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.
To many parents, a vibrating baby seat, sometimes called a bouncer or bouncy seat, is a lifesaver. The chair is designed for young babies who can't sit unassisted and provides some hands-free time for the parents.
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Some signs of pregnancy might appear shortly after the date of conception, explains the University of Maryland Medical Center, sometimes even before the date of your next period and before you can take a pregnancy test.
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Expectant parents who are anxious about knowing the sex of their baby may use an array of folkloric strategies including numerology, baby position, food cravings and heart-rate of the fetus in the womb.
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Parents who go to the store looking for medicine to relieve their infant's stuffy nose are not likely to find any. According to a January 2008 recommendation of the U.S.
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While most babies in the womb turn head-down during the last two months of pregnancy, a small percentage remain in some other position, a complication called breech. Breech babies can be identified on ultrasound or during a physical examination by your doctor.
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Pinworm infections, the most prevalent type of parasitic intestinal worm infection in the United States, typically affects children aged 5 to 10, according to MayoClinic.com.
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The sight of blood on your infant will likely cause panic and worry. Most wounds are minor and can be treated at home, reports Kids Health. Cuts and scrapes are an unavoidable part of growing up, and as your infant becomes more mobile he is more likely to get small injuries.
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Unborn babies toss and turn and hold many different positions within the womb during the gestation period; pregnant women everywhere will attest to the fact that their children always start up the gymnastics at bedtime.
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When an infant has a stuffy nose, it can interfere with sleeping and eating and make him uncomfortable and irritated. Because doctors do not recommend using over-the-counter decongestant medications for children younger than 2, parents should rely on infant decongestant remedies that can easily be done at home.
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Babies often crawl on your carpet and take toys from the carpet and put them in their mouths, which makes carpet cleaning an important part of childcare. Unfortunately, some carpet cleaning chemicals pose serious health hazards.
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The soft, thin hair that is sometimes found on the face, shoulders and back of newborns is called lanugo. All fetuses grow lanugo hair in utero. The hair generally vanishes between 36 and 40 weeks gestation. Thus, premature infants are more likely to have lanugo hair.
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The Casio G-Shock series of watches features rugged construction and a youthful, stylish appearance. Casio also produces a similar line of watches for women under the name "Baby G."
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Babies develop hearing during gestation, sometime around the 24th week. At this point, they become accustom to individual noises. After birth, those noises tend to get less of a reaction.
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Most women experience an increase in their breast size during pregnancy and after the birth of a child. It is quite common to increase one to two bra cup sizes during the course of your pregnancy. Part of this enlargement can be linked to a gain in weight, but is also linked to the the preparation for breastfeeding.
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It is common for new parents to feel that their baby is gifted, but a genius child is a rare occurrence. If your baby is one of those rare individuals with extraordinary intelligence, she will probably begin to show signs early in infancy.
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The soft sound of your baby snoring may strike you as adorable, but as a parent, you might begin to worry about what this means. In most cases, snoring in infancy is nothing to worry about, says pediatrician William Sears on parenting.com.
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Babies are born with two soft areas on the top of their heads, which are called "fontanels." This area is where your baby's skull bones haven't yet grown together. The soft spots make vaginal delivery possible and allow for your baby's brain to continue to develop after delivery.
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Aquaphor is a brand of products manufactured by Eucerin. Eucerin specializes in lotions, ointments and salves for the treatment of chapped, dry and irritated skin. The Aquaphor line contains a product specifically aimed at helping children, called Aquaphor Baby Healing Ointment.
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Newborn baby furniture can be expensive. Second-hand items can save a family a great deal of money. When shopping for these items it is important to evaluate how they were handled. Families with pet allergies should ask the seller if animals lived in the home with the furniture.
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Your baby’s eyes are windows to his personality and you love to gaze into them. Your baby rubs his eyes when he’s sleepy, and it’s easy for him to get an eyelash or other strand of hair into an eye, causing him to blink and rub as he tries to get rid of the offending hair.
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