About Baby Care

TV is a powerful source of information and entertainment as well as a great way of educating your child by example. But sometimes there occur problems the cause of which is that same TV. What to do? How to make your child take the good from it? On the whole the only way to keep your child away from watching bad programs is to forbid him watching TV in general. This is impossible. So let’s see how you can solve TV related problems.

Make a DVD TV for him. Collect kind and funny cartoons, different child programs and do your best to watch with him. Tell him you like them too, because children always want to do what their parents love. Don’t tell him you love cartoons and go and watch soap operas, because sooner or later he’ll follow...

Some women think pregnancy is a long process during which they can’t do things they used to and can’t have fun. But stop thinking about that and enjoy your pregnancy — the most incredible nine months of your life. Morning sickness and fatigue are one of the main problems so in order not to make them torture you, we suggest you five funny things you can do before your baby’s arrival and make this period amazing and unforgettable. :)

1. Shopping is what almost all women are fond of, hereby go out, enjoy the weather and start buying. This shopping is original because you will not buy something for your baby, but just for you. Why do women think if they are pregnant they have to wear only everything comfortable?...
   
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When can babies take vitamins? There are parents who don’t consult with doctors and give different vitamin pills to their babies without thinking they are useful or not. This is not right.

The vitamins your baby needs, he can get from what he eats, starting from breast milk to fruits. In this regard, there is no need to give him special vitamin pills. But this is the common approach, since many babies, particularly breastfed infants, should start taking vitamins.

Let’s firstly understand what vitamins are and what their function is. Vitamins are compounds the baby’s body needs. They aid in proper growth and development. Make sure you give your baby only a certain amount of vitamins because their...

You are pregnant and you definitely want to eat as much as possible starting from sweets to different sandwiches, right? But it’s very important to be careful and to concentrate on how many pounds you gain during pregnancy. It’s not necessary to eat for two, it’s just a must to gain more calories than you used to. If you gain the right amount of your weight, you will protect both you and your child. If you don’t follow it, you can have different problems such as high blood pressure or diabetes. Each day pregnant women usually need around 300 extra calories, thus you can drink, for example, milk or have a healthy snack to get them.

If you want to know how much weight you must gain while pregnant, check...

At what age should parents leave a child alone at home? Honestly nobody can give an exact answer, it depends on the age of your child as well as on how independent he gets and on how independently he can act and behave. But the one thing is clear; you should educate your child in a way he feels safe while alone at home.

• Scientists have proved children recognize numbers earlier than letters, thus you can explain to him in what case where to call. For example, you can write on a paper three main numbers of the fire service, ambulance and police. To make it even easier you can draw matches on the fire service paper, a red cross on the ambulance paper and so on. Kids like calling here and there, it’s...
  
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Pregnancy is a period of amazing nine months during which mothers spend most of their time on looking for beautiful names for their baby and buying every little detail to make their babies’ childhood unforgettable and wonderful.

But pregnancy period is not a process, which always goes smooth and problem-free. Future mothers can face various problems, thus for them it is a must to know how to solve them. I know many women interested in whether it’s OK to travel while pregnant or not. So today we’ll talk about how safe it is to travel during pregnancy. We’ll also offer you points to make your travel both safe and enjoyable.

The perfect time

Being a mother is a unique specialization and you have to be very “well-educated” to make your baby’s life full of joy and fun, at the same time keeping him away from troubles.

When your child is 2-3 years old, you wash his hands yourself explaining the importance of cleanliness. But when in kindergarten with friends, he hardly remembers your advice. So you have to use every possible and impossible way to make him understand the importance and necessity of washing hands. It should become a pleasant habit for him.

To help you with this problem, we offer you steps to make your child enjoy water and understand...

You spend whole nine months waiting for your baby’s birth. Those nine months are truly emotional especially if we consider the so-called processes of searching for names, stopping at every baby-shop hoping to find something as special as your baby and reading various baby-care books to learn the ways of bringing up your little angel as a good person for the society. But everyone is unique in their own way and very possibly what you have planned for your baby can remain pictured in your mind and never come true. So what? Is it “the end of the world?”

Definitely no,...

Talking

Your baby will gradually learn to use words to describe what she sees, hears, feels, and thinks as she makes mental, emotional, and behavioural leaps. Researchers now know that long before a baby utters her first word, she’s learning the rules of language and how adults use it to communicate.

When it develops

Children learn to talk during their first two years of life. Your baby will begin by using her tongue, lips, palate, and any emerging teeth to make sounds (ooh and ahhs in the first month or two; babbling starts shortly thereafter). Soon those sounds become real words (“mama” and “dada” may slip out and bring tears to your eyes as...

Whether you spend it inside or in the great outdoors, summer is a tricky season for keeping an infant safe and comfortable. Overdress a baby and he could develop an angry heat rash; expose his fragile body to hot conditions and he could be vulnerable to a painful, damaging sunburn or to heatstroke, a serious affliction characterized by a high fever and rapid breathing. Overheating has also been linked to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a fatal sleeping disorder. “Babies sleep deeply when they’re hot, making them difficult to arouse, which may increase the risk of SIDS,” explains Bruce Epstein, M.D., a pediatrician in Pinellas Park, Florida.

To make sure your little one stays...