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Most damage to the teeth during the first two years of life is due to “baby bottle caries”. Sleeping with a bottle in the mouth that contains milk, fruit juice, fruit punch, or any other sweetened liquid, can cause severe decay of the newly erupting teeth. The sugar in these drinks is converted into acid …
A fat baby is not necessarily a healthy baby. From the beginning, try to teach your child to stop eating before she reaches a point of satiation. By that I mean a sense of complete fullness and reluctance to eat another bite. If your family has a problem with easy weight gain, you can try …
Many household products can be poisonous to your toddler, such as aspirin, lye, drain cleaners, cosmetics, moth balls, bleaches, etc. Toddlers put everything they grab into their mouths and it’s no wonder poisoning is common. Here are some important safety rules: 1. Never call any medicine “candy.” 2. Buy medicine and household products in child …
Physical development goes in fits and starts, and a baby’s common sense is nonexistent. It isn’t enough to be careful about what you do, you have to foresee what he might do. These are some of the things that often catch parent unaware: ⢠Babies who aren’t crawling yet can wriggle and roll themselves off …
The home that’s safe and comfortable for you can be a literal deathtrap for your crawling or newly-walking baby. Don’t leave childproofing your home until the day she gets moving, you could be one day too late. • Try to see the environment through a crawling baby’s eyes – that means getting down on the …
Milk is an ideal breeding ground for bacteria, so if even a few get into your baby’s milk, they can multiply rapidly. That is why you need to be so much more fussy about the hygiene of your baby’s bottles than the hygiene of anything else she puts into her mouth, like her hands or …
