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Traveling with babies can be both fun and stressful.
Jade Elliott spoke with Kaitlin Carpenter, MD, a pediatrician with Intermountain Healthcare, on this episode of the Baby Your Baby Podcast to discuss some helpful tips to make the travel process more manageable.
Car rides
Make sure that infants are always in a rear-facing car seat. Get a mirror on the back window or seat so that you can see your baby. Keep the environment comfortable and be prepared to sing silly songs for several hours.
Do not feed your baby in a moving car. Schedule feeding breaks for babies when they are very young.
For babies that are getting more mobile (think toddlers), it is important to have “wiggle breaks” every few hours. It can be great to find some place every 2-3 hours that has a park for them to get out and run.
Toys and snacks are vital. Don’t think you will get to listen to your podcast, you’re more likely to listen to Mahna Mahna by the Muppets for 45 minutes straight, but if the baby is happy, it is worth it.
Plane rides
Make sure your infant or toddler has something to chew on during takeoff and landing to help pop ears.
If you are breastfeeding, breastfeed during takeoff and landing (if the baby is awake).
Often infants will fall asleep because the white noise and vibration are soothing, so don’t wake them up to feed them during landing.
For toddlers I like to bring fruit snacks because they make them chew and taste good without making a huge mess.
Eliminate limits to screen time on an airplane. Have a tablet ready and watch away. Have your child practice using headphones before your trip.
Bring an empty water bottle to fill up before the flight for a toddler.
Kids ages 1-2 years are often the biggest challenge. If you can afford to get them a seat, please do. Try to set limits for the important things (kicking the chair in front of them), but let them have some leeway if possible (playing peekaboo with people around them).
Everyone has been that parent who stands and paces for an entire flight with a screaming toddler. Remember: It is always worse for you than it is for everyone else. Take a deep breath. The flight will eventually end.
The Baby Your Baby program provides many resources for all pregnant women and new moms in Utah. There is also expert advice from the Utah Department of Health and Intermountain Healthcare that air each week on KUTV 2News.
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Elections certified this week and there were a few close races!
Sandy City Council voted not to certify election calls for another recount
Sandy City Mayor
MONICA ZOLTANSKI 8,620 (50.1%)
JIM BENNETT 8,599 (49.9%)
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Now and audit could be in the works.
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Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital is offering virtual car seat checks to help parents anywhere in the Intermountain West learn to properly install and use car seats to protect their babies.
Jade Elliott spoke with Jessica Strong, Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, and Michelle Jamison, Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, to learn about the virtual car seat checks.
“Proper installation and use of car seats are critical to keeping children safe, but many new parents and caretakers have questions about whether they’re doing it correctly,” said Jessica Strong, community health manager at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital.
“Primary Children’s child passenger safety technicians have offered free car seat checks at Intermountain hospitals and community events for decades. We’re thrilled to continue those face-to-face encounters, and offer virtual options to bring critical safety information to parents and caretakers.”
Virtual car seat checks were piloted in 2020, when pandemic restrictions prohibited many face-to-face child safety events, Strong said. Primary Children’s opened the virtual options earlier this year, and plans to continue them to meet demand.
Always place the infant car seat rear-facing in the back seat of a vehicle.
Make sure your car seat fits properly in your vehicle. Check the vehicle owner’s manual and the safety seat instructions for proper placement procedures.
Send in the safety seat registration card to stay informed about updates or recalls.
Destroy a child safety seat if it has been involved in a crash, even if it still looks like it is in good condition. Damage that affects a seat’s ability to withstand another accident is not always visible.
Avoid secondhand and expired safety seats.
Here are the steps to set up a virtual car seat check, and what to expect:
Call 801-662-6583 to schedule an appointment.
You’ll need a portable device with a camera, such as a phone, tablet, or laptop.
Primary Children’s will send an email containing information about what to have on hand at your appointment.
A text or email will be sent before the appointment with a link to the virtual meeting room.
A certified car seat technician will demonstrate proper techniques with a car seat, then observe and guide the parent or caretaker install and use the device.
The Baby Your Baby program provides many resources for all pregnant women and new moms in Utah. There is also expert advice from the Utah Department of Health and Intermountain Healthcare that air each week on KUTV 2News.
With the holidays just around the corner, our children will have more free time. That often means unsupervised time without parents.
Parents Empowered of Utah say it’s a great time to talk to your teens and children about avoiding alcohol. One way to start the conversation is talking about goals for the future and what your kids want to be when they grow up.
“Underage alcohol can harm areas of the brain that are really important, like decision making, memory, impulse control,” says Elizabeth Klc, director of the Utah Substance Use and Mental Health Advisory Council. “Those kinds of areas that are really important to have working well, you want them to protect their brain, talking to them about that and talking about things they want to accomplish in their lives is huge.”
KUTV 2News’ Heidi Hatch sits down with Klc in this episode of the Parents Empowered podcast.
When you’re pregnant, you’ll likely have a lot of questions about what is happening to your body during each trimester and what is happening with your baby’s development week by week. Jade Elliott spoke with Leah Moses, a certified nurse midwife with Intermountain Healthcare, about some of the most common questions she has women ask when they come in during their third trimester for prenatal visits and to explain why those visits are so important to help you and your baby stay healthy.
Your third trimester begins at about 25 weeks of pregnancy. The third trimester is a time of more frequent prenatal visits, usually every two weeks from 28-36 weeks and every week from 36 weeks until delivery.
Screenings during the third trimester
If you haven’t already had a glucose tolerance test, your doctor or midwife will recommend one between 24-28 weeks.
Group B Strep Test
Nationally, it’s recommended that all pregnant women be tested late in pregnancy (usually starting at about 36 weeks to detect Group B Strep bacteria.
Group B streptococcus [strep-tuh-KOK-uh s] or group B strep is a common bacteria that can live in the human genital and gastrointestinal tract. It’s not the same bacteria that causes strep throat, and in adults it usually doesn’t cause illness. When a pregnant mom has Group B Strep, it can be dangerous because the unborn baby can be exposed to this bacterial environment once mom’s water breaks and during childbirth. Infection can cause serious, even life-threatening, problems in a newborn, such as lung infections, blood infections, and meningitis (inflammation of the tissues around the brain and spinal cord).
Group B Strep is common. Studies show about 20 percent (1 out of 5) pregnant women carry the Group B Strep bacteria but have no symptoms. Based on data from the Utah Department of Health from Jan 2015 – July 2019, the incidence of newborn infection caused by GBS is higher in Utah compared to the national incidence.
If you do test positive for Group B Strep, simple precautions need to be taken before your baby is born.
Why is it important to manage high blood pressure during pregnancy?
Your blood pressure is checked at every prenatal visit. This is especially important to detect preeclampsia or other complications that may manifest in the third trimester.
Complications of high blood pressure can be very serious and include:
Preeclampsia, when high blood pressure can lead to organ damage in the mother and ultimately cause problems with the baby
Eclampsia, when the mother can have seizures
A stroke due to very high blood pressure.
Decreased blood flow to the placenta can lead to baby receiving less oxygen and fewer nutrients, causing low birth weight
Sometimes a recommendation is made for a preterm delivery
Measuring baby’s growth
At each visit, a fundal height measurement is taken to make sure baby’s growth is correct. This measures the length from the pubic bone to the top of belly. Generally, you’ll measure the same number of centimeters as weeks you are pregnant.
Increasing fatigue and discomfort
Fatigue very common during the third trimester. Many women have increased ligament and muscle, pain or back pain as baby grows larger. Remedies include a warm shower, warm pack, or in some cases pelvic physical therapy.
Because of the extra fluid in your body, your hands and feet may swell, especially toward the end of the day. Some women find they need to go up a shoe size to allow for this change.
Sleep challenges
As you become more uncomfortable or have increasing heartburn, getting good sleep at night can be a challenge. Think of it as your body getting you ready for when your baby will wake you up in the night. It’s important to have a good attitude. For best blood flow, lay on your left side rather than flat on your back. But don’t worry about it too much. A pillow between the legs or a body pillow can help you find a comfortable position.
Breast changes
By 29 weeks, your breasts have begun to produce colostrum. Also called pre-milk, colostrum will be the first meal for a breastfed infant. Colostrum is usually thick and yellowish and may leak from your breasts. This is a normal sign that your body is preparing for your baby’s arrival.
Skin changes
As your skin stretches it may feel itchy and stretch marks may develop. Using lotion can help dry, itchy skin.
Baby’s development during the third trimester
As your baby grows larger, you may feel your baby’s movement more strongly, or some women feel movement is more subtle, since there’s not a lot of room for baby to move around. Your internal organs are feeling the squeeze of your rapidly growing baby.
Your baby begins to gain more fat during the third trimester to reach a healthy birth weight. Baby can gain a pound per week in the final weeks. The wrinkles on the skin smooth out and the cheeks plump slightly. The bones begin to harden. The hair on your baby’s head may take on color and texture. Your baby begins to shed the downy lanugo hair that has covered his or her body for the first weeks of life.
Your baby’s lungs become fully developed at 37 weeks. Your baby’s hearing develops, and he or she can differentiate between mom and dad’s voices. Eyelashes develop.
Sign up for a prenatal class
If you haven’t already, sign up for a prenatal class to help you know what to expect during labor and delivery and how to prepare for it and how to create a birth plan. Intermountain has online options available. Keep in mind that everything in labor and childbirth doesn’t always go as planned, so be flexible in your plan. Elective inductions are not recommended. It’s also a good idea to learn all you can ahead about how to care for your newborn baby and take a breastfeeding class.
Identify your labor coach and or support people
Talk to your partner, doula, family or friends and determine who you want to be there during labor and delivery. Be sure to check the visitor policy with your local hospital.
This is also a good time to talk about what support you’ll have at home after the birth while you’re recovering.
Now that you’re really showing in the third trimester, many women report that everyone wants to tell you their birth story. It’s ok to set boundaries. Some stories are inspiring, and others might create fear. You can stop and tell them you want your own labor experience and will I’d hear about their story later.
Nesting Instinct
Cleaning. decorating, setting up the baby’s room. Organizing things at home. According to researchers, pregnant women’s “nesting instinct” is quite real, very common, and probably triggered by surging hormones. Whatever the cause, your preoccupation with domestic affairs right now can be handy. It’s a good nudge to help you prepare your home for a new resident.
Pack Your Hospital Bag
Pack your bag for the hospital ahead of time. You never know when you might go into labor or if labor might progress very quickly.
Labor signs
In your final prenatal visits, your doctor or midwife will check your cervix. With gloved fingers, your healthcare provider will gauge whether and how much the cervix has thinned and shortened (effaced) and opened (dilated). Cervical changes are clues to your body’s readiness for labor. You may be dilated to 2-3 cm for a couple of weeks before delivery.
At 36 weeks, your provider will check to see if your baby is in the head down position and getting ready for delivery. Your provider can Can do help give you exercises or manually turn the baby if needed.
Braxton Hicks – or practice labor contractions
Dehydration can lead to contractions that are not labor contractions. Be sure to stay hydrated
Braxton Hicks contractions are a tightening of the uterine muscles. They can last 30 seconds to a few minutes. They can feel strange, but they’re not usually painful. They go away. It’s thought that these contractions are like uterine warm-ups, helping to tone and ready your body for the intense contractions of true labor.
True Labor
Labor contractions feel like strong menstrual cramps or a lower backache that comes and goes.
You’ll know you’re in true labor if your contractions:
Are regular and follow a predictable pattern (such as every 9 minutes)
Gradually get closer together
Last progressively longer
When to call your doctor or midwife
Call your provider if your water breaks. Your vaginal fluid becomes thinner and may leak a bit. You will know if your water breaks, it will drip down your legs. You should also call your provider if you have bright red bleeding. Some blood tinged mucous is normal.
Call your provider when your contractions are regular and are four to five minutes apart and continue for an hour.
As you finish your third trimester, take care of yourself and plan for how you can take a break and practice self-care after your baby is born. Adjusting to the demands of a new baby and your growing family takes time. It’s kind of like the fourth trimester. Be patient with yourself and enjoy the precious time you have with your baby.
For more information about pregnancy or to find a women’s health provider, visit intermountainhealthcare.org
The Baby Your Baby program provides many resources for all pregnant women and new moms in Utah. There is also expert advice from the Utah Department of Health and Intermountain Healthcare that air each week on KUTV 2News.
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When you’re pregnant, you’ll likely have a lot of questions about what is happening to your body during each trimester and what is happening with your baby’s development week by week. Jade Elliott spoke with Leah Moses, a certified nurse midwife with Intermountain Healthcare, about some of the most common questions she has women ask when they come in during their second trimester for prenatal visits and to explain why going to those visits are the best way to help you and your baby stay healthy.
The middle part of your pregnancy is called the second trimester. It is made up of weeks 13-14 through about weeks 26-27. Many women enjoy this middle part of pregnancy as your body has had time to adjust to being pregnant, morning sickness may subside, and your baby is not so big that you feel quite uncomfortable yet.
It’s also an exciting time, as an ultrasound is typically done during the second trimester, at about 18-20 weeks, and you can see how the baby is developing and find out the gender if you wish (if your baby is in an ideal position to identify the gender). This is also the trimester when you get to start feeling your baby move.
Your body during the second trimester
As morning sickness eases, your appetite may increase. If you’ve had unusual food cravings, these may ease or change. Your growing appetite supports your rapidly growing baby.
Hormones may prompt your body to produce more pigment (coloration). And increased blood flow can boost oil gland secretion. Together, these can cause a variety of changes in your skin.
Some women have rosier cheeks, smoother and softer skin — the “glow” effect of pregnancy. But many other women have new acne, and some develop discoloration in their face (the “mask of pregnancy”).
During pregnancy, your blood volume increases by 30 – 50%. You may notice that the veins on your breasts, legs, and abdomen are more visible. You may also have a stuffy nose — a byproduct of increased blood flow to the membranes in your nose.
Round ligament pain is common in the second trimester of pregnancy. This is brief pain in your lower abdomen, hip, or groin. It’s caused by the stretching of the round ligament that supports the uterus and connects it to the front of the groin area.
Pregnancy brings changes to your hair. For one thing, your hair is growing faster. It’s also falling out less. These are temporary effects of hormonal changes. You may also notice changes in your hair’s texture and color. Your hair may be curlier, oilier, dryer, straighter, coarser, etc.
Fetal movement
By about 21 weeks, you may have felt your baby move. The sensation may be subtle — a fluttering or bubbling feeling, perhaps like tiny popcorn pops. Later on, you’ll feel definite kicks and rolls as your baby moves inside you.
If this is your first pregnancy, you may not feel or recognize your baby’s movements just yet. Experienced mothers, however, often report feeling their baby move as early as 16 weeks of pregnancy.
Weight gain
By about 22 weeks, you probably have gained 10 or more pounds. The new weight is distributed throughout your body and to your growing baby. Your doctor or midwife can help determine a healthy pregnancy weight gain for you.
In general, a pregnant woman can expect to gain 2 to 4 pounds in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and slightly less than a pound per week for the rest of her pregnancy.
Don’t use your pregnancy as an excuse to overindulge with huge portions or sweet treats. For good nutrition during pregnancy, you only need about 300 extra calories a day. Make sure these extra calories come from nutrient-rich foods. Go for extra portions of fruit and vegetables — not extra sodas or desserts.
Glucose tolerance test
Between 24-28 weeks, during the end of the second or beginning of the third trimester, your doctor or midwife will recommend a glucose tolerance test, which screens for diabetes. The screening tests how your body processes sugar and will help determine if further testing is needed to determine if you have gestational diabetes.
Depending on the results, your doctor may suggest some changes to your diet and/or test you again later in the pregnancy or talk to you about a treatment plan. Treating diabetes during pregnancy is extremely important to protect the health of both mother and baby.
Postpartum depression or peripartum mood disorders
If you find yourself prone to tears or quick anger, you’re not alone. Many women report intense mood swings, particularly in the first and third trimesters. It’s a lot like what many women experience in premenstrual syndrome (PMS). You may also feel distracted and forgetful. This is normal and common.
Many women have heard of postpartum depression, but may not know that it can begin during pregnancy and can manifest not just as depression, but as anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder. The best term is peripartum mood disorders, as that covers the time during pregnancy and after childbirth and the various ways behavioral health conditions can manifest. Pregnancy and childbirth are major life changes that can add stress. And stress can be a factor in your mental health.
Intermountain healthcare providers practice under a mental health-integration model, where primary care providers screen patients for behavioral health conditions. Talk to your doctor or midwife if you have symptoms of depression or anxiety that are severe or last longer than 2 weeks. These include sadness, trouble concentrating, guilt, worry, indifference, or changes in sleeping and eating patterns.
Baby’s development during the second trimester
When the second trimester starts, your baby is about 3 inches long “from crown to rump.” This means your baby is being measured from the top of its head to its bottom (instead of head to toe) because the legs are curled up to the baby’s stomach.
At this time, your baby’s head is the biggest part of their body. But, by the end of the second trimester, the rest of your baby’s body will grow to 9 inches—or even longer.
Your baby will start to hear sounds, such as your heartbeat, by about the 18th week of pregnancy. Your baby’s hearing will improve, and they will be able to hear your voice.
Your baby’s eyes may open as early as the 20th week. Before this, the eyelids have been sealed shut. However, your baby’s eyes cannot see anything until the third trimester.
Your baby will have fingerprints and footprints by the end of the second trimester.
Fine hair and a white waxy substance cover and protect your baby’s skin. The skin is thin, loose, and wrinkled
Your baby’s digestive system will start to function. The baby also will begin to produce and release urine, which becomes amniotic fluid.
Your baby’s nervous system develops and your baby will be able to feel all your movements and their environment by the end of the second trimester.
Fetal movement
Your baby is moving almost all the time throughout your pregnancy. However, you won’t start to feel it until about the 20th week. At first, you may notice a fluttering feeling. It can be hard to tell if this is your baby or something else. Soon enough, the movements will become very noticeable. Your partner may be able to feel the baby move as well. You might even be able to see your belly move when your baby “kicks.”
Your baby’s movements are helping them prepare for life outside your body. Muscles grow stronger as your baby learns to kick, suck, and open and close their hands. Your baby also practices making faces, such as frowning, smiling, and squinting.
After 20 weeks, about 10 movements an hour is baseline for a healthy baby. You may not notice movement as much when you’re busy or moving. Movements are more noticeable when you’re quiet or resting.
As you go through your second trimester it’s important to keep your prenatal appointments so you and your provider can help improve your and your baby’s chances for a safe and healthy pregnancy and delivery.
For more information about pregnancy or to find a women’s health provider, visit intermountainhealthcare.org
The Baby Your Baby program provides many resources for all pregnant women and new moms in Utah. There is also expert advice from the Utah Department of Health and Intermountain Healthcare that air each week on KUTV 2News.
