Showing posts with label Baby care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baby care. Show all posts

how to effectively cope with diarrhea in infants

7/27/2015 Add Comment
how to effectively cope with diarrhea in infants. Did you know that diarrhea in infants can result in death, if not immediately get help from a doctor.

Diarrhea is a common problem in infants. Many babies who died of diarrhea in a country like India because of they are not treated properly so that cases mortality due to diarrheal be increas.

As a parent you have to know how to cope diarrhea in your baby. So, how effective treatment to cure diarrhea in infants?
Here are some simple tips are effective enough to address the problem of diarrhea in your baby.



1. Gives a fluid intake sufficient on your baby harmful side effects of diarrhea in infants that is dehydrated. Why? Because your baby still depends on the breast milk, therefore continue breastfeeding on your baby a regular basis to keep their body hydrated.

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If the infant diarrhea, making them a mixture of salt, sugar and water. Give to the baby so that their bodies can replace body salts lost when diarrhea.

3. Give easily digestible food for your baby
easily digested foods such as soft rice, banana or pureed. Do not give food made from cereals or something because it will difficult to digest.

4. massage gums baby
Sometimes, diarrhea in infants caused by the pain when he had teething. In this case, give baby food safe to be chewed. You can also massage gums baby with your fingers to relieve pain.

5. Give water
One solution of the most common to overcome the diarrhea in infants is to provide plenty of water. Water can relieve abdominal pain and also gas release of the abdomen baby.
It takes about 3 days to return the baby's stomach normal. However, if the baby out watery stools every hours or there are spots of blood in the stool, hurry to the doctor to get more serious treatment.

How to holding a baby

7/21/2015 Add Comment
How to holding a baby?
The first thing to note is your baby has been unable to control the movement of his head. You have to hold the baby's head so as not to shift to the right or left or from front to back. When lifting baby, use both hands so you can sustain his head. When carrying baby, prop head and his neck with your hands, especially when he picked up in an upright position. Baby require a touch. Since the first seconds with your a baby, start formed bond inner- dependent touches you give. Baby always react to the way you touch it. Tenderness and warmth make him comfortable, but cry when touched roughly. Do not hesitate to hold, swing, and hugged him. You may not spoil a child, but baby understands your love him.

Baby Sleep Patterns

baby sleep habits affect his parents' lifestyle, therefore, you might want to do something that can affect sleep patterns. Remember, the newborn have not been able to distinguish between day and night, and eating because of hunger every 3 or 4 hours. This means feeding throughout the day will last at least for several weeks.

However, you can teach that nighttime is for sleeping, by some of the following instructions:

1. Applying Night Sleep Patterns

  • Most babies will sleep anywhere when feel tired, therefore try as well as possible to avoid light bright and sound frenzied around the baby sleeping.
  • When the baby wakes up at night, do not give excessive stimulation. Let the lights dim when breastfeeding and / or changing the baby and immediately tidurkan back after completion. Do not make a joke
  • If the babies tend to wake up too early morning, close the curtains meetings to inhibit the sun.
  • Make baby awake as long as possible during the day. If the baby is sleeping late afternoon more than 3 or 4 hours, wake up and ask him joking while.
  • If the baby is breastfed, give breast milk to her over shortly before bedtime to prevent waking due to hunger.
  • When the baby is older and able to eat more, maybe he'll sleep through the night.
  • If the baby is 3 months old and did not sleep at night, ask him to play actively in the afternoon and evening.

2. help the baby to sleep again

  • Continuous gentle stimulation often managed to coax the baby to sleep again. Try patting, rocking, or hold him while walking.
  • If the baby still squirming or growling, no one suspected that he was still awake. This activity may be a sign that the baby started to fall asleep.
  • Remember, the first few weeks is the most difficult. As already mentioned, many baby began to sleep all night at the age of 3 months. Also common on the babies are they have a period slept well followed by the sleep period ugly. It could be it is due to the runway to grow quickly that increase the nutritional needs or, in the babies larger, dentition. More information about sleeping habits baby can be found health experts.
  • When the baby still awake and began to cry, remember that cry for 15 to 20 minutes is not dangerous. Only, make sure that he cried not because of hungry, pain, or wet.

3. Pay attention to the safety of the baby while sleeping

  • Child care experts recommend that babies sleep better in a supine position or tilted than the stomach.
  • This recommendation may not apply when a baby is born prematurely, tend to vomit, or the condition of his health allows him to experience airway obstruction. Check with your health care professional if your baby falls into one of these categories.

Babies cry

  • Babies cry due to various reasons. The closer to the baby, you begin to recognize that other cries for each different reasons: the cries of hunger differ with tears of fear. During the first few months of a baby should be immediately approached by the time crying. You may not spoil a baby, but if you answer the cries for help, he will not often cry
You almost always can know why the baby is crying. Once diapered, fed, patted his back, or his body given warmth may he immediately stopped crying. When those efforts did not also stop crying, try the following ways:
  • Swung, both while sitting in a rocking chair or with your arm.
  • Take him to observe moving objects-soon

That little tips on how to holding a baby and may be useful for you.