Newborn Care: What to Learn Before the Baby Arrives

Most birth preparation stops at the birth. This episode goes past it. Before your baby arrives, there are things both you and your husband need to know, decisions to make while you still have time to think, and a posture to carry into those first days that no amount of gear will give you. Breastfeeding gets its own episode next week.

In this episode:

• Why you need far less than the baby industry tells you, and the two things that actually have a hard deadline before labor begins
• The newborn care decisions worth making before you are in the hospital room
• Why God designed your baby unable to regulate their own body temperature, and what that tells you about what your newborn actually needs from you
• How to hold a newborn, care for the umbilical cord, and set up safe sleep before the baby comes home
• The signs that mean call the pediatrician, and why knowing that list before the birth matters
• Why this is your husband's episode just as much as yours, and what he needs to learn before you walk through the door together

Visit www.sacredbirthway.com for the blog post and downloadable guide!