CHILD CARE

New Born Babies - doubts

2011-12-29T07:24:00.000-08:00

The breast-fed child passes frequent, curdy, semi-solid motions. Such motions are not uncommon after every feed in some infants. This is quite normal. As long as the baby is feeding well, sleeping adequately and gaining weight, there is no need to be alarmed about the number of stool. Hiccups are common among newborns. They might sound alarming to grown ups, but they are quite harmless. They are due to the baby swallowing air at feeding time. This irritates the diaphragm, causing hiccups.

Common Doubts about new Born babies

2011-11-19T01:13:00.000-08:00

The shape of a baby's head varies a great deal. This is due to the baby forcing its way out of your body. There is sometimes a uniform swelling (called caput), but this usually disappears in two or three days. However, if the swelling is localized on one side of the head and is confined to the limits of the bone, it is due to the blood collecting on the outer surface of the skull bone. This is called Cephal-Haematoma and usually disappears in about 4-6 weeks. Cephal Haematoma 'causes no problems, but if it keeps increasing in size, or feels hot and appears painful to the baby, you can consult your family doctor.)

The two soft openings you can feel on the top of the baby's head are the fontanelles, or "soft spots". The front fontanelle, located on the top of the head, is a diamond¬shaped opening which usually closes by the time Baby is about one and a half years. The rear fontanelle is a very small opening at the back of the head. This will close in about three months.

Baby feeding schedule

2010-01-29T05:14:00.000-08:00

When some mothers follow self-demand to inconvenient one hour early if he is taking good amounts from the bottle as much as 2 hours early if he is breast fed and the supply is not yet well established. If your baby is still asleep when one of these regular feeding hours comes around, you can wake him up. You won't have to urge him to eat. A baby who is waked up 4 hours after his last feeding will usually be starving hungry in a few minutes. But if he wakes an hour early for his next feeding, you don't have to feed him the first minute he whispers. He is not sure himself he is hungry. But if in 10 or 15 minutes he is crying hard with hunger, I wouldn't wait any longer. What happens to the 4 hour schedule. He may make up the difference and sleep long enough before the next feeding to get back on schedule. If he doesn't make up the time during the day, he may make it up at night. If he is always waking early nearer to every 3 hours, may be he is not getting enough to last him 4 hours.

Different babies

2009-11-30T02:51:00.000-08:00

There is considerable evidence that different children are born with quite different temperaments. Parents can't order what they want. They take what they get. But parents have well-formed personalities, too, which they cannot change over night. One gentle couple might be ideally suited to raise a girl with a sweet compliant nature able to give her the freedom she needs in order to develop into an independent capable person. They may not be nearly so ready for an energetic, assertive boy. They may find him uncomfortable, battling, and challenging not matter how much they love him. Another couple may handle a spunky son they call Butch with ease and joy but be quite disappointed with a quite one. parents do the best they know how the kind of child they receive.

Frozen foods for children

2009-10-23T05:25:00.000-07:00

Frozen foods are just as good for children as fresh and canned foods, if used correctly. Freezing a food breaks it down chemically, just as cooking it does. It is then in a state in which both people and germs can digest it better. In other words, a cooked or a frozen food spoils more rapidly than an ordinary raw food because poisonous bacteria can live and multiply in it more easily.

Foods that spoil easily when kept long out of the refrigerator are milk, foods made with milk (pudding, pastry, filling), vegetables, poultry, stuffing.

Agrressiveness in children - problem

2009-09-04T01:49:00.000-07:00

Do you worry when you child pulls another's hair, or your child plays with a toy pistol? Some parents think that these aggressive actions ought to be squelched right away. There is no question that our civilized life couldn't last at all if people didn't learn to control their violent feelings. But parents don't have to worry about this job too much. A normal child learns these controls bit by as he/she develops, through the unfolding of his/her own nature and the good relationship he/she has with his/her parents.

Think the transformations of the child's aggressive feelings at different age periods. The little baby who is hungry feels furious at the whole world. The 1 year baby sometimes slaps at his mother's face when he feels cross if she let him. By a year and a half, if he has been treated gently but firmly, he is more apt to refrain from attack but he takes out his rage by kicking the floor.

Relations with Grandparents

2009-08-25T08:15:00.000-07:00

Grandparents can be a great help to young parents in all kinds of ways. They can also derive enormous pleasure from their grandchildren. They often as wistfully, "Why couldn't I have enjoyed my own children the way I enjoy my grandchild? I suppose I was trying too hard and feeling only the responsibility".

In may parts of the world grandmothers are considered experts, and a young mother takes it for granted that when she has a question about her baby or needs a little help with him she will ask her mother. When a mother has this kind of confidence in the grandmother, She can get not only advice but comfort. So if you have any doubt first consult your mother or grandmother they will help you.

First baby and Second baby problems

2009-08-07T23:31:00.000-07:00

Most first children grow up happy and well adjusted like most second and third and fourth children in a family. But a few of them have a harder time adjusting to the outside world.

A mother is apt to say, "The second baby is so easy. He doesn't cry. He is rarely a serious problem. He plays contentedly by himself, and yet he is so friendly if you go near him." When he's several years older, the mother says, 'The second is such a friendly, outgoing child that everybody just naturally loves him. When were walking down the street, strangers smile at him an stop us to ask how old he is. The only notice the older one afterward, to be polite. You can see that it hurts the older one's feelings. He craves attention much more than the second". Note this point.

1 year baby food habits

2009-07-18T03:03:00.000-07:00

A polite baby of 1 year may just want to rest his hand on his mother's when she is feeding him. But most babies when the urge comes, try to yank the spoon out of thier mother's hand. A mother may think this has to be a tug of war but she can give the baby that spoon and get another to use herself. The baby soon discovers that it is more complicated than just getting possession of the spoon.

It takes him weeks more to learn not to turn it upside down between the dish and his mouth. He becomes bored with trying to eat and stirs or slops the food instead. Then it is the time to move the dish out of reach, perhaps leaving a few crumbs of meat in front of him for him to experiment with.

Two year old baby problems

2009-07-07T06:49:00.000-07:00

Two year old babies main problem is they pull cords of lamps and touch the hot stove and turn the gas. You cannot stop him by just saying No, at least not in the beginning. Even later, it depends on your tone of voice and how often you say it and whether you really mean it. It's not a method to rely on heavily until he has learned from experience what it means and that you mean it. Don't say "No" in a challenging voice from across the room. This given him a choice. Better to remove and distract him than to just say, No. Quickly give him a magazine, an empty box, anything that is safe and interesting. There's no use tossing him a rattle that he was bored with months ago.

Suppose he goes back to the same place again, remove him and distract him again, promptly, definitely, cheerfully. Say No at the same time that you remove him, adding it to your action for good measures. Sit down with him for a minute to show him what he can do with the new plaything.

Tips to handle one year walking baby

2009-06-28T08:00:00.000-07:00

One year old baby try walk. Help him to walk. At this age a baby's nature tells him to be leery and suspicious of strangers till he had a chance to look them over. Then he wants to get closer and eventually make friends in a 1 year old fashion. When your baby is old enough to walk, give him plenty of chances to get used to strangers and make up to them. Take him to the nearby shopping complex a couple of time a week. If possible, take him everyday where other small children play. He isn't able to play with them yet, but at times he wants to watch. If he is used to playing near them now, he will be ready for co-operative play when the time comes between 2 and 3. If he's never been around other children by 3, it will take him months just to get used to them.

One year old baby - doubts

2009-06-24T07:39:00.000-07:00

If your baby is one year old, it is an exciting age. Your baby is changing in lots of ways - in eating, what he wants and how he feels about himself and other people. He pokes into every nook and cranny, fingers in the furniture, shaking tables, wants to take every book out of the bookcase, climbs onto anything he can reach. A baby has to find out about the size and shape and movableness of everything to his world and test out his own skill before he can advance to the next stage, just the way he will have to go through the grades before he can go to high school. The he gets into everything is a sign that he is bright in mind and spirit.

You have probably realized by now that he is never quiet while he is awake. It isn't nevousnes - it is eagerness. He is made that way so that he will surely keep learning and practicing all day long.