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

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Tip Choke Babies

Choking means the baby is trying to remove something from the oral cavity or respiratory tract or esophagus due to obstructed airways. Baby is sure to be frantic. But if he can cough or vomit, then it will loosen up the airways.
 
Here I provide a variety of tips to overcome choking baby:
  1. Do not panic, because if we panic then the baby also brought panic. Stay alert while soothing the baby.
  2. Do not waste time trying to throw the food out of his mouth, but we are confident that we can do with ease.
  3. Keep your baby's head down, holding his chest with his hands and gently pat his back with our hands.
  4. If you do not succeed try again, if still no result immediately contact your doctor.
Tips for Baby Discipline Eating in Dining Table
One important step in the development of the baby is disciplined when he could eat at the table, and began to leave the habit of eating while walking. It is the discipline to get the baby to eat at the dinner table takes the process. A baby may be a quick process, but baby B requires more patience.
Tips that we can apply in order to discipline the baby eat at the table, among others:
  1. Teach or apply this habit since the baby can sit alone and started with his first solid food.
  2. Encourage baby to eat with other family members.
  3. Bari examples of your baby in a meal at the dinner table.
  4. Try not to worry about spilling food, dirty clothes, baby's hands and face, as well as littering the floor. It is also a part of the learning process.

Monday, July 21, 2014

Tips in Choosing and Dot Baby Milk Bottle

Pacifiers and bottle of milk for your baby is very diverse, ranging from the brand, shape the material to manufacture. There is a dot made of silicon or rubber. While the milk bottle is made of glass or plastic. The quality and the price is also very diverse. Do not confuse the trigger first.

 
Here are some tips in choosing a bottle of milk for the baby:
  1. Select a pacifier is made of silicone, rubber pacifiers can cause allergies for your baby.
  2. Replace it with a regular dot, dot because there are easily torn and dull.
  3. Select a pacifier as needed. There are a wide variety of dot sizes, for example size of S is the dot with a small hole.
  4. For milk should select a bottle made of glass or BPA-free certified.
Choose a bottle that looks weird is not so easy to clean. Now on the market encountered many dot with various shapes swirling. It is very difficult for the cleaning process. As a result a lot of residual milk left in the bottle. This causes the bacteria and can cause disease to infants.

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Tips on Preparing Food For Babies

We want to prepare meals for babies? Although much more hassle, but this is very good because you can monitor the nutritional content and nutritional. In addition we can try a variety of food menu is different, so you can train the baby to know different kinds of foods and flavors.

 
Here are tips on how to prepare food for infants:
  1. Do not add preservatives, dyes, and artificial flavorings.
  2. Recommend on diversity or serve a varied menu.
  3. Better to use fresh foods in the form of packaging.
  4. Pay attention because this is important nutritional composition for infant growth.
  5. Teach your baby to a variety of flavors and textures of food.
Tips on Giving Food Distraction
Good snack or snack you also give to the baby. That stuff is also varied, depending on how we can be creative to make this snack or serving.
Here are tips to provide a snack for baby:
  1. Do not give a snack before the main meal times, because the baby will trigger satiety and do not want to eat anymore.
  2. Give two times daily between meals. For example, the first after breakfast before lunch and the second in the afternoon.
  3. Vary the type of snack for the baby.
  4. Do not give foods that contain a lot of sugar interludes (especially artificial sugar) and too fatty.
Avoid snack hard texture so that the baby does not choke.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Tips Baby Weaning

When is the right time to wean the baby would have been any different. Beberpa experts say if weaned too early or too late will be able to affect the behavior and health of the baby. Whatever it is, when the right time to wean the baby, our own and bayilah who knows.

 
Here are some tips that you can consider if you want to wean the baby:
  1. Do it if the baby is in good health. Because if we wean when the baby is sick, angry, or sad she would feel depressed and not in love.
  2. Explain in infants. Although his communication skills may still not perfect still explain the logical reason that could in receipt.
  3. Be firm and consistent.
  4. Do not feel guilty. Breastfeeding for two years is enough.
  5. Do a fun activity with the baby, so distracted.
Do not offer breast milk as a comforting moment when the baby is fussy, dropped or cry. It may sound cruel but we still have to be consistent.

Friday, July 18, 2014

Easier Tips to Make Baby A sleep at Night

Nighttime is the time for sleep. This is what we should teach the first time in the baby, if the baby is accustomed to waking up at night, and then invites us to play, at first we may consider this a natural thing, when in fact it is not. Do not follow his will because it will make him unable to distinguish when to play and when to sleep.  



Therefore, if you want the baby to fall asleep at night consider the following tips:
    1. Set the sleep schedule during the day is not too long.
    2. Ahead of sleep a night, barush baby body with a washcloth and warm water, then dry. Rub and massage briefly with Telon baby oil or grease, and wear comfy clothes.
    3. Adjust the room temperature so that the baby does not feel cold or swelter.
    4. Put your baby on his bed and read a story or mendongengkanlah.
    5. Pat the back or ass gently.
    6. If he is invited to play, calm him. Describe the language that is easy to understand that now is the time to sleep.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Baby Massage Tips

Newborns desperately need warmth and a touch of the nearby, especially the touch of the hands of the mother. Infant massage is one way to express our love to the baby.

 
Some of the benefits that can be felt by us or the baby include:
  1. Provide a comfortable and relaxed feeling to the baby.
  2. Sensitivity training.
  3. Wake interaction between mother and baby.
  4. Create close bonds between mothers and infants through eye contact.
  5. Making the mother and baby get to know each other intimately.
The positive effects of physical in infant massage include:
  1. Improve blood circulation and breathing.
  2. Stimulates digestion and elimination function
  3. Improving depression and tension in infants.
  4. Making baby fast asleep.
  5. Reducing pain during bloating and abdominal pain.
  6. Increasing the volume of breast milk.
  7. Increase the number and cytotoxicity of the immunity system.
  8. Menubah positive brain waves.
Here are some guidelines that baby massage can be practiced:
  1. Select the appropriate time where the baby was not fussy, not after a meal and you are also not in a hurry.
  2. Ask permission first on the baby. Then look at the response. If moving happily means she wants in a massage, but if you just stay quiet even turned his back means he is not willing in massage. Put off first intention for baby massage.
  3. Use Telon oil or special oil for baby massage (can be purchased at a pharmacy or drug store or a baby store)
  4. Perform massage on the mat wide. So that we could sit on the mat along with the baby to be in a massage.
Massage for each member of the body is different. If any massaging, can be fatal to the baby, the following steps for every member of body massage can be practiced:
  1. For the feet; our hands forming the letter C, handheld baby toe tip and base, then gently blazing from the bottom up (like movement but with a gentle squeeze). Repeat 3-5 X.
  2. To butt; put our hands under the buttocks do massage with movements made.
  3. For stomach; Rub massage oil around the abdomen and gently massage into the top of the left abdomen. Rates sejajr to the right and then down to the bottom (forming the letter n)
  4. For chest; Put both hands on the baby's chest, then do massage up and down.
  5. For the hand; The movements are the same as on the foot massage.
To head; Perform massage above the eyebrows, then do the massage in the head with a position such as rubbing or stroking.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Swaddling Tips

Membedong is a technique to wrap the baby with a soft cloth or blanket. Wrap the fabric is like a warm hug as when he was still in the womb. So the expected baby feel comfortable and safe, making them easier to adapt to his new environment.

 
Baby membedong function is:
  1. Warm the body. Helped him adjust to the temperature outside the womb.
  2. Reflex restrain his hands and feet. Movement reflexes sometimes waking from sleep. So with dibedong he will sleep more restful.
  3. Makes it easier to carry
  4. Soothes fussy babies while, because he will be comfortable, safe and quiet then drowsy and fell asleep.
  5. Avoid the possibility of sudden death syndrome due to supine sleeping infants.
But it should not be too long membedong baby. Should be done until the baby is 1 month old. If the baby is bigger, bedong it will restrict movement and make a fussy baby. So pay attention to some things in membedong baby:
  1. Never in bedong if the weather is too hot.
  2. Note the baby wishes, like in bedong or not.
  3. Be diligent to check if the diaper is wet or not.
  4. Be careful not to cover the face fabric to membedong baby. Few cloth that touched his face, although due to its own movement, but it can make it confused.
Now prepare the equipment needed for membedong baby. The following should be prepared:
  1. Bedding, mattresses or can be on the bed, which is important not slippery and make the baby slipping.
  2. Special fabrics for bedong (do not use a blanket or shawl, because it will make the baby too hot and hard to breathe)
Step-by-step how membedong baby:
  1. Take bedong fabric, then fold into a triangular shape (the longest side is at the top)
  2. Lay the baby on top of the fabric. Make sure the shoulder a bit at the top of the fabric so that the fabric is not the baby's neck Begian.
  3. Pull one corner of the fabric passes through the baby's body. Then tuck in next to the baby's body with baby hand position flanking the fabric.
  4. Do it on another fabric shrinkage, and prepare fabric.
Tips in membedong baby:
  1. If the baby does not like her hands into the bedong, then we can membedong baby's hands with the hands outside.
  2. The rest of the fabric in the legs can be detached or in the connective leave. All up to us. It's just that if we choose to tie it then make sure the rope is not too tight so that the baby does not overheat.
  3. Do membedong too tightly.
If the baby does not like it then we do not need to bedong membedongnya. Benefits membedong is making baby comfortable.

Monday, July 14, 2014

Baby Nose Cleaning Tips

Nose is definitely a small baby and we are afraid to clean it. Here I provide some way to clean newborn's nose in order to clean and easy to breathe:
  1. When the baby is awake, he lay on his stomach with his head above the position leads to one side. This position makes the tongue and saliva in the throat so air can easily pass out.
     
  2. Keep the neighborhood gathering place of dust and fluff. Clean the dust gathering place such as feather pillows, furry animals, and dozens of fluffy gifts that are around the baby.
  3. Keep baby from breathing bullies like cigarette smoke, paint fumes, gasoline, air fresheners, perfume and hair spray. Do not let anyone smoke around your baby, because this is one of the most common nuisance for infant respiratory sensitive.
Those are some tips and tricks that I can give to all of you loyal readers of this health blog. Hopefully useful and able to provide a very useful bit of knowledge for oneself and for others.


Sunday, July 13, 2014

Baby Nail Cutting Tips

Baby nails may seem trivial, but if the baby's nails are too long, it will hurt the baby itself. Any soft as baby's nails, but if kept too long can hurt the body itself if scratched. So as a smart mother, do not be lazy to cut the baby's nails to maintain the cleanliness and safety activities.

Here are tips on nail trimming baby:
  1. Use nail clippers round end.
  2. Hold the baby's toes or hands with one of our hands. In order not to cut the nails too deep, press the skin under the nails for easy cutting.
  3. Flatten nails if we feel there is a part that feels sharp pieces or rough. In order to follow the shape of the finger nails, but for the toes should be straight cut.
  4. Check the results of chunks, then puree with a smoothing that is usually present in infant manicure package.
  5. If we accidentally cut her nails up too short, try pressing the cutting results with a sterile cloth that is soft, so that the baby does not feel pain. With a wound and bleed, cut with a sterile cloth or paper towel.
  6. Never close the cut nails with tape, because it can be a choking hazard when the baby put his hand in the mouth.
  7. If the baby is still small and a lot of moves, you should nail scissors while he was sleeping.
  8. If the baby has grown up, nail clippers after she finished showering. Because at that time the nails become softer and easier on the scissors.
  9. To divert the attention of the baby, play his favorite movie or sang with the baby.
  10. Check the baby's nails short length, scissors least every week.

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Tips on Washing and Caring for Baby Clothes and Baby Diapers

Washing the baby's clothes tricky. The amount of dirt that accumulates with a baby can be a memorable experience. But do not trigger panic, here are some tips for baby clothes in order to stay healthy and comfortable when worn baby.

 
Previously used to prepare the items needed:
  • Plastic bucket
  • Laundry soap or detergent
  • Hangers for drying. We can buy octopus ring is a circular ring with a lot of baby clothes for drying hands.
  • Clothespin clothing
  • Plastic basket (for storing clothes that are already dry)
  • Iron along its base.
To be able to wash your own search on the internet because I have lost some articles that I will post in this blog. I apologize for our mistake this. Hopefully I can continue to provide a wide range of tips and tricks that are beneficial to the health of all of you.

Friday, July 11, 2014

Tip Prickly Sweat Baby

Causes of prickly heat in infants is clogged sweat glands. Because the function of the sweat glands in the baby's not perfect as in adults. So we will more often find prickly heat on baby's skin.

 
Here are tips on how to prevent prickly heat:
  1. Use clothing that is easy to absorb sweat, like cotton cloth.
  2. Use clothing that is loose and not too tight.
  3. Improve air circulation in the room.
  4. Bathe your baby with regular 1 or 2 x per day
If your baby has been exposed to prickly heat, there are several alternatives for treating prickly heat, namely:
  • With VCO (Virgin Coconut Oil)
  • With oil telon (select coconut oil content 60%)
  • Salicyl Powder (can be mixed with water as cold powder)
  • Powder.
But if the baby's skin condition gets worse, check with your doctor. Because who knows skin disorders in misery prickly heat but not other diseases.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Tips to Prevent Diaper Rash

Diaper rash is an inflammation in the diaper-covered area, such as around the genitals, buttocks, and inner groin. Diaper rash is often experienced by newborns. Usually reddish accompanied by mild abrasions and itching.

 
The cause of diaper rash is a variety of them:
  • Baby's skin is too long exposed to urine or faeces baby diaper or diaper wearing too long in a dirty condition.
  • Too old to use diapers made of plastic or rubber that cause irritation.
  • Have a history of allergies.
How to prevent diaper rash can be done in the following way:
  1. Change baby's diaper as often as possible, be it diapers or cloth diapers, so diaper wet, immediately replaced.
  2. Clean the diaper area gently with warm water. Dry with a soft towel, winds briefly, then gave a soft baby powder according to skin type. But if it has been exposed to diaper rash, apply a cream baby diaper rash in the affected area.
  3. Select the last diaper soft and absorbent.
Tips to cope with diaper rash
Diaper rash occurs because there is friction between the diaper with little skin. That's because the baby's skin is very sensitive and sensitive. If he wears a diaper then automatically closed the skin, the skin becomes moist result. Excessive moisture is what triggers the onset of diaper rash.
Here's how to cope with diaper rash:
  1. Change your baby's diaper as soon as possible if dirty.
  2. Wipe the baby's bottom dry and soon we change her diaper each. Use warm water and cotton wool to clean his ass.
  3. Apply each nappy cream we change her diaper
  4. Every now and do not let your babies wear diapers.
  5. Change your baby's diaper brand, possibly, he is allergic to certain types of diapers.
Tips on diapers or diaper suitable for babies:
  • Modern diaper can indeed absorb more liquid. Babies can repeatedly defecate in diapers diaper Listen Read phonetically and kept dry, but also the baby's skin needs to breathe the way in winds.
  • If we had changed him, but diaper rash persists, then try to change the brand of diaper.
  • Use a soft cloth diapers. Replace it immediately with a new diaper when baby pee or BAB or hot air.
  • Make sure the baby's bottom is completely dry before putting on a new diaper.
  • Avoid alcoholic wet tissue product as it can make baby's skin irritation. Instead, use a cotton swab soaked in baby oil denagn.
Every change diapers, let baby naked or not wearing a diaper for a few minutes.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Tips to Prevent Nappy Rash

Nappy rash is usually more common in infants who are too often using diapers or disposable diapers from the baby using cloth diapers. Nappy rash is initially just a sign of reddish - crimson around the thighs and buttocks and usually sting if touched. The reddish mark or set aside if untreated will become even wound infection.

 
 
Here are tips to prevent nappy Rash:
  1. Do not be lazy to change her diaper Listen Read phonetically immediately when soiled or wet.
  2. Clean baby's bottom with wet wipes or alcohol-free fragrance, or can also use a cotton swab moistened with warm boiled water.
  3. After the baby's bottom is cleaned, and then pat dry with a clean towel. Leave it open or without wearing diapers or pants or diapers in order to get some fresh air for a few moments.
  4. Use cream if there are signs of skin flushed with irritation.
Do not put a diaper too tight, there should be the rest of the room in a circle the waist sabagai air circulation.

Tips on Replacing Baby Diaper

Baby diaper is full and does not immediately change will result in moisture and lead to irritation on baby's skin. Before we change diapers, make sure we do it in a warm room temperature.  


Then, prepare beforehand equipment is needed next to us, among other things:
  1. Dry diapers to change (can cloth diaper or diaper)
  2. Perlak
  3. Cotton
  4. Warm boiled water
  5. Small towel or paper towel
  6. Diaper cream (If the baby is easily affected by allergic or diaper rash)
How to change her diaper is:
  1. Lay the baby on perlak. Remember, do not leave the baby even if could fall or tumble. So prepare equipment prior to changing diapers.
  2. Open up the dirty diapers
  3. Lift the baby's legs by clamping both ankles with one hand.
  4. If the baby's bowel movements (BAB), use the diapers that have not been exposed to dirt to wipe the dirt that still exists in the ass.
  5. Clean again with a small towel or paper towel.
  6. Then wipe again with a cotton ball soaked in warm water. Clean carefully starting from the genitals to the groin.
  7. Dry with a small towel or paper towel.
  8. Before installing the new diaper, briefly winds baby's bottom to prevent diaper rash.
  9. If the well is dry, attach the new diaper.
Other tips:
  1. For baby girls, always wipe from the front to back movement (anus) it is to prevent the entry of bacteria from the anus to the vagina.
  2. For baby boys, do not ever pull the skin of the penis and rubbing them to clean the bottom.
  3. To replace a small towel, use a cloth diaper that has been unused or outgrown. Cut in half and use as a cleaning cloth.  
To be more practical, moisten a cotton swab with warm boiled water and store in a sealed container. Put in place we used to change a diaper. 

Monday, July 7, 2014

Tips Diapering

If we put a cloth diaper or diaper to the baby, do not forget to replace ach 6 hours. Even if using a diaper, it seems not full, but immediately replaced. Keep in mind, newborns can urinate every 30 minutes. If using cloth diapers, do not be lazy to replace any wet, because the urine will make the skin wet and can not breathe.
 
  1. Diaper
    If we put a diaper to the baby, the proper way is:
    1. Open the diaper, tuck under the baby's bottom.
    2. Make sure the tape right at the waist baby, then open the adhesive tape. Glue to the front end. Remember, do not be too strict. then did the only part.
    3. If not fit, adhesive tape can be re-opened. Modern diapers have adhesive tapes which can open the lid with superb adhesion, so that we can fix the position of diapers to fit the baby's body.
  2. Disposable baby diapers directly 
If we put the baby into cloth diapers, the proper way is:
    1. Spread a cloth diaper under the baby. The part that there is no strap on the back.
    2. Pull the cloth diaper Atasa to the front, then tied with a rope that is in the back.
Remember, if the baby's umbilical yet crowbar, rope diapers should exist above or below the navel. Do not tie too tight.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Tips to Overcome Sleep Deprivation When Having a Baby

It seems natural that a new mother to lose a few hours of sleep. Up at night to breastfeed, preparing bottles, changing diapers and soothe even the little baby at night is facing a new mother. This causes our sleep cycles become irregular.

 
 
Here are some tips to cope with sleep deprivation:
  1. Immediately if your child was asleep.
  2. Make the job priority. Not all the household work must be completed at that time as well? Well, for just dafatr job is important and should be when it is finished. Other work can wait. For example: clothes irons, just as we want to wear, home shopping purposes sufficient, once a week, or entrusted to the husband, even can also use the facilities delivery order.
  3. Do not hesitate to accept help. Either of the husband, parents, in-laws, friends, or relatives. While there is little keeping the baby guanakn sebik time there as possible. Whether to perform light work, or even for a nap.
  4. Eating nutritious foods. And remember to always eat regularly.
Avoid caffeinated foods, chocolate, or drinks that contain a lot of sugar. Food and drink this kind memnag make us feel excited but the effect is only for a moment, after which we will feel sluggish.

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Tips to Stay Fit After Childbirth

Having a baby is exciting, but at the same time can not also be denied having a baby also very time-consuming. Body shape changed, even looks like we're running out of time to ourselves. It is a natural thing experienced by new mothers. Stay excited, even if it looks like there is no time to take care of ourselves, at least we should always fit after giving birth. Not possible? Who says?
 
 
Here are some tips for new moms to stay fit after giving birth:
  1. Actively engaged. For example, by exercising. We may be lazy if it heard the word "sport", but this is one way to help us keep fit. No need to exercise energy drain, just take a walk around the complex with your child, or up and down stairs.
  2. Do the fun things, such as reading novels, watching movies, listening to music.
  3. Try to sleep (biarpunhanya briefly). Sleep makes the mind and body fresh.
  4. Breakfast with a menu rich in fiber and protein.
  5. If we like to eat snacks, avoid the sweet taste. Make sure snacks are consumed does not exceed the portion of our meal.
  6. Drink lots of water to prevent dehydration.
  7. Early dinner with a light menu.
  8. Relaxation, such as aromatherapy bath, spa, dal etc..
Similarly, the tips I can share to all readers of this blog. Hopefully useful and adds to our knowledge about the health of our bodies. Still keep your diet and exercise are enough to maintain the balance and health of our bodies.

Friday, July 4, 2014

Tips to Maintain Animal Health

We have a pet, be it cat, dog, or other animal, while we're having a child. Obviously we want to keep can keep pets, while it can also keep your child grow and develop properly. Indeed, much of the literature mentions, pets must carry the disease. One of the scourge is toxoplasmosis. Therefore, to anticipate unwanted things, we can begin to maintain pet health. Let's start from now. Now we consider some tips that you can do.

 
Tips to Maintain Healthy Kids Against Animal:
  1. Take pets to the veterinarian on a regular basis, so that his health is always monitored.
  2. Invites do not let pets outdoors.
  3. Get used to cut, wash and clean the cage pets included.
  4. Sterilizing pets. This makes them more docile and do not bite.
  5. Note that consumed pet food. Do not let him eat haphazardly.

Preventing and Reducing Toxoplasmosis

Toxoplasma is not the germs, bacteria, or viruses, but parasites are classified protozo. Toxoplasma can live (attack) almost all animals and humans. The landlord is a staunch cat, but do not continue to blame the cat. Toxoplasmosis can be avoided if we maintain a healthy and clean living.
 
Tips to prevent and reduce Toxoplasmosis:
  1. Ask for help from someone else to clean up pet droppings, cleans his cage, and bathe. If it really forced you to do it yourself, use rubber gloves, and wash your hands afterwards.
  2. Give the pet food cleanliness assured.
  3. Avoid holding and eating raw meat.
  4. Clean the knife and cutting board before use. Distinguish for the cut to cut meat with vegetables.
Above are a few tips that I can give to the readers of this blog. Hopefully these tips can be useful for all of you and add to your knowledge about maintaining the health of the animals that you love. Staying healthy lifestyle with exercise and always keep eating every day.