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Bathing your baby

Bath time for your baby should be one enjoyable time. Babies like water since they have been used to being in a water filled environment   while in the womb. To ensure that your baby has a good bath…it is imperative to take not of the surroundings. Make sure the surroundings are warm and comfortable and that the baby’s soap, towel and a little water resistant toys are all in rich to gurantee your baby’s bath time is speacial. Since babies have very tender skin. Use non soapy cleansers and ones with no fragrance, so that your baby is not sniffing like a cold puppy while enjoying their bath. Soaps tend to scrub your baby squeaky clean. The aftermath is   your baby’s skin may become dry. In this case, add a few drops of baby oil to their bath water, so that their skin can store the moisture after their bath . Remember to wash your hands before you handle your little one. Be gentle with them, and ideally use only baby products on the, unless advised different by a skin speciali...

Breast feeding your little one by Trony Valentine Ingati

Breast feeding your little one 1.    Breast feeding your baby creates a bound with your little one. Newborns and babies below talking age do not know how to say… ‘i love you’ 2.   Breastfeeding time not only gives them the opportunity to tell you that they love you by being calm and collected and feeding hungrily. It allows them to take in your scent and know that since the milk is flowing there is security and you love them that much to get another feed when their hunger pangs strike. 3.   To make the best off feeding time for your baby it is important to know how to do it properly. 4.   Before a breast feed. Make sure that you wash your hands thoroughly.   In instances where you don’t have water, use a hand sanitizer to make sure that your hands are bacteria free. Note that the hand sanitizer is strictly for sanitizing hands and not for the breast. 5.   Find a suitable way to hold your baby during the feed. Some of the common positions include the...

Constipated little Ones! by Trony Valentine Ingati

Young life is tender and mild. When a woman brings a child into the world she natures life and brings about the best for her child and herself. Along the way are hurdles, ready for the mother to overcome. Sleepless nights, hunger pangs, teething are all part of motherhood. All of those seemingly endearments tend to die down as the baby’s life progresses. One of the problems that will crop up from time to time is Constipation. Constipation simply put is an infrequent bowel movement. This mean, that the bowel movement happens less than three times per week, according to Dr. Peter Ngwatu a Pediatric /Gastroenterologist. (Doctor who deals with children digestive systems) For babies signs to look out for would be hard, dry, small stool. The stool is often difficult to eliminate and may result in young children crying and wailing to the top of their heads as they try to keep up with nature’s demands. Small children tend to cry for many underlined reasons. However, when one realize...

Constipated little Ones!

“The other reason behind little ones cries out and what can be done to help them out...” Young life is tender and mild. When a woman brings a child into the world she natures life and brings about the best for her child and herself. Along the way are hurdles, ready for the mother to overcome. Sleepless nights, hunger pangs, teething are all part of motherhood. All of those seemingly endearments tend to die down as the baby’s life progresses. One of the problems that will crop up from time to time is Constipation. Constipation simply put is an infrequent bowel movement. This mean, that the bowel movement happens less than three times per week, according to Dr. Peter Ngwatu a Pediatric /Gastroenterologist. (Doctor who deals with children digestive systems) For babies signs to look out for would be hard, dry, small stool. The stool is often difficult to eliminate and may result in young children crying and wailing to the top of their heads as they try to keep up with nature’s demand...