Lara Vaughan, Newborn Care Specialist

12/19/2024

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Schedule a PRENATAL meeting during your last trimester
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12/12/2024

🐝🐝🐝 when we have a PRENATAL visit…
🐝We have already established a connection before Baby arrives.
🐝 Text when labor gets going so that you know I am at the ready just for you!
🐝 Hospital visit the day Baby is born is an option.
🐝In- home support the very first day, if desired and for that extra assurance.
🐝 You’ve got an expert “in your pocket” for texting any concerns.

12/12/2024

Re: Newborn Consults

🐝🐝 meeting during pregnancy can be a huge advantage!

11/25/2024

I am a Developmental Specialist (BS/MS) who is also a NCS, Breastfeeding Peer Counselor & Doula. I focus exclusively on consults that support (1) Baby’s healthiest first days & (2) development through all phases of infancy & into (3)early childhood, (4) your postpartum recovery, & (5) successful breastfeeding/pumping that align with your goals in this this area. (6)When Baby is rising to meet challenges, I support her progress through hands-on, play-based supports tailored to her needs that mitigate or prevent delays in development.

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10/14/2024

How about a short list of products I recommend?

Mam pacifier (They even have an orthodontist/dentist on staff.)

UppaBaby stroller

Avent bottles

Cotton diapers (for at least 50% of all diaperingu for Baby)

Moby carrier

“Guazy” Organic cotton blankets

10/08/2024

🐝🐝🐝🐝. I want you to be encouraged and supported in these first most precious days/months/years. 🐝🐝🐝🐝

07/30/2024

🐝🐝 MUST you swaddle?🐝🐝
&
🐝🐝 When is the appropriate time to stop swaddling?🐝🐝

Swaddling is most helpful to Baby in the first DAYS of life.

Swaddling is NOT a requirement.

Most babies do not need to be swaddled past the first 8-14 days of life.

Every baby needs opportunities to sleep unswaddled.

Babies should never be swaddled once they are rolling over.

[The AAP does NOT recommend rolling Baby back over to her back during sleep once she Is rolling over on her own.]

07/19/2024

Developmental Consult (birth-5 years of age)

🐝 Assessment of skills/id PLF (language/literacy/ social-emotional/cognitive/motor skills)
🐝thorough discussion with family,
🐝modeling,
🐝 parent education,
🐝referral

Developmental Play-based Support

🐝 hands on play based learning with scaffolding
🐝prompting/cueing for progression forward & mitigating of delays,
🐝 modeling & parent education,
🐝ASL
🐝 IFSP/IEP advocacy support prn

07/19/2024

Newborn Consult (around 4 hours/matched to desire/needs)

🐝🐝 BF anatomy assessment
🐝nursing session observation & support
🐝thorough feeding & pumping discussion
🐝referral prn
🐝🐝 all things NB—>
🐝care, 🐝baths, 🐝sleep, 🐝what to expect, 🐝common NB oddities & conditions, 🐝 tummy time, 🐝safe sleep, 🐝wearing,
🐝 healthy sleep & feeding routines, 🐝three months “sleep regression”
🐝 🐝 Postpartum herbal sitz bath
🐝Birth story listening
🐝Birth experience trauma support🐝🐝around the house support

04/15/2024

🐝🐝🐝Now offering consults during the first 28 days🐝🐝🐝

•resources
•referrals
•guidance
•1:1 answers and modeling
•a trained listening ear for your birth story/early pp/new mom thoughts and questions*
•direct hands-on care for Baby as desired
•breastfeeding education & support

*trauma-responsive prn
[responsive to special needs - Baby/mom - diagnosis/birth injury/preemie. Ready hands for multiples support.]

~~Do not hesitate to reach out up to 14weeks or more ~~

04/02/2024

Suck Swallow Breathe Synchrony 🐝

Babies begin to suck, swallow, & “breathe” while in womb.

You & I do these acts also.

We all organize our bodies and even settle our minds from our mouth. Babies suck - on a breast, bottle, or pacifier while adults swallow, chew gum, or bite on a pencil.

Muse with me about pacifiers. Babies suck on them and swallow and breathe while using them. 🤔 Hmm… in a world gripped with fear of SIDS, might a pacifier be wise?

(The AAP recommends the use of a pacifier.)
(I recommend Mam because orthodontia matters.)

Discover the MAM Pacifier range and find the perfect pacifier for your baby. Available for babies of all ages. With Silk Teat or Natural Latex.

04/02/2024

🐝🐝Did you know that even your tiny brand new baby has regulating abilities?🐝🐝

It is true that Baby is quite dependent for her needs, but all mammals are attracted to homeostasis. Maintaining internal stability includes sleeping. So holding to this basic concept (We are not discussing emotional or impulsive attention self-regulation here.), the newly born baby will sleep when tired. The conditions surrounding Baby can influence whether she gets quality, healthy sleep or not.

Now, there is a lot to this topic. Just now, we are thinking only of that sweet, sleepy newly born baby. For simplicity, think of the baby who is just 3-14 days old.

First, Baby requires a safe sleep environment. (Again, just thinking about independent sleeping just now - like when you are grabbing a nice shower or a simple moment of your own space.) Baby also needs to be adequately warm & to have a reasonably calm environment. — Given these things a healthy, full term, no-birth injuries/trauma -baby will sleep when she needs to.

When we capitalize on this time, we can gently teach Baby to sleep without a litany of interventions. Baby does NOT REQUIRE black out curtains, a sound machine, & a professionally secure swaddle. It may very well be optimal to create a reasonably calm, somewhat to mostly quiet (but not silent) atmosphere, safe sleep space, & the OPPORTUNITY to close her eyes on her own once placed onto the safe sleeping surface.

That moment when Baby is placed on the sleeping surface with a very normal but calm energy of her care giver allows her to
🐝 build trust in her care giver
🐝 trust her body’s healthy need for sleep
🐝 realize she can relax, settle-in on her own.