Monday, November 16, 2009

infant massage techniques


You can learn some special techniques to massage your baby, but there is nothing better than to judge for themselves what kind of massage is preferred baby. Basically, baby massage includes rubbing movements and other natural movements. You must avoid the rash or skin in the healing process. Also do not do massage for two to three days after immunization.

Here are some proven techniques for infant massage different body parts.

1. Stomach
Apply with a circular motion with both hands. Lightly press the abdomen and the sides of the baby.

2. Ridge
Gently rub this section with both hands starting from the bottom of the back of circumstances red top and sides. Make a circular motion with his thumb between his shoulder blades and use the palm to wipe the middle of the back with a circular motion.

3. Feet
Massage the calf of the back of the thigh and massage the baby slowly starting from the top back down to touch the feet. After it began to massage the feet, the bottom and moving toward the thigh, making a circular motion on the inside of the back and along the sides.

4. Arm
Massage the outer arm, then slowly move your hands upward, to the inside of the arm to the elbow.

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Five tips to bathe a baby



1. Make sure all the equipment you need at the ready when you start bathing the baby.

2. Use anti-skid mat or small towel in the bottom of a baby bathtub to prevent him slipping.

3. Prepare a pitcher of hot water to add water into the tub if the water is too cold when entering your baby into the water.

4. Put the dry diapers, towels and clothes near you but far enough away from the tub so that no water-wet.

5. In the bathtub, do not tap water until the baby is removed from the water, because the sound of the water into sewers can create fear.

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Five tips on the best position to breastfeed


1.
If you are sitting in a chair in, put some pillows in the back so that your body position is more forward.

2. Put your feet up on a small stool so that your lap flat.

3. If the baby's arms are always moving, try holding his arm in order to continue to stick beside his body.

4. Position your baby close to the breast, not breast near the baby, because you will feel stiff and uncomfortable, and the milk does not flow smoothly.

5. If you are in doubt about the right position for breastfeeding, try to consult with nursing consultant before this situation becomes a problem.

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Sunday, November 15, 2009

TEN TIPS BREASTFEEDING SUCCES



Use this list to make sure that you do everything to run smoothly feeding activity.

1. Explain before labor and delivery when put together a program that you want to breastfeed.

2. Breastfeed your immediately after birth.

3. Feed every child wants, day or night.

4. Learn how to put the baby to the breast properly.

5. Ask experts examine your feeding technique, even if you do not have a problem.

6. Avoid giving milk formula in hospitals.

7. Do not feed with the bottle in the first four weeks.

8. Get to know breastfeeding advisers in your area.

9. Request support couples, parents, and close friends.

10. be Patient.

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FIVE FACTS ABOUT BREASTFEEDING


1. according to research Babies who get breast milk for more than 3 months had more Cleaner IQ than babies fed on formula milk.

2. Breast milk protects babies from diarrhea, ear infections, bladder infections, diabetes, eczema lung infection, obesity.

3. Breast milk provides substances that can eliminate the infection and help the development of the immune system infants.

4. Reduce the risk of uterine cancer in women, breast cancer and hip fractures.

5. Breastfeeding can burn fat accumulated during pregnancy

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breastfeeding


Breastfeeding is an exhausting activity in the first place. You need time to do it right. However, making infant formula can not provide fast and comfortable as mother's milk, especially at night.

In every breast there are 20 pockets that have a separate channel system. The main channel branching into smaller channels that ended in the collection of milk-producing cells, called alveoli. The channel is enlarged into a small place a little content of milk, which later merged in the nipple. Muscle cells surrounding the alveoli. When the baby sucks the breast, the nerve endings in the nipples stimulated and convey messages to the brain to issue two types of hormones prolactin and oxytocin. Prolactin stimulates the alveoli to produce more milk, while oxytocin ordered muscle cells around the alveoli to contract. Contractions are squeezing milk into storage so that the baby can get milk. The more often the baby sucks the more milk produced.

Why should I breastfeed?
Breast milk is best food for newborn babies. Breast milk is absolutely sterile, rich in antibodies and nutrients that are right for your baby. Also nursing is also useful to protect women from dangerous diseases.

What a difference a few types of breast milk?
Colostrum is only produced the first few days. Colostrum has a protein content and high antibody and thick. First Colostrum is only produced as much as a teaspoon. Colostrum coats the baby and protect the gut from harmful bacteria. Colostrum diminished when the mother's milk being produced on the third or fifth day. From then on, every baby is nursing a foremilk and hindmilk. Foremilk stored in the warehouse out of mother's milk in early lactation. Foremilk is available in large quantities and quench the thirst of the baby. Hindmilk out after approaching the end of breastfeeding. Hindmilk very rich, thick and full of vitamins that will dissolve in fat.

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Friday, November 13, 2009

BABY SENSORY


Baby is very alert and sensitive, so when you watch and learn all things, he felt the world around him, including a very interesting thing for him is you. Since born babies use all their senses to try to understand the world around him.

What can be seen my baby?
Babies can see with a clear focus at a distance of 25 cm and with a more blurred distant objects. Newborns looked like a human face compared to other objects. 36 hours after birth, babies can recognize shapes and lines of your face and you are more than happy to look at other people's faces.

What can my baby hear?
A newborn baby's hearing was perfect, even before he was born he has heard your voices and other sounds. Babies also naturally react when he heard people talking and moving his body to the rhythm of conversation.

• Is it too early to stimulate my baby pictures?
No, the baby can see the color and shape, and glad to see the curved lines of free rather than straight. In the first weeks they were more interested in the form of black and white. Put the toy box hanging above a baby with a short distance away so he could reach it, but still within his field of vision.
The baby is very happy to get your attention. If you talk and smile to show that you are interested in the baby's activity compelled to do it again.

• Do talk to your baby seems to be useful because he had not understood what I said?
Convince yourself, when you use the language is good for him. Be sure that you are his idolize, and he was amazed by all the things you do. If you are doing continues, the baby will learn this activity and eventually started to follow.

• What could feel my baby?
The skin and sensititivity to touch is your baby's first organ. when you are holding, stroking and rocking your baby, you and him met through a unique way.

• What can be felt or detected by my baby?
Sense of taste and smell the baby has functioned well since birth. He preferred the sweet taste like mother's milk and at the age of one week, he could distinguish the taste and smell of their mother's milk than milk another person. He is also interested in the scent of her mother's body.

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NEWBORN'S FACE


You may be surprised when you saw the new baby born, they look different from the baby who was several months. Newborn has a big head that looks for her size. When compared with adults, the proportion of the baby's head four times greater. At first the hands and feet look pale baby, while the body looks pink because her circulatory system has not efficiently circulate blood to the hands and feet. Changing the position of the baby's body can solve this problem.

In boys and girls, a reaction to maternal hormones during pregnancy can affect for a while. Baby breast may swell, and a few drops of breast milk may be seen. This swelling disappears within a few days, after the mother's hormones disappear from the blood circulation system. Baby's genitals were also seen enlarged and the baby girl may look clear or white liquid a few drops of blood from the vagina due to maternal hormones. Liquid will also disappear in a few days.

THE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR BABIES

• Newborns have thin hair, called lanugo shoulder behind the ears and neck. This is a normal thing, especially in babies born prematurely. Hair is usually lost within a few days.

• The newborn has an irregular breathing, gasping - hard, fast and short turns. Breathing like this will be seen for 3 months.

• You do not need to worry if your baby has white spots all over the face for those spots is the sweat and oil glands are enlarged or clogged in the skin and will disappear in a few days.

• Breathing newborns may looks like a cold and often sneezing. That's because the small airways of excess mucus blockage. Baby's nose produces mucus to protect the vulnerable nasal tract of milk that may accidentally enter into the nose.

Newborns sometimes looks like a smile, a smile may be triggered early because of the feeling satisfied and relaxed. New baby really smiling after of several weeks age.

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