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Projects with babies..
For a project in health we have to research stuff with babies...and i can't find anything!
we need to look up stuff on a baby from birth-10 months
we have to do 3 charts on Parents Sleep before/after the baby
Diapers used monthly from 0-10 months
and 'parental free time'
it's soppossed to not make us have sex or something idk but i cant find info on that ANYWHERE
and i asked my mom and she was like "i dont remeber. too many diapers not enough sleep"
HELP! PLEASE!
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Ok, well i'll tell you about experiences in the first 10 months of my daughter's life, but everyone is different so this isnt what everyone experiences..
She woke up twice a night for the first month then started sleeping right through, till about 6 months when she started teething and was waking 3 or 4 or 5 times a night. She got used to the pain at around12 months and started waking only once or twice. At 19 months she now has all her teeth and sleeps through the night again and its wonderful.
I call diapers nappies because i'm an aussie, but i didnt go through that many nappies. About 6 or 7 in 24 hour period. If they stink, change them. If they feel wet, change them.
Parental free time is wonderful. I love my daughter more than anything BUT going out with my friends once a month is fantastic.
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This may be easy to reasearch on the Net. Do a good ole google Searcha nd check some websites about babies, baby magazines, etc. Once you find an informative site, they usually have links to different age categories and/or a way to search their site. You will probably find more info than you need!
Hope i helped!
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Regarding parents' sleep patterns, you can look at something like _What to Expect the First Year_ to find out how much sleep babies of different ages get throughout the first year. It greatly varies. My child, for example, had reflux. She would take an hour to eat 2 ounces, throw up most of it, and then go to sleep for one hour before she was hungry again. This happened around the clock for the first 7 weeks until she had surgery. I think most newborn babies wake up every 4 hours or so for the first couple of weeks to eat for about 1/2 hour. If you can't find the info on the web or by looking in parenting books, are you allowed to go to a daycare or your church nursery and poll parents dropping off and picking up kids?
I think most kids in the first year of life go through approx. 7 diapers a day. Parental free time? It depends on what else the parent is doing, doesn't it? I mean, sometimes you can have your baby on your lap while you watch Oprah. Does that count? But there are other parents who go to school or work full-time or both. It's all a matter of priority.
I think the best way to get a good grade likely is to say that parenting is expensive, it wrecks your social life (except that with parents of other similarly-aged children), and it blows your sleep time pretty much. Conclude that you would only be able to parent a child with a stable partner, steady, sufficient income, and an established support network.
Sabine
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