Infant health concerns often involve monitoring for signs of allergies, abnormal muscle stiffness, or unusual odors like breath smelling like vinegar. Proper care includes regulating temperature and noise levels.
Infant stool can be a good indicator of your baby's health, according to pediatrician Jay Gordon. The color and consistency of your child's bowel movements are sometimes the best insight you have into how your baby is feeling. Stringy, watery mucus in your infant's stool can have a variety of causes.
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Often called obligate or preferential nasal breathers, infants show a propensity for breathing through their noses. Although typically infrequent, mouth breathing plays a key role in helping keep your infant alive and healthy.
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Infant boys and girls can both develop swollen tissue that resembles miniature breasts. You may be a bit disconcerted to see that your baby has what looks to be developing breasts, but breast buds in infants shouldn't be an immediate cause for concern.
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You are feeding your baby when all of a sudden, a large mucus bubble emits, staining your shirt or burp towel. Mucus spit-up in infants is a common condition that is rarely a cause for concern, but can serve as a messy inconvenience.
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New babies are full of surprises, and for many parents of newborn boys, infant erections are one of the biggest surprises of all. If you notice a baby's erection during his bath or when changing his diaper, it's normal to feel a little concerned. But in most cases, your baby's erections are not a cause for worry.
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Babies, like older children, grow at different rates. In addition to determining eye color and hair type, heredity plays a large part in determining how tall your baby will grow. But even if heredity suggests your baby won't be an NBA center, there are things you can do to help him reach his height potential.
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Baby toenails are very delicate and can be vulnerable to several minor but painful problems. To prevent baby toenail problems such as ingrown nails, nail fungus and brittle nails, you should keep your baby’s feet clean and dry and trim her toenails regularly.
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Babies are normally unbalanced on their feet when learning to walk. However, if your baby seems to never gain balance, it could be caused by health factors. Consult your pediatrician if you feel that your baby is having excessive balancing problems for long periods of time when trying to walk.
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Acid reflux can be a temporary or long-term condition in breastfeeding infants. Learn how to prevent and manage acid reflux in breastfed babies by following a balanced diet and making lifestyle changes.
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The sight of a gurgling, well-fed baby warms nearly everyone's heart. Alarm bells may start to jangle inside a new parent's head, however, when he spies a coating of white stuff on his baby's tongue.
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Everyone needs oxygen, including a fetus in its mother's womb. Oxygen is vital to life, and to a fetus it is vital to growth and development, so any lack of oxygen has the potential to be devastating and even fatal to a growing fetus.
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Long before babies can talk, they use a variety of gestures to communicate. These gestures include crying, smiling, smacking their lips or scrunching up their noses, according to the article "Reading Your Baby's Cues" on the website PBS Parents. In addition, babies often stick out their tongues.
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Acetaminophen, brand name Tylenol, or international generic name paracetamol, is a medication given to infants and children for fever and pain. It is considered safe when used in the recommended dose of 10 to 15 mg per kilo of body weight per dose.
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During pregnancy, all substances that the mother consumes, either beneficial and dangerous, are passed on to the child. If a pregnant woman consumes cocaine during her pregnancy, the child may not develop properly.
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Anything that seems to affect the breathing of an infant can be alarming, including hoarseness without an obvious cause. While there is often a simple explanation, any hoarseness in a young infant should be addressed by a pediatrician.
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Anemia is a common blood disorder in infants, affecting normal growth and development. The most common type in babies under two years of age is iron-deficiency anemia. With iron-deficiency anemia, the infant either does not get enough iron or cannot absorb iron.
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During the first several months of life, many babies experience mild, transient changes in the pace and depth of breathing. According to Dr. William Sears, a renowned pediatrician, rapid breathing and panting are extremely common in newborns and only rarely a cause for concern.
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Of course you want a clean home for your baby, but you might wonder which cleaning products are safe to use around a little one. A clean home should not risk your baby's health, so it's prudent to use safe and environmentally-friendly cleaners to make your home sparkle.
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Your baby's first detectable movements may startle and amaze you. According to Kyra Karmiloff and Annette Karmiloff-Smith, authors of "Everything Your Baby Would Ask: If Only Babies Could Talk,"
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An infant incubator is a piece of equipment common to pediatric hospitals, birthing centers and neonatal intensive care units.
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