Learn the Top 10 Phrases to Know When Having a Baby in English
I’m very tired and I have to work in the
morning please go to sleep I love you
very much but sleep good like the kind
of mom I am hi everybody welcome back to
top words my name is Alisha and today
we’re gonna be talking about the top 10
phrases to know when having a baby I
don’t have any experience in this but
let’s go quietly so we don’t wake the
baby
I don’t know breastfeed alright the
first word is breastfeed breastfeed
means feeding a baby using the milk from
the mother so there’s like baby formula
which you can give to babies or there’s
just natural milk in the mother’s milk
which is breast milk or what the verb
that we use is to breastfeed a baby so
in a sentence many mothers choose to
breastfeed their children in this
sentence you’re not supposed to drink
alcohol while breastfeeding change a
diaper
the next expression is change a diaper
change a diaper so diapers are the
pieces of cloth or like the disposable
things that babies wear because babies
of course don’t have the ability to use
the bathroom like a grown human or like
even like children can so babies need
diapers so to change a diaper means to
take off a used diaper and put a new
clean diaper on a baby in a sentence I
had hoped that I’d never have to change
a diaper in my life put on a bib the
next expression is to put on a bib so a
bib is any is like a protective cloth
that goes right here so actually it’s
some restaurants even for adults like
where there’s a like a lot of oil or
even like rib restaurants I think
sometimes they’ll give you like
customers a bib but for babies who are
very messy eaters you can put a bib on
the baby to protect the baby’s clothes
while they eat so in a sentence put on
his bib and give him some mashed carrots
change clothes
the next expression is change clothes
again of course you can use this for
yourself or for adults this is not an
only baby only phrase this is not a baby
only phrase so to change clothes if the
baby’s clothes are dirty or it’s just
time to I don’t know you just need to
change the baby’s clothes you can say
let’s see like let’s change the baby’s
clothes so in a sentence after her
accident she had to change her clothes
that’s a weird out of context sentence
sing a lullaby ah the next expression is
singing a lullaby sing a lullaby lullaby
is a song that is especially to help a
child go to sleep so they’re usually
really like quiet soft songs they have
like a nice like soothing sound to them
so singing a lullaby is like a classic
way to calm an upset child down so for
example it seemed when I was little my
mother used to sing me a lullaby before
going to sleep that’s true she’s saying
the Edelweiss from The Sound of Music my
mom used to sing me lullabies that she’d
made up on the spot that’s that if I
ever become a mom that’s gonna be me
like I’m just making up a lullaby oh
maybe like go to sleep
I’m really tired I hope you go to sleep
now take a nap the next expression is
taken up so take a nap again we can use
take a nap for grown humans as well as
children take a nap means to take a
short sleep to have a short sleep or you
can say put the baby down for a nap in
this case yeah so let’s see I’m going to
take a nap and I’ll meet you later today
he needs to take a nap because he’s
grumpy that happens to me sometimes to
buy a car seat the next expression is
buy a car seat so a car seat is a
special seat that’s used to transport
babies safely in vehicles a car seat in
a sentence put the baby in his car seat
before we leave surely you can tell I’m
not a parent okay this sentence says we
need to buy a car seat before the baby
arrives
feed the next word is feed feed just
means to give
to someone so you can use feed with like
your friends you can use it with your
family members with a baby with a pet
even so for example it’s important to
feed the baby every day another
expression her grandmother fed her today
read a book the next expression is read
a book read a book again you can use
this in other situations other than you
know baby related situations but to read
a book of course when it’s just you
reading a book you can say I read a book
or I like to read books that’s fine but
if you’re reading a book and there’s a
child listening we use a slightly
different expression we say read a book
to the baby so you’re reading the book
for for the baby but we use we use the
preposition to to read a book to someone
to read to someone so in a sentence read
him a book before bed bathe the next
expression is bathe bathe so we have to
take a bath to take a shower but we have
bathe as well like I bathed in a hot
spring last summer for example it just
means like to wash your body or to wash
someone else’s body so you can say I
bathed my baby in the sink last night if
you want in this sentence I bathe my
newborn in the sink you can also say I
give my baby a bath in the sink that’s
fine to bathe to me sounds quite formal
so those are 10 phrases that you can use
to talk about having a baby in English
if there’s anything that you need to
know or if there’s anything else I don’t
know other baby phrases that you know
you can leave them in a comment if you
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