Archive for June, 2007

In health the baby face is expressive of serenity in mind and body.

If your child becomes unwell, this expression will be changed, and in a manner which, to a certain extent, will indicate what part of the system is at fault.

The brows on your baby face will be contracted, if there is pain and seat is in the head.

This is often the very first outcome if there is anything being wrong, and will occur at the very beginning of disease.

If proper remedies are used, its notice may prevent one of the most fearful of childish complaints “water in the head”.

If this disease is untreated, it is very dangerous to your child health. The symptoms of this disease are:

• The eyes will become fixed and staring
• The head becomes very hot and moved uneasily from side to side upon the pillow
• Lie heavily upon the nurse’s arm
• Grinding teeth in the sleep
• Awake alarmed and screaming
• Baby face will be flushed, especially the cheeks
• Hands becomes very hot, but feet cold
• Bowels obstinately costive or motions scanty, dark-colored, and foul

Every parent wants to give their babies the very best.

Milk production for every mother starts within 24-48 hours of giving birth to your baby.

When it comes to nutrition, the best and first baby food is breast milk.

According to experts every mother can give breast milk as baby food for six to 12 months.

The only best and acceptable alternative to this baby food is infant formula.

Solid baby foods can be introduced when the baby is 4 to 6 months old, but the baby should drink breast milk or formula for a full year. Do not give cow’s milk as baby food, because cow’s milk contains different types of proteins than breast milk.

Infant babies have difficulty in digesting the cow’s milk. Obviously bottle-fed infants tend to be fatter than breast-fed infants, but not necessarily healthier.

Most of the breastfeeding mothers frequently ask how to know their babies are getting enough milk. Weight gain is the best indication whether the baby is getting enough milk.

Breast milk contains more than 100 ingredients which are not found in formula. No babies are allergic to breast milk as baby food. Breast milk as baby food is needed for the first year of baby life, and then as long as desired after that.

You can observe sudden infant death syndrome roughly 50 per 100,000 births in the US.

Approximately 20-25 percent of infant deaths younger than 1 year are found in SIDS.

It is the most frightening, mystifying and heartbreaking thing that can happen with a newborn.

Sudden infant death syndrome is a medical term that is defined as a baby dies suddenly in the first year of life from no evident cause.

Main causes of sudden infant death syndrome:

The majority of the SIDS deaths occur in between the ages of 2-4 months. The causes of SIDS still are not known. Some of the causes are:

• Stress in a normal baby due to the infection or other factors.
• It can be a birth defect or hereditary cause
• A critical period when your baby is especially weak
• Failure in development of a child
• Dehydration from diarrhea.
• At present the most common cause is pneumonia
• Putting infants to bed on their stomachs
• Abnormalities in the brain cannot prevent problem like breathing, blood pressure and arousal and leads to the risk of sudden infant death syndrome

Factors associated with increased probability of the sudden infant death syndrome:

After the arrival of a newborn baby, a mother can experience an incredible feeling that she had a baby.

So why can’t you keep this feeling with you forever?

After the baby arrives, all your energy and attention will be focused on the care and comfort of your baby.

Obviously all your attention will be focused on your baby and hence you may not pay much attention in taking care of yourself.

Some of the best events in your life also have stress attached to them.

Having a newborn baby is a thrilling feeling for every mother.

From the moment of delivery you have been busy in giving company to your newborn baby.

It is very common for you to experience stress at any moment while caring your newborn baby.

If you are a first-time mother, hospitals don’t give you very much help or advice; they just send you home with your newborn baby with a list of demands that you have to try to understand. Newborn baby does not sleep much and the baby does not allow you to get some much needed rest.

Once you bring newborn babies to the home you will think that you will never get to sleep again.

In the intervening time, try to get some rest and sleep whenever you can.

Newborn babies do not sleep through nights for several weeks or months.

Until they adjust to day and night, you won’t be able to sleep through the night.

Make only smaller adjustments in the very beginning.

If you wish to go to sleep early before your baby awakens then there will be no problem in waking up the baby early.

This schedule works for both of you at nighttime.

You have to change your routine schedule, try to sleep whenever your baby sleeps. Make your schedule predictable for newborn babies. Most of the mothers try to do many things at once after the baby goes for a nap, such as cleaning home and doing the laundry. If you make your schedule like this you will make yourself more tired.

Get some help from others in those first weeks after the arrival of newborn babies. Try to take the advantage of that whenever you can; so that you will get some rest.

Naps are important part of your baby’s life.

Regular nap timings can make it easy for your newborn baby care.

Following regular nap times will help your baby feed regularly and also help you plan your day.

Scheduling baby’s nap time is an important part of newborn baby care.

Discover the techniques you can use to help make it happen.

Newborn babies need lot of sleep and when they are not sleeping, they can be hungry or need a diaper change.

In the very beginning it is hard to know that what is making your baby cry. As you both begin to settle into your routines, it becomes easy for newborn baby care that is when she needs to nap and when she needs to feed.

For the better newborn baby care, you should schedule 16-20 hours sleep in a day. This includes short naps and naps taken between feeds. You have to make sure that your baby gets in good naps during the day and at appropriate times so that you won’t have as much trouble getting her to sleep at night.

In the initial days after the birth breast milk or formula is the best child food.

You can feed your baby with your breast milk or formula for the first six months of your baby’s first year.

During this time you can introduce solid child food when she is ready.

It is important to know that not all babies will be ready for solids at the same time.

Most of the mothers become confused with, when her baby is ready for solid foods.

Simple guidelines that you can follow while introducing solid child food:

You should consult your doctor before giving solid foods to your child. The basic guidelines for clues as to whether your baby is ready for solids or not:

• Introduce solid child food if your baby weight is double than that of the birth weight.
• If your baby consumes 32 ounces or more breast milk or formula in a day, then she is ready for solid foods.
• Your baby shows an interest in the foods that you are eating and may try to grab the food from you.
• If your baby is always seems to be hungry, then you can give solid foods.

Exposure to open air results in your good child health.

The respiration of pure air at all times and under all circumstances is essential for good child health.

How to expose your baby to open air?

• Make sure that your baby’s nursery should be large and well ventilated. The nursery should be in an elevated part of the house and situated as to admit a free supply both of air and light.
• The room in which your child sleeps should be large and the air frequently renewed.
• Nothing should be harmful for your child health as sleeping in an impure and heated atmosphere.
• Don’t use thick curtains closely round the bed. It is highly injurious to your child health. It causes difficulty breathing.
• Use thick curtains only to protect your infant from cold air.

Exposure to open air is must for your child health; of course it depends on the season of the year and the state of the weather. A delicate infant born late in the autumn will not generally derive advantage from being carried into the open air. You must keep him in large, often changed and well ventilated rooms. He will not suffer from the confinement, where as he will, most probably, escape catarrhal infections.