Can Your Baby Talk To You?
June 27, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Most likely not, so seeing and understanding your baby’s skin will help you to understanding whats happening with your baby’s body. Many of us have heard it before, “Be sure to take your vitamins every day if you want to be healthy.” These days, vitamin intake has gone beyond just being healthy, it has become imperative. We are finally learning what years of eating processed, fast foods or ‘take out’ meals have done to our bodies – not to mention our environment – and the reports aren’t good. Processed foods that contain high amounts of salts and fats, have been found to cause increases in cholesterol, blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks, diabetes and even liver failure.
One of the most visible signs of poor nutrition can immediately been seen in the condition of our skin. So, the question is what DO the vitamins do? How can you tell if you need one or another. Obviously, every body is different and to make a truly informed choice, a visit to your family practitioner or your local nutritionist may be in order. If you just want to get some general information to start, and see where you might be lacking, the following is a list based on the Recommended Daily Amounts (RDA) from the EU guidance that is used for nutrition tables on food products. If you think you may be vitamin deficient in any area, these would be good points to bring up when you do go in for your next checkup.
The Significance of Touch for Infants and Babies
June 13, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Loving touch is so important for babies because it initially facilitates development of all other senses of the infant. That is why most experts, pediatricians and doctors would advise taking greater care of baby skin. Taking the time to learn how to properly handle and take care of baby skin is certainly worthwhile.
Touch is basically how newborn babies start to communicate. The warmth touch of the mom to baby skin is basically what the infant first encounters. Remember that after birth, it would take a few days before the eyes clears up, while the sense of taste is still not developed fully. Through touch, the baby is given an assurance of warmth, love, security and protection. And the baby somehow feels that. Thus, a mothers touch is a good pacifier to an uncomfortable and fussing baby.
Experts assert that aside from that, the touch of a mother is providing much more than just warmth and passion to baby skin. When a mom touches and holds her baby, she is unconsciously stimulating the secretion and production of the baby hormones for growth and more effective digestion. The mothers touch to the baby is just like how massage is good and health-conducive to average adult.
The sense of touch also complements and bolsters the development of all other senses of the baby. For instance, a mothers touch helps the baby initially discern verbal language and words used by the mom. For example, when a mom says the word, ‘my baby’, along with touching baby skin, the baby is learning how to associate the words with the warmth and pleasantness of the touch. After some time, the baby would learn how to listen to words although he or she would not be able to totally understand it yet. Eventually, the sense of touch would be separated from the verbal communication or comprehension.
Aside from that, the baby sense of touch very much tells about how the baby overall health is doing. When the baby is feeling bad, a mom could tell that something is wrong if the skin temperature is unusually high. Aside from that, a mom could sense a discomfort in the baby through the infants skin. Redness and swelling indicates that there is something troubling and annoying the baby.
That is why the sense of touch is practically deemed appropriate and useful to the baby. Because of that, there of course is a need to ensure that the baby skin is always well taken care of. Thus, as much as possible, it is imperative that baby skin care be always made conducive and very much in good status. Remember that taking care of the baby skin is far different from taking care of the skin of a child, a teenager and an adult. Baby skin is still very fragile and sensitive to handle it with extra care and make every touch as smooth and as loving as possible.
