It’s not harmful for your children to sleep with you, but don’t start until you have all the facts. – First, your child does not need this arrangement to be secure and happy. – Second, this is not quality time. If your child is asleep, it is neutral time, and if your child is keeping […]
Weaning from the bottle to the cup should always be done gradually. Trying to wean fast will make your child angry, clinging, and miserable. ⢠First, reduce bottle feedings to three or four per day, and don’t allow your child to carry a bottle around during the day. After you cut back on the number
Yes, infants like to be in a walker, but is it worth it? Over 40 per cent of children who use walkers have an accident requiring medical attention. They get skull fractures, concussions, dental injuries, and lacerations. There have even been some deaths. ⢠Most of the serious walker injuries occur from falling down a
Spitting up is that effortless bringing up of a little milk from the stomach, and often when you least expect it, it’s also called reflux or regurgitation. It is usually seen shortly after feedings. It begins in the first month of life and clears by a year of age. More than half of children have
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
Breath holding spells occur in some children who are able to hold their breath long enough to actually pass out. Only five per cent of children have this abnormal reflex. They are healthy in every other way. Following a triggering event, such as being frustrated or falling down, your child cries once, holds his breath,
Babies are simply miserable when they have a cold. If their nose is blocked up, they can’t nurse or suck on a bottle. Here’s how we open that nose: ⢠First, if there’s a watery discharge, just remove it with a soft rubber suction bulb. ⢠Second, if the nose is stuffy with little or
Bottle fed babies don’t need solids until four months of age and breast fed babies are fine until six months. Introducing strained foods earlier just makes feeding more complicated without helping your baby in any way. • Between four and eight months of age introduce your baby to most of the strained foods and cereals.
Babies cry when they’re unhappy or uncomfortable. Crying is a distress signal. Babies don’t cry to exercise their lungs. A few of them cry because they’re in pain from an ear infection or a bad diaper rash, and most babies obviously cry when their hungry, but they stop as soon as you offer them a
