I would

1. Count down the number of hunger cues (is the mouth open, are the hands clinched, is the body restless)

2. Count down the number of pooping cues (face turning red, eyes locked in the vacuum, belly get rock hard, legs kicking)

3. If I change baby now, will I interrupt something he is doing (his sleep for example), if yes, is it necessary for him, can he cope with a little stretch ? is it necessary for me and how i feel? can I cope with another stretch ?

Learn how to see gassy cues, burping cues, hunger and other cues, and how do differentiate them.

This your decisional tree for when all you can afford is the pilot automatic mode.

You will find the decision making I've built for colicky babies (tongue tie, reflux, CMA, etc babies that tend to gulp too much air), but turn out to be a good rule to follow for everyone. So you can sooth your child easily, avoid unnecessary tears, give you that feeling of "nailing it", keep everyone at peace.

So... nappy or feed first?

In case of raging cries : Feed first 1. Start Feed

2. Pause, and Use it to change the nappy + burping (The manipulation will encourage burping without you having to do anything special)

3. Finish the Feed

4. Let baby enjoy the "milk drunk" effect and sleep Learn how to sooth a baby raging crying.

In case of eyes closed + body unsettled: Nappy first

1. Check for a collection of hunger cues (hands clinched and arm move energicly around mouth and neck, mouth open, etc)

2. If there are none, change the nappy,

3. If there are 1, change the nappy first then see.

4. If there are 2, change the nappy first, then offer succion.

5. If there are 3, change the nappy first, then offer feed.

6. If the eyes get open + 3 cues, try succion while changing

7. If there are crying, offer succion (+/- long) then feed.

Learn to see the hunger cues coming before there's cries.

Understand why non-nutritive succion can help your baby's feed.

They told you that you should delay the first bath. But you also have heard that water and bath can help your baby relax. My answer from a French in London who had to blend these two culture, Here is what I've decided to do. The benefits from offering the first bath Early, (like we do in France)

we tend to offer a bath to your baby as soon as we can because:

• Place baby back in a womb like element the water, as soon as we can *

• Proactively support finding what sooth them and bring peace with all there senses

• Support parent's learning-curve accompanying that first bath gently * especially since the work of Frederik Leboyer and then Sonia Krief and her Thalasso Baby Bath

The benefits from delaying the first bath (like we do in London) :

• Take plenty of time to learn how to sooth our baby in our arms

• Build the confidence of manipulating your baby

• Focus on learning to feed first, and to clean then (because baby really don't need to be clean much during that first month, it can few weeks, no need to rush into that learning)

Both method, done with meaning can a offer a wonderful transition womb to world.

What you don't want to do is to offer,

• a bath full of stress, that will cost your baby a lot of energy,

• a bath with soap, that will remove his remaining vernix protecting his skin,

• a bath with the cord still on without then following the french protocol to dry and clean it

So how do you decide? If you have a baby who had a difficult birth, who has really much trouble to settle, If you want support feeling confident either to understand your baby, to read into him

If you still need more time to fully feel stress free on how to hold and carry him into that water,

If you feel you are holding still to much stress or shivering souvenir from the birth that will distract you from the relaxing bath you want to offer your baby, then the Thalasso Baby Bath should be a good solution for you, to combine all the benefits from the French and the UK approach together.

No, it doesn't. The quantity of fat in the breastmilk is not powerfull enough to make a baby loose or gain weight. The volume overall of the milk does. gain is not dependent on the fat content of the milk. "When a baby is getting enough milk, whether that’s high fat milk or low fat milk, they gain weight. " from breastfeeding success. source : https://www.bfsuccess.com/fat-in-breast-milk-and-how-it-supports-your-babys-growth/