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…)

It is a highly contagious viral infection that usually occurs in older children and young adults. It is transmitted by respiratory route. After virus exposure, infection takes 2 to 3 weeks to appear. It is believed that the virus replicates in the respiratory mucosa or in nearby lymph nodes before entering the bloodstream and spread throughout the body.

Rubella is a disease manifested as mild and of short duration. The main symptoms are fever, a mild and widespread red rash,muscle pain and headache. (more…)

Keep immunizations up to date is very important to the health of your baby. Immunizations protect your baby against 14 dangerous childhood diseases. The baby will need more than one dose vaccines for nearly all the time he reaches 2 years. It is possible that the health professional will give several vaccines in one visit. The vaccinations are needed from birth through childhood. So it is important to ensure that your child gets all immunizations up to age 18. Vaccines are usually administered during visits to the doctor or clinic. (more…)

The Centers for Disease Control and Disease Prevention Legacy for Children launched a series of longitudinal studies, randomized controlled to examine the potential to improve child development through programs designed to influence the behavior of parents.

* The early years (birth to age 5) are crucial for cognitive development and social / emotional. Parents play a critical role in the development of their children and are responsible for the environment of their children.

* Among the costs to society that represents the optimal child development are not a risk to health and safety over the long term costs for care in non-family households, school programs, health care, social assistance, reduced productivity and costs to ensure compliance with the law.

* The principal question is the Legacy Project for Children is: Are the children in intervention groups do better in their development than children in other comparison groups?

* Theoretical: Parents can have a positive influence on the development of their children. They will have greater success in adopting and maintaining appropriate behavior to supplement their child’s development if they receive support for these behaviors in a group of like-minded people and feel part of a larger community to which they are themselves.

* First two research sites: The University of Miami and University of California at Los Angeles.

And research strategies for Children Legacy include:
* A study randomized, controlled design with 120 families with intervention and 120 comparison families in each of the two sides, total of 480 families.
* The intervention focuses on the behaviors of parents and is designed for parents to be more sensitive and responsive interaction between parents and children, emotional and behavioral rules, and verbal and cognitive stimulation.
* The intervention will focus on families with children from birth to 5 years.
* The intervention activities include both group meetings between parents and between parents and children, home visits, and participation in events and activities.
* The participating families are those in which the children, on average, generally fall below national standards in a range of developmental variables.
* The process, cost, and results both short and long term will be recorded.