Caring For an Infant – Pregnancy and Spinal Cord Injury

Worksheet

Use this worksheet to guide your thinking—and your conversations with others, including health care providers— about what you need to learn more about regarding caring for an infant.

CARING FOR AN INFANT

Things to Think About: Breastfeeding

Questions you have about: positioning yourself, holding pumping devices and other adaptive devices, taking turns to feed the baby

Things to Think About: Infant Care

Questions you have about: a safe place to change the baby, a safe sleeping place, safe transport (in home, outside home)

Things to Think About: Support Systems

Questions you have about: how much help you will need, who is in your support circle (e.g. partner, family, friends, paid assistants) to help care for the baby, who you can ask for help

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