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.
The Angelcare Baby Monitor is not your typical baby monitor. Instead of just monitoring the sounds a baby makes from a distance, the Angelcare monitor allows you to monitor your baby's actual breathing movements. When the monitor stops detecting movement, possibly because of the baby not breathing, an alarm sounds.
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Baby walkers, wheeled devices that allow a non-walking infant to scoot himself around the house by pushing off with his feet, are controversial devices.
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Babies are most at risk of contracting viruses and infections during their first year of life, according to the Baby Center network. If your baby drinks from a bottle, it is important to sterilize the bottle to kill bacteria before using it.
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Soon enough, your child will be running, skipping and looking behind at her chasing mama who fondly remembers when her little baby was too little to walk. For those littlest ones, shoes are usually for looks and to keep their cute, little footsies warm.
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Dr. Brown's bottles feature a unique venting system that creates a pressure flow similar to breastfeeding. The makers of Dr. Brown's bottles claim this system prevents your baby from ingesting the air bubbles that cause gas and colic. The Dr.
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Baking soda is a natural product with uses that extend beyond the kitchen. If you’re looking for a way to cheaply and naturally wash baby clothes, baking soda is the only product you need.
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You can’t prevent your car seat from getting dirty because daily use can be hard on it. Children’s food, drink and leaky diapers will eventually come into contact the car seat fabric. To keep odors from occurring, clean spills as soon as possible because decaying food will eventually cause odors.
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A bottle sterilizer uses steam, instead of the traditional method of boiling water, to sterilize your baby bottles and accessories. The sterilization process helps to prevent the spread of bacteria or germs when feeding your baby, since she has not developed her immune system.
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A changing table allows you to change your baby's diaper without having to bend over at an uncomfortable angle. Most changing tables include shelves to hold diapers, wipes, powder and other supplies you need. But once your baby outgrows diapers, you're left with a piece of furniture you can't really use.
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Babies make all kinds of noises, from contented sighs that melt your heart to high-pitched wails that pierce your eardrums. Grunting is part of each baby's audio repertoire, a sound that can mean anything from a cheerful desire for communication to a sign of serious illness.
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Swaddlers and Baby Dry are both varieties of diapers sold by Pampers, which is owned by Procter & Gamble. Both types are quite absorbent and will keep your infant dry and comfortable. Young infants, however, are more prone to diaper leaks than older babies.
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Pools less than 3 feet deep carry the "kiddie pool" or "baby pool" label. The other defining characteristic of these pools is their lack of filtration systems.
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Many parents reuse baby items after giving birth to a second baby. While this practice is economical, there are some items that need to be purchased new. Safety related recalls of baby gear happen often and reusing recalled items pose a danger to your new baby.
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Glass or plastic baby bottles can hold expressed breast milk, formula, fruit juice or water to refresh and nourish your child. Bottles make it convenient to feed your baby on the go and allow your child’s siblings, grandparents and caregivers to share the feeding duties.
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A pacifier can be an important part of a new parent's arsenal. It helps soothe your baby, and a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published in a 2005 issue of "Pediatrics" found that pacifiers may significantly reduced the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in infants.
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