Showing posts with label Children & health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Children & health. Show all posts

Monday, April 18, 2016

What do not you know about your child after the first month


After the first month of birth, it is a period of trial and major discoveries, and become more accustomed to the role of the mother and her companion new.

Between the second and third months, some of the things, which perhaps may not notice the change, the most important to you.

- Becomes the baby weight in this period almost 5 kg, with a length of 60 cm.
- He was able to control his head slowly. As moves his shoulders, leaning on his arms, and turn on the back or abdomen, according to his comfortable position.
- Be able to cover himself if removed cover it up a bit, as he was a light-driven things. He plays with his hands and turn his head to keep track of things.
- Moving around a lot and reacts when you see the bottle.
- Discovers happiness in the shower and play with water, away from his bed to bed to play. Loves massage and touch.
- Fed daily: from 700 to 800 ml of breast milk or milk newborns, between 5 and 6 times a day.




From the book "Elever son enfant"

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Tips for the treatment of obesity in children


Obesity is a health problem faced by a lot of people in the period in the case, and increase the risk of obesity in the case of injury to children, and attributed the causes of childhood obesity as a result of follow several erroneous and unhealthy habits.

These are some tips that will help you rid your child of the problem of obesity to grow in a healthy and sound away from the dangers of obesity annoying.

Water :
Child eating a large amount of water helps to protect against the dangers of dehydration and infection works to moisturize the body in general, also it helps a large amount of water intake in the reinforcement of the feeling of satiety and not wanting to eat unhealthy meals and calorie-rich.

School meals :
Children resort in many times to buy meals made instead of eating school meals attended by the mother in the home, and this may increase the baby's weight dramatically, then meals containing a large percentage of calories that are stored in the body in the form of fat, so make sure to be evaluating prepare a school meal ingredients favored by your child so as not to deal with any of the takeaway abroad.

Feeding :
Eating the amount of food without the child's effort to burn off the calories in the food cause weight gain, so nationalist provide the right amount of food for your baby does not increase our quantity, except in the case of his large kinetic activities help to burn calories in the food.

Natural juices :
You may notice obesity on a child who deals with little food and lots of sweetened with a bad effect on health, leading to weight gain significantly industrial drinks, so make sure to keep those harmful drinks and replace them with natural drinks in order to be your child's interest and natural fruit body.

Movement :
Baby sitting for a long time in front of the television or playing games on mobile devices cause the storage of calories in the form of fat in the body, so it is preferred that the child is practicing some kinetic activities during the day and playing games that require running and movement to burn calories from foods that are covered.



The amount of food :
For the amount of food an essential role in a child's obesity, but this is advisable to provide healthy meals suitable for the baby quantities and not to provide a greater amount of the child's needs and force him to be addressed so as not to get obese.

Candy made :
Children want all the time to eat the candy manufacturer, which contains a large percentage of calories as well as health risks because it contains a large amount of chemicals and Flavors, smell, keep the candy manufacturer of the hands of your child and replace it with fresh fruit it may a wonderful effect on the growth and health of the child.

Saturday, March 26, 2016

5 Tips for healthy feeding for your child


All mothers are keen to care for their children properly and spend a lot of their time in the search for child care and how to help him as the natural growth and development of his abilities and his dealings with others through different stages of life and protect it from diseases and the dangers that surround him during his childhood.

Perhaps one of the most important ways to interest the mothers of children lie in proper nutrition, where every mother works to get her son to adequate beneficial foods that help them to grow and build his muscles and the growth of the members of his body in a natural way, after giving birth a few months the mother begins to think of foods that can be made for the child, which provides him the elements that the body needs at that stage.

Perhaps what should be on every mother to know is that the child does not need for the growth of the body elements or fed different from those covered by the adults, but it needs to be all addressed in adults but with a slight difference in the method of preparation and presentation so as not to affect the digestive system or cause him problems during Digestion Process.

We offer you the correct and healthy ways to feed your baby :

Complete dependence on breastfeeding: in the beginning of any immediately after birth, but when they reach the  your child old sixth it is possible to provide certain types of vegetables or boiled fruits and mashed well covered and can be fed some of the different types of soups, but taking care not to add spices or salt by great .

Care must be taken to have your child: balanced amounts of carbohydrates, protein and fiber, and must be dealt with carbohydrate regularly, such as pasta, rice, potatoes, being careful to eat lean protein such as meat, fish, eggs and beans.

In the case of the child she was underweight: suffering from slim Do not give him sweets or foods that contain high calories excessively, but Make sure that your child follows the symmetric diet helps him to get the ideal weight for age phase experienced by avoiding carbonated beverages and industrial crackers french fries and other foods that the body more harm than good.



WHO advises the need to rely on breastfeeding after just one hour on the birth until the sixth month of the child's age, and then can enter the food supplement safe for children at this age, but after the first year of your child life passage, it would be eligible for eating too much different types of food, and be careful not to over-eat sweets for the child because they cause a lot of the most important problems of child tooth decay at a young age as they cause obesity problems in children.

The child must deal with three servings of calcium during the day.

Friday, March 11, 2016

More reasons to cry in children and how to mitigate them


More reasons to cry in children and how to mitigate them:

* I need something I do not know exactly :
Sometimes, I can not determine what disturbs your baby when crying. Your child may haunt bouts of crying and difficult to calm him down easily. Rest assured, this is normal. The duration of this sad situation, ranging from a few minutes of crying, which is difficult to calm him down, and a few hours at a maximum.
It is known as acute colic case of crying, which is difficult to calm him down, which rises and falls for a period of not less than three hours a day, for three days a week at least. If your child has severe cramps, he was crying loudly for a long time and blush color and it looks discomfort and resentment, and may reject all your efforts and your attempts to calm him down. May pull his hands or fists attracts his knees up, arched his back.
It is disappointing we can not do anything to ease your child's pain. Parents find it difficult to cope with a child with severe colic, poses us nervous strain on the entire family.
Some experts believe that colic is caused by pain in the abdomen. The reason may be due to allergies or an inability to digest certain substances in breast milk or artificial milk.
There is no magic cure for acute colic, but it rarely lasts for more than three months. Maybe good for you to think that your child will grow up and then you will not pass through this situation.
What my baby still cries, what should I do?
Since you seem to know your child's personality gradually, we will learn techniques that benefit and succeed him. If Incubation is inadequate, you these suggestions that may help:

There are traditional and successful ways used by most of the women put a three to four points of the E dice or roses, which is used in the confectionery industry in the baby's mouth, it is very effective to relieve colic in the child or the child we water the drenched sage .
This method proved to be effective and very helpful.

And there is much better Muslims use the Qur'an which I hear the voice of the child is working to calm the child and is an effective way  
To hear the Qur'an Click here .

Also you can follow the following steps

* Try to find a regular rhythm :
He used baby inside the uterus to hear the regular rhythm of your heartbeat, and this is one of the reasons for your child's preference for near him. Regular and repeated votes and also give a calming effect. You can buy one of the CDs which are known cylinders sleep and relaxation white noise CDs (containing sounds from the surrounding environment, such as the sound of the waves, rain, etc.). Choose a cylinder where vote-like sounds inside the uterus, it may soothe your baby crying.

* Try with my child:
Most children love shaking gently as possible:
Carry your child and walk it.
Sitting with him in a rocking chair.
Swing safe to use for children.
Taken in the journey by car.
She took him in his vehicle for a walk outside.

* Try massage your baby's body and rub his belly:


Massage may help your child with oils, especially olive oil or cream massage or rubbing his back or in his stomach to calm him down. Ask your doctor for massage classes to teach children in the neighborhood.
If your child suffers from a severe colic or severely cry, the restless massaged his stomach. Stimulates the baby's belly rubbing gently clockwise exit gases and the movement of the intestines and helps to relieve pain and annoyance.
You may feel that you are the best and you're trying to do something to help your child to the comfort of the problem that bother him.

* Try a different position for breastfeeding:
Some of the children crying during infancy and beyond. If you are breastfeeding, you may find that improve the way they catch your baby breast-feeding helps him quietly and without crying. If your child suffers from gases during feedings, try to breastfeed him the status of slanting to the top. Try to help your baby to burp after every feed carrying it on your shoulder. And then carrying it vertically and put his head on the shoulder for x minutes until belching.
If your baby is crying after feeding directly, it may be still hungry.

Let her suck on something:
Sucking is an urgent need may be for some newborns, we find that sucking your breast during breast-feeding, pacifier or a popsicle , or a finger or thumb (clean) gives him a lot of comfort. The motive for comfort sucking may regulates the heartbeat of the child, and relaxes the stomach and contributes to calm him down.

* Give him a warm bath
It may help to soothe your baby warm bath. Test your water temperature before putting it in. But bear in mind that the shower could make him cry more. With time you'll be able to find out what your child likes and dislikes.



7 reasons for the crying baby and how to calm him down


Why do babies cry?
All children cry sometimes, which is very normal. And crying newborns between one to three hours a day.
Your child can not do anything for himself, he is dependent on someone else to provide him with food and warmth and comfort required. The crying is the way a child expresses all these needs, or one of them and make sure you respond to him.

Sometimes, you make it difficult to know what your child is trying to say through crying, whether it is hungry, or feel cold, or is thirsty, or need to be hugged? If you're new mother, it has worried a little bit of crying baby when you're not sure what he needs. Perhaps worried that it is not okay.

But with time, learn about the different child crying patterns and know its needs. As your baby grows, gradually increase the ability to learn new ways to communicate with you. It will improve its ability to communicate with the eyes, or the issuance of sounds, or even by a smile, making the need to cry to attract attention to light.

Some babies cry more than others, or at specific times of the day, often in the early evening. If it was hard to calm the baby, perhaps trying to say.

* I'm hungry:
Hunger is the most common causes of crying newborns. Whenever your child is young, the more likely it is crying because of hunger.
You may not small child's stomach to absorb a large amount of food, so if your baby cries, try to give him some milk of any milk. It may be hungry, even if breastfed since soon. Give your child many and frequent feedings in the early days of his birth to help stimulate milk production. If you breastfeed your baby milk artificially, you may not feel hungry during the last two hours of feed him.
Probably not stop crying immediately, but Genuine feeding process if it wanted to.

* I need to change a nappy :
My child may announce protest if the clothes were tight, or if embarrassed by diaper wet or dirty. What nappy wet did not raise any tight to him, he is likely to feel his warmth and comfort. But it is likely that your baby is crying, demanding change a nappy in the case if the skin soft subject to irritation.
Perhaps losing meets your baby's nappy and change it if necessary, he needs it. Make sure not to be nappy too narrow and make sure there is nothing else linked costumed bother him.

* I feel excessive cold or heat plus:
You may not be my child's nappy changing or showering because it is not used on the skin that touches the air and prefers to stay in warm clothes enjoying the warmth. Soon you will learn how to change a nappy quickly if this is the case with your child.
Make sure not to exaggerate in your baby's clothes so as not to overload feels too hot. It generally needs to wear an extra layer just one of the more clothes than you wear to feel comfortable. But if the day is warm, enough for him to wear a nappy and sleeveless vest.
In the cradle or moses basket, try to use a light blanket solvency of the mattress for the bed instead of blankets to leave the area in order to add or remove layers as needed. You can find out whether your child feel heat or cold through feeling her stomach or nose; if he feels too hot, remove a layer of blankets, but if he was cold, add another layer.
Do not rely on your child feel the hands and feet as an indicator because it is normal to have some texture cool thing. Your baby's room temperature is set to about 23 degrees Celsius and Keep it sleeps on his back and his feet towards the end of the cradle so as not to move under cover and writhing to the bottom feels too hot.

I need hugs:
Your child needs a great deal of hugs and pampering, physical, communication, and confidence to feel comfortable.
Maybe your child just wants to babysit child feels tenderness and warmth of the mother or father. Try using bra that gives children a chance carrying your baby close to you while keeping your hands free to do other things.
May be afraid to "spoil" your child if multiplied from him, but this is unlikely during the first months of age. Newborns need a lot of physical discomfort.
Most likely, enjoy your newborn a sense of warm and subsequent safety hugs, just as it was in the womb. Your child may regain that feeling which swaddle.
Maybe your child does not like to be wrapped swaddle and respond better to other means of calm and reassurance, such as singing. If you carried your baby close to you, you feel safe when you hear your heartbeat.

* I'm tired and I need a break :
Easy to assume that the children sleep whenever you need to sleep and wherever they are. But sleep is difficult for many children, especially if they were very tired. Soon you'll know sleep signs that indicate that your child is tired. Lenient is crying and whining, and stare at the emptiness aimlessly, calm and stillness. These are but three examples.
If your child received considerable attention from visitors, it has paid more attention than necessary. It may become frightened because of the lights, sounds, and movement in the hands of relatives. Then it will be difficult to sleep when the time comes to do so.
May increase the crying child from the usual visit with relatives, or in some cases, with the end of each day. Unless there is a specific reason for your child's crying, you may want to say: "I've had enough of it." Take him to a quiet place, and withdraw gradually away from all external influences to help him go to bed.

* I need to what makes me feel that I am the best:

If breastfed your child and make sure it is comfortable, but he continued to cry, was wondering if he was sick or in pain. Maybe your baby is crying because it is angry quickly. The reason may be a need for a lot of time to adapt to the presence of life. May be crying, fear of pregnancy and touch your baby's attributes. This may help quiet and gentle method of adoption and not exposed to a lot of alarm at the same time.
Pay attention to changes in your child. If he was sick, crying a tone different from the usual crying. Perhaps it is crying continuously and is characterized by debilitating tone, and a lot of urgency, sound top than usual. It may be uncomfortable in a clear and difficult to calm him down. On the other hand, it may indicate calm your baby if familiar with the cry that something was not going well.
No one knows your child better than you. If you feel there is a problem, do not hesitation to contact your physician.
Doctors always takes Mother complaint seriously. You should consult your doctor if you notice that your child has difficulty breathing while crying, or if the crying is accompanied by fever, vomiting, or any vomiting, or diarrhea, or constipation.



Saturday, January 30, 2016

Protect your baby in winter ailments separation


Sudden changes in the weather caused the injury to children with many diseases, especially in the winter, when the temperature drops dramatically, longer winter diseases season and infection, where the virus spread and be more active and be quick to move, and in order to preserve the health of our children in this chapter you some Here are some ways:





Increase clothing:
If an adult needs to 4 layers of clothing even feel the warmth, it is natural that the child needs to be 5 layers, and lies ease  dress in the event of a sense of warmth indoors, commensurate with the ambient temperature.

Suitable for your child's clothing:
It is important to choose baby clothes carefully during the winter, it is advisable to wear your baby winter socks to preserve the warmth of his feet in the days of greatest winter cold, as well as gloves, because the parties are most likely to feel frost and cover the head and work on the child's nose temperature sensor are evidence of the warmth of the child .



The safety of your child:
Some mothers have and private workers to leave their children alone at home, but in the winter the situation is different, as is advised that evaluating adjust home temperature for your child, so do not feel cold or get sick.

Playing sports:
Sports are advised to exercise a day with your child, it is important that sport practiced by the child's appropriate for his age, interests and skills are, because the winter sport helps to stimulate blood circulation and then the feeling of warmth, with strengthening the immune system of the child.

Car ride:
When the car ride, Strip off the head cover for the child and a layer of clothes to avoid an increase in temperature with running conditioning hot car, may not keep the baby for a long time outside the home if the weather is very cold even though the clothes were heavy, and better to work to keep the temperature of the car moderate.