  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Do you know what to do?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2008-04-01.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sabrina:<\/strong> You know, you start thinking about all these little things that could happen, and the sicknesses and certain situations that really are beyond your control, and trying to get prepared for it, you never feel prepared.\u00a0 But the good thing is that we have a God that is in control, and we don't have to fear everything, but we can put that in His hands and know that our child is as safe with Him as we are ourselves.\u00a0 And that does comfort me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, April 1st.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 It can be hard to remember that God is in control when your baby has croup or is colicky or you just don't know what's wrong.\u00a0 Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us.\u00a0 I've got a hot stock tip for new parents, if you want to buy stock, and I don't know the company that makes it, but whoever makes amoxycillin, you just invest heavily now because that pink bubble gum medicine, you know what I'm talking about, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I had not heard of \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Amoxycillin?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Oh, I thought you were saying they are now making it in bubble gum.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> No, we always called it the \"pink bubble gum\" medicine.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Bubble gum medicine, yeah, you're right, you're right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You wind up \u2013 we've got a mom-to-be who is joining us on the program today and, Sabrina, are you familiar with Amoxycillin?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sabrina:<\/strong> Only by name.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yeah, well, it's coming your way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You are about to become \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> It's coming to a refrigerator near you, just get ready.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Because Sabrina Beasley is about to become a mom, and she works here at FamilyLife, and she has courageously joined us in the studio along with our other two guests, Bob.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And I should just mention, for those who go, \"Sabrina Beasley, I think I've heard that name,\" Sabrina writes articles for our online magazine, which is called \"The Family Room,\" and any of our listeners who want to receive it, it's free, and they can just go subscribe, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sabrina:<\/strong> Yes, all they have to do is put their e-mail address into the subscribe box, and it comes to their inbox for free.\u00a0 It comes once a month, so we're not sending you all kinds of information.\u00a0 You're not going to get \"The Family Room\" once every day.\u00a0 It only comes just that one time at the beginning of each month, and you can get all kinds of tips on marriage and family and everything is practical and biblical that we put in there \u2013 the same types of things you'll hear on FamilyLife Today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And just for you, Sabrina, and for the other several hundred thousand moms who are listening, we brought in a couple of nurses, Moms On Call, to talk about the first six months of a baby's life, and Laura Hunter and Jennifer Walker are with us.\u00a0 Ladies, welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Thanks for having us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> We're having a great time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You ladies have \u2013 this is your life\u2013 talking to young moms about all of the questions that come up.\u00a0 You talk to them about Amoxycillin and how to mix it and how to keep it right in the refrigerator, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> That's right.\u00a0 We get about 200 to 300 phone calls a week on the job \u2013 our real job \u2013 being pediatric after-hours nurses.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> So you are actually \u2013 you have a pager \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> I have a pager.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And actual phone calls come through to you from moms who are \u2013 maybe they're in crisis, maybe they just have a question they want to ask you, but they don't feel comfortable calling the pediatrician, so they call a pediatric nurse, and you're on call, like, from 5:30 to 8:30 at night.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> And that is from a pediatric office.\u00a0 We're actually one of the only pediatric offices that has their own nurse take call.\u00a0 So that's our real job.\u00a0 Jennifer and I wear several hats, and our real job is taking the after-hours calls.\u00a0 And then Moms On Call came from taking those calls in the middle of the night.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And what is Moms On Call?\u00a0 How does it differ from what you do as a pediatric nurse?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Moms On Call is a consulting business that we have.\u00a0 We go out in the Atlanta area and do infant care consultations.\u00a0 We take about two and a half hours and six months of e-mail follow-ups, and we also do phone consultations.\u00a0 We have done phone consultations for families all over the nation and just help them to address their most common concerns and number one on the list is how to get my baby to sleep through the night.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we'll do the phone consultations, we'll do e-mail follow-ups, we put the information into a book, which is what you're holding, the \"Moms On Call Guide to Basic Baby Care,\" which is one of the first resources that contains a how-to DVD.\u00a0 And we, as pediatric nurses, show you how to take the rectal temperature, how to suck the nose out with a nasal syringe \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Oh, yuck.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> How to clip the nails.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> How to swaddle.\u00a0 And even how to diaper, how does this diaper go on?\u00a0 What's the most effective way?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> The diapers are not as easy to do nowadays as they were when we were using disposable diapers 15, 16, 17 years ago.\u00a0 Now they come with all this elastic, and you have to open the elastic and spread it out or otherwise you'll get leaks, and then you hate the diapers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You get some fascinating phone calls not just about diapers, but I loved in the end of your book, you call this \"some interesting calls from parents.\"\u00a0 And, really, a Hollywood writer couldn't write this stuff.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat's your favorite?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> One of my favorites is \u2013 it came across my pager as \"Hit on head by chicken.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> What?\u00a0 \"Hit on head by chicken.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> That was on your pager?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> That came across my pager \u2013 \"hit on head by chicken,\" and I am almost rolling that I can't even \u2013 laughing so hard that I can't even call the parent back.\u00a0 Then the dad is, he's kind of chuckling, too, because when he answered, I said, \"Hit on head by chicken?\" and he starts laughing, and he said, \"No, no, no,\" he said, \"I was getting a chicken out of the freezer, and a frozen chicken had fallen out of the freezer on top of his kid who is hanging around his legs as most of them do, and had hit right on the top of his head.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> He thought maybe a chicken concussion had occurred.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Exactly, and, of course, I'm thinking, \"Hit on head by a rubber chicken, brothers fighting,\" you know.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Exactly, a flying chicken.\u00a0 One of my favorites was \"My child just ate six inches of dental floss.\"\u00a0 Who took that call?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was me, this is Jennifer.\u00a0 I took \"My child ate six inches of dental floss,\" and they were very worried because if a dog eats dental floss, it's very dangerous for them.\u00a0 So I said, \"How did you know it was six inches?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Hold it \u2013 why is that?\u00a0 I didn't know why dogs shouldn't eat \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Dogs \u2013 it gets caught up in their intestines, it doesn't pass through.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> It doesn't for a baby?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> No.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So you just said, \"This, too, shall pass?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Bob, Bob, Bob.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Well, I asked, \"How did you know it was six inches?\"\u00a0 She's, like, \"Well, that's how much I usually cut off when I'm going to do the teeth,\" and I would also like to mention any time that a child swallows anything that you feel is suspect, call poison control.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Absolutely, ask your pediatrician -- call poison control first, because if you wait an hour for your pediatrician to call you back, they're going to say, \"Hang up and call poison control.\"\u00a0 And you have to make a conscious decision to call poison control because your instinct will be to call your pediatrician, Sabrina.\u00a0 So you can call poison control then call the pediatrician and say, \"I just overdosed my kid.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sabrina:<\/strong> That was something that you mentioned before, when I talked to you before, is that a lot of new moms think that the pediatrician is the one with all the answers, and you are saying that they are not trained to do things that happen at home.\u00a0 They are trained medically.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> They're not trained for that everyday care, in fact, I had a pediatrician call me one time to do a consult at her house, and she calls, and she says, \"I'm the mother of a seven-week-old, and I don't know what I'm doing.\u00a0 I heard about you.\u00a0 I need you to come out to my house,\" and she whispers, \"And I'm a pediatrician.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Anonymous, huh?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> I said, \"Okay, I'll come out, and I'll spend a couple of hours with you, but I'm going to treat you like I do every other mother.\u00a0 So you're going to sit through the pooping and the not pooping\" \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Just like everybody else.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> And her eyes were this big the whole time that I was there, because she's, like, I didn't clip nails in medical school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And nobody \u2013 again, we think back to an earlier day when mom was down the street or in the house \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Right around the corner.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> She had been through this, so you just had mom come over and help you with all of these things, but we live in a different era today, a different time.\u00a0 Mom's not available \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, things have changed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right, and that's what Moms On Call is, you're kind of like \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> That in-between.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Like Mom, who is available to come and help with these things.\u00a0 One other thing that somebody texted you or called and said, \"My 10-month-old just said the word 'brochure,' is that possible?\"\u00a0 And I'm guessing it wasn't really \"brochure.\"\u00a0 It was more like \"maaahduh.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Right, right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> But many of the calls, in all seriousness, do come around subjects like sleeping, bathing, and, certainly, eating.\u00a0 Let's talk about that for a second.\u00a0 One of the calls you historically have received is \"How many times a day should my baby eat?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> How do you answer that question?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Well, newborns, it's going to vary.\u00a0 But, as a newborn, the first two weeks we typically say, \"Feed them when they want to eat,\" and that is usually every two and a half hours.\u00a0 And then as they get closer to two, four, six weeks of age, they'll eat about every two and a half to three hours.\u00a0 Then we'll go and move on, where three, four months of age, they're down to five or six feedings a day, and by seven or eight months of age, now they've got solids, and they're drinking from sippy cups, and they're only getting a bottle three or four times a day.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> It's progressive.\u00a0 We also give guidelines, too.\u00a0 They want to know, especially breastfeeding moms, \"How do I know my baby is getting enough.\" So we give \u2013 here are six ways that you can tell that your baby is not dehydrated so you know they're getting enough.\u00a0 They're urinating at least every other feeding; they have moisture in their mouth if you take your pinky finger and swipe it along the inside of the bottom lip, it's smooth and moist; their fontanel, the little soft spot on the top of their head, it is not markedly sunken, and sometimes those will pulsate a little bit, that's normal, but it's not markedly sunken, and that's the way that our book is really set up, and we go through a lot of illnesses that you may see in the first six months of life, and the way that we developed our materials; the same way we took call, what is it, what do I do about it, when do I call the doctor, end of story.\u00a0 Nice, short, sweet, to the point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> And the thing that we found that a lot of parents weren't getting is the questions about fever.\u00a0 We get those calls about fever over and over again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> They're calling to say what?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> \"I think my baby's running a fever.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And they do it because they put their hand on the forehead or \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> They'll put the hand on the forehead or use the ear thermometers that are out there now, or the forehead scanner.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Or the pacifier thermometer.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Or the pacifier thermometers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> All of which will not be acceptable.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> They're useless.\u00a0 We need to do it rectally, and one we go through the DVD and show you how to do that, but under three months of age, 100.4 or more rectally is an immediate emergency. It's something that has to be called to the pediatrician with the exception of the two-month shots.\u00a0 So when they have their two-month shots we expect them to run a fever and be a little cranky and be a little irritable, but any other time, under three months of age, 100.4 or more rectally, you have to call the doc.\u00a0 That is one reason we want you to call us at 2:00 in the morning.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sabrina:<\/strong> And you also mention when you wake the baby up that the temperature is going to be higher, so to wait a while before you take a temperature.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Or out of the bathtub, or \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Because you'll panic and at 100.4 under eight weeks of age is an immediate issue in the emergency room.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> That's not a high temperature.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> That is not a high temperature, because if you've got a three-year-old, they're going to run 103 temp and, I'll tell you, a three-year-old can run a 103 temp and still be running around the house playing.\u00a0 We're not worried about that kid.\u00a0 But under three months of age, we need to make sure, and parents aren't getting that info.\u00a0 They're not getting that specific 100.4 or more, call the doc.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Jennifer, is there something real called \"colic,\" or is that just a word parents made up to describe fussiness.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> [shudders]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> There is real colic, absolutely, but what real colic is, the actual textbook definition of colic, I think it's overused and misunderstood.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You hear all the time, \"My baby is colicky.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Well, parents want a reason why their baby is fussy.\u00a0 So they can say, \"Oh, life is so hard, and it's just so miserable because my baby's got colic.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So what is real colic?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Real colic is six or more hours a day of full-on crying, oftentimes inconsolable, but without any definite medical explanation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Now, you're not talking about six solid hours?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Typically, they'll go about six solid hours in the evening.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Crying?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Start about 5 or 6, but I will tell you \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> That is true colic.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> That's true colic.\u00a0 Very rarely do you ever see true \u2013 the definition of true colic.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sabrina:<\/strong> And we're very thankful for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> We are swaddling, we are doing the white noise machine, I don't know that I get that many calls, Jennifer, of colicky babies.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Not after we do consults.\u00a0 I think a lot of it is over-stimulation. What we'll see a lot is that the babies are just considerably over-stimulated.\u00a0 Over-stimulated babies will have a stronger startle reflex \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> And they're miserable by 6:00 in the evening \u2013 6 to 10.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> And oftentimes, they just need a good night's sleep, they need that white noise machine, they need the stimulation taken down.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I want to ask you a question about all this stimulation.\u00a0 What's your opinion of Baby Einstein?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> You know, I think everything in moderation.\u00a0 It's not necessarily a bad thing, but you've got parents who are putting them in these bouncy seats in front of the TV for four hours thinking that they're going to make some genius by watching these things, and I think that's excessive.\u00a0 Now, if you want to put them in there at six or seven months of age and let them watch a 10-minute segment, you know, while you empty the dishwasher or what have you, that's fine, but I think it's all in moderation.\u00a0 We've got to get back to getting our kids away from the screen as often as we can.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tKids are watching TV \u2013 whether it's TV or playing the Nintendo or the little Game Boys, they're watching that more hours a day than they're doing anything else.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Are the bouncy seat okay?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> The bouncy seats are great.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> They saved my life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I always watched my kids in a bouncy seat and said, \"I want one of those for me.\u00a0 I want a grown-up bouncy seat,\" and they haven't made those yet.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> We hear about the swaddle all the time.\u00a0 Every adult would say \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Can you just make it big enough to swaddle my husband?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Can you make that in adult size?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Jennifer, my mom also used to \u2013 this was one of her words of wisdom that she passed on to us \u2013 never wake a sleeping baby.\u00a0 Do you agree with that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Yes, your mother is a wise, wise woman.\u00a0 But during the day, one of the things that helps babies sleep through the night is that no daytime nap prior to 6 p.m. last longer than two hours.\u00a0 So we'll have these babies that are taking this great four-hour nap during the day, and then they're not sleeping at night. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> That's the beginning of getting your days and nights mixed up.\u00a0 Two, two and a half hours, we're going to be waking that baby up during the day.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> Absolutely, during the day.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> At night, unless there are medical issues, we're going to let that baby sleep a good six or seven hour stretch.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong> And we have extra-absorbent diapers.\u00a0 So I'll have parents go, \"But I want to change their diaper,\" say, \"No, we have extra-absorbent diapers.\u00a0 Let that baby sleep.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> If it ain't bothering them \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sabrina:<\/strong> One thing that you haven't mentioned yet is that both of these ladies have a set of twins, and so when they are talking about the bouncy seat saved my life, they are really saying the bouncy seat saved my life, they really are talking about \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> It's an extra pair of hands.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sabrina:<\/strong> You know, I was reading one area where you said, \"Well, when I put both of my babies down, one is crying and one is not, and that's okay, and it's a different deal when there's twins, and I'm a little bit more concerned about that because my husband has twins on both sides of his family.\u00a0 So when I get a book like this, it's nice to know that it's not just for a mom with one baby at a time, but if I happen to somehow be pregnant with twins \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> In my case, I didn't find out until I was 20 weeks pregnant that it was twins, and I had two ultrasounds done and listened to the heartbeat at every visit, so there's still time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Sabrina, that looks like a forced smile on your face.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs a new expectant mom, though, Sabrina, one of my daughters who, after she found out she was pregnant, was really afraid, I mean, she felt incompetent.\u00a0 Have you felt some of those inadequacies as you've looked forward to having this baby?\u00a0 Now, you've had some time to think about it, what about you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sabrina:<\/strong> Absolutely, especially \u2013 you know, you start thinking about all these little things that could happen and the sicknesses and certain situations that really are beyond your control, and the good thing is that we have a God that is in control, and we don't have to fear everything; that we can put that in His hands and know that our child is as safe with Him as we are ourselves.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd that does comfort me, but to read \u2013 even just reading books trying to get prepared for it, you never feel prepared for it and, as a matter of fact, the more I read the more I almost feel like I'm even more fearful.\u00a0 But I just have to let it go and trust God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Now, tell me the truth.\u00a0 When you've been reading these books, have you made your husband read some of them with you?\u00a0 Because when Barbara was pregnant and she read \"Dr. Turtle's Babies,\" this is a book that went out of print after the earth's crust hardened way back there, but Barbara made me read that book, and it gave me some insight into what she was grappling with.\u00a0 Because Barbara really struggled with feeling a sense of inadequacy when we had our first child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sabrina:<\/strong> I have tried to.\u00a0 Actually, this is what happened \u2013 I was reading some books, and I thought, \"I wish David would read this, I really wish he would just pick it up and know what I'm feeling,\" because he's so separated.\u00a0 You know, he's not \u2013 I'm feeling it every day, something is changing in me every day, and it's not for him.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd so I handed him this book \u2013 I've given him three \u2013 and I said, \"Oh, I just wish you'd read this one section.\"\u00a0 Of course, none of them were read.\u00a0 But, he actually went \u2013 now, my husband's father died when he was very small, about two years old, so he didn't have a father, and he's been depending on mentors in his life to be that dad to him, and we went to our doctor, our family doctor, and he went up there just to get some shots and check on a cold, and the doctor told him, \"You need to read some things to experience this with your wife.\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I think this is an area where fathers can really be involved with their expectant sons \u2013 that they can talk into their son's lives and say, \"Son, you need to come alongside your wife during this time and be involved,\" because as soon as our doctor said that to my husband, he was on the Internet signing up for newsletters, and he was going, \"Do you know what's going to happen to you next week?\u00a0 This is what you can expect.\u00a0 This is what's going to happen.\u00a0 Week 15 is like this, and Week 16 is like this,\" and, of course, I had read all this, and it was so exciting to me, and it made me feel cherished, and it made me feel important to him to know that he was experiencing it with me, and I wasn't going through it alone, because it can feel very isolating.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Okay, so that dads who are listening are going, \"All right, okay, I guess\" \u2013 there's a DVD in the back of this book.\u00a0 If you don't want to read, you can watch the DVD.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Jennifer:<\/strong>\u00a0 Twenty-five minutes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Large print.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Lots of large print in this book, lots of white space, it just cuts to the chase and, you know, here's the thing.\u00a0 It would be the wise man who, after hearing this broadcast \u2013 and I know that we are speaking to a few men who are going, \"You know what?\u00a0 This is a way to enter my wife's world,\" and you really do nourish and cherish her when you do that, and the thing I do like about this book is it really doesn't have any fluff.\u00a0 It really is about the essence of the issues you face as you start out this journey being called a \"Mom\" or a \"Dad\" and you need to do it together and what better way to do it together than read this through. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd as Barbara did, she'd underline the sections she really wanted to make sure that I read, Bob, and I'd just encourage all of our listeners to get a copy of it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And the good news for dads is, let's see, chapter number \u2013 well, they don't have numbers here, but here is the chapter on infant nasal congestion, which, by the way, I want to stay up nights reading about infant nasal congestion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Laura:<\/strong> Don't we all.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> But it's two pages long.\u00a0 I can do that, all right?\u00a0 Here is the chapter on ear infections, and it's two pages long, and it's a big font, and so a husband \u2013 you can handle this, trust me.\u00a0 It would be empathetic for you to spend a little time reading through this book with your wife or just to tell her you've been reading it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe've got copies of the book for husbands or wives in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 Go online at FamilyLife.com and click on the right side of the home page where you see \"Today's Broadcast,\" and that will take you to the area of the site where there is more information about the \"Moms On Call Guide to Basic Baby Care,\" it comes with a DVD \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Narrator:<\/strong> [from DVD] Babies associate bathtime with bedtime, so at the very least we want to give the baby a sponge bath every night.\u00a0 You should have the following things within arm's reach when giving your baby a bath \u2013 towels, washcloth, baby soap, and a soft baby brush.\u00a0 Place the bouncy seat next to the tub so you have a save place to put the baby \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That's for the husbands.\u00a0 Husbands like watching DVDs.\u00a0 Along with the book, there is the DVD, and there's also information on our website about the swaddling blankets that you ladies are making available.\u00a0 These are the ones that are the right size for proper swaddling of your baby and, again, the information on how you can get a copy of one of these swaddling blankets is on our website at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 There is information about a daily devotional that is available for moms of young children. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to the website, FamilyLife.com and click on the box on the right side that says \"Today's Broadcast,\" or call us at 1-800-358-6329, that's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY, and we can make arrangements to have whatever you need sent out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSpeaking about resources that are available, we're kind of excited around here about the new FamilyLife Marriage Bible that is brand new.\u00a0 This is a new King James version of the Bible, complete Old and New Testament, and it includes articles, devotions for couples, tips for romance in marriage, parenting topics \u2013 all of it combined in the pages of Scripture designed to be a devotional Bible for couples to read through together, or you can read it individually.\u00a0 But alongside the text of the Bible are some very helpful articles designed to keep you on track biblically in your marriage and as you raise your children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe're making copies of the new FamilyLife Marriage Bible available this week to listeners who help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today with a donation of any amount.\u00a0 When you go to our website at FamilyLife.com to make a donation or call us at 1-800-FLTODAY and make a donation.\u00a0 You can simple request a copy of this Bible.\u00a0 We're happy to send it out to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you're donating online, the way to request a copy of the Bible is to write the word \"Bible\" in the keycode box on the donation form, or if you call to make a donation, simply request a copy of the FamilyLife Marriage Bible.\u00a0 Again, we are thrilled to send a copy out to you.\u00a0 We appreciate your financial support of this ministry.\u00a0 It is vital for the 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