Your Baby's Sleep No Beauty? Know the Cause and Solusinyaa

Did you know that lack of sleep in infants can lead to various problems? Start from the decline in immunity, impaired growth and physical development and also lack of sleep has an impact on infant brain growth and development, especially the capacity to think when he was an adult.
Most job growth hormone occurs when in a state of sleep, including the baby's brain growth hormone.

    Lack of sleep will lead to changes in hormone levels are responsible for managing hunger. In addition, lack of sleep also affects the body's ability to metabolize sugar, thus increasing the risk of diabetes.
So, it is clear that sleep is enough to give a very positive effect for your baby's development. Ideally, children ages 6 â € "23 months of sleep takes about 13 hours each day.
A Few Things That Cause Infant Sleep Hard And Solutions
Flu or Cough Pain
If your baby is suffering from a cold or cough, then it will be difficult to sleep soundly, because of intermittent cough. His nose was constantly remove fluid or blocked, making breathing difficult.
Solution:
Try to position the baby's head higher than feet. Do not forget, give drink to her throat more comfortable. If the nose is blocked, you can suck his nose with snot vacuum specifically for babies. Apply the balm is also special for the kids in the chest, this will help relieve her nose.
Colic
Approximately 20% of healthy babies have had colic. This condition usually occurs between weeks 2 and 4 after birth.
If you are breastfeeding, you should avoid dairy products and foods that cause gas, such as cabbage, onions, and garlic. Consult your health care professional about how to deal with allergies to certain foods.
To cope with colic, if you give formula to your baby, ask your health care professional guidance if you should replace them with free formula milk or lactose-free formula.
If colic experienced is part of the growth phase, then this will disappear over time.
Read articles about Colic advanced
Thirst or Hunger
Usually, your baby will be restless sleep if not enough food or milk intake.
Solution: Try to feed your baby before bed good 1 hour before bedtime.
Wet
The average age of 6 months of bed-wetting baby is about 5-7 times a night, then immediately change her diaper when wet, so your baby will sleep more soundly.
Diaper Rash
Diaper rash is generally experienced by infants aged 4-15 months. The reason could be because of frequent urination, skin hygiene is not maintained, or it could be because your baby receive breast milk intake of antibiotics from the mother.
Even if bacteria are present in your baby's urine breaks down into ammonia, this rash can get worse. Of course, this situation is very unpleasant for the child, so that it can affect sleep quality.
If the diaper rash your baby has already happened, for not getting worse, here are some things you can do:

   1. Change wet diapers as often as possible
   2. Avoid the use of wet wipes as it can increase the irritation
   3. Simply dry the parts by patting the skin, not rubbed
   4. Use a protective cream with a thin smeared in baby's skin
   5. Avoid using the diaper is too tight
Also, choose the type of cloth diapers that absorb sweat or disposable materials (disposable).
Read the article continued on Baby Diaper Rash
Playing Too Many
If you invite your child to play on, then it will be increasingly reluctant to sleep. Moreover, if you ask him to play before bedtime.
Well, to avoid this, then you should respond. If your baby has started-ucek rubbed his eyes, frequent yawning, or ears pulled, it is probable that he was sleepy. Stop your activity with him and create an atmosphere that can ease your baby to sleep in peace.

Your Baby's Teeth Appear? Do Khawatira

Actually teething baby has started since he was still a fetus. However, because growth is still in the jaw, then the process is invisible to our eyes. Hence the term is more appropriate to name the baby teeth out process is not actually grow, but â € œmunculâ €.
The first tooth will appear normally when the baby is 5-7 months old. Well, if your baby's age and you often see it enter the fist (or any other object) into the mouth, it is most likely not be long before the first tooth appears.
What Signs Your Baby Tooth emergence?
Other signs of teething is acting fussy, crying, and always happy biting anything that could be holding.
In addition, your baby will be a lot to salivate (this is actually useful to cool slightly swollen gums due to teething process), he would feel a little pain in his gums, his appetite will decrease and maybe he will experience a mild fever.
What is the process of emergence Infants Experiencing Teeth Cause High Fever, Colds and Diarrhea?
Many parents that connects the baby teething process with few diseases that actually has nothing to do medically.
You need to know, that process of emergence of teeth is not going to cause high fever, runny nose, or diarrhea in your baby. If your child is very fussy, high fever and diarrhea, you should consult a pediatrician, because this all has nothing to do with the teething process.
What Can You Give To him?
To ease the process of teething in infants, you can give items that are hard and cold, including:

   1. Ring loud toys specifically for the emerging baby teeth
   2. Cloth towel that has been soaked in cold water
   3. Doughnuts are frozen (after he began to melt and destroyed, take away from your baby)
It is better if you always provide a ring of plastic toys to be bitten by it. You can insert this plastic ring inside the refrigerator first, but do not be stored in a freezer. Save this toy ring in the freezer can damage the gums even the little guy.
First Teeth Appear?
The first tooth will appear usually is 2 lower incisors. Next followed by 4 upper incisors.
ADDITIONAL:
Indeed the emergence of teeth in infants can not be generalized.
There are baby teeth that have emerged at age 4 and even 3 months. There is also a 12-month-old but had not yet emerged ONE tooth.
Hereditary factors are very influential.
Perhaps you and / or your husband also have a common history with Ahmadâ € |
WHEN THE SITUATION TO BE SERIOUS?
If the child until the age of 14 months still does not have ONE tooth, then maybe this is a â € œectodermal dysplasiaâ €, a disorder associated with hereditary factors as well.

Infant Development 0-4 Months

To find out whether your baby is borZn in good health, you can read it at Babies â € œKelahiran Sehatâ € œ. Furthermore, following the development of normal infants from the age of 0-4 bulanâ € |
Month-1
Do not panic if the baby's back or buttocks have blue skin such as bruising, or grayish. These patches usually disappear after age over 1 year.
Do not panic too if your baby's head shape is less symmetrical, because he had just gone through the narrow streets, the hip of the mother. His eyes might seem a little swollen, his nose was very flat and his ears look a bit odd. He will continue to â € œmemperbaikiâ appearance coca € € |
Even in some of the baby, you can see the soft part at the top of his head throbbed. It still includes normal.
In the first few days, your baby's eyes will usually be kept closed. After that will be able to keep his eyes open for a longer time. He will be able to see your face at a distance of about 20 cm.
At this stage the baby can move and rotate his head to look for his mother's milk, can stretch his hand, and mengenggam your finger with his fist.
2nd Month
At this stage his body movement is getting better. He can reach things that caught his attention, can hold small objects with gengamannya walapaun only briefly, even he could have patted his favorite objects.
Try smiling kepadanyaâ € | do not be surprised if he smiles back to you. Try also making various sounds in nearby without surprise. Some babies will listen carefully to the sound, while others may even be crying.
At the end of this stage, most babies have started to lift her head and tried to look around the room.
If your baby is happy, then he will make a variety of responses, such as looking at your face, trying to grab you with his hand, smiling and babbling.
Conversely, if he is upset, then the response is made, among others, turned her face from you, crying, struggling, and breathe rapidly.
Little also has a feeling to explore using his mouth to suck what is and is comfortable to suck. He started a lot of experimenting with her voice, and the view distance was increased up to a few feet forward.
The 3rd month
Little has been getting stronger lift her head if you lay it in the prone position. Even not rare who can lift himself a little in this position.
He became more adept at using his hands. He would love to touch, hold, and flailing with both hands. He also would really like to see herself in the mirror.
At this stage, babies will begin to recognize faces of people nearby and various objects that familiar with it.
The 4th month
Your baby will look different and imitate your facial expressions. Some babies who can roll into the prone position itself at this point. But it would be easier for him to roll from prone position to a supine position.
Some babies have already started to show his teeth at this stage, although this is strongly influenced by heredity.
Thus the outline of your baby's development from the age of 0-4 months. All you need to remember is that every baby has unique developmentally. If your baby is rather slow progress, do not directly panikâ € | mostly remained within the limits of reasonableness

infant sleep position

Babies are born with soft skulls, and still could change shapes. For this reason, the first months of baby's head position must be considered. Do not let the head pressure at certain points too long, which will form the head to be flat (not round-â € ™ peyangâ € ™) at this point-point. Although come to think again, flat head on the back bun will make it easier to install than the head bulatâ € | heheheheâ € |
Once, when my newborn son advised by his doctor to sleep on her back with her head tilted ALWAYS. Leaning to the right, alternating with slanted to the left. Thus unencumbered rear head that may make the bones become flat. The turn direction of the head is also important, so that no part is more flat than the others between the right side of the face and the left side of face.
In addition to sleep, use of time playing with your baby tummy which will also strengthen the neck and spine bones as much as possible, of course, by always being watched. Avoid baby too often leaned on one side in other places such as the swing, stroler, or car seat.
Sleeping on your stomach is not recommended by doctors because based on research around the 1990's many babies who die suddenly, especially during sleep, known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and sleep on my stomach was mentioned as one cause. SIDS is especially attacking children 2-4 months. Although I believe that during sleep telungkupnya unsupervised, Insha Allah fine (Dhika sleep on my stomach since the age of one month).
Another thing to note in relation to SIDS is a baby to sleep:
- Not allowed to sleep in the bed is too soft which allows the body the â € ~ tenggelamâ € ™ and covered his nostrils.
- Do not store soft objects in the vicinity, such as pillows, bolsters, or a soft doll
- When the blanket is felt necessary, attach to the limit of his chest and tuck the edges under the mattress. Or give a thicker clothes, so do not need blankets.
By following the advice above, Alhamdulillah head Dhika not peyang. This occurs in young friend, who when their babies always sleep embraced at a particular side, now head asymmetry. Son of another friend when the bed head is always facing upwards, now head of the back being flat.
What about your child?

baby food 4-6 months

Written based on the results of read-read little, and little experience of caring for one child. We are sorry if there are mistakes. Highly recommended to double-check to other sources.
At this age babies are usually already started to ready to eat solid food, although some experts recommend to keep only give breast milk or formula until 6 months to reduce the risk of allergy to foods other than breast milk and formula.
Signs your baby is ready to eat solid food
These are traits that need to be considered even though your baby may not do it all
- It can not enforce its own head
- Can sit in a chair with a good
- Can make chewing movements
- Weight loss seen to increase to approximately twice as much weight at birth
- Seen interested in food
- Can we close the mouth if the proffered spoon
- Can move food from mouth to mouth the front of the rear
- Can move the tongue, and no longer encourage the use of the tongue kelur food
- Seen still hungry after being given eight to ten times the breast milk or infant formula 1200 cc
- Begin teething
Food Type
- Breast milk or formula PLUS
- Porridge rice cereal or rice flour porridge
- Continued with sesame seeds, other cereals
- When you've seen can not eat, can add vegetable puree (eg sweet potato, pumpkin-Labuan) or pulp of fruit (eg banana, apple, pear, avocado)
How
- Starting from rice flour porridge once a day is very thin, approximately 1 / 2 tablespoon at the first trial. Why rice? Rice has a low risk of allergy.
- If the baby is getting used to eating, can add a portion or added to porridge consistency.
- Can add new menu to the baby. One taste every time you add, should not be mixed. Wait 4 days to introduce new foods to children, to be seen whether the baby has an allergic reaction to food.
- Some people suggested to give the vegetables first before giving it fruit, so that more babies do not know the sweetness of the fruit first.
Foods avoided
- Honey. Not recommended for infants under age one year, because there are likely exposed to the bacteria Clostridium Botulinum. Babies do not have immunity against these bacteria. If you want to know more about botulinum please read this. Roughly according to his writings can cause paralysis due to nerve poison him.
- Salt. Baby food should not be given a strong salt because it has not processed by the kidneys. Breast milk and formula is sufficient for salt ditubuhnya
- Sugar. Let the baby is not accustomed to the sweet taste that can damage teeth.
- Nuts. In addition there is the possibility of choking, nuts are also very potentially cause allergic reactions
- Cow's milk as a beverage. Not enough fat content, nutrients (especially iron), and calories. Too much sodium. Also has the potential to become allergens. Except for dairy products like cheese, are allowed after the baby is 6 months old.
Foods to avoid until the age of 6 months
- Wheat and all its products. Allergens (can cause allergic reactions)
- Eggs. Allergens, especially the whites who have a lot of protein content.
- Fish-ikanan. Allergens
- Sour fruits, like oranges, grapes, pineapple. Baby's stomach is not strong enough to be given food acid
Notes
- At the age of 4 â € "6 months, breast milk or formula is still the main source of baby food. Other foods just extra.
- Learning to eat is the most important thing at this age. Do not worry if your baby ate little or no appetite at all. Please try again later.
- If the baby is seen pushing the food with his tongue, maybe the baby is not ready to receive solid food.
- Always wait 4 days to introduce new foods to, to be seen whether the baby has an allergic reaction to food.

baby food 6 - 8 months

Writen based on the results of read-read little, and little experience of caring for one child. We are sorry if there are mistakes. Highly recommended to double-check to other sources.
At this age your baby can eat solid food. Types of food provided is also more diverse during the softness and thickness are adjusted according to the needs of babies and not given the salt or sugar.
Signs your baby is ready to eat solid food
These are traits that need to be considered even though your baby may not do it all
- It can not enforce its own head
- Can sit in a chair with a good
- Can make chewing movements
- Weight loss seen to increase to approximately twice as much weight at birth
- Seen interested in food
- Can we close the mouth if the proffered spoon
- Can move food from mouth to mouth the front of the rear
- Can move the tongue, and no longer push food out using Aloe
- Seen still hungry after being given eight to ten times the breast milk or infant formula 1200 cc
- Begin teething
Food Type
- Breast milk or formula PLUS
- Porridge rice cereal or rice flour porridge
- Continued with sesame seeds, other cereals
- Porridge vegetables (eg sweet potato, pumpkin-Labuan) or pulp of fruit (eg banana, apple, pear, avocado)
- Broth
- Items such as cow's milk cheese
- Beef, chicken, goat meat, liver, and fish-paste. Fish is advocating delayed until more than a year because of potential allergic reactions
- Red eggs. Egg whites have a permit before one year, there is also an advocate postponed until more than a year because of potential allergic reactions
- Tofu
How
- Starting from rice flour porridge once a day is very thin, approximately 1 / 2 tablespoon at the first trial. Why rice? Rice has a low risk of allergy.
- If the baby is getting used to eating, can add a portion or added to porridge consistency. Gradually the form of food is no need to be too smooth, a bit like porridge for adults.
- Always try to introduce new foods to babies by remembering the time to wait 4 days to see whether infants possess an allergic reaction to food. Begins by giving a sense each time to add a menu. If looks do not cause allergic reactions, the following days can be mixed with other flavors that were known not to cause allergic reactions as well. Do not limit the type of food for your baby, even though it's not food that you like.
- Some people suggested to give the vegetables first before giving it fruit, so that more babies do not know the sweetness of the fruit first.
- If the baby is already accustomed to eating once a day, can be added to two times a day and then to three times that.
- Stimuli child to chew. When the baby looks can make chewing movement though not yet have teeth, can begin to be given food that is not too soft like a small piece of banana (do not softened), pieces of papaya, mango, or too little hard foods like pieces of dry bread, carrots, apples, pieces of cheese, so the baby can not bite it can only undermine. Let them hold and try gnawing. Babies do not chew food using the teeth, but was pressured by his gums. Make sure that the food provided to infants did not have the potential to make him choke and always be supervised when eating. Familiarize children from an early age makes it easy to chew him to escape from the soft food.
Foods avoided
- Honey. Not recommended for infants under age one year, because there are likely exposed to the bacteria Clostridium Botulinum. Babies do not have immunity against these bacteria.
- Salt. Baby food should not be given a strong salt because it has not processed by the kidneys. Breast milk and formula is sufficient for salt ditubuhnya
- Sugar. Let the baby is not accustomed to the sweet taste that can damage teeth.
- Nuts. In addition there is the possibility of choking, nuts are also very potentially cause allergic reactions
- Cow's milk as a beverage. Not enough fat content, nutrients (especially iron), and calories. Too much sodium. Also has the potential to become allergens. Except for dairy products like cheese, are allowed after the baby is 6 months old.
Note-In this age of 6-8 months, breast milk or formula is still the main source of baby food. Other foods just extra.
- Always wait 4 days to introduce new foods to, to be seen whether the baby has an allergic reaction to food

Is bottled drinks good for health?

Do you know how much sugar is contained in the beverage packaging you?

Beverage packaging is a beverage that is already packaged in cans or bottles or boxes, which is ready to drink without having to cook it again.

Luckily the government now requires that the producers seem to have food / beverages to list the nutritional content of its products in the packaging. Thus you can easily see how much content one sugar (sugar) in your bottled drinks.

Often contained 32 grams, 24 grams, and so on.

How much is 32 grams of sugar?

According to a nutritionist Joy Bauer in http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10879824/, 1 teaspoon sugar that means equal to 4 grams of sugar.

So, 32 grams of sugar is equal to 8 teaspoons of sugar.

Imagine you make a cup of sweet tea or coffee or milk or orange juice with added sugar as much as 8 teaspoon!

Imagine if you give the milk / juice in containers to your child 2 or 3 times a day, how much sugar that they swallow?

So what's wrong with most consuming sugar?

That's another story .. but please search for answers by keyword obesity (overweight) and diabetes

Why cook for your baby?

Various reasons I use when my baby boy and I cook almost all the food he eats.

1. Guaranteed halal (my first in America when my baby boy)

2. Economical

3. Free of preservatives

4. Clearly, raw materials, nutritional content of clearly

5. Easy, was not as hard as ever imagine (more difficult to prepare food for his father: D). Please read http://ndew.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/membuat-makanan-bayi-sendiri/

But with only 5 points above, unexpectedly gained a bonus as well. Until now my son (5 yrs) is not a hobby for snack, not a hobby eat packaged snacks, and very quickly integrate our appetites with her ​​parents.

Age 10 months has been eating rice (digecek-gecek) wearing vegetable soup (vegetables cut small, or so), without the blender. It was now able to eat almost all my meals, unless food is too spicy (a little spicy, alhamdulillah already can).

If there are cookies, wafers, or chips and other packaged snacks full of preservatives, sugar, and msg in our house, more often the objects end up in the trash than in the stomach of my child.

Also by not packing snacks such as fried foods, jajajan market, or cakes, thank God he was not so interested. More like snacking on fresh fruit.

Excluding estimates, it turns out toil before cooking for my baby give better results than just pengiritan.

So, why not cook for a baby?

Child's weight

In this paper, I highlight the foods and drinks that make weight loss increases directly, rather than an increased appetite.
Every parent must have his day questioned his weight.
Less weight, generally.
Gave an food and drink this magic that can make the child's weight increases. Sophisticated products A, B, and C be the choice of this weight problem solving at all costs to the argument for the good of the child.
If you think about it, whether these products solve fundamental problems of our children lack the weight that may be caused by our children or do not like to eat small congenital genetic?
What's the point size of a large body of our children, but can not learn to eat in a way and a good menu?
What good is a congenital genetic forcing small children became so great that despite being fed sebakul he was still small?
Just because a pretty sight for the sake of their children because they do not look thin? Or not embarrassed if her son and then juxtaposed with another boy, plump?
Does your child enjoy this great body? Maybe not. Maybe he would prefer his thin just because they can more easily jump-jump.
What's wrong with having a child with skinny if she had met nutritional intake through food â € ~ asliâ € ™.
I never remember myself when the little plump, but over time my body was enlarged as well, alhamdulillah can study at ITB as well.
In my opinion to make sure that children eat and get used to eating meals € ~ â € ™ nutritionally complete asliâ more important than simply increasing weight.
Too much food on this earth to be explored. Thousands of recipes was created to process the food ingredients. Let's explore, adventure in serving the best food for our children. Do not quickly give up hope and move on to the instant product eliminates the headache only in overcoming the problem of feeding our children.
Weight loss of my child when the infant-toddler has never been more than the average weight of babies in general, but this time thank God she's growing too, also enlarged, eating too much, too strong, and smart too. And I do not cleave to that magical products (once a minute, then stopped â € "look at this).
Not until the potbellied sihâ € | (who is also a need to belly fat)
Cukuplahâ € |
Like the doctor said when I was in America:

Creating the children like to eat vegetables

Teach children learn to eat vegetables is not an easy task considering that vegetables taste worse than the taste of other foods (fruit or meat / fish / chicken).

I started when my son started to eat for the first time in 4 months of age. Accustomed to eat vegetables before eating fruit and meat / fish / chicken.
Thus he was familiar with the vegetable flavors.
Alhamdulillah now (6thn), my kids want to eat any vegetables (except pare-time yes ... do not want to because it is too bitter)

If now (trigger big children) still do not want to eat vegetables, maybe can try to make vegetables look more pleasant to eat. Or invite children to get involved cooking the vegetables are so interesting the child to eat it, too.

Boil carrots might be a good start, considering the taste too sweet carrots are also relatively easy to chew (the fiber is not too tough) than vegetable lain.Bisa proceed to the other vegetables that taste is still surrounding the sweet (corn, squash, beans). If you've used, just started moving to a less sweet taste of vegetables (broccoli, cassava leaves, bokcoy).

Do not forget, parents also should set an example that many vegetarians and seemed happy to consume them.

Overcoming child / baby wake up at midnight

Child / baby wakes up in the middle of the night was going to be exhausting because her parents would have to serve.
But until when the baby wakes up at night because it really needs get up (hungry), not just need attention?

I forgot exactly when my son can sleep without waking up at night because of hunger. Probably about 1 year.
In this age when the child woke up at midnight, not necessarily his hunger. If you believe a child is full to eat and drink milk, she should not starve because the stomach is big enough to accommodate enough food until the morning. Just as we are not hungry when you sleep soundly at night.

Often the child's age was awakened by that much used to wake up and served (being held or fed infant) â € "sort of looking for attention.
It is time at the age of 1 year are taught through the night if it does not need to wake up again.

The trick is to not give him what he requested. Not picked up, not to play with / talk, or not given milk.
Ditepuk-tepuk/dibelai quite a bit with the room still dark, he whispered â € œtidur again yes, still malamâ €.
If it looks thirsty, give enough water, not milk, especially milk in the bottle.
It may be that the child will whine (also called business-word of the child). Hold it, later he also fell asleep again

Eventually the child will â € ~ kapokâ € ™ because it was useless to get up, not given anything. Eventually he'll get used to sleeping through the night.

As to the deal by giving new habits to children, can not be guaranteed to provide results quickly. At least 3 nights a habit that may still be repeated, maybe even some up to 1 week or more.

But after a long sleep satisfaction in the future the orangtuaâ € | worth undertaking, is not it?