PostHeaderIcon Do you have enough milk?

Insufficient milk supply may have different causes. Often, one set in late is responsible. Update on this problem and ways to solve it.

The only criteria to suggest the inadequacy of milk supply are proving to be the weight curve and the number of wet diapers a day. Indeed, some babies seem content to undernourishment and show no disorder or sleep or bowel. Others, cons, sufficient food, screaming with energy after feeding and calling the “rab” …! Insufficient milk supply is experiencing multiple causes, the most important are putting in late, incomplete evacuation of the breasts, worry and fatigue of the mother often depressed, genetic factors etc. Read the rest of this entry »

PostHeaderIcon Baby eats!

After several months in milk (breast or infant), the time has come for the first vegetable puree. A spoon or bottle, here are some ideas to help you make an end gourmet baby!

Milk primarily

Diversification is the transition from exclusively milk feeding (breast milk or infant) to a variety of foods (fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat …), which must be done gradually. This diversification will allow the infant to adopt a varied diet, approaching slowly and steadily from that of adults: it is both a taste of learning but also to cover nutritional needs changing. Up diversification (which should not begin before the 5th month), milk alone covers all nutritional needs of the child. Once the diversification started, make sure to maintain 500 ml of milk per day, to ensure a balanced diet.
Gradually, baby discover the varied tastes and textures, from smooth to mashed mixed textures, and then chopped to pieces: his digestive system and its ability to chew hone skills over time. Read the rest of this entry »

PostHeaderIcon His first smile

From the first day, you look out for his first smile. Do not be too impatient, it was not until the fifth week that your toddler will return your attention with a smile that he has the secret. Beyond the delight it affords, this expression is a language in itself.

The child of 3 or 4 weeks seems to listen with fascination his mother. He stares at her, open and close his mouth and looks interested in the conversation. He chatters and babbles when he heard his mother speak or sing. Read the rest of this entry »

PostHeaderIcon Shaken baby trauma of dramatic

Just come into the world, infants are sometimes abused. Angered by their tears, some adults shake the child to be quiet. This gesture of nervousness is far from insignificant, it can cause irreversible neurological damage and death of the baby in 10% of cases.

Figures that stir … 230 infants were recruited in four years at the Necker Hospital in Paris likely victims of “shaken baby syndrome”. Presented at a roundtable on the subject, these data have been advanced by Prof. Dominique Renier (Department of Neurosurgery – University Hospital Necker-Sick Children – Paris), who recognizes in his department to receive more and more babies who died of too violent a shock. Read the rest of this entry »

PostHeaderIcon Preparing for baby

Welcome home

Out of motherhood, your child arrives in his furniture. Both emotionally and environmentally baby takes up space. That invest part of their parents’ room or he has a room of its own, baby already has a territory of its own.

Rethink your home based on the new arrival to avoid incidents and accidents. The ideal is to have a room for the child. Otherwise, you can create a corner in the insulation with a screen. Read the rest of this entry »

PostHeaderIcon How to change baby?

During the first year of life, you will change your child a thousand times … So better know a few basics. To keep baby dry, discover the art of exchange in eight steps. For your cherub always feel good.

Some prefer to change their child before feeding, after the other. If you change it before he could fulfill his bed during the meal, if you change it after, you might wake him while he was asleep, sated …. So the choice is yours! Anyway you should change it at every meal and never leave it with dirty buttocks.

Do not undress completely change each baby. Simply find the lower body and increasing slightly the bra. Sleepers or pajamas closed in the back with a bridge closure are great for the exchange. Read the rest of this entry »

PostHeaderIcon A protective cocoon for premature

Placing premature infants in an environment as close to the uterine environment and stimulating their reflexes, of Glasgow doctors hope to encourage motor development and brain.

Premature birth often leaves marks in the psychological, intellectual and motor of a child between one third and half of preterm infants after only 25 weeks gestation-guard disabilities more or less important, such as disturbed language, visual impairment, gait disturbance … These effects depend on the degree of prematurity but also the quality of care to the newborn. But if significant progress has been made ​​in this area, their results were primarily to live babies born more prematurely, at the expense of further development. However, some teams are trying to create favorable conditions to compensate for the brevity of his stay in the womb. This is the case at the Queen Mother’s Hospital in Glasgow, where a particular approach is implemented, with apparently positive results. Read the rest of this entry »

PostHeaderIcon Baby: give him the right to cry

The expression of toddlers through the screaming and crying. Should we let the tears flow? Instead, you need to comfort them at the first tears? To learn how to respond, only one solution: listen to your baby!

Until recently, the “trend” was to let babies cry. Today it was reversed to the point that many parents rushed to the faintest cry of their toddler. The important thing is to know that crying is a way for the baby, to express his worries. It is therefore absurd to smother it would be absurd to let a child cry without reacting. Read the rest of this entry »

PostHeaderIcon Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, the simple rules

We can not say it enough: lay your baby on his back. The risk for a young child to die suddenly has greatly diminished since we adopt this position again. But other precautionary measures, however important, are not taken. Parents, early childhood professionals, More!

For decades, it was recommended that infants sleep on their stomachs to prevent the contents from the stomach flowing back into their lungs. A tragic mistake that cost the lives of many children. We know, indeed, for several years, that sleeping on your back is better and, by this measure, the number of young children dying suddenly for no apparent reason dropped by over two-thirds in France. Read the rest of this entry »

PostHeaderIcon Dodo, the child will sleep soon …

Before six months, the child does not sleep patterns similar to yours. Be listening to her and let him sleep. It is useless to try to teach him to sleep: it should keep gradually adopt good sleep cycles. But what kind of bed should I choose?

Beforehand, note that it is advisable to make your baby sleep on their backs. In this position, the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, hyperthermia and suffocation are less frequent. Read the rest of this entry »