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The Principle of Choosing Good Food For Babies

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Food is very determine in growth and in the form of baby immune system. Babies grow faster than adults, and in any growth requires adequate nutrition. Rapid growth requires extra nutrition and good food. Food should be healthy, fresh and rich in nutrients that can form the baby's body to be perfect. One should keep in mind that what is good for adults is not always good for the baby. Although the baby's body is similar to the adult body, but the physical systems they have not completely formed, so they need extra nutrients to meet the needs of growing cells and the immune system of infants. The principle of choosing good food for babies: 1. In the first years, the baby's body digestive system yet strong. So the stomach can not digest the food, so it depends on the mother's milk. Mother's milk is baby food which is full of nutrients and rich in substance the baby's immune builder. 2. Baby teeth will grow after 9 months of being born, until the time the baby depen...

Benefits of Swimming for Babies

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Teach baby to swim since the first year has many benefits. Not only beneficial for babies, swimming can improve the parent-child bonding. According to a study from the University of Science and Technology in Norway, babies can swim proved to have a better balance, and can reach around objects more easily than infants who are not swimmers. Water Babies surveys conducted showed that 40 percent of parents in the UK claimed never to expect any positive benefits, from teaching swimming to babies. Though the third highest accident in children in the UK due to drowning child. Teach swim early on, it can improve self-esteem in the water, and allowed him to protect himself. Here are the benefits of teach swimming to baby: Bonding Swimming with the baby into a fun moment for kids and parents. Besides thrilling, swimming with baby also increase parent-child bonding. Physical and mental development Activities swim practice physical and mental development of children. Children not only grow fitter ...

8 Drugs That Should be Avoided Given to Babies

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Consult a doctor before giving medicine to infants and toddlers. The immune system that still weak, it makes the baby more vulnerable to germs that cause disease. Even so, parents should be careful in giving medicines to them, even a relatively natural medicine or herbal.  Your toddler is often susceptible to colds and coughs . But giving cough and cold medicines in children under 6 years old is very dangerous . According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the drug administration has not been proven effective in infants and cause an overdose . Drugs That Should be Avoided Given to Babies Here are 8 types of drugs that should be avoided given to babies: 1. Aspirin Avoid giving aspirin or medications containing aspirin to children, except on your doctor's instructions. Aspirin can cause Reye's syndrome that can damage the kidneys and brain. Do not assume the-counter medicines do not have aspirin content, therefore, should carefully read the medicine label...

How To Get Rid Of Colic In Babies

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When your baby have colic, you will definitely find a way to get rid of it. Babies with colic will cry more often with clenched arms, or legs folded to the stomach, they can be seen in pain. If your baby cries for more than 3 hours a day, 3 days a week for more than 3 weeks it is called colic. When your baby cries, he will swallow gas so that his stomach looked bloated and hard which makes it even more uncomfortable. Colic usually begin to appear after the baby is a few weeks old, and then disappear when the baby is 3 months old and although there is a possibility it lasts longer. If your baby is suffering from colic when he was more than 3 months is likely he suffered a "reflux disorder". Symptoms Of Colic in baby There are several symptoms of a baby suffering from colic: Continuous crying and fussing endlessly for no reason (and not because they feel hunger, thirst or pain. Crying unusual (to cry more than four times a day). Excessive crying (crying more than 20 minutes, ev...