Showing posts with label babies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label babies. Show all posts

12/07/2009

Baby Exercises


• Control head (two months) supports your baby on a pillow round torso and lift head, encouraged by any item or toy that moves before your eyes.

• Strengthen the leg muscles (from two months): the mother should press with a rubber tube and push with your butt baby.

• Abdominal (from three months) when the baby is lying, take your hands and gently take him to a sitting position. Do not repeat more than five or six times.

• Massage the soles of the feet (after six months): corrects minor defects and prepares the foot for a baby to have good support at the time of taking their first steps.

• Body Massages (any age) after exercise, relax muscles and embody the contact with the mother.

8/20/2009

Dangers of dehydration in infants


Some 1.8 million children under five die each year from diarrhea in the countries of middle and low income, according to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO). Almost half of these deaths are due to dehydration. A recent research I discovered that oral hydration is as effective as intravenously, so it should be chosen as the first therapeutic option.

However, although the oral method is effective and cheaper, their use is less widespread than intravenous therapy. The researchers explain that oral hydration (with dropper, for example) is not as popular because it is believed that his administration needs more time and effort, when the reverse. "The review has shown that oral therapy is less expensive than intravenous and is associated with fewer days in hospital the baby," she indicated.

When given by mouth, is a less traumatic for the baby and may ask questions at different locations, even at home. Dehydration occurs when the amount of water that has the body to function is reduced either by vomiting, diarrhea or excessive sweating, which causes dry skin, headaches, eye sink, dizziness and confusion.

8/04/2009

Massage therapy for infants and caresses


Indian massage: Shantala.
It is a mixture of ancient discipline and caricias therapy to promote a more intimate contact between mother and child. According to the tradition of India, is so important to give breast feed the baby and massage your skin. For them, as certainly for the rest of humanity, mimes are food. But these are technical and caresses the backing of an ancient wisdom.

• The mother should have her baby in her lap all the time and look to the eyes.

• The room should be at a comfortable temperature in winter should be heated, because the child should never experience a sensation of cold. In summer it is better outdoors, the first sun of the morning or last in the afternoon.

• There may be a massage with warm essential oil previously.

• The massage is slow and soft with the hands, chest first, then arms, legs, and finally the back and feet.

7/15/2009

Dematitis heat cure in babies


Dermatitis caloric
This inflammation of the skin generally appears in body parts that are more exposed to excess heat.

Solution: As a precaution, we recommend loose, light clothing, using a fan to cool the baby's room and bath with lukewarm water.

Heal seborrheic dermatitis in babies


Seborrheic Dermatitis
These greasy scales and yellowish color, which can be seen in the baby's scalp, usually disappear within a few months.

Solution: to control the disorder, it is necessary to wash your hair every day and brush to remove the scales. Also, you can gently massage the scalp with a small amount of mineral oil before applying the shampoo. If the problem persists, consult a physician.

6/02/2009

How to cure hiccups in a baby

The contraction of the diaphragm is often a result of gases in almost all babies suffering during the first months of life. Therefore, most are affected by these pesky spasms, especially after eating. Some would fall by a mere hiccup blow cold when changing diapers or when you laugh.

The most effective remedy is often placed on the shoulder and give them a gentle pat on the back cast to chase away the air and gastric dilatation. In acute cases, the doctor prescribes a Carmine. They are also very effective home the following methods:

• Making tickle in the nose to cause sneezing.
• Try to eat a hot liquid, and followed a small sips.
• Give sips of water to drink some clips, while arms held high.
• Massage gently pancita.
• Change of position with some frequency.
• If you know for sure (because the doctor has said) that the child has gas heat can be applied in the abdominal area dry.

Teething and fever in babies

Almost all parents say that ios the appearance of a tooth occurs, among other disorders, increase in temperature. However, doctors argue exactly the opposite, that is fever which makes the tooth surface. The explanation is simple: the fever increases metabolism, and if there is any tooth pointing leaves completely.

Therefore it is advisable in these cases, as long as the thermometer rises, consult the pediatrician. To relieve the discomfort of the baby when a dientecillo, anti-inflammatory drugs are not indicated, which are ineffective. Much more useful is to give the subject a little clean, smooth, hard and unbreakable to relax bitten. In the market there are many teething rings for these special circumstances.

11/27/2008

Treatment for babies with insomnia

The sleep disorders are a common problem in childhood. And it should consider each case individually.

• Some episodes of insomnia are sporadic and likely to change with proper sleep habits.

• If the problem persists, the baby has symptoms of not sleeping enough or shown other symptoms (of conduct, food ...), it is essential to consult with a professional.

• The restless sleep can be caused by a disease. Dr. Paulino Castells, child psychiatrist, recommends "take the child to the pediatrician in situations of insomnia repeated, to rule out physical causes that might be altering his dream."

• After examining the baby, "if the doctor does not find grounds for insomnia, the doctor continues, will lead the little patient to a psychiatrist (or psychologist) child."

11/13/2008

How to care for the navel of the babies

After cutting the umbilical cord is a rest of about three centimeters, once dry, will fall. To make the wound heal properly, every time the baby is wet or you change the diaper, and at least once a day, we have to clean up the stump with a gauze soaked in alcohol at 70 degrees (sold in pharmacies as well) and allow to dry.

Needless wrapped in gauze and put ombliguero. Nor should apply creams or powders, and try to put the diaper below the wound so that it does not rub the umbilical area. If there is no infection (the skin is not red or pus, and there is no fever), you should not worry that the injury late in the disappearance.

Techniques to breastfeed and give milk

The appropriate technique
In general there is no need to put lotions or creams on the nipples or areola, as these products can injure the glands of Montgomery, essential to avoid injuries or infections. In the Nordic countries, where breastfeeding is common practice for most moms, they make no preparation before delivery, just keep the breasts with bodices that are adapted to the changes. Moreover, when they can, expose their breasts to the sun so that the nipple acquire the plasticity necessary for good breastfeeding.

A good technique will help the baby to draw without difficulty:

• The demand for free food is the most convenient. The baby has to suck when you're hungry. Although it is not advisable to spend more than four hours without eating, because the decrease in blood sugar can damage it.

• At first, to stimulate lower
milk, it is best to place the baby roughly every two hours. This is important to do in the first ten or fifteen days.

• The time of each shot will vary between five and twenty minutes. At each will begin to breastfeed with last chest that was given in the previous one. It is advisable to take the two of the same amount of time, which should monitor how many minutes used in the baby food. That figure is divided by two and that's the time that you'll be offered each breast.

• If the mother fails to remove the baby from the teat, you can use your finger boy and placed in the mouth. In this way the little that will stop sucking chest and may well move to another.

• The position of the baby at the time of feeding is a factor to be reckoned with. We face the chest and must be firmly fastened and safety, always watching her mother. The common position so the baby's looking at the ceiling is ideal for taking the bottle, but not to breastfeed.

• To avoid damaging the nipple, we must not allow the baby to play with him. Moreover, it is important that you enter in your mouth not only the nipple but the areola. In this way suckle properly and draw a good volume of milk.

10/01/2008

Navel hernia, is never dangerous

The healing of the navel should be monitored by the pediatrician. When the wound disappears, it is not uncommon to be a slight bulge. If so, is due to an umbilical hernia.

This is not dangerous, does not strangle ever, and produces no discomfort. The only problem it presents is the aesthetic. However, if too large or increases, should be operated when the child is between two and four years.

Skin, always soft in babies

The crusts on the head and face are common since the second week of life. Popularly known as scab milk; for doctors is a seborrheic dermatitis. Injuries are red, scaly and greasy-looking, and do not produce itching. When the small serves two months (sometimes before), may also appear elsewhere in the body, especially in areas of major folds (English).

The treatments should not be aggressive, because seborrheic dermatitis tends to disappear spontaneously. You can wash the scalp with a shampoo based on zinc pyrithione or sulfur. The creams with steroids also give great results, but hey!, Should be used only when they have been prescribed by the doctor and the doses given by him.


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As for diaper dermatitis is leaving the baby for as long as possible with the tail in the air, in a warm room and replacing the diapers, while a cure for some cloth (the lifetime), which is will change as they get wet. Applying a cream, should be chosen a Decongestion, without steroids.

8/07/2008

Contact mental extrasensorial between mothers and babies

All babies remain a powerful mental contact with their mothers, being able to interact with them parasensorialmente until a certain age, about puberty.

Indeed, many investigations underscore the fact that mothers can establish a particular communication with their children even before birth. The dialogue between the
woman and fetus in her womb leading communication is a very special and, according to the experts' conclusions, very useful for the further development of small.

When the child has already reached the world, this relationship continues actively, but with the growth of your child will gradually losing, even though they always continue to exist extrasensoriales ties between parents and children.

There are many specific instances in the archives of the study of this topic. Some speak of mothers who gave orders telepathic their children, for example, concentrating and sending the phrase "do not cry" or "duérmete", without being next to them.
We can also mention the case of a father who, before a domestic accident in which her daughter had been beaten and seemed to have been unconscious, with all its forces thought:

"Wake up and see you're well, which has only been a shock!", After which the girl reacted back in it, as if nothing had happened.

A mother tells her case: "My son saw how the wind pushed his sailboat in a pond, and so far from the shore, without which it could do nothing to recover. The child appeared to be concentrated and very serious, noted how the barquito, defying the laws of physics and strength of the wind, was approaching towards the edge so that he could pick it up.
When they had at hand did nothing and let the wind take it further inwards, when she wanted to return the sailboat, was limited to giving orders and mentally, once again, against all odds, turned towards the sailboat the shore, with the wind blowing against them.

Asked my son how he had done and, with the ingenuity of its five years, merely replied that he spoke with his barquito and ordered him to return to obey him, he was his master. And sailboat obviously abided his order. "

8/03/2008

Babies probeta

28 years ago who was born the famous Louise Brown, metaphorically called the first "test tube girl" in the history of mankind.
Today it is estimated that there are already more than three million children in the world born through assisted reproduction techniques, as announced at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology held in Prague.

From the first practice of in vitro fertilization 1978, development has led a formidable scientific advancement and improvement in the way that people can be designed.

These techniques which, as everyone knows, are complicated and a relative effectiveness depending on the case, have allowed many families who could not produce offspring have been able to see fulfilled their aspirations to be fathers and mothers.

After tuning pioneer in artificial fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to treat female infertility, in the nineties was an important new step with the microinjection of sperm in the oocytes, which provides the possibility of alleviating male sterility.

All these developments have also allowed to know much better the causes of infertility, a problem that now concerns, according to recent studies, one of every six couples.

Today we know that, the well-known physiological reasons, we must also consider factors linked to human behavior, such as smoking, overweight and stress, among others.

These three billion human beings who literally owe the existence of scientific research and its technological applications allow us to reflect on attitudes with which the company provides and assimilates the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Just go to hemerotecas and see what they said and how they are valued in some cases in 1978 birth of Louise Brown or what was said a few years earlier when Christiaan Barnard in 1967 won the first heart transplant.
So it is good that our relativicemos inevitable tendency to allude to the myth of Frankenstein, even today that open new avenues for intervention on our own evolution.

There is no doubt that we have to give the necessary ethical filters and a strong ability to criticize the possibilities that we are giving ourselves, but always think in those three million people that would not exist if we had not taken the step of accepting , With conditions, which gives us the scientific knowledge.

If not they ask the parents of those three billion human beings who know what life is like. Or easier yet: themselves!

7/29/2008

10 tips for parents inexperienced

1 - Ask what the worry, it may seem insignificant and absurd. The pediatrician is the right person to resolve the doubts.

2 - Accept the help offered relatives, friends and neighbors. They can handle a few days of shopping, clothes withdraw from the dry cleaning or walk the dog.

3 - mutual aid. In particular, parents should take turns to meet the baby during the night.

4 - Have the point regalia newborn well in advance. It is advisable not to leave many things to the last moment.

5 - Do not shy away at the slightest symptoms. The most frequent in the newborn (hiccups, sneezing, coughing, regurgitation) are usually harmless.

6 - Read books and magazines. The more informed they are, the better may react to any unforeseen.

7 - Limiting the most visits, without remorse. It used the spare time to replenish energy.

8 - Forgetting for a time schedules and customs. The arrival of baby completely alter the family's routine.

9 - Share with our partner's concerns and worries. Talking about it helps dispel the fears.

10 - Be patient. The first six weeks were an adjustment period for both parents and the baby.

The babies have nightmares?

While sleeping, babies go through statements and pleasant displacenteros. Some authors relate this with the dream and, if the human dream has beautiful dreams and ugly, also have babies.

For the vast majority of specialists, the dream has therapeutic effect, it would try to metabolize life experiences daytime.
For that reason, it is advisable not interrupt, except that the nightmare is so intense that join the baby in much anguish, and then it is advisable to wake up.

7/27/2008

Babies`s in summer

Many times is often comment that the summer is a time of the year, which is not good for babies. This is totally untrue!

Taking precautions, and where temperatures do not arrive at their extreme limits, this time is very good for babies. The basic reasons to support this assertion, which are allowed to stay much longer away from home, carrying little clothing, and even dispense with the annoying diaper and play naked, something that the little ones are fascinated altogether.

In fact, his entire body can benefit at this time: irritations heal faster, and germs and other agents that can cause colds or colds, much less rampant.

The open-air, water, grass, sand, and many other elements of nature, create optimal conditions for which babies are stimulated and begin to gain independence and autonomy.

But not only is the good weather, the dedication of parents and relaxed when they contribute to pass very well and learn at the same time. This is a period of intense and full of adventures and emotions, ideals to stimulate their senses, their learning and development.

It felt more freedom, becoming more active, kicking, crawling, walking and making significant progress in its development. Both physically and intellectually, summer vacations are for babies the era of great progress.

However, parents must comply with the necessary care so that the optimum outcome is not, for example, the sun never exposing a child less than six months. The baby should be well protected. For those older children, and must wear a hat, shirt, sunscreen and umbrella.

Nor should we leave them alone on the seashore, even an instant. We must caution that no one will push or pull it. If you keep sitting, we can accompany him to shore and leave it to splash comfortable in a quiet place where they can not reach the waves and there is no danger whatsoever.

The sand also has its dangers. Like water, is an ideal medium for the game, but it needs to be careful not to be the goal in their mouths or they do not enter into the nose. The best precaution is constant vigilance, that will allow removal of dangerous hands any object you find.

6/01/2008

Games stimulation for babies

From birth until six weeks time the baby, the games we do with them should aim: relaxation of the child, and in turn their parents; stimulation of the interest of the child himself, his parents and their environment, and of course, developing their sense of rhythm.

A really fun game at this stage of the child, is lying on his back on a quilt and then sit or kneel next to him. The procedure to follow, will be the first caresses bracitos very gently, from the shoulders up their hands and legs from hip to toe. Meanwhile, we talk and gently caresses. Then we must extend one of his arms and begin to give very gentle tapping on each side with both hands open, repeat with the remaining limbs. After giving him one minute during these affectionate taps, he caressed the chin with a circular motion of the hand massage both sides of his head from the neck to the temples.

This game is recommended to do so just before the bath or a nap, but without propagator over ten minutes. The baby will relax your muscles and in turn, will be aware of your body.

Since the six to twelve weeks, the games will have other goals. These are: to develop awareness of the baby himself, to develop further the sense of humor favoring laughter; who knows the different textures that surround it, as well as coordination of their muscles.

An example of a fun game for this stage in particular, is "the mice". Acosta in the child's lap, infant in a chair or on the floor, face up, walks with his legs fingers imitating the movement of the legs of an animal. Accompaniments movements fun with words like "climbs, climbs the mice ...", when we come to the upper arm, we will say something like" to enter ...", and as we come to the neck exclaimed "your house" with a lower tone of voice that high. Here we tickling giving him a hug and riéndonos very strong.

Babies six months to one year

After six months of age, the child will learn and continue their advance in the game of life in a continuous development since develop their concentration and learn to imitate his model; improve the coordination of your body; develop capacity differentiate shapes and sizes, include the concepts of up and down, among many other things.

Therefore, from now on, the importance of creating appropriate games with them will be of great importance.

At the moment, it is important that children recognize the rooms of the house, for example, carry visit to the kitchen and make an inspection at the same, where we'll help to develop the ability to differentiate shapes and sizes, coordinating the hands and visual development.

For this for example, we use elements of the kitchen similar to those used by us, for example, plastic cups and spoons, a bowl and a wooden spoon, an empty plastic bottle, etc.. Noto that both are doing the same thing and we will give you utensils as the naming go.

Since the six months through the year, however, children were first opened to the world, increasing the ability to crawl and becoming very fast. The baby starts to take initiatives, to understand an order of shares, will develop his musical sense, the appreciation of rhythm and begin to develop the capacity of speech through the repetition of words and images.

There are also specific games this stage, games that will help you have a more direct relationship with the baby and understand their communication codes. One example is a ball of bright colours, because that will help us develop their muscle coordination, his locomotion and his visual perception. We will shoot the ball, then asking us to return, if you do not try it again until it does. After repeating the operation a few times, we will launch the ball making it bounce on the floor. Do not take to return the same way.

12/13/2007

The Eye Wrong

If the baby cries the whole night, he fed well and there is not anything that it indicates that he has potbelly pain, of hearings, or any other one, then there is not doubt: he/she has bad of eye. It is about one of the Rio Plata so many beliefs that leave transmitting from a generation to another. It is verified that a petty one has bad of eye when they are sad, they suffer of rachitis, eczemas, endless cry, and even when they die without explanation. It is said that the eye wrong is a charm that has its I root in Europe, and that he/she has extended all over the world in a to open up and to close of eyes.

Those that believe in this maleficio, assure that it is a form of making bad without necessity of elaborating magic potions or of puncturing alfilarias to a cloth puppet. To make the wrong, in this case only coarse with the look that he/she leaves traslucir feelings of envy and bad desires. And of there on behalf of the wrong. According to the popular belief, it is for that reason about a mysterious force that falls on the most defenseless in many cases, it is that it is generally given in newly born or babies, because they don't still have the enough strength to combat this bad.

With the look, besides making sick a baby, it can dry off plants or to fuse the business of somebody. But it is necessary to keep in mind that of the charm that we speak, it can be casual, and to be unaware to the intentions of who causes it. Some people possess a very strong look and they produce it without at least to know it. For that reason it is recommended that when he/she is praised a newly born baby, it is necessary to add: "God conserves" it, then, the petty one won't be victim of the eye wrong.

How the superstitions have changed a country to other and also with the step of the time, an only form doesn't exist of knowing if somebody has bad of eye. There is who they say that to know if somebody was victim of the same one, it is necessary to pour a stream of oleum in a soup plate with clean water. If he/she is formed an eye in the center of the plate, this should be cut with the sheet of a knife or another metal object. Then it should be dewed with a petty handful of thick salt. While they are carried out these cure tasks, it is necessary to pray Our Father and to request for the "browsed" person's health.

Another way to know if somebody has bad of eye, it is tossing three charcoals in a vessel with water. If the three charcoals go to the bottom of the vessel, then that person has bad of eye. In this case, it is necessary to be careful with the size and weight of the charcoals, these won't be very big or heavy because if they are it, they will leave logically toward the bottom.

In many areas, to prevent the eye wrong in the newly born ones, he/she gets used to hang up them in the neck, a petty tooth of dog or any other eyetooth.

The custom also exists of ordering to search who made the charm. For example, when it is believed that the petty one was "browsed", it is sent to search the author of the damage who should return immediately to play the sick person. If he/she doesn't return, it is supposed that he/she has had intention of making him/her I damage, unless it sends a cowlick of their hairs or some security of their appurtenance that it should be arranged on the boy's head and he/she ends this way with the wrong.