Posts Tagged ‘baby’
Saturday, September 4th, 2010
When buying toys for your child, what is your concern?
price? brand? usefulness? or other options again?
In order to choose the right toy for your baby, it’s a few tips:
* Parents need to know the stages of child development, both aged, emotionally and physically.
* Caring for a used toy, do not buy an expensive home, adjust with child’s ability.
* Notice in terms of security, both in terms of material or the workings of the toy.
* Select toys that are bright in color and contrast, to stimulate the senses of sight of children.
* Children aged 6 months or more like a toy that emits sounds and colored objects, as well as soft-textured objects.
* Give toys like Lego and the like that have a variety of forms for children aged 9 months and upwards. Or a similar toy that can be played during the shower.
* No need expensive toys for your child. To stimulate the creativity of your child, you can create your own; you certainly have to be creative.
Be sure to put a toy that is easy to reach by the child to avoid the bad things that might happen
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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.
Tags:abnormality, age, babies, baby, Brain, deep sleep, Development, drug, Eye, face, field, Healthy, ice, risk, risk factor, smoke, stimulation, stomach
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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.
Tags:activity, adenosine, age, babies, baby, breast, breast milk, central nervous system, feeding, guanosine, infant, Milk, milk composition, Nutrition, Nutritional, problem, proper nutrition, Sleep, uridene
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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.
Tags:age, babies, baby, Brain, central nervous system, Development, Healthy, high risk, infant, respiratory tract, Sleep, sudden infant death syndrome
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Although the content of breast milk changes in the overall development of the child, there are basically three types of milk. It is colostrum, foremilk and hindmilk.
- Colostrum is the milk is yellowish in the first days after the baby is born and begins to produce breastfeeding earlier than usual. Colostrum is rich in nutrients and antibodies, and is the ideal food for a newborn. Even if you choose the formula instead of breast milk, you can feed your baby, at least a few days after birth, so he or she may be protected by antibodies and provided nutritional benefits of colostrum available.
- Foremilk is the milk which is first drawn during a feeding. It is generally thin and lower in fat content, satisfying the baby’s thirst and liquid needs.
- Hindmilk is the milk which follows foremilk during a feeding. Is richer in fat and calories. The high fat and calorie content of breast milk is important for your baby’s health and growth. Make sure your baby drain one breast before switching to the other leave to ensure you get all the advantages of both foremilk and hind milk.
Tags:age, antibodies, baby, birth, breast, breast milk, breastfeeding, calorie content, Calories, child, colostrum, Development, Fat, Food, foremilk, formula, growth, hindmilk, Milk, nutrients, Nutritional
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
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udden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a sudden death and unexpected in a seemingly healthy infant. 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.
Sudden unexpected infant deaths and for reasons that remain unclear, even after autopsy. SIDS is one of the most important deaths in the first year of life after the neonatal period.
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. It has been disclosed that the baby looked healthy before he died, but a more detailed history of perinatal and intensive examination neurologic function kardiorespiratorik and produce the evidence that children are not in normal circumstances before.
A mother who smokes during pregnancy increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. Sudden death in infants occurs when the baby shortage of breath in bed after his position blocking breathing. As quoted from the AFP, it was a lot of sudden death syndrome associated with a surprising lack of response in the brain that trigger baby gasping for breath. In such conditions, infants will cry to stimulate normal breathing.
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
Often, we as a mother asks the child to the doctor with a complaint we have trouble throwing stools for several days and complained there was anything wrong in giving his food, or is there a serious disorder in our children.
Children who have difficulty defecating likely to experience constipation or constipation if the nature of abnormal feces or if the magnitude of the frequency of abnormal stools. The definition of constipation is difficulty or delay the passage of faeces. In general, constipation or constipation will occur if hard stools, rarely go out and feel the pain if the exit.
Stools is basically a reflex, intestinal peristalsis is accompanied by relaxation of the anal sphincter muscles inside and out, and consciously controlled by the anal sphincter muscle, causing the outer part keingginan to defecation or bowel movement.
Normal defecation patterns vary depending on age and diet person. As in infants, during the first 3-4 days is typically issued a thick meconium odorless greenish black color, then slowly turned brown-green and the small amount of frequency till eight times daily, and keeping, despite the baby can not dive 24 hours a leak faeces. Feces milk started coming out after one week, infants with Mother’s Milk issued a stool softening jonquil, is that a formula has a yellow solid stools. Stool frequency and form of older children reflect the eating habits and diets.
Under normal circumstances, they are rare stools, sometimes only once in 3-4 days. Problems that are often complained of pain and if the resulting discomfort Toilet time.
What can we do?
- Changes in diet, the provision of fruit juice or a source of fiber from fruits and vegetables, inadequate in the daily fluid requirements. Avoid dairy products, bananas and apples as they can cause constipation.
- Nursing soften the anus with feces and maintain these areas to keep them dry. Give a cream after changing diapers to provide a sense of cool.
- Teach slowly and in accordance with their own child steps in toilet training.
- Overcoming the psychological problems that cause constipation
- Suggested for stools daily or regularly twice a day to the toilet
- The position that can help simplify stools; bend thighs Kea raise blood pressure in the abdomen so that the abdominal cavity.
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
If we do not stool in a single day this stomach feels uncomfortable. Mother can imagine if this happened to your baby. Surely the baby will be cranky all day. How not matter which should be removed now rest together in the intestines so that makes her stomach hurt. This is called constipation.
For adults who had normal stools is every day but not for babies. Toilet pattern every baby is different. There’s a Toilet frequency magnitude 5-6 times a day but there is also a once every two days. So, if your child is not in the stools 2-3 days most likely he’s just lack of fiber. But if it exceeded the three day Mother should immediately take him to the doctor.
Other signs of constipation that can be the Mother of note, namely:
- Feces shaped like a pebble, hard and dry
- When push (push stools out) the baby looks in pain
- There is blood in the stool
Why Constipation?
The reason there are two factors, functional and pathological.
The cause of the functional:
Usually it’s closely related to diet. Or it could be because of less milk. Avoid giving your baby breast milk from constipation because breast milk easily digestible by infants. Besides lack of fiber can also be the cause. Although exclusive breastfeeding was given but if Mother does not give (or Mother eat) vegetables and fruit she could get constipated. Do not forget, what is the Mother of the consumption effect on milk quality. The selection formula that does not fit can also be the cause.
Pathological Causes:
The cause of this is due to abnormalities in the colon nerve bottom, starting from the anus to the top. Could also be due to nerve dysfunction, which regulates the elasticity of the colon so that bowel narrowed. As a result hard to get out and piled dirt on the bottom of the large intestine. The cause of this should be treated medically to avoid dirt buildup colitis due to a long-time decay.
Tips:
- Always insert the fiber in the daily menu
- If you must give him formula milk, choose lactulose-containing materials that can improve the function of motility (movement)
Tags:baby, breast milk, breastfeeding, child, Constipation, feeding, fiber, fruit, Milk, vegetable
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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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