Baby gear maintenance includes properly sterilizing bottles, nipples, and teethers to ensure infant safety. From selecting car seats to knowing when to replace pacifiers, choosing the right equipment is vital.
Placing your baby in a bassinet to sleep can be cozy for her and convenient for you. When you like to keep your baby near you at night, a bassinet offers a safe and comfortable sleeping environment. Eventually, your baby will reach the point where it's time to move her from the bassinet to a crib for sleeping.
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Installing a Graco Snugride infant car seat base correctly is essential to the overall safety and function of the car seat. Car seat bases have become popular, because they make it easy to quickly install and to remove the car seat without ever disturbing your infant.
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Sometimes you need a spot to place your baby when you can’t hold him or focus on him for a moment or two. These situations naturally arise during the course of every day, and it’s essential that you choose a safe place for your baby to play.
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Dressing baby appropriately at night can make her more comfortable, which may facilitate better sleep. The American Academy of Pediatrics provides recommendations for nighttime dressing to help reduce the potential for sudden infant death syndrome.
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Whether to offer your infant a pacifier or not is a personal decision since there are pros and cons to both sides of the pacifier argument. A pacifier helps soothe a baby's strong reflex to suck, it can help him fall asleep and it may help reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
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The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) explains that pacifier use has both pros and cons. Pacifier use is not necessarily harmful, reports the Mayo Clinic, but there are potential negative effects on things like tooth development and feeding habits of older children.
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Moses baskets, made from woven material, have great visual appeal. Named for the type of basket Moses' mother might have put him in to float down the river, these baskets are similar to a bassinet but often feature a handle for carrying.
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Many parents don't have room for both a dresser and a changing table in their baby's nursery. A changing table is a convenient way to change diapers and the top of a dresser converted for this purpose allows you to have storage and a clean surface combined in one piece of furniture.
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Dr. Brown’s is a company that specializes in baby bottles and accessories. The deluxe bottle warmer heats up most sizes of baby bottles efficiently and quickly, according to the manufacturer’s website. The bottle warmer is also useful in helping to warm up jars of baby food. The user’s manual that accompanies the Dr.
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It can be frightening to notice blood in pumped breast milk, particularly if you're not sure what caused the bleeding. Breast-feeding mothers should note that their babies already drink many of their bodily fluids, including small quantities of blood cells, according to Lise Eliot in her book, "
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Babies under 1 year old receive a substantial portion of their nutrition from formula or breast milk, and many fall asleep better and sleep longer when they have a bottle before bed. Many babies go through phases during which they refuse to take their bottles at certain times, particularly bedtime.
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You may wish to slightly elevate the head of your baby's crib mattress to relieve the symptoms of certain conditions. Otherwise, elevating a crib is unnecessary and serves no purpose.
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It’s hard to have too many of your baby’s favorite type of pacifiers. Babies often drop their pacifiers, and you cannot just pop a dirty pacifier in your baby’s mouth. Plus, those dropped pacifiers have a way of disappearing around the house and being left behind on outings.
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By the time you baby begins to walk, he has been using a bottle for months and has become attached to it for nourishment and comfort. The time to stop giving your baby a bottle should follow a period of weaning during which the child has had regular opportunities to use a cup.
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Many parents know the proper method for heating up a baby bottle, but some are unsure of when and how to transition from a warm bottle to cold milk. What may be surprising to many parents is that there are no rules for when to stop warming up a baby bottle.
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As a parent of an infant, you know all about sleepless nights. You might even daydream about your pre-baby days, when you used to get a full eight hours of uninterrupted sleep.
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It's tempting to add a baby bunting bag to your baby's stroller or car seat, especially during the colder winter months. Since baby bunting bags are sold at major retailers, they're mainstream and often thought of as safe for your baby.
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When your baby feeds from a bottle, he's more likely to suck in air than with breastfeeding. If you use a bottle that traps a lot of air inside, your baby may suck in more air than usual. Too much air in your baby's sensitive digestive tract can cause gas, pain and fussiness.
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Whether you are feeding a baby formula or pumped breast milk from a bottle, you have plenty of choices to make among bottle nipples. One consideration when it comes to bottle feeding is when to start using a higher stage of nipple.
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When stored in the refrigerator, the liquid inside water-filled teethers becomes cold, which helps soothe and numb your baby's gums to ease teething symptoms. Unfortunately, after spending a bit of time in your youngster's mouth, the teether will need to be sterilized to keep it clean and safe for continued use.
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