Tips To Soothe Your Cranky Child

Hi Parents,
Parenting is never an easy journey especially when it is about newly formed parents. Delivering and having your baby is tiring, laborious and painful but along with it comes joy of having your little one in your arm. You do feel that now your child is safe. This is the time you might be both excited to have your baby as we as nervous about how to give all care required.
Be ready mom and dad. Now its time to have sleepless days as well as nights. Now in addition to your earlier work you have a small, little baby in your arm to take care of. You need to change his diapers, feed him every now and then. Along with this comes soothing your crying baby. The baby can not speak and so it cries for every other thing, either he might be hungry or sleepy. Even for every pee or poo. Now is the time to develop your skills as a baby- comforter. The better you comfort him more smiles you can see on your babies face.
Interacting with your baby while changing his or her diaper or while giving bath can be a way to comfort him. Slowly he might be able to recognize your face as well as expressions.
Moving your baby in rhythmic motion in your arm, sling, cradle or swing can help your baby to cool down.
Babies start sucking while they are in womb so sucking might help them to calm down. Breast feeding, use of pacifier, sucking their own finger or their tether can help too.
Along with motion, babies are affected by sound too. Singing or humming soft lullabies might help you child. Soft music can even help your baby to calm down and even to doze off.
Many kids are attracted to images too. Seeing their own image in the mirror in a playful way might help to soothe a crying baby.
Distraction can help too. Try showing your child some toys, pictures, moving traffic or even other kids.
Touch therapy works for all kids as well as adults. Giving a soft massage and at the same time talking or singing can help too.
Not all kids are same, neither their moods are same. Keep trying different ways and find out by your self, what soothes your child.

All the best.

A Tree With Colorful Flowers

Hi Moms,
This beautiful, colorful tree craft is made by one of my kids during craft activity time at my daycare.
You can easily help your kid creating a similar one.
On a paper draw a tree trunk with branches and color it brown.
On another paper draw, trace or print outline for plenty of flowers.
Now cut them on the traced outline and color them.
Now paste these colorful flowers all over the branches.
Being more creative you can make grasses, sun, birds and even people around.
Your beautiful, colorful flower tree is ready.

YOUR CHILD AND HIS FOOD

Most of the mom’s complain that their child does not eat ample amount. There is nothing to worry about it, many kids are not that readily eater when compared to others. You can say they are very fussy eater. Whatever you may keep in front of them, they eat very less. Don’t be worried as the kids of upto age of 1 relay mostly on milk and milk itself serves as a wholesome food for them.

Keep trying different nutritionally balanced food, your child might like a few of them. Even it can happen that sometimes your child might like some particular food and may not eat the same food after few days. They keep developing new taste. Even it can be that your child eats bit more when compared to other days.
When you are feeding the food the child does not like very much, you can serve it along with the food that he likes and keep feeding in between changing the taste.

Don’t be too stressed or frustrated with the small quantity your child takes at a time. Instead keep trying. No baby can become an instant eater immediately.
While starting with fruits, banana is a very good option. It is easy to chew and digest.

When you are ready to feed your baby, get his water, food and other required thing at a time so that you need not to give a break while feeding your baby.

Use of bib while feeding will be quite helpful as your child will be dropping food or taking out of his mouth every now and then. Bibs which have pockets would be quite good as most of the falling food will accumulate in the lower portion of the pocket.

YOUR BABY AND LANGUAGE

Most of the parents have a misconception that their baby is too young to understand their language or the way they speak but this is a very wrong idea.

Babies though unable to speak but are able to understand what we speak. To understand this better, you might have noticed your 4 to 5 months baby reacting to your sound, turning his head towards you when you call him or talk to him or just by gazing at you . Even you might have noticed your baby moving away his head when he does not want anything.
Singing a rhymes or lullaby also soothes the baby because he is able to hear the sound and understands.
The more time you spend with your baby, better you will be able to understand him.

HOME COOKED OR PACKED FOOD FOR YOUR BABY

Babies grow very fast and thus more care is to be given to their diet. Till the time you are breast feeding your baby or depending on formula milk, there is not much concern about extra food. But as you start with outside solid food, the immediate question arises ‘ what all to feed him’.
All most all the mom’s are in a dilemma, which one is better, home cooked food or packed food.

To this, I would say, it is best to give your baby home cooked food. The same food that you have but with little less salt, sugar, spices and oil.
Avoid giving your baby tea and coffee as they have caffeine content in them.
Introduce your baby with one food at a time and see how your baby likes it, at the same time how the baby is able to digest it.
Freshly prepared food is always good for health for all. Serving fresh fruits, juices and soups is a great idea too.

USE OF PACIFIER FOR YOUR BABY

Almost all of the parents are worried about the use of pacifier or not. The fact is that not every child needs a pacifier. Use of pacifier has both pros and cons. Once the babies are accustomed to pacifiers, they are so used to it that they are cranky without it and nothing can soothe them more than it.
The pacifier will help them to calm down and sleep well. You too will be relaxed that your child does not develop the habit of thumb sucking at the time of sleep.
But if you see the other side of it, your child will persist the habit of using the pacifier. Once habituated your child will not be able to sleep without it. Even when your baby goes off to sleep using a pacifier and as soon as the pacifier falls off, it will disturb his sleep.
More over when your baby starts crawling, the use of pacifier will be quite unhygienic.
I would suggest mom’s to keep their babies away from the habit of use of pacifier.

YOUR CHILD AND THE USE OF DIAPER

Now a days, with the birth of the child comes the shopping of diapers. It will not be wrong to say diapers have made the life of moms bit easier. Now there is no chance of getting their clothes wet and spoiled every now and then.
The biggest question that most of the mom has “which diapers is better” or “either to use disposable or washable diapers”.
Diapers comes in variety of sizes and designs. Even there is availability of ultra slim diapers with inner layer of gelling material, which will be more absorbing when compared to other normal diapers. This will help your child's body to be dry and itch free.
When we talk about  washable diapers, they are available in variety of sizes, design and material. These type of diapers are less costly. The the major problem with them is of washing and drying.
It is a general thinking that using disposable diapers might cause rashes. But in reality rashes have nothing to do with the type of diaper used. Proper care and frequent changing of the diapers can avoid any kind of rashes. Use of wipes, anti rash cream might be helpful too.
Wash and dry your baby immediately after he passes the bowl. Change the diapers in every 4-5 hours. Even then if the rashes occur, then apply petroleum jelly on clean and dry skin. Still it does not heal, consult your doctor with out any delay.