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Saturday, August 14th, 2010
There are many benefits gained by giving your baby finger foods, among them:
- Learn to feed themselves, Hold and enter their own food into the mouth is one way of learning for your child to feed themselves. Later this will get you feeling confident that he is able to do baby feeding activity itself, no need to be fed again.
- Starting the first solid food. Providing finger food can also be classified as coach of complementary feeding. It’s just a more specific form which can be grasped by little hands.
- Stimulate the baby’s fine motor. When a baby holding a finger food with his fingers, followed by pushing them into the mouth, actually classed as providing stimulus for the development of fine motor baby. Especially reflex to hold.
- Stimulates tooth growth ahead teething Generally, babies will experience itching in the gums. Providing finger food can stimulate the growth of teeth, while reducing the itching arises because generally have the texture of finger foods.
- Granting Exploration finger food tastes can also be used as a medium to introduce the diverse taste of food in infants. So that the child will be loved by a wide variety of food flavors.
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
The cause of abnormality is still not known clearly. However, statistical evidence shows no connection infants exposed to tobacco during pregnancy with sudden death syndrome in infants. A team of doctors led by Dr. Anne Chang, a professor in the field of breathing at the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation in Brisbane, Australia, trying to find a link between those two things by observing the 20 healthy infants aged three to five months. That age is an age that died suddenly at risk.
The experts observed the mother of ten babies who did not smoke during pregnancy, while others smoked during pregnancy. For the study, the infant is placed on the back, a position which is recommended to prevent sudden death. Then, the babies were disturbed by the singing voice whose power reaches 80 decibels over a loudspeaker near them after sleeping. Tests performed during the infant in a state of deep sleep and light sleep stages along between ten to twelve hours. Heart rhythm and breathing and infant behavioral responses such as body movement and eye opening were observed.
The researchers found no difference how babies sleep or wake up when the voice sounds during sleep. Period determined by the velocity of the eye in addition to pupil. However, large differences in their responses increased during the open eyes or move during that period, even when the stimulation of the ear is enlarged. The researchers believe the findings add to the suspicion that nicotine may result in the development of infant motor function key, which is ordered to sleep and wakes up the brain and heart function, and lung.
The cause is unknown. Recent studies show that SIDS is more common in infants who sleep prone compared with infants who sleep supine or oblique. Therefore, babies should be put to sleep in the supine or tilted position. The risk of SIDS was also found in infants during sleep face to face into the mattress or blanket soft / soft. Therefore, babies should be put to sleep on hard mattresses.
Risk factor for SIDS:
• Sleeping on his stomach (in infants less than 4 months)
• Soft mattress (the baby is less than one year)
• Premature babies
• History of SIDS in siblings
• Many children
• Winter
• Her mother smoker
• Her mother was drug addict
• Young mother
• A short distance between the two pregnancies
• Care during pregnancy is less
• Classification of low socio-economic. SIDS is more common in male infants.
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
The components in mother’s milk changes every 24 hours to respond to the needs of infants. A new research showing how breast milk may help babies newborn to sleep.
Breast milk contains various elements, such as nucleotides, which performs a very important role in regulating the babies to sleep on a regular basis. The findings, published recently in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience, states that breast milk composition changed in certain times throughout the day.
The scientists found three nucleotides in breast milk (adenosine, guanosine and uridene) that plays driving or resting the central nervous system, making the baby calm and sleeping.
Breast milk collected from 30 women who lived in Extremadura, was declared on 24-hour period, with six to eight samples per day. Concentrate, concentrate the highest nucleotide found in samples at night (8 pm to 8 am). “It made us realize that breastfeeding effect on babies sleep”, Cristina L. Sánchez, chief author of the article and a researcher at the Laboratory at the University of Extremadura Chrononutrition.
While breast milk produced during the day has a special component that can stimulate the baby’s activity, in contrast component of breast milk at night helps your baby to sleep and rest.
To ensure proper nutrition, the baby should be fed at the same time when milk was removed. For mothers who do not work outside the home, surely this is not a problem because usually the baby nursing directly. But for working mothers who took his mother’s milk during the day, then it should be given breast milk during the day also (the following day or on subsequent days)
Because breast milk is milked in the day contains the components that are useful to make an active baby (help him learn new skills). While breast milk is removed at night usually are taken directly by the baby because the mother was at home working, or if the mother’s milk mother’s milk at night, the allotment is to be given to babies at night, too, since breast milk night contains components to make babies sleep rested.
Therefore, it is important for a mother to include the date with hours when they take breast milk to help the mother remember mother’s milk is breast milk taken in the daytime or breast milk taken at night.
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
SIDS is the leading cause of death is most often found in infants aged 2 weeks-1 year. 3 of 2000 infants experienced SIDS and almost always when they are sleeping. Most SIDS deaths occur at ages 2-4 months and occur worldwide. In the typical case of a baby aged 2-3 months who appear healthy, at tidurkan without suspicion that things outside of normal circumstances, some time later found the baby died, and the conventional autopsy fails to find cause of death. Here are some factors suspected to be the cause of SIDS
- Apnea and respiratory pauses for a long cyanosis during sleep has been observed in two infants who later died of SIDS and considered to have also observed the existence of upper airway obstruction with respiratory pauses and long bradycardia in infants with SIDS abortif. However it is uncertain whether the central apnea or obstructive apnea is more important in the occurrence of SIDS
- Brain stem defects because at least two pieces of evidence have suggested that babies with SIDS have abnormalities in the central nervous system.
- Upper respiratory tract function abnormal, based on the development and anatomy, then a young baby is considered at high risk for upper respiratory tract, whether this situation occurs in SIDS is still not in the know.
- Airway reflexes are hiperreaktif because the entry of liquid into the larynx may stimulate the emergence of these reflexes and in suspect menimblkan apnea, then given considerable attention will likely gasoesofagus reflexes and aspiration as the primary mechanism for the occurrence of SIDS in some infants.
- Abnormalita heart, some experts propose the existence of instability in the young heart, but no convincing evidence to show that SAA plays a role in cardiac arrhythmia incidence of SIDS.
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Defecation activities of a baby sometimes makes worried some parents, especially on color, shape and pattern besides constipation. Generally the color of feces in infants can be divided into yellow, brown, green, red and white / grayish. To determine whether normal or our baby’s digestive system, can be detected from the stool color.
Yellow
Yellow color can be indicated as fases normal for a baby, when babies get Mother’s Milk is full, without any mixture of milk formula, the yellow color of the resulting fases more bright and brilliant, yellow dominated. Which means babies get Mother’s Milk full of foremilk and hindmilk.
Foremilk Which Is the milk is first drawn During a feeding. Generally it is thin and lower in fat content, satisfying the baby’s Thirst and liquid needs. And Hindmilk Mutation Which Is the milk foremilk During a feeding. It is Richer in fat content and is high in Calories. The high fat and calorie content of this milk is Important for your baby’s health and continuing growth. Make sure to let your baby drain one breast before moving on to the other, to Ensure That She receives all the benefits of both foremilk and hindmilk.
Green
Green color on fases baby is still categorized as normal, but this color should not keep turning up because it means how mothers give less precise Mother’s Milk / not correct (which is inhaled by the baby only foremilk course, these cases occurred when the production of Mother’s Milk are overflow. When the baby was always sucking foremilk having first and lactose sugar content but low in fat that makes your baby hungry again quickly and Hindmilk that contain a lot of fat will be exploited after foremik discharged, but this is what makes hindmilk feces became yellow.
Red
Red color on a baby can fases caused by drops of blood that accompanies it, blood can be either the baby or the mother’s body is sucked at the time of the birth process, if the blood came from his mother, then fasesnya will find a black spot and lasts up to 2 days . If blood is not derived from these two other possibilities could be due to an allergy formula or blockage in the intestines and that it needed quick handling danh immediately consult a doctor.
White / Grayish
If the color White / grayish dirt babies happen, then it must be aware of. because the white color indicates a fairly risky business disruption that may result from disorders of the liver / bile duct obstruction in infants. which means that fluid can not be coloring the stool bile, which means the baby should be immediately taken medicine.
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Organic baby food is increasingly recognized in recent years. The trend of consuming these foods increased along with awareness about the importance of dietary factors for health. Even some people are willing to pay more to get their fruit or organic vegetables that are rarely spelled out in the market.
Eating organic food regularly are believed to protect the body from various diseases. Organic food is an agricultural product that is free of chemical fertilizers, chemicals and elements of preservatives, coloring, and sweeteners, ranging from planting to packing and processing of organic food penyimpanan.Memang actually not really free of additives, but the levels are regulated very strict to be in tolerable limits.
And now, not just adults who consume organic foods, the baby began to be kept invested early on his health with a healthy diet. It would be difficult for parents to control children or teenagers who have known food “junk food.” Fear of dependence on the type of fast food might be overcome by introducing early on a healthy diet.
In terms of taste, some mention of organic baby food is less tasty, but some also said any better than non-organic baby food. Delicious organic food or not this still have an advantage over non-organic, which do not contain extra sugar and salt.
Organic baby food is generally the effect of natural sweetness from the juice of corn or wheat starch. Reviewed in terms of price, organic food is pretty draining the pouch. Manufacturing process required special treatment and be careful who because it was expensive.
In the processing of any organic baby food you should be careful not to lose their nutritional content. You have to find out how the right temperature for cooking so that nutritional value is not lost. How organic broccoli and carrots cooked, whether the color is not to fade? How to maintain the mineral elements and vitamins in organic food does not quickly disappear? How mature organic food storage to keep it sterile? And others so forth.
To get all the information on this organic baby food, you’ll want to ask a nutritionist.
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Some parents often complained of lack of sleep. Because the baby likes waking up at night and fret when his desire not obeyed. No wonder if some of the Mother looked pale and tired during the day because of lack of sleep.
This problem can be overcome if the mother could create a good sleep for their babies, how to create an atmosphere like in the womb. That way the baby will be comfortable, not going to wake up and disturb Mother. Here are tips-tricks:
- Comfortable beds
Baby still not able to adjust to a big bed. Sleeping position with a large bed that much different from when he curled in the womb. We recommend using a box, basket, or cradle.
- The right temperature
not until he woke up because the room temperature is too cold or hot. When the Mother of using a fan or air conditioner, do not point directly to the baby. Room temperature no more or less than 22 degrees centigrade. If the room temperature feels too hot, replace it with a thinner shirt and baggy.
- A soothing caress and pat
Caress and pat lightly to soothe that will make her sleep more soundly.
- Soft voices
To change the heartbeat once he heard the Virgin, Mother of the buzzing sound could use a fan, radio voice, and gentle voice of his toys.
- Sleep alone
Give a room for him. Avoid sleeping with your baby, because sleep can be disturbed from the movement of the Mother and Father. Do not just carry her when she starts crying. With Mother even carried her wake.
- Routines
if the current sleep time and activity before sleep is still not regular, not too late to create the routine. Specify what time he had a warm bath, put on your nightgown, playing in bed, listening to Mother telling or singing until she fell asleep.
- Napping enough
do not think that if Mother did not put him to sleep during the day so he would be exhausted and fell asleep at night. On the contrary, too tired to make her sleep restless. It’s okay to reduce the hours of nap, but not to make it continue to wake up.
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Bananas are useful to increase the concentration power of children. Bananas are the fruit with high concentrations of nutrients and energy. Creamy texture makes the banana fruit is often used as a choice for baby food. For children, the benefits of bananas can also be a healthy lunch to school.
Bananas are very fit to be a menu of breakfast and lunch meals to school children. Banana pieces can be mixed into the cereal or breakfast food. Bananas provide enough energy for the children to be ready to follow the lessons in school.
Consumption of banana can help the process of learning in children because bananas contain potassium. Potassium is found in bananas which act to increase the concentration of children’s learning.
Bananas are also high in vitamins B, which is useful for retaining the activity of the nervous system works. For this, students can concentrate longer.
In one banana indeed contained many nutrients. Vitamins and minerals are superior compared to other fruits and vegetables, especially for vitamin B6 (piridoksin), C, potassium, fiber, and manganese.
Compared with apples, bananas contain more protein, more carbohydrates, more phosphorus, more vitamin A and iron, vitamins and other minerals. Many benefits can be obtained from a banana. In addition to very useful in preventing stress, bananas also improve thought, treat gastrointestinal inflammation, and nourish the eye.
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Having optimal brain function, especially in terms of memory, is a dream for every parent to their child. More than 40 years ago, research has found a link between brain function and various nutrients in food. This relationship has been happening since the fetus is in mother’s womb. One of the important nutrients is choline.
In the body, choline is important as the main composition of the membrane of normal cells as well as maintains the integrity of cell membranes in biological processes, such as flow / stimulus information, intracellular communication, and bioenergy. Moreover, choline can also help the normal function of the brain through the establishment of neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is the form of choline compounds which play an important role in brain function.
Acetylcholine is a chemical compound which acts on the process of storage and recall of memory, attention, or concentration of a person. The more acetylcholine is synthesized, the more that is released into the nerve so that the better memory and attention processes
Brain development in children has been started since the fetus is in the womb. Therefore, adequate choline intake must be considered in pregnant women or nursing mothers. This was due in at the moment is a critical time to get the baby’s brain development is the best memory.
To ensure availability of adequate choline in the newborn, nature has arranged a number of ways including through the placenta and breast milk (breast milk). During pregnancy, the amount of choline in the mother’s body reserves decreased due to be distributed to the fetus through the placenta.
The number of choline in the placenta to reach 14 times higher than the amount of choline in the blood. The purpose of choline accumulation in the placenta is to ensure the availability of choline to the fetus.
During breastfeeding, choline from the mother will also be released into breast milk. The number of choline in breast milk can reach 100 times the amount of choline in maternal blood. Therefore, breast-fed babies will get the amount of choline are sufficient for the development of brain cells function as memory centers. This is in line with the goal of exclusive breastfeeding program announced by the government with the aim to arouse the nation so that more mothers want to breastfeed their babies.
Adequate choline intake on each person differs according to age. On average as much as 550 milligrams of adult male / day, women 425 mg / day, whereas in infants and children are fewer in number again. If choline intake is very excessive (> 3.5 g / day) would be symptoms of low blood pressure, nausea, and diarrhea. Conversely, choline deficiency on the circumstances, there will be disturbances in liver function.
Although choline can be synthesized by the body itself, in certain circumstances the body can also experience choline deficiency. To prevent the occurrence of choline deficiency in pregnant women, nursing mothers, as well as healthy adults, should be given additional food or supplements containing choline high as egg yolks, milk, beans, chicken and beef liver, pork, beef, shrimp, soybean and wheat kernel. Moreover, choline can also be found in potatoes, peas, cauliflower, oats, sesame seeds and flaxseeds and green leafy vegetables.
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Finger food 
makes your baby explore with taste. Not only had that, to pick their own food, babys fine motor skills so well trained.
Make finger food for babies is not difficult. The materials used according to stages of babys age. For babies aged 6 months, for example, the recommended material type only cereals (white rice, brown rice, and oats), vegetables (green beans, potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, cucumbers) and fruits (bananas, avocados, apples and pears).
Entering the age of 7-8 months, raw food can be more varied. Like vegetables (asparagus, carrots, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, beets, radishes), fruits (mango, peach, cucumber suri), a source of protein (chicken, beef, liver, tofu). Avoid dairy products (cheese, cream, yoghurt) in carp introductions beginning because it was feared could trigger allergies. However, after entering the age of nine months, giving dairy foods are already permitted.
Foodstuffs such as those mentioned above can be processed into a variety of finger food. What is noteworthy is the texture. In the early stages of (infant age 6 months) finger food must still soft textured. It was only when stepping on a baby aged nine months, finger food can be made with a rougher texture. For instance, by making the preparations of food ingredients chopped chicken or beef (nughet).
Do not forget to pay attention to the size of finger food. Give finger foods in a size that can be grasped by the hands of a tiny baby. Not too big or too small. Size is too small snacks can make a baby to choke. While the piece is too large, can not even hold. Still related to security, so as not to harm the baby, some certain vegetables, like carrots, green beans, squash, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, should be boiled first to make it more tender.
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