Give your child attention and reassurance
It is important to give your child the attention and reassurance he needs so that he will know that you will always be there for him. This gives him the confidence to discover by himself and conquer the unfamiliar.
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Thursday, 23 February 2012
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Nutrition - Toddler at 1 Year
Before you serve food to your child, always ensure that the food is mashed, sliced or chopped into small portions to prevent choking hazards.
Calcium
Your child needs 500 milligrams (mg) of calcium a day to build strong bones and teeth, enhance nerve and muscle function, and
Calcium
Your child needs 500 milligrams (mg) of calcium a day to build strong bones and teeth, enhance nerve and muscle function, and
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Tips For Mom - Toddler at 1 Year
Keep your calm
At the age of one, your child develops his sense of independence and may test your responses towards his actions. He may deliberately do something against your wishes, like scattering or throwing his toys, or do something that poses a danger to him, like reaching for objects that may fall on him. Calmly tell him “no” and explain why he shouldn’t have done it.
At the age of one, your child develops his sense of independence and may test your responses towards his actions. He may deliberately do something against your wishes, like scattering or throwing his toys, or do something that poses a danger to him, like reaching for objects that may fall on him. Calmly tell him “no” and explain why he shouldn’t have done it.
Toddler at 1 year
Cognitive development
Your child begins to understand opposites and instructions involving two separate actions, such as “Drink your milk and give the bottle to mummy”. He can now describe his needs more clearly.
Speech development
He can now hum his favourite melody, tell you what he is doing, and express his likes and dislikes. “No” may be his favourite word at this point.
Your child begins to understand opposites and instructions involving two separate actions, such as “Drink your milk and give the bottle to mummy”. He can now describe his needs more clearly.
Speech development
He can now hum his favourite melody, tell you what he is doing, and express his likes and dislikes. “No” may be his favourite word at this point.
Monday, 20 February 2012
Baby at 3 Mounth
Your baby can only consume milk at this point. For breastfeeding mothers, it’s best to stick to a healthy, well-balanced diet of carbohydrates, protein and fat to provide your baby with optimal nutrition.
Fats and oils
Use canola oil or olive oil for cooking and avoid high trans fats products like margarine, crackers and fast food meals, which promotes bad cholesterol and lowers good cholesterol. Also, be careful of saturated fats in foods such as whole milk, butter and lard.
Fruits and vegetables
Remember: Your diet will influence breast milk production, so consume clean and cooked products to avoid ingesting environmental chemicals. Peel fruits before consuming and avoid fruits and vegetables known to contain high levels of pesticides, like strawberries, celery, apples, cherries, and kalian; or consume organic products.
Fish, meat and poultry
Do not eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel and eat tuna sparingly, as these fishes are known to contain mercury. Instead, go for salmon, tilapia, Choose to eat lean meat, and trim off the fats as chemicals may be stored in fat layers.
Alcoholic and caffeinated beverages
It is recommended to abstain from alcoholic beverages if you are breastfeeding as alcohol can stay in the bloodstream for up to 2 – 3 hours. However, if you are going to indulge yourself, you can pump breast milk and store it in the refrigerator before drinking, so that you won’t risk intoxicating your baby.
Limit your caffeine intake to only 300 milligrams (mg) a day as caffeine can end up in breast milk. Since babies cannot break down caffeine yet, it may end up accumulating in his body. Caffeinated beverages include coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate.
Fats and oils
Use canola oil or olive oil for cooking and avoid high trans fats products like margarine, crackers and fast food meals, which promotes bad cholesterol and lowers good cholesterol. Also, be careful of saturated fats in foods such as whole milk, butter and lard.
Fruits and vegetables
Remember: Your diet will influence breast milk production, so consume clean and cooked products to avoid ingesting environmental chemicals. Peel fruits before consuming and avoid fruits and vegetables known to contain high levels of pesticides, like strawberries, celery, apples, cherries, and kalian; or consume organic products.
Fish, meat and poultry
Do not eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel and eat tuna sparingly, as these fishes are known to contain mercury. Instead, go for salmon, tilapia, Choose to eat lean meat, and trim off the fats as chemicals may be stored in fat layers.
Alcoholic and caffeinated beverages
It is recommended to abstain from alcoholic beverages if you are breastfeeding as alcohol can stay in the bloodstream for up to 2 – 3 hours. However, if you are going to indulge yourself, you can pump breast milk and store it in the refrigerator before drinking, so that you won’t risk intoxicating your baby.
Limit your caffeine intake to only 300 milligrams (mg) a day as caffeine can end up in breast milk. Since babies cannot break down caffeine yet, it may end up accumulating in his body. Caffeinated beverages include coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate.
Sunday, 19 February 2012
Baby at 12 Month- Nutrition
Complementary feeding
Complementary feeding is when you start introducing solid foods to your baby, from liquids to purees to bite-sized portions. By now, your baby should be eating solids three times a day.
Besides rice cereals with breast milk, you can also try mashed potato, strained or mashed fruits and vegetables like bananas, carrots, tomatoes and pumpkin; and finely chopped fish and meat like anchovies, dried scallops and oysters mixed in porridge.
Complementary feeding is when you start introducing solid foods to your baby, from liquids to purees to bite-sized portions. By now, your baby should be eating solids three times a day.
Besides rice cereals with breast milk, you can also try mashed potato, strained or mashed fruits and vegetables like bananas, carrots, tomatoes and pumpkin; and finely chopped fish and meat like anchovies, dried scallops and oysters mixed in porridge.
Baby at 12 Month- Tips For Mom's
Mind your language and behaviour
Watch what you say and do. Your baby will mimic adult behaviours, so he may pick up bad habits and language if you’re not careful.
Supervise your baby
Encourage your baby to explore by himself but not wander too far from you. You should be able to supervise him and reach him when you sense something amiss.
Watch what you say and do. Your baby will mimic adult behaviours, so he may pick up bad habits and language if you’re not careful.
Supervise your baby
Encourage your baby to explore by himself but not wander too far from you. You should be able to supervise him and reach him when you sense something amiss.
Infant develepment
Cognitive development
Through observations and experiences, your baby recognises different emotional reactions and starts to differentiate faces according to gender. He can also recognise different features of models and toys, and figure out relationships between separate objects, like putting a spoon into a soup bowl.
Through observations and experiences, your baby recognises different emotional reactions and starts to differentiate faces according to gender. He can also recognise different features of models and toys, and figure out relationships between separate objects, like putting a spoon into a soup bowl.
Baby at 9 Month - Nutrition
Complementary feedingComplementary feeding is when you start introducing solid foods to your baby, from liquids to purees to bite-sized portions. By now, your baby should be eating solids three times a day.
Baby at 9 Month - Tips for mom"s
Beware of choking
Keep small objects like buttons, jewellery and small toys like Lego out of reach as they pose choking hazards. Be careful of certain toys that contain detachable parts, like doll parts and accessories. Make sure your baby doesn’t pick up them and place them in his mouth out of curiosity.
Keep small objects like buttons, jewellery and small toys like Lego out of reach as they pose choking hazards. Be careful of certain toys that contain detachable parts, like doll parts and accessories. Make sure your baby doesn’t pick up them and place them in his mouth out of curiosity.
Baby at 9 Month
Speech development
Your baby should be babbling and making sounds like “mama” or “dada” now. He also develops an understanding of words and instructions, like “bye-bye”.
Motor development
He starts holding or chewing food in the mouth, handling and playing with objects using his hands to understand shapes, uses pincer grasp (thumb and index finger), and crawls. When adults hold their hands, your baby will naturally stand up and raise each of their feet alternately, as if starting to walk.
Your baby should be babbling and making sounds like “mama” or “dada” now. He also develops an understanding of words and instructions, like “bye-bye”.
Motor development
He starts holding or chewing food in the mouth, handling and playing with objects using his hands to understand shapes, uses pincer grasp (thumb and index finger), and crawls. When adults hold their hands, your baby will naturally stand up and raise each of their feet alternately, as if starting to walk.
Baby at 6 Month - Nutrition
Complementary feeding
You can begin complementary feeding your baby. Complementary feeding is when you start introducing solid foods to your baby, from liquids to purees to bite-sized portions.
You can start off with fortified rice cereal, mixed with breast milk once a day. Besides rice cereals, you can also add mashed potato, porridge, strained or mashed fruits and vegetables like bananas, carrots, tomatoes and pumpkin; and finely chopped fish and meat like anchovies, dried scallops and oysters.
You can begin complementary feeding your baby. Complementary feeding is when you start introducing solid foods to your baby, from liquids to purees to bite-sized portions.
You can start off with fortified rice cereal, mixed with breast milk once a day. Besides rice cereals, you can also add mashed potato, porridge, strained or mashed fruits and vegetables like bananas, carrots, tomatoes and pumpkin; and finely chopped fish and meat like anchovies, dried scallops and oysters.
Baby at 6 Month
Cognitive development
Your little one begins to understand the relationships between objects, recognise faces, and becomes shy or anxious towards strangers.
Motor development
He can grasp objects firmly, rip papers and sit with support. Your baby now knows how to roll over, and has developed better hand-eye coordination that he can precisely pick up objects, transfer a toy from hand to hand, or hold one toy in each hand and knock them together.
Dental development
The central incisors (middle front teeth) have started growing.
Your little one begins to understand the relationships between objects, recognise faces, and becomes shy or anxious towards strangers.
Motor development
He can grasp objects firmly, rip papers and sit with support. Your baby now knows how to roll over, and has developed better hand-eye coordination that he can precisely pick up objects, transfer a toy from hand to hand, or hold one toy in each hand and knock them together.
Dental development
The central incisors (middle front teeth) have started growing.
Baby at 1 Month
Your body starts recovering
During the first month after childbirth, with sufficient rest and proper nutrition, the uterus should have recovered, with smooth lochia (postpartum vaginal discharge), and all organ functions should gradually return to normal.
Breast engorgement and pain
During the first month after childbirth, with sufficient rest and proper nutrition, the uterus should have recovered, with smooth lochia (postpartum vaginal discharge), and all organ functions should gradually return to normal.
Breast engorgement and pain
Baby at 1 mounth - Nutrition
Your baby can only consume milk at this point. For breastfeeding mothers, stick to a healthy, well-balanced diet of carbohydrates, protein and fat to provide your baby with optimal nutrition.
Fats and oils
Use canola oil or olive oil for cooking and avoid high trans fats products like margarine, crackers and fast food meals, which promotes bad cholesterol and lowers good cholesterol. Also, be careful of saturated fats in foods such as whole milk, butter and lard.
Fats and oils
Use canola oil or olive oil for cooking and avoid high trans fats products like margarine, crackers and fast food meals, which promotes bad cholesterol and lowers good cholesterol. Also, be careful of saturated fats in foods such as whole milk, butter and lard.
Baby at 1 Mounth
Your body starts recovering
During the first month after childbirth, with sufficient rest and proper nutrition, the uterus should have recovered, with smooth lochia (postpartum vaginal discharge), and all organ functions should gradually return to normal.
Breast engorgement and pain
During the first month after childbirth, with sufficient rest and proper nutrition, the uterus should have recovered, with smooth lochia (postpartum vaginal discharge), and all organ functions should gradually return to normal.
Breast engorgement and pain
Third Trimester- Nutritions
Reduce or stop consuming caffeinated and alcoholic drinks as they are known to cause miscarriages and damage the foetal brain.
Cook all foods thoroughly to avoid bacterial contamination. That means raw fish or meat is strictly off limits.
Calcium
Cook all foods thoroughly to avoid bacterial contamination. That means raw fish or meat is strictly off limits.
Calcium
Third Trimester- Tips For Mom;s
Be wary of varicose veins
Don’t stand too long if you suffer from leg cramps and varicose veins (enlarged and swollen veins). If a varicose vein ruptures, it will cause heavy bleeding. You can wear tight clothing and tube socks to protect affected areas, and place a cushion under your legs while you sleep to raise them slightly.
Don’t stand too long if you suffer from leg cramps and varicose veins (enlarged and swollen veins). If a varicose vein ruptures, it will cause heavy bleeding. You can wear tight clothing and tube socks to protect affected areas, and place a cushion under your legs while you sleep to raise them slightly.
Third Trimester
At 9 months, your baby should be about 18 inches long and weighs about 2.5kg.
Your baby now has control of many body movements, and you will be able to feel your baby’s many movements and even the vibration caused by his hiccups. His organ system is now fully developed.
He can now blink, with eyelashes fully grown and may have a full head of hair. Nails have grown on his fingers and toes too.
Your baby now has control of many body movements, and you will be able to feel your baby’s many movements and even the vibration caused by his hiccups. His organ system is now fully developed.
He can now blink, with eyelashes fully grown and may have a full head of hair. Nails have grown on his fingers and toes too.
Reduce or stop consuming caffeinated and alcoholic drinks as they are known to cause miscarriages and damage the foetal brain.
Cook all foods thoroughly to avoid bacterial contamination. That means raw fish or meat is strictly off limits.
Calcium
You need 1200 - 1500 milligrams (mg) of calcium a day to build your baby’s bones and teeth; a healthy heart, muscles and nerves. Top sources of
Cook all foods thoroughly to avoid bacterial contamination. That means raw fish or meat is strictly off limits.
Calcium
You need 1200 - 1500 milligrams (mg) of calcium a day to build your baby’s bones and teeth; a healthy heart, muscles and nerves. Top sources of
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