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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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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Quality of sleep affects a child’s brain development of children, emotional and social growth. Unstable emotions, which inhibited growth and not creative at school can occur due to lack of time sleeping child.
Son of a lack of sleep can occur if the child is tired, sick, too engrossed in play, uncomfortable position while sleeping.
Some of these tips may be noticed by parents in upholding the child’s bedtime.
* Provide one-hour dinner before bed.
* Avoid foods that stimulate the brain to always be active, such as chocolate, coffee.
* Provide water or warm milk before sleeping child.
* Taking into account the comfort factor in the bedroom.
* Given the cleanliness and tidy rooms.
* Noting the color of paint on the walls of the room, should provide a soft paint colors so that children are not stimulated to always active.
* Noting that the child clothes when sleeping softly.
* Set the child’s sleep habits
* Changing the clothes the child when sweaty and wet.
* To read a story or picture to exist when he would sleep
* Listening to soft music so that children can sleep comfortably.
Smart and healthy child is a child who has a good quality sleep and this will help in dealing with other children.
Tags:Brain, brain development, child, Children, comfort, Development, Food, growth, Healthy, lack of sleep, Milk, Pain, sleeping child, Tips
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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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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.
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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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Saturday, August 7th, 2010
Many parents are from the time the toilet training or potty training with uncertainty. “All children are ready at the same age, so it is important that you monitor your child for signs of preparation, such as stopping an activity for a few seconds or clutching his coat.
Most children begin to show these 18 characters to 24 months, although some may be ready before or after. And boys tend to be later and have more time to learn to use the toilets for girls.
Instead of age as an indicator of the election, look for other signs that your child is ready to start toward the bathroom, such as the ability to:
- Follow the instructions
- Understand the words on the process of toilet
- The control of the muscles responsible for elimination
- To express verbally should go
- The dry layer of two hours or more to keep
- First to sit on the toilet, and then go to the toilet
- Dropdown diapers, training pants, disposable underwear
- Show interest to use the toilet or wearing underwear
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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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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Pathogenic bacteria found in farm animals currently have an immunity to antibiotics that is higher than many years ago. Therefore, to maintain to stay healthy and can be cut in time, farm animals injected with a stronger antibiotic levels or higher. This causes the animals came from farms may be more dangerous than an antibiotic prescriptions written by doctors.
Organic farms are very limited use of antibiotics. This does not happen in non-organic farms, where they use antibiotics without rules, as long as they can keep their livestock from disease. The use of antibiotics such as this causes stress on cattle. Of all the antibiotics circulating in Australia, 60% used in the cattle, not humans.
Marine biologists from the University of Queensland, Dr Simon Costanzo stated in Marine Pollution Bulletin March 2005 edition, that antibiotics and bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics, are found in water and sewage lines in downtown Brisbane. This increase threats to the environment and human health, especially for children. The British Medical Association has warned that resistance to antibiotics is “one of the major public health threats to be faced in the 21st century.” While WHO has ordered the reduction of antibiotic use in agriculture and animal husbandry.
Animals that live in a more decent and better on organic farms is to minimize the use of antibiotics and other veterinary drugs. Medicines and antibiotics are used only when really needed.
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Organs, a brain, immune system and detoxification mechanism of children is immature and still developing. The combination of these conditions with the large percentage of food consumption per kilogram of their weight, making children more susceptible to toxins that exist, compared with adults.
Toddlers are a lot of organic foods have pesticide residue stated less th
an 1 / 6 in their urine, compared with children consuming non-organic food.
Elizabeth Gillette’s paper in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives are used as reference by many parties, shows how the combination of exposure to pesticides (although slightly) in the environment, household and food lead to slowing growth in children. Gillette comparing children in two villages which are isolated in Mexico, where one village routinely uses pesticide and the other does not.
All other factors equal-genetic factors, diet, lifestyle, climate, culture, etc.. The study found significant differences between the two groups of children in two villages in terms of mental and motor skills (children exposed to pesticides have a low skill level, with high aggressive behavior).
In many Western countries, children and adults alike are exposed to pesticides. A Study on Mother’s Milk in 1995 found that infants exposed to pesticides in Australia at levels above the maximum limit. In Canada, found a direct correlation between pesticide contaminations in breast milk those increase the risk of otitis in infants.
Tags:Brain, breast, breast milk, child, Children, environmental health perspectives, Food, food consumption, growth, immune system, infant, Iron, Milk, organic foods, pesticide residue, Toddler, toddlers
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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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