Category: Family

Whooping Cough and Flu

Protect your baby from Whooping Cough and Flu!

Whooping cough is a bad bacterial illness easily passed from person to person. Flu is a virus that is also easily passed from person to person.

Whooping cough and flu are life threatening to babies. What can you do about it?

Surround your baby with protection.

  • Tell the people who have contact with your baby to get the whooping cough shot (Tdap) and the flu shot!
  • They can get the shots from their doctor.
  • Or they can call the “BIG SHOTS” program at 512-972-5520.
  • Get the Flu shot every year during flu season.
  • The Tdap shot is for people 11 years old and older.

Safe Sleep and Your Baby

A safe sleep space for baby will help prevent suffocation.

The ABCDs of safe sleep:
Alone, Back, Crib, Dangers

Baby should sleep...

Alone

Your baby should sleep without pillows, blankets, bumpers, toys, people, pets, or other soft objects.

On his or her Back

Your baby should sleep on their back on a firm, flat surface for every sleep.

In a Crib

Your baby should sleep in a crib, bassinet, play yard, or baby box in the same room as the caregiver.

Room sharing is recommended for the first year.

Without Dangers

Avoid smoking, drinking alcohol, or using drugs when pregnant or caring for baby.

Sleep in a smoke-free environment.

Avoid overheating by dressing baby lightly.

Stop swaddling when baby starts trying to roll.

SLEEPING IN THE SAME BED AS BABY IS NOT RECOMMENDED AND IS MORE RISKY IF:

  • Baby is less than 4 months old.
  • Baby was born prematurely or with a low birth weight.
  • The baby’s mother smoked during pregnancy.
  • The person bed-sharing is a smoker.
  • The person bed-sharing used drugs or drank any amount of alcohol.
  • The person bed-sharing is not one of the baby’s parents.
  • The surface the baby is sleeping on is soft, such as a couch, armchair, or adult mattress.
  • Baby is sleeping with soft bedding such as pillows and blankets.

Source: AAP Safe Sleep Policy Statement, 2016

Read more at safekidsaustin.org.

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Get to Know Your New Baby

Get To Know Your New Baby: WIC’s Guide for Birth to 3 Months

A New Baby!

You must feel excited and completely overwhelmed!

This booklet will help you learn what your newborn needs to be happy and healthy.

All babies are different, but their movements and noises will let you know when they’re hungry, happy, uncomfortable or just tired.

You will soon learn your baby’s cues and become your newborn’s superhero!

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The Magic of Everyday Moments

Remember, everyday moments are rich bonding and learning opportunities. Enjoy the magic of these moments with your child.

These booklets brought to you by:

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ZERO TO THREE is a national nonprofit organization of renowned pediatricians, educators, researchers, and other child development experts who specialize in the first years of life.

The Magic of Everyday Moments™
Loving and Learning Through Daily Activities

If you are like most parents today, your greatest challenge is probably caring for your baby while also taking care of yourself and your responsibilities. The competing demands on your time and energy make finding the time to connect with your baby no small challenge. But daily activities, such as feeding, bathing and grocery shopping, don’t need to take time away from bonding with and enjoying your baby. In fact, these everyday moments are rich opportunities to encourage your child’s development by building her:

  • self-confidence
  • curiosity
  • social skills
  • self-control
  • communication skills

Most of all you build her desire to learn about her world.

The booklets in this series are not intended to be general guides to everything that is happening at each specific age. Instead, they focus on how, through interactions with your baby during everyday moments, you can support your baby’s social, emotional and intellectual development.

It’s the special interplay between parent and child that makes everyday moments so meaningful. The potential is limitless. The starting point is you.

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