Having a Newborn Baby For the First Time - Frequently Encountered Challenges and Possible Solutions

Since families tend to have less children these days, it is not usual for a woman to come from a family where she had a chance to help her mother take care of small babies. As a result, a lot of women have no experience in taking care of babies. Also, because a lot of mothers don't breastfeed, their daughters have never seen other women breastfeed before. Hence most mothers only learn to take care of babies when they have their first baby. The first child, unfortunately, becomes their guinea pigs. This article shares on how I overcame the challenges of handling my first born child.