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Therapy for Premature Heartbeats
Premature babies are fragile and defenseless creatures who have left a welcoming and relaxed to face the outside world too quickly. They need our help to succeed, especially the presence of the mother, something that hardly can be replaced by a web camera.
The closer you sit the baby of maternal warmth, his breath, heartbeat, that is what has been deprived by his premature birth, the better.
The Neonatal Unit of Hospital Universitario de Canarias (Tenerife) has been using for 7 months based therapy nannies whose background the sound of the heartbeat and that seems to help reduce stress for preterm infants . So the music that brings benefits demonstrated in premature infants, joins the rhythmic beating contributing to its improvement.
This therapy has been applied in 70 premature infants, in which there has been an improvement in his condition, stabilizing their breathing and heart rates, oxygen saturations increasing and decreasing the heart rate in the cases of infants with tachycardia. Besides the nannies beats bottom promote sleep and make babies cry less and less irritable.
All these improvements seem based on the fact that the sound of the heartbeat produces a positive stimulus in the infant, as is the one who hears inside his mother. The music listening 2 times a day and usually lasts between 15 and 20 minutes, depending on the reaction of the premature infant.
Memories of Childhood
The most significant developments of children easily remember them when saving elements that help us revive them. The first tooth, first cut the curls of hair, the first lens or the first baby clothes may hoard in special containers and decorated for that purpose.
If your child is moved at the age of milk teeth fixed, you can sheathe a shoe box with wrapping paper or fabric in a bright color. Cut in the center of a small square box and Frame it with strips of paper. Cut mice figurines or pictures you find allusions to the teeth and decorate the box with those pictures.
In this container may deposit your children the teeth when they fall out and wait eagerly “the arrival of mouse” who gives money or candy in exchange for teeth.
Other activities you can do with your children is to manufacture an envelope to save locks of hair. You will have to cut out a rectangle on a sheet of corrugated cardboard or sturdy paper, fold it in half, forming an envelope and taping the edges with glue or silicon. Decorate with dried flowers, stickers or illustrations appropriate.
A photo album will always be welcome, especially when prepared by your own son. Provide him with several sheets of colored paper or cardboard and a hole punch to agujeréalas folders. Let your child decorate each sheet of paper with different shapes, leaves and flowers, folded origami, illustrations, cartoons, etc.. Finally, place the leaves in a folder made the same submissions or hold it with a few strips of tape.
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Hypochondriac
When a child is overly concerned about their health is one step from being a hypochondriac. If the symptoms are said to feel real (the parents are eating well, no fever and is not depressed), may be you are nervous about something or not get enough sleep. But it is important to discuss with the doctor about her fears.
Ideally, the doctor will do a complete and thorough checkup to rule out an organic problem. If results are negative, the doctor will try to reassure him by explaining, so he understands that his symptoms did not indicate who is ill.
It is important that both her pediatrician as their parents try to find out what is troubling him and help him to cope. Many times, children are children of parents apprehensive hypochondriacs, that is those who are ill often take many medications or consult a doctor constantly.
More Laughter in Infants
Sure, since the day he was born, renouncement of these will make him smile. Already in its early days will seem that gives you one of those gestures so special when you look at, but it is just a face, a reflex.
Typically do not get to see him really sonreís its sixth week of life. From this point it will be really pleased if you put him make funny faces and funny noises.
From four months, when anything you do grace accompanied with gurgling laughter. And will it meets about six months to discover the need to make you laugh. On these occasions he laughs because he knows that you laugh with him. It is an act of imitation, but still can not understand why his own laughter, just wants to do as your mom or dad.
From the year when you begin to understand the world around you, you begin to entertain the unusual situations. Watch the expressions when he puts mom tries to put a cookie in his mouth sucking, or when it gets a paper hat. Can even understand some jokes and puns my easy. Enjoy all these moments of laughter and fun. It is a very rewarding in the growth of your child.
Bottles and Infant Formula
When the baby stops being fed through breastfeeding to switch to bottle prepared formulas, taking into account some suggestions:
Heat the food. Place the bottle upright submerged in warm water. Avoid using the microwave. It will be at the right temperature when you try to pour a few drops on your wrist and feel warm.
Baby’s head leans on my arm a little to you and with the head higher than the rest of the body, so you can easily swallow.
Hold the bottle always at an angle such that the teat fills with milk. Otherwise, the baby will swallow air along with the food. When you enter a pacifier in his mouth be careful not to push it much.
You can prepare several bottles of milk and store in the refrigerator, but never kept for more than 24 hours.
When you go to feed your child, find a comfortable, quiet place to sit with him. You will probably be more comfortable lying on a sofa or low chair to support him on your lap.
Supports the child’s head in the crook of the elbow and hold his arm back. Keep your buttocks firmly. Make sure there is horizontal. Semisitting should be in position to breathe and swallow without risk of choking.
When you start to suck, tilt the bottle so the teat fills with food and not leaking air.
Sometimes the baby falls asleep while eating, reason is that gases may have. Wake him up and do burp.
The goal is to make burp out the air swallowed during feeding or during crying that preceded it to avoid discomfort. However, each baby has a different attitude to the gaseous and not always feel more satisfied for having burped. Allow the child to pause to do so spontaneously expel the gases.
The burp is positioned to place against your shoulder and massaged his back with a gentle upward motion, avoiding the heavy slaps. You must protect your clothes with a towel or clean cloth diaper, because the baby may drool, spit up or vomit a little milk. Another effective way is sit on your lap and lean forward without bending at the waist. Remember to hold his head with his hand, lest he lose his balance and sliding toward the front.
Colic and the Temperament of the Baby
Colic is not the physical disorders or diseases. Some U.S. experts define colic as crying child continuously for more than three hours a day. The crying is not because you’re hungry, have wet diapers or other visible causes. The baby just will not calm with nothing.
A colicky baby can have a good appetite and healthy suckling reflex. Sick babies may have colic but will not have the same force of sucking reflex and they also drink small amounts of milk. A colicky baby likes to hug and cuddle him. While sick babies, apparently “sore”, prefer to have little contact despite their qualms. Creatures with colic may occasionally regurgitate, but if your baby is vomiting is desirable that you go to your doctor.
Doctors think that cramps are not caused by an allergy to milk. Babies who are breastfed also may suffer from colic. Actually it is not known if the fumes produce colic can be difficult to say whether it was first the gas or colic. A colicky baby can swallow air while crying and not necessarily while feeding. The anti-gas drops do not provide effective treatment.
Colic depend on baby’s temperament. There are some suggestions to prevent your baby suffering from colic. First, make sure the child is not hungry. Immediately continue comforting. Walk with your child in his arms swinging. Put it on your lap face down and rub his back. Swing it with care. The move could ease the effects. Take breaks and let another adult in charge of caring for a while. If the crying continues, drive your car. The vibrations and vehicle movement generally calms the baby.
Dyslexia in Children
The word dyslexia comes from the Greek “dys” (meaning poor or inadequate) and “lexis” (words or language). Dyslexia is a learning difficulty characterized by problems in the oral and written language, when expressing or when we act as receivers of the message. Complications may emerge when read, to spell, write, speak or hear. Dyslexia is a chronic disease.
Dyslexia defined a different kind of brain that makes production processes and learning with different methods. Dyslexia is not the result of low intelligence.
The problem is not behavioral, or psychological, or social or motivational. Dyslexia results from a structural and functional differences in the brain. People with dyslexia are unique, and each has individual strengths and weaknesses. Some dyslexics are creative and has an unusual talent in areas of the arts, sports, electronics, graphic design and architectural, engineering, theater, music or engineering. Dyslexics show their special skills in those areas that require motor integration, spatial and visual. Their language difficulty processing distinguish them as a group. This means that dyslexics have problems adapting from one language to another (such as listening and writing) or communicated through language (written or oral)
Dyslexia’s characteristics :
- Absence of notice the sounds in words, rhyming or syllable sequences.
- Difficult to decode words and identifying simple words.
- Difficult to spell words.
- Problems with reading comprehension.
- Difficult to express themselves through essays
- Delays in learning to speak a language
- Disadvantages public speaking and give speeches.
- Difficulties in mathematics, in regard to follow instructions or the directionality of mathematical language.
Recent research indicates that dyslexia is found in certain families, usually a father, sister, grandparent or aunt may have similar difficulties in learning. Many children have never been diagnosed or treated. Dyslexia occurs in all social groups, affects people of all ages and races.
People and children with dyslexia need special training programs for learning to read, write and spell. Traditional educational programs are not fully effective for dyslexics. They require a speech and a program content, this approach is called “systematic instruction of language.” A therapist or educator in multisensory language structure is very appropriate to teach people with dyslexia.
Care of the Ears in Newborn Infants
The best chance to protect the baby’s ears is when you have not yet discharged from the hospital. Minors must be under constant review the first three months of life, because they can develop hearing problems. While few babies that come into the world with these types of conditions in the United States, one in every thousand children born deaf.
The development of language skills typically appears during the first three months and decreased hearing acuity may interfere with the healthy evolution of language, social and emotional growth.
Currently, there are various methods for identifying aural discomfort. Some children’s diseases are associated with risk factors such as family history and low birth weight. However, these criteria fail by 50 or 70% at the time of diagnosis of hearing difficulties.
Recent technological advances are aimed at increasing prevention methods. There are two universal procedures: otoacoustic emissions and audiometry. The review of otoacoustic emissions measured sounds inaudible, low, occurring in the inner ear. This demonstration can be applied to newborns before leaving the hospital.
Children who do not successfully pass the test of otoacoustic emissions should undergo a hearing test to measure brain responses, which evaluate the functions of the auditory nerve and parts of the brain involved in the audition process.
While audiometry is an expensive method, which requires much time and have technical difficulties, recent research shows that the otoacoustic emission tests are fast, inexpensive and noninvasive, to be applied to newborns from the outset.
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Pneumonia and Meningitis in Infants
The most feared disease that causes the bacterium pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae), is pneumonia and meningitis, but not the only ones seriously. Can cause infections in different parts of the body, and many of these can cause significant problems for the health of your children.
Pneumococcal infection is a major cause of serious illness and hospitalization. It is among the top ten causes of death in developed countries and its incidence in children under five is worrying. Vaccination is the most eficazpara preventive therapy to fight this disease. The vaccine schedule administration program in three doses every two months 2 to 6 months and a reminder of first to second year of the baby.
Children most vulnerable to pneumococcal infection are children under two years during the winter and spring seasons. Pneumococcus is commonly found in the nose and throat of healthy children and adults. Although not all carry the bacteria, that if they are potentially infecting other people by air.
Infection with the pneumococcal bacteria cause different diseases depending on the part of the body where it occurs:
- Meningitis (brain) is the more serious the consequences that may result. Its symptoms are high fever, vomiting, neck stiffness, drowsiness.
- The Bacteremia (bacteria in the circulation of blood): the main symptom is high fever, without which it becomes associated with another disease.
- Pneumonia (lung) is especially serious in children under 2 years. The most common symptoms include sweating, trembling, cold, cough, fever and chest congestion.
- Sinusitis (in the membranes of the sinuses) causes a fever, mucus and cough.
- Otitis media (ear): Symptoms include headache, fever and earache. In children, a constant ringing in the ears can be a sign of acute otitis media.
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The Mozart Effect in Premature Infants
That classical music provides mental and physical benefits is becoming increasingly evident, even for babies. A recent study says that the melodies of Mozart could stimulate the metabolism of premature infants, which would help them gain the necessary weight.
The energy expenditure of 20 children born prematurely while listening to Mozart in his incubator. It was found that when listening to this music a baby may have a lower energy expenditure and gain weight faster than without music.
However, despite the fame of the “Mozart effect,” the report said it was unclear whether the study has detected this effect by the composer or a potential benefit of music in general, something that seems clear.
A previous study found that adults with attacks Mozart’s compositions, similar to that of other classical authors, appeared to reduce the frequency of these episodes.
The researchers said it is possible that the proposed Mozart effect on the brain is related to the structure of their compositions as the Austrian composer’s music tends to repeat more frequently the melodic line.