All Entries in the "Health & Safety" Category
Booster Seat 101 – Tips for Securing Your Little One
Most of us are well aware that seat belts have made travel significantly safer for all of us and that children’s safety while traveling has similarly been improved due to use of car seats, restraints and booster seats. Why the booster seat is important You should shift to a booster seat when your child has [...]
Can My Baby Hear? Newborn Hearing Screening
The Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening program or newborn hearing screening is a way of detecting new born hearing loss early on. Since hearing loss occurs often enough in the general population this is a test required by law. Whereas earlier the screening was performed only for infants thought to be in the high risk category, [...]
Some Common and Some Uncommon Newborn Constipation Remedies
While some babies seem to sail through infancy with never a problem about constipation, colic and gas, others seem to have this problem regularly and repeatedly. Since babies can be so very variable, newborn constipation remedies also seem to be as varied – while one parent finds a particular remedy foolproof another will find that [...]
101 on Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate in a Newborn Baby
Clefting is a congenital deformity that occurs due to abnormal facial development of a baby when in its mothers’ womb. The natural structures of the baby’s lip or palate (or both) do not fuse together properly before birth, and this results in a cleft palate or a cleft lip (also known as a harelip) in [...]
Infant Allergies – What You Should Know
It can be worrying and frustrating for a new parent to deal with recurrent troublesome symptoms in their baby, not knowing exactly what the matter is. If there are continuing or recurrent symptoms of digestive or respiratory tract disturbances you may want to consider that infant allergies could be at the bottom of your baby’s [...]
Can My Baby See Properly – How to Tell
The first months of an infant’s life probably mean that new parents are fraught with anxiety about their baby’s proper development – can he hear properly? Can she see clearly? Is he gaining as much weight as he should be? And is she doing everything as and when she is supposed to? So how can [...]
The Baby Colic Challenge for the New Moms
What is colic? It could be characterized by long period of crying at a baby younger than 5 months of age that is healthy and well fed. In case your baby cries more than three hours continuously for more than three days a week, it is very likely for the little one to be colicky. [...]
Infant Car Seat Safety – Things You Should Know
One of the things that you will need practically as soon as a baby is born is a car seat (you will need one even to bring baby home from the hospital) and so this is one thing that you should get before baby’s birth. When buying an infant car seat keep the following in [...]
