Archive for August, 2007

Between 6-9 months your baby will be able to do more and more things that she could not do before.

She will become much more active and play will become much intense and vigorous than in previous stages.

She will be able to pick up the things and bangs all sorts of objects. She makes much noise and generally causes disturbance.

It will be very difficult for you to control your baby at this stage, but at the same time she will be beginning to develop the fine motor skills necessary for more precise play in addition to ruckus causing roughhousing.

Infant toys help to reflect this stage of her development. Infant toys provide the infant with opportunity to learn about cause and effect.

At this age most of the babies become mobile and the recommended infant toys for this age group are:

Plush toys:

These types of infant toys are soft and cuddly. They are the childhood favorite toys and many children will begin to develop attachments to their little stuffed friends at right about this age. Stuffed animals are particularly very interesting at this point in your baby’s development.

Stomach and bowel disorders are the most common child problems.

There are many causes which may give rise to these child problems; most of them belong to your system, some to that of the infant.

Common causes of child problems at your breast:

Your child’s stomach and bowels may become disturbed from the breast milk becoming harmful.

This may arise, if you are out of the health conditions, these circumstances which will be so manifest to herself.

Those who are immediately interested in her welfare are only necessary just to allude to it.

It is sufficient to say that there are many causes of a general kind to which it may be obliged its origin; but the most frequent cause of child problems is undue lactation. The effect of this is both upon mother and child.

Anxiety of mind will cause your milk to be unhealthy in its character and deficient in quantity giving rise to child problems like flatulence, griping and sometimes even convulsions in the infant.

These causes are temporary and when removed the milk becomes a healthy and sufficient for the child as before.

“Swaddling” is also called as “tight wrapping” of your baby, it is an age-old technique used to make the baby feel safe and secure.

Swaddling involves wrapping a baby securely from shoulders to feet with a small blanket.

Swaddling makes infant care easy. There are more swaddling techniques which give an effective infant care.

Benefits of swaddling:

• Swaddling is a great way to calm and soothe your fussy infant.
• It lowers the risk of SIDS and thus makes infant care easy. Babies at the age of 3 months, when the risk of SIDS is greatest, traditional American swaddling techniques allow a baby to escape.
• This infant care method makes your baby feel secure and comfortable similar to how they felt while in uterus. It allows your baby to stay in more stable position while your baby is sleeping for longer hours and be less restful.
• In the first few days of life, this infant care helps your baby stay warm while sleeping, until his or her inner thermostat kicks in.
• Your baby naturally falls asleep when swaddle.
• Swaddling helps your baby sleep on his or her back.

The first year of everyone’s life is a period of rapid growth. Your infant birth weight doubles after about five months and triples by the first birthday.

At the time of first birthday your infant length increases by half.

Meeting the infant nutritional needs is essential for the infants’ healthy growth and development.

Adequate and proper infant nutrition is essential at this period. If your infant does not receive sufficient calories, vitamins, and minerals he won’t reach your expected growth.

Infant nutrition is determined by rate of growth, size, activity and energy needed for metabolic activities. The calorie requirements per pound of body weight are greater during the first year of life than at any other time.

For the first six months of life breast or formula feeding can provide sufficient infant nutrition. By measuring weight and length and plotting it on a standardized growth grid, can helps you to determine how much infant nutrition can be required for their healthier growth.

The normal diet for infant nutrition consists of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.

One of the most excellent things about childhood, which you may or may not remember, is all the baby toys.

Your little one enjoys playing with baby toys, as well as it enhances the motor skills and hand/eye coordination.

For one month to twelve month period there are basically four stages you should be concerned.

Baby toys will benefit, as well as capture the interest of your baby.

Baby toys for a newborn baby:

After the birth, during her first few months, before she learns to grasp the objects or sit up on her own, your baby will enjoy things to look at and listen to.

At the initial days your baby’s vision will still be fluffy and she will focus on objects that are about eight to fourteen inches from her eyes. She will be drawn to faces and can recognize mom and dad’s faces at about one month.

Your baby will enjoy looking at high contrast patterns and bright colors will be particularly easy to see. You baby will have already learned to recognize sounds and music.

Baby toys that move around slowly and make quite music will be much more interesting to your newborn baby than toys that are stationary and silent.

Most of the parents are worried about their baby’s growth patterns.

Regular visits with the pediatrician can help to main the normal baby growth.

Your pediatrician can use growth charts as tools to keep track of your baby growth and development.

The doctor will measure your baby’s length, weight, and head circumference in each checkup.

Then the doctor compares your baby growth measurements to a chart of national averages for infants of the same age and sex.

Hence the doctor will be able to tell you what percentile your baby is in when compared to averages for babies around the nation.

There are many issues that come into play when determining where your baby growth statistics will fall in the percentile chart.

You have to remember that no two babies are the same and that every child depends on the body chemistry, heredity, diet, and many other factors. These measurements, charts, and percentile points are only guides for a doctor to help in evaluating your baby growth.

You can also track your baby growth at home, but the measurements you take at home may or may not be as accurate as the measurements your doctor takes.

You know that crying is the most common happening in the lives of all babies.

After coming out of the womb, the first thing that he does is crying.

For the first time in his life, cry baby will take some air into the lungs.

Slightly pinch or gently stroke his feet if he doesn’t cry after the delivery.

From this it is clear that a healthy baby should cry and it is a normal physiological event.

As you all know that, babies cannot tell their needs or troubles in word, crying is the indication that your baby needs something or he is in trouble. Cry baby alerts all others to fulfill his needs or trouble.

You can soothe your cry baby by giving breast milk or by carrying with a gentle rocking. Excessive crying of your baby means, he is distressed or needs attention.

The causes that make a cry baby are extending from simple reasons to life threatening conditions. Hence you should not ignore your cry baby.

Most of the time, it is difficult to find the cause that make a cry baby. Some of the common causes are:

Sudden infant death syndrome is a term that describes an unexpected or sudden death of an infant under one year old.

Usually the effect of SIDS is higher in those infants who are between 2 and 4 months old.

The factors of sudden infant death syndrome are higher in winter months.

Most SIDS deaths occur while an infant is sleeping with face down. SIDS can also occur in normal healthy infants. Care should be taken to prevent the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

Precautions to be taken by new parents to reduce sudden infant death syndrome:

Sleeping position:

Put your baby to sleep on his or her back to reduce the affects of sudden infant death syndrome. Side sleeping is no longer considered to be safe.

If you put to sleep your babies on their sides, they should be positioned with one arm forward to keep them from rolling over on their stomach. Soft foam wedges can be very useful to position your baby while sleeping.

Sleeping surface:

Avoid smooth, loose, and fluffy surfaces. This includes pillows, soft mattresses, waterbeds, quilts, sheepskin, beanbags, or other forms of soft bedding. Your baby should sleep on a firm flat mattress or other firm surface.