Pre-School Information for Parents

Newborn babies spend most of their time sleeping. As your baby gets older, he stays awake longer and longer periods of time together and before you know it, he sleeps only during lunch a few hours and he continued a normal day / night rhythm developed.

Every person has his own sleep patterns, as it were programmed into his body and brains. This also applies to a newborn baby. As one person has enough of an average of five hours sleep per night and the other can not function without a minimum of eight hours, so even one baby sleep longer than the other. (more…)

All babies can be massaged. So I want to start massaging yours today. Massage can more rapidly develop motor coordination, increase muscle reactions, except that the baby will be more receptive and more apt to react to the surrounding space. Besides these, we selected other benefits:

Benefits of massaging your baby

1 – It helps to regulate and strengthen the respiratory, circulatory and gastrointestinal. Through the stimulation, you can control the discomfort caused by colic, gas and constipation, and discomfort at the exit of the first teeth.
2 – Help your baby to relax and relieve stress, the blockades, which produces daily with new things found.
3 – It helps to enhance affective communication between the parents and baby also the people around them, providing non-verbal communication. (more…)

A baby can never have too much power. It may be too little gain. Keep your baby well into the holes. If you feel that more would be fed, since then try to take it. Your body naturally fit into the overall milk production to the needs of your child. Around two weeks, three months and six months many mothers experience the ‘rule days “, where the baby would drink more than usual. Offer both breasts at each time and the problem is easily fixed.

If your baby seems hungry often, weepy and under his weight remains, consult the health center. Here you can get specialized nutrition advice. There is a chance that you will be advised for your child to feed with formula feeding. Note that once you switch to formula feeding, the body process of automatically controlling the amount of breast milk correctly to create disturbed. (more…)

During the first year is a dramatic change. The child learns to crawl, eat, talk and walk. Every child is unique. It develops after an individual’s own personality and character. But there are some common stages of development that takes place in about the same age.

Reflectors
In early controlled most of the movements and acts of reflection that then evolve into controlled muscle movements. It tests the doctor the first few days to see that it is in the child and later for the disappearance. The child may lie on his back in the doctor’s arms. It then lowers the child relatively quickly. The child beats up arms symmetrically about his own body, as if to grab something in one case. It is important to know exactly how to test this and it should be done only by physicians or health visitor-nurse.

Some development steps

When the child is a newborn and up to one month old
* The child is acting mostly with reflectors
* Begins to fix his gaze
* It can feel cold and hot, for example, if you have cold hands
* Sucks on baby fingers.
At one to two months of age
* Child can fix the gaze of about three inches away
* Can smile at you when you’re talking or joking
* Have some newborn reflexes (more…)

Toddlers and preschoolers are constantly brimming with curiosity, enthusiasm and determination. It is their playful approach towards life which enables them to learn. Parents may worry about what their child eats during these critical years of development and growth. There may be a large discrepancy between what you believe your child should eat and what they actually consume. Here are some guidelines.

Understanding your toddler and your preschooler

Significant changes occur between one year and 5 years. While growing up physically, children also adopt their own personality. They become more capable, more curious and independent. Sooner or later they all begin to test the limits that you impose. When a toddler refuses to eat a food that, until then, was his favorite, he is testing his new sense of mastery as a person. When a preschooler asks “why” carrots are orange, rather than eating, he shows his love of learning. This is part of normal development of the child. (more…)