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Monday, July 26th, 2010
In addition to high nutrient, that food should be given to babies should be safe and harmless. In providing safe food for infants, mothers must consider several important things the following:
- Avoid fibrous foods like celery or green beans.
- If you want to give your baby a nutritious fish, first remove the fish bones before crushed.
- Give a chance to digest one type of baby food and see your baby’s reaction after eating the food, who knew she was allergic.
- Give the food in the form of toys. Special toys that can be bitten and swallowed by the baby safely is bananas. Some mothers are also often give her baby carrots and apples and pears poached or steamed to be bitten-bite.
- Cut small pieces of beef and chicken in a cross from the roots. Avoid large pieces that can make a baby to choke.
- Check the pieces of the food prepared. Front baby teeth just to bite. Baby teeth do not show up until a year old child. Babies still suck and not bite.
- Give food that can be held by baby finger when he was sitting, not when you’re playing or lying.
- Sausage is not nutritious food that is safe for babies. One bite-sized sausage trachea can make a baby to choke. Sausage healthy and free nitrate is a food craze toddlers and safe for them when sliced long and small like a noodle. However, even this healthy sausage can contain high amounts of sodium, so that their consumption should be limited.
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Mother’s Milk is very important for infant nutrition for the first year. Although busy with her job, she must continue to give milk to their babies by providing dairy milk. Dairy milk is squeezed from the breast milk, stored and given to infants when mother worked and separated from their infants. Do not worry about the quality of breast milk given or not still have the same quality. Most importantly Mother must know how to store and presentation.
Things that should be the Mother of note in providing dairy milk to her baby:
- Breast milk stored at room temperature can stand 4-6 hours. For breast milk stored in the refrigerator can last about 2-3 days. If you travel long enough, the Mother can take advantage of the freezer so that milk can be refrigerated for up to 2-3 months.
- If you find any signs such as a different odor (sour), seemed clotted and darker color, indicating that breast milk is damaged. Segara throw away and replace it with breast milk is still good. If it was accidentally given the effects that arise can baby diarrhea.
- When finished flushing and storing it in a plastic sugar, mark the date of milking. So Mother knew where the mother’s milk should be used first.
- Do not heat the milk over the fire that could make dead heat absorption of the enzyme. Simply put the milk into a bowl of warm water (± 82 degrees celcius) so temperatures approaching body temperature Mother breastfeeding.
- Suggested to provide dairy milk with a spoon, not bottle. This is to avoid nipple confusion baby. Nipple confusion is a condition in which infants feel confused because before he was through breast feeding and suddenly have to breastfeed with a bottle of milk. In addition, because the milk that comes out of the bottle easier than breast, little can be lazy sucking breast while feeding back on the Mother.
Now your baby needs breast milk are met, and Mother can still work. Let the spirit of feeding your baby again!
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
As a mother must be wondering about the meaning of the statement that title. How could the bacteria will become the most beautiful gifts for their children, while every time we spoke about the bacteria, the thing that immediately comes to mind that many diseases and things that are detrimental to other health.
However, mothers need not feel worried, because the bacteria are referred to in the title above is a good bacteria or better known as probiotics.
Due to the many benefits of these bacteria, often stated that good bacteria is the first gift given by the mother on the child since its birth, either through the womb, the birth, or breastfeeding.
SStarted in the birth process, when the baby moves from the almost sterile womb to the outside environment through a process involving contraction and time-consuming enough. At that moment, he is naturally in contact with mothers of normal microflora and then began developing microflora in the intestines and digestive tract.
After being born with a safe, child generally has a sterile gastrointestinal tract conditions. Cries first are the early sign of bacterial colonization. Even in the normal birth process, the colonization of the gastrointestinal tract can be realized thanks to the children of bacteria that come from contact with the birth canal.
Meanwhile, the baby who had been given breast milk, the dominant bacterial colonization by bifidobacteria than harmful bacteria.
The phrase for this which states that the milk was sterile, had been broken by the results of research which found that in breast milk that are from probiotics and Lactobacillus bifidobakterium group, which when consumed will reproduce in the gut and health impact.
One of the benefits of helping your child establishes the flora in the digestive tract so it can cope with the harmful bacteria that can cause indigestion and to stimulate and maintain stamina.
Not only that, probiotics can be used as prevention and treatment of acute diarrhea caused by intestinal infection. Other studies have even proved beneficial probiotics to prevent skin allergies (atopic dermatitis) and can not stand milk sugar or lactose intolerance.
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Nutrients have an important role to encourage the process of developing a child’s brain grows. Good nutrition is like fuel for the brain. The development of brain circuits rely heavily on the quality of nutrition and stimulation given to infants in the womb to the age since the first three years, or so called golden period of growth (the golden age period).
Rapid growth in human brain cells taken place since the age of the baby until the age of three years. And reached perfection at the age of five years. This makes the fulfillment of nutritional factors as a vital factor in sufficient nutrients for brain development.
Until the age of one year, 60% of energy from breast milk and foods consumed by infants used for brain growth. Therefore, infants and toddlers need lots of protein, carbohydrates and fats.
In addition babies and toddlers need vitamin B1, B6, folic acid, iodine, iron, zinc, AA, DHA, sphyngomyelin (complex lipid content of fat in the brain), sialic acid, and amino acids like tyrosine and tryptophan.
Breast milk contains all these nutrients.
With balanced nutrition, it will add to growth and development of cells and branches on the baby’s brain. And the more the number of branching of brain cells, then the better is also a function of synapses (nerve cell edge) between brain cells. And finally the child is also more intelligent.
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Prebiotic Inulin is a type of carbohydrate – long chains of sugar – which is used to store energy in the roots of some plants, such as starch which serves to save energy in the potato. However, unlike most of the starch and other carbohydrates, inulin is not broken down in the digestive system, which means that inulin does not have a big impact on blood sugar – and very few calories. Inulin also improve intestinal health by providing healthy eating bifidobakteria in the intestines, and helps the absorption of minerals.
Although inulin is not digested by enzymes in the pancreas, stomach or other parts of the digestive system of children, inulin will be split in the intestine by bacterial enzymes. Bacteria that live in small and large intestine have an important role in the process of digestion and the immune system. These healthy bacteria or bifidobakteria able to digest inulin. Inulin has been clinically proven to enhance healthy bifidobacteria in the stomach. The same study also proved that inulin can help the immune system and helps the absorption of vitamins.
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
When your baby has one year of age, your baby can join you at the dinner table. He can be given a menu of food that you cook for the family. And do not forget to create a pleasant dining atmosphere for you and your baby.
If the 12-month-old baby, you’re able to take meals together, especially to enjoy the menu which is available on the table. Because he already has a near-perfect dining skills as adults. However, you must still provide foods that are easily chewed and swallowed up well in his first two years. Because the tools and digestive systems are still “learning.”
Teach early healthy eating habits: a regular diet and eat foods with a composition that varies every day. Although there are several problems that will arise and test your patience, for example, your baby will be picking his favorite food appropriate. But with healthy habits, you will more easily help your child deal with eating problems. Even with regular eating patterns, you can prevent your baby’s eating problems.
Serve the vegetables in the form of a funny and interesting so that your baby happy while eating. Also provided cutlery funny and easy to use as he tried to eat his own skills. Also create an atmosphere of excitement and fun for children while they eat. Thus, for children to eat is a routine activity that is important and fun.
Give attention to the following:
* Wash hands before cooking, and take care of hand hygiene for preparing baby food.
* Differentiate cutting boards for raw meat with vegetables, fruits and cooked meat to be treated, to prevent bacterial contamination of raw meat.
* Sterilize infant feeding equipment by boiling water and dry with a clean tissue. Avoid cloth napkins that could be storing bacteria.
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Milk and other calcium-rich foods have become an important part of your toddler food menu. Calcium is a nutrient essential to build strong bones and healthy.
During childhood, the body uses the mineral calcium to build strong bones – a process nearly completed in the late stages of adolescence. Toddlers and infants who did not get the calcium and vitamin D sufficient (Vitamin D helps in the absorption of calcium) has a high risk of getting a bone softening disease that causes stunted growth, which is not straight-leg pain and weak muscles.
Calcium has an important role in muscle contraction, convey a message through the nerve cells and release of hormones. If low levels of calcium in the blood (caused by a lack of calcium), calcium will be taken from the bones to ensure normal cell function continues to run.
When starting from childhood, your children get the calcium and physical activity is enough, they’ll have strong bones in adulthood. Sources of calcium besides milk include cheese, tofu, yogurt, cashews, bok choy, red beans and broccoli.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
All parents want their children to grow healthy and strong. What type of nutrients needed for growth and development of your toddler’s body? Many nutrients needed by the body so that their children can grow healthy and strong. One is the prebiotic inulin.
Inulin is a group of naturally existing polisakaride (consisting of several types of simple sugar) produced by various species of plants. Inulin into the category of fibers called fruktan.
Inulin contains one-third to one-quarter of food energy of sugar or other carbohydrates and a sixth until the ninth of food energy from fat. Inulin also increases the absorption of calcium and magnesium, while also helping the growth of bacteria that are good for digestion. In nutrition, inulin is considered a form of fiber which can be dissolved and is often considered a prebiotic.
Inulin is very beneficial for the health of the digestive system of the body, especially for toddlers, because the prebiotic inulin stimulates the growth of good bacteria in the stomach. And if the digestive systems work properly, your body will become healthier and more resistant against diseases and bacteria that attack the evil. In addition, the prebiotic inulin also helps absorption of calcium which is needed by the body that develops. Moreover, the prebiotic inulin does not raise blood sugar levels and therefore good for diabetics or for children who are obese early.
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