Which Side do You Prefer to Hold Your Baby?

Jakarta, Holding the baby does have many benefits for mother and baby. Kinds of holding technique can be done, such as carrying in addition to or in front. Just choose one of them and feel the benefits.

Babies are often picked up will spend less time to cry or fuss, so the little one has a lot of time and energy to help it grow and develop physically and able to interact with their environment.

But some experts also remind the baby does not need too often be picked up if it can crawl or walk for optimal growth of motor skills.

There are various techniques that can be done by holding a parent, but the most commonly performed is carrying a child on the side (waist) and also hold the child in front with his face out.

Quoted from Babyworld.co.uk, Thursday (4/11/2010) there are several benefits gained from holding these two techniques, namely:

Hold in the waist
Besides holding a baby or waist will make the baby more easily see the faces of people who picked, this will make the baby to see what parents see, hear what parents hear and feel that other people also feel.

Parents and children can be picked up also give each other and form a two-way interaction because the baby is physically very close, so it can communicate its needs such as hunger or discomfort without having to cry. But make sure the sling is used robust and can withstand the weight of the baby.

Also from the Book Beautiful, Intelligent & Feminine, by Dr Handrawan Nadesul disclosed that the holding in the waist will provide an opportunity for girls to develop the pelvis is wider, so that later we could help open the road when giving birth soon.

Holding a baby in front of
Holding technique provides an opportunity for parents to do other things besides holding, because his hands do not have to hold the little guy. This position also makes a broader view of your baby and make her happy, but this position can be done if the baby is able to control the movement of his head.

Holding this position will make your baby safer, because it generally means holding to a position in front equipped with various safety. And makes people more flexible arms move.

If you want to use this tool, be sure to choose the type sling is designed safe for infants and size can be adjusted to the condition of the baby so that he does not escape when placed. Also make sure the holes for the legs are not too narrow for the baby.




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Swimming Make Children Smarter

Queensland, children can master the sport swimming is recommended because other than beneficial for health also is equipped to survive in the wild. Not only that, swimming was to make the brain children smarter.

Recent studies have shown that learning to swim can make children more intelligent. A study at Griffith University conducted by surveying more than 10,000 children aged five-year average at swim class.

A cooperation project between Griffith University, Kids Alive and Swim Australia Swim Program aims to determine whether routine swim contribute to their physical, social, cognitive and language in pre-school learners.

"Anecdotal evidence found that swimmers or children who can swim tends to be more confident with the physical development that is greater than his age peers who can not swim," explained Professor Robyn Jorgensen, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Queensland, as reported by News.com . au, Thursday (11/04/2010).

According to Prof. Jorgensen, preliminary data from this study are quite positive. Children who learn or take a swim class seems superior in development, whether physical, social, cognitive and language.

"Drowning is the leading cause of death in the under 5 year age group, both in the pool, shower or other water sources. So we wanted to raise awareness about the importance of learning to swim from an early age," said Prof. Jorgensen.

Professor Jorgensen said that the research is the first detailed study that determines how much profit from the developments that occur in children who learn to swim.

"Our study will monitor the 10,000 students across Australia every year for four years," explained Prof. Jorgensen.

This study will identify key factors in swim programs that enhance development, such as the number of lessons per week, the child's age when he began lessons and access to the pool house.





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Mother Died Because Allergy to Water amniotic sac

Derbyshire, Childbearing is a very precious gift to women. But a mother must pay with their lives because the amniotic fluid during delivery makes him allergic'll never see the baby.

Julie Welsh from Long Eaton, Derby England died 6 April 2010, a few hours after giving birth to her first child Isaac. He suffered a condition called amniotic fluid embolism, which was triggered by a blockage of blood vessels and caused fatal.

Amniotic fluid embolism or amniotic embolism cariran an allergic reaction triggered by the entry of amniotic fluid or the components therein into blood vessels of the mother. The components that can be a flake of skin that peel fetus, fetal hair, layers of fat or amniotic fluid itself.

In 80 percent of cases, these reactions lead to heart attacks and fatal. Even if the risk can be saved from death, not less bad risk patients still overshadow the long-term nerve damage.

Such conditions arise after the physical contact with the remnants of the amniotic fluid attached to the body of Isaac. Just minutes after hugging Isaac, Welsh straight into the ER because of having a heart attack.

Doctors tried to save the 28-year-old woman, but about 1.5 hours later his life has not helped. Welsh's husband, Pete Brown said his wife did not even kiss before dying Isaac to come pick her up.

Allergic reactions that occur in Wels completely unexpected by cardiologists from Derbyshire, Dr Robert Hunter who handle it. According to these conditions is very rare cases, only occurs in 18 out of 1 million births.

"Unfortunately this kind of case can not be predicted. Until now there has been no test to determine such risk. If anything, to my knowledge there is no appropriate treatment that can not be prevented," said Dr. Hunter, as quoted from Dailymail, Thursday (4 / 11 / 2010).

Despite casualties, the Welsh family remains grateful for the birth of Isaac berusahan. Welsh's father, Mr. 50-year-old Les express kissed Isaac 2 times. The first kiss for himself, the latter representing the Welsh who had died.




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