Sunday, January 8, 2012

Drooling Baby

Drooling Baby

Looks like a pun, but it is not. Nor is it something serious, but a concern for many mothers who mess up the natural function with something wrong. Know, dear mother, that if your baby started to drool, do not do more to learn to deal with saliva. Salivary glands, whose function is associated with the ingestion of food, which put in place when your baby boy was born, because in a previous state is not necessary at all.

Keep in mind that nature is wise, and is preparing for the types of foods that need to swallow saliva. Can you imagine what it would be easy to eat a cookie without it going to make this possible? Salivary glands are present at birth, but they take about three months to mature and produce saliva, which at some point begin to flood the mouth of a small but still have these controls are not aware, for example a mirror, what to do with the vinegar reaches the mouth. Then, you learn that swallow saliva without thinking and eating.

After three months of life will Babita in baby's mouth and can be abundant. Concerns have no saliva by itself, but the humidity is almost constant, especially in the chin. It can irritate the skin and is common that many babies have a red zone when the salivary glands working at full speed. What to do, you ask, but surely you've been doing: trying to wipe the saliva with a clean, soft cloth, do not scratch your delicate skin.

Washcloths for drooling bib inappropriate, ie, at least in some countries, which are placed on the chest and stomach when you eat little. But it makes a natural tissue absorbent. Apply pressure several times and never rub to avoid irritation. This is the best method to dry the saliva, as if skin becomes irritated and the situation continues, your baby is at risk of infection and the appearance of eczema, which would be a complication that must be cured.

When is the saliva? There is no time limit, it depends on the individual adaptation of each baby. The important thing is you know it is a process with a gradual onset, reaching a climax and disappeared in the same way he arrived: little by little. You will notice when removing the less useful. I also must say, that your knowledge is not partial, saliva can also occur in older infants, and it's not normal. In such a case would be a true sign of conditions such as mental retardation, even if this is not a sign of just that. We are talking about the sad exception.

As you can see, saliva without major consequence is something that is not what you've shown in your baby's skin care. Instead, you should keep in mind that can occur suddenly, with symptoms of fever, malaise, difficulty swallowing or breathing, but this is not the product of peculiar glands are willing to work but the disease can incubate small. If so, you know the rules: take him to the pediatrician.

A drama!

A drama!

Imagine baby's learning ability. The first moments of life give way to reflections recorded in their genetic code. Since then, he will begin to transfer the information to "hard" to understand and interact with the world around him. Acquisition of knowledge, is the raw material itself intelligence, creativity and ability to assume the practice of life, which is the idea of ​​the complexity of the man himself has not been achieved fully unraveled.

From the third month of life, little, a little less, little baby you're ready to take new feeling that goes beyond exceptional experience of their relationship with the mother, which for him is as a safety nest. Since it began to develop their potential to recognize and adapt to the environment. And behold, you will remain, dear mother, large window to the world. He will learn from a relationship with you, your words and your love ... and games, which bring her with you. For her, the breast will not only nourish you, you will, also his first playmate.

As you know, the game allows the child to overcome the limitations of reality and fantasy, which continues into adult life and exploration exercise the adult world. This facilitates the interaction with people in their environment and form a unique dialogue with their peers. No less important is the consequence of the act autonomously on their own initiative. Children's games, after all, is a fun opening the next life to come.

But let us, dear mother, your little baby is three months. Soon you will see that in addition to eating, the only way to interact with it and leads to a practical expression of infinite compassion that you feel is through play. Same, or similar because of the lack of complex thinking applies to other mammalian species. Have you ever seen a documentary where the lions playing around in between them? Do you question about the role of rough play like claws and a career in the mother lioness serve as a mediator? It is clear that the first step as a predator. They learn to hunt.

Your role as a mother, bridging the gap that lions and humans, is to start in human relations at an early age is limited to use of physical and intellectual potential for social integration, starting with the family. At a young age, a game which in some places known as "game towel" and the other has no special name, but remain in the memory of generations, or simply created on the fly.

I mean games where the two elements come together to delight your baby: music (usually the edge) and physical contact. First, seduce, said that hypnotizes little that he feels the music and rhythm in Mom's voice, something that must be for him like a revelation. Both allow a physical interaction, giving joy to feel the mother's hand and also support the exercising muscles.

There are many musical accompaniment to the game session. To illustrate, I recall one that may belong to all Spanish speaking countries, "Sawdust, sawing, board of St. John." There are a lot of this poem and I have a doll, my backyard, MambrĂș ... This procedure, if something as well be designated by the word so serious, it would be simple: to accompany the singing with a small body movements and with many caresses.

He loves and considers it before you will start issuing their own voice and move his own body. He learned to live with her mother and, through it, with others. He began to feel that in a strange environment that is slowly finding there is more than food, began to understand that there is a world out there full of surprises of love, joy and. And it will suffice two magic words that say take your little hands: Let's Play!

The story of Uncle: Are there any ideals?

The story of Uncle: Are there any ideals?

Finding the perfect man is like walking into Santa Claus. At least I know I'm lucky. Perhaps because it is the middle child ... occurred to me that one of them always take a trip to my sister (she had two boys of about the same age) and the other for my sister (because they are smaller and play more with it). But it would be fair if none of those holidays that my parents can not afford to leave home and my father's sister took me along with their children. I said, "finally my turn!" But I have a cousin that I was constantly beating Chiquita (thankfully now changed) and we had to sleep in the same bed. If I have a good time? What can you say? At the time I felt that it would be better to stay with the warm sun beating on the sidewalk of the city. But at least I was on the beach.

Yes, I can not forget that another of my uncle invited me to his house quite often. My family is very close. But while going very well, when we have to get something together makes me just for me or my brother. My little cousin, this time from the maternal side, so spoiled that forced them to sort toys like my parents told me. What life is not fair! I thought.

If, however I still love them and worship them and I can even say that adults with the way I understand it, everyone did what they could.

But I never had much luck with my female friends. That is, my own brothers. I had a dream to come and tell me that they want to carry around all day. Or really wish them to his house for several days. How well do I, especially during the holidays!

Although ugly to say, I envy my friend. Her sisters, both unmarried, dedicated to his nephew as if they were children. They pay attention to what I need to buy, they take it home to sleep, fight with his mother to care for them and pamper them with all kinds of gifts. However, although my friend is recognized, sometimes it gets a little jealous.

Perhaps one of the main differences is that they are married or single, with children or without children. But not entirely true, because until recently my youngest brother was not married, but there is no special way.

Mother, you are an aunt

True, even here I talked about how the other with his nephew, but Mora also reminds me that my aunt. What do I like? Quite loose. In four nephews I do not take them for a walk (I think because I do not have a car), I invite you every so often stayed home and only one way to find a strange day kindergarten, (because he went to the same school my daughter) . I assume I have not made a perfect aunt, but I can assure you all love me very much. And when invited to play to be happy because they have different costumes to try, I let them use make up, I mess up the whole house. That if I do not collect toys for them, but not my daughter, it would not be fair. So 38 years I am still just a toy I ordered.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Following the development of baby's weight and size are important

Weight and height

Following the development of baby's weight and size are important. There is a pattern of physical development of the infant by the standards of the World Health Organization (WHO) for all public and private health systems of the world. Pediatricians, as you know, the first thing you do with your little baby when you bring to the consultation is to weigh and measure it. You is not no doctor, but knowing what to expect from a normal baby any mismatch can give early warning that could present a small baby or have a clear convincing you that all is well.

Some women are obsessed with growth and weight of their babies. But this usually happens because they want to see them become men and women while they are still breastfeeding and do not handle the weight and size of the pattern accordingly. Only when you watch your little one is very far from the patterns, either by excess or defect, you will see a specialist. I suggest you not be affected by what other mothers tell their children, because not all babies develop the same thing. The resulting pattern forms that we are talking about is not ideal and casuistry, for both weight and height depends on many things. So, like almost everything in this baby, this is a guideline and does not change.

In the baby is growing very important ethnicity, genetics as different parameters for different cultures, you have to do with their food and habitat in general. It also affects certain genetic inheritance from parents, which is the main factor to consider. Also, the shape and pace their own baby food quality construction down again. Many overweight is the result of a mother to those you have mentioned.

Finally, I offer the data in the table at the end is more scientific than it can provide in this regard, and with the influence of too many individual changes. This is data from a study conducted five years ago by WHO and this is, and not others, you should compare. I suggest you avoid the "addicted" to the signing. It is useful to do it too often, because of the increased size and weight is seen in that period and you may take note of the weight of the baby milk you just load your stomach. Only do it once a month, which is the third part of the quarterly measurement period.

Likewise, I suggest you do not adopt any medication on your own. If you notice that your baby boy is not enough development parameters of the period that applies to you, do not try to strengthen their power, especially if you eat what the doctor has been demonstrated. If not, it will be forgiven by the initiative of "diet."

Finally, I precisarte universal pattern can have a variation in each country where similar research has been done to the WHO, even in the same state data do not behave uniformly. If something out of interest adjusted to the nearest where you live, do not hesitate to discuss this with your pediatrician and make appropriate adjustments in the table below.

It is a pleasant task. Every time you see that you can do what is impossible to see every day. Bring your own periodic measurements the next time you visit the doctor. Do not bother at all collaboration with his mother.

Table weight and height of the WHO for the first year of life

Children: weight and height

Baby: 3.47 kg and 50.06 cm

3 months: 6:26 kg and 60.44 cm

6 months: 8:02 kg and 66.81 cm

9 months: 9.24 kg and 71.10 cm

1 year: 10.15 kg and 75.08 cm

Girls: body weight and height

Babies: 3:34 kg 49.34 cm

3 months: 5.79 kg and 59.18 cm

6 months: 7:44 kg and 65.33 cm

9 months: 8.03 kg and 69.62 cm

1 year: 9.60 kg and 73.55 cm

"Mom, I want to be famous"

"Mom, I want to be famous"

I remember as a teenager, all the girls of my generation wanted to be top models like Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista. In the early nineties, and technological advances, the era of the image has fully installed between people.

But times change, and ideals. One day my oldest daughter said, "Mom, I want to be famous."

Seeing my puzzled face, and I explained that you could be famous in many ways and very different (from a chair or a good writer, even the worst fraudsters), told me he wanted to become an artist. Not sure what kind of artist, but what is certain is that he wanted to become an idol of many people. And immediately I was told to bring it to the casting. I, who never for the kids to work?. I? I'm definitely not contagious thing like that, because I was too shy and I hate the camera (my modeling career so it does not thrive on). Expect help me? That all life criticize art because I think the world of fantasy.

Confused, not knowing what to say I flinched a "look, whether you talk with your father." That is the only answer I can think of to escape the topic.

However, I wonder ... Where did he get so big idea? Should I ban? Children need to play and not take responsibility for making a living from small. What if I limit the possibility of something really passionate about? What are you passionate? How hard is that parents sometimes ...

But things have to be analyzed in context. As I said, we are in the era of image, globalization, today it can be seen in less than a minute worldwide. We even have a case like the young singer Justin Bibb, who has become famous just for uploading videos to the Web site.

The computer and obviously have allowed my daughter's desire does not appear by chance. I think like them, social networking sites like Facebook or YouTube, an alternative for those who want to show off to others, but never able to access the event environment.

What attracts you to a nine-year small that everyone knows about it? When I was growing up there was no such possibility, which is why I say that our children are born with other types of heads. Or maybe not proud to show our friends in the network where they had just hours to live? At the bottom we will not that encourage them?

Ines is that if I had said, "I want to be a singer, actress or a famous dancer," until I could understand. But the one who burned your passion is the desire that others know it is still a young code I can decipher. Well, then as a mother ... What should I do?

I decided that for now I'll wait. Times change and the interests of children as well. It may be best to explore a little into it to find out what qualities come to the surface. For now, yesterday wrote a beautiful story put him on Facebook. In this way, many people told him the compliment ... who do not like to receive?

You may end up being a famous writer ... or maybe in a few years was more interested in the low-profile career as a veterinarian or a teacher, and will be equally important. Anyway whatever you do and I will always be an idol.