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Attention 24 Hours
All babies are different, each according to his personality requires a particular care. Some are independent from its early days, staying quiet all alone in the crib or playing in his first months to observe objects in a yard, while others are a bit more absorbent crying or complaining asking the arms of a parent to bedtime or a simple caress every moment of the day.
The baby is quiet often easier to educate and that requires attention but gives room for your mom to do other things. The case of absorbent baby is very different, it requires a mother with patience, ready to cuddle in their few hours of sleep and 24 hours dedicated to their distraction.
It is common for mothers of babies restless-absorbers tend to despair and became slightly tender; Losing patience moms feel a little guilty, qualifying themselves insensitive and not very tender. The first thing to do in these situations is to try to restore calm, understand that we are all human and each baby has its own personality.
As a mom is to know your baby every day, do not put unnecessary adjectives such as spoiled, and so on. look that often what they want is attention and to mourn all who seek to communicate their needs. Start to discover that crying means each tone is very important because for the baby to mourn the act is not a fad but a way of saying “I need something.” Remember patience is the key.
Finally it is important to be aware that there are situations where we can meet all your needs, sometimes the solution is not in our hands. Also be clear that insofar as you leave the task of helping educate a restless baby will muco easier, let your husband hold him in much of the time your baby on demand.
Do not forget to share your growing baby with your partner and for most moms that try to be perfect can not give what they have because, like the rest of the world are human.
Computers Could Delay the Development of Children
Computers slow psychomotor development of children, according to a recent survey, only should be allowed access to this technology after completing elementary school.
The Alliance for Children an American organization, nonprofit that investigates child growth said in a report that computers and the Internet prevent preschool creatures interrelate with each other and with adults. The specialist also indicates that children who use computer programs to draw, refuse to consider manual labor unrefined. Children need to manipulate objects with their own hands. That way they can understand abstract concepts such as proportion, texture, flexibility and temperature artifacts.
Moreover, scientific studies show that early introduction to computers does not increase the creativity of infants and can cause eyestrain, as well as damage resulting from repeated stress and obesity.
The reduction in time off school hinders children’s social skills. The use of computers at an early age desensitizes children to the emotions of his teammates. The infant brain is more active in terms of socialization and why is particularly dangerous to be exposed to the creatures for so long against the monitors.
When children play with computers, rule out the possibility of playing with peers. They are used to living a virtual world, not real.
A Child Who Snores Doesn’t Breathe Well
Much parents ignore the children snore because they think it’s an upset passenger. The reality is different and should be a warning sign. Who snores and restless sleep half the night wakes up for air. The child can develop high-risk conditions for cardiopulmonary circuit overload and heart function.
The purpose of the alarm message is not medical, but preventable. If this occurs during a cold, no problem. Children who have difficulty swallowing a piece of meat is likely to suffer from this condition.In the U.S., researchers have made a series of reports on children and adults with obstructive respiratory tract who develop heart failure. Even deaths have been recorded for it.
Referring to the most common cause of snoring infant, noted an inordinate increase in the tissue of the tonsils and adenoids. The only absolute indication for operation is when the tonsils are too large and obstruct the airway. Not by a simple tonsillitis, easily treated with antibiotics was surgically intervene. The excessive development of tonsillar tissue may also alter the facial development.
The specialist warned that continuously breathing through the mouth leads to the palate becomes more narrow and suffers an elevation, such as arched palate. Following are problems swallowing and breathing, they will suffer a lifetime of breathing problems and dental, as well as crossbite, temporomandibular joint disorder, lack of development of the midface and lack of development of the mandible.
Short Leg Syndrome
A direct relationship between nasal breathing and lung development. If for no good nostril breathing, not develop a lung and at this present deviations from the column due to the evolution of one side of the chest. The Americans call “short leg syndrome” who have a nostril always blocked and the corresponding leg shorter as a result of this condition.
If your child has already had their tonsils and adenoids removed, what would be the reason to snoring? These bodies are not the only culprits of snoring, but the most common. A child may have a deviated septum, an allergy and palate problems. Installing an anomalous mechanism of bad breath and swallowing, place the tongue in a certain position in order to breathe during sleep, creates and maintains the habit.
Examiner must bite the child and if you have high arched palate call your orthodontist. The dentist can detect any abnormalities responsible for snoring oral and speech therapist can help with exercises that tackle poor swallowing and incorrect tongue position.
What can I do when it is necessary to intervene surgically to the child?
The operation, which in some cases improves the problem of snoring is called faringopalatoplastia. Before deciding on an intervention of this kind should study the reasons and see if they have neurological problems because of such alteration.
It’s a simple surgery and success is guaranteed in terms of a good diagnosis. The patient was hospitalized in the afternoon, dinner and sleep in a room and, sometimes, you can not make the diagnosis in one night.
The ideal position during sleep is on a normal pillow and is recommended to treat sleeping on your side, because usually in that position does not snore. Alcohol promotes snoring because by ingesting the mechanisms of sleep. A central nervous system alcohol out of hand the normal mechanisms of sleep onset by brain swelling that occurs.
Sometimes children who snore should be allocated a separate room for other siblings to sleep. The important thing is not to despair, because new scientific strategies can eliminate forever this annoying “noise” at night.
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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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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How to Prevent Diarrhea?
During the first six months of life is important that infants receive only breast milk as food. Then they can supplement their diet with prepared products. Breast milk is more hygienic and less risk of contamination. It is advisable to prepare the food in places clean and wash hands before seasoning food. Thoroughly cook meat and seafood. To avoid spreading bacteria, cooked foods should not be mixed with the crude. Remember to wash fruits and vegetables before eating.
Vegetables that are eaten raw, put them to soak in two tablespoons of vinegar per quart of water, at least half an hour.
The utensils used for feeding the baby should be sanitized each time they are to be used. Clean the water tanks and water storage if you avoid introducing hands, use a ladle. Place garbage in plastic bags in containers with lids and throw it away daily.
Prepare oral serum landlord ;
- Wash hands with soap and water
- Boil enough water and allow to cool
- Measure one liter of water (4 cups)
- Add eight teaspoons of sugar
- Add teaspoon salt
- Remove and leave covered
This product has a shelf life of 24 hours after that time, proceed to prepare more solution if necessary.
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Baby Health Care
To be sure your baby stays healthy is advisable to visit the doctor frequently. Always keep it informed about any problems you observe or peculiarity in the development or behavior of your baby. Your doctor will tell you when to be immunized against childhood infectious diseases.
Not lead to crowded places and do not let the baby be approached people with colds or other contagious illnesses. The other children have to prevent them from getting too close to the baby. Do not let them kiss on the mouth, because this can spread germs to him.
During the first months leading cause of crying is hunger, discomfort or fatigue. Once the baby is in a feeding schedule more or less regular basis you will learn to recognize the needs of your child from crying. Usually mourn immediately before the time of its food and calm down when they are fed.
However, concern or between meals often cry for no apparent reason. If his crying is limited to a particular period of the day (usually on the last afternoon) may indicate fatigue. A tired child who has been over-stimulated during the day find it impossible to sleep without first experiencing a period of turmoil.
However, if the crying periods are irregular and occur throughout the day or night can be a sign of colic. The pain caused by gas and discomfort that can accompany relief of cramps usually holding the baby facedown on your stomach and rubbing its back.
Whatever the cause, do not leave mourn long periods without trying to find out why. Crying is the only way for the baby to communicate something wrong. The crying child feel any discomfort. Perhaps all that is needed is simply to soothe diaper changing or fixing the pin that perhaps this was clicking. If all efforts failed to alleviate it, crying may indicate disease. Taking a temperature and a fever, call your doctor.
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Eliminating certain foods help babies allergic to breast milk
Academy of Pediatrics United States presented a report indicating that allergic children can tolerate milk if their mothers breast eliminated certain foods from the diet.
In a study published in the journal Pediatrics, doctors reported that mothers of infants who react adversely to milk should refrain from eating eggs, fish, peanuts, walnuts, almonds and milk. However, they cautioned that this would add supplements to prevent deficiencies of minerals and vitamins.
Also, doctors suggest that pregnant women are most likely to give birth to children with allergies need not worry about modifying your diet before birth. In this case, the only possible exception is the peanut.
Studies show that breast milk contains nutrients that reduce the risks of respiratory diseases and prevent other health problems.
Therefore, the group recommended that mothers breastfeed their babies during the first six months, an estimated three percent of babies are allergic to a protein found in breast milk and cow’s milk .