Surely you see your baby while sleeping peacefully in her crib breathing fills you with love and peace. But especially if it is your first child, you may have some questions and concerns, specifically about whether he is breathing adequately. We are here to answer those questions that you will overcome with information, practical and with the passage of time.
Your baby’s lungs begin to develop in the fifth week of pregnancy and continue to grow throughout pregnancy. While in the womb, surrounded by amniotic fluid, the baby lives in a liquid medium and receives oxygen through the placenta. At the time of delivery, and separated from mom, your lungs will suck air for the first time. The first baby breathing itself is done within 10 seconds of birth. Once you start, your body will take a pink color, and normal breathing occur at a leisurely pace.
Generally, babies make breathing noises, which originate in the nostrils. The nasal cavity is very small, and when the air passing through them, these noises are produced. It may also happen that the baby has mucus, and in this case, to breathe more easily, you should clean it out with a soft tissue and inside with saline. You can repeat the cleaning each time the child is congested, and keep it semi-sitting, not completely lying.
Also consider that when the baby sleeps, in several stages. These include periods of deep sleep and quiet moments of activity and breathing loud moments. That’s normal, and it evolves during the first few months to regular breathing.
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Antibiotics are drugs that are prescribed to fight infections caused by bacteria. In the case of infants, may be necessary, for example, when there are urinary tract infections, throat infections caused by strep and ear infections. It is important to know that antibiotics should be used in moderation, and always follow your doctor’s instructions since its abuse or misuse may create resistance to them. Moreover, not only are not required for viral diseases such as the flu, but they do not work.
In addition, antibiotics should be administered with caution and under the supervision of the physician, as well as killing the bacteria that causes the infection, can eliminate the “good bacteria” in the intestinal flora and can cause digestive problems such as diarrhea.
But beyond resistance to these drugs can create and diarrhea, use of antibiotics in babies under 6 months of age, up by 22% the risk of babies becoming overweight from 10 months and 3 years old. So suggests a study by a pediatrician at the University of New York, which in turn clarified that normal weight can return, usually when the child reaches seven years.
To reach that percentage, pediatricians considered multiple variables such as the weight of the parents, if the baby was breastfed, the baby’s weight at birth and if the mother smoked during pregnancy, among others.
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When a baby is born, if you count the fingers of the hands, feet, see if you have two ears, two eyes, the mouth intact, arms and legs. When in appearance all is well, dads breathe quiet. However, there are health issues of children can not be determined at a glance.
For example, how do you know if your child hears well? There are a variety of medical tests aimed at assessing the hearing. The type of test depends, in general, the age of the child or baby. When are very little ones or neonates, are used tests with objective methods that can identify hearing ability baby without that MOST is to actively intervene. These tests are quick, painless and executed when the baby sleeps. The result indicates brainwave reader to assess the baby’s reaction to sound. As children grow, already can participate indicating when listen certain sound.
To find out if your baby or your child listen well, you should also be alert to the signs that can tell you that there is a hearing problem. Take note:
- The infant or child does not react to loud noises.
- The infant or child can not identify where it comes from a particular sound.
- The baby may stammer but then ceases to do so.
- Babbling not evolve to verbal communication understandable and consistent.
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Is one of the most important elements to keep our baby healthy during a visit to the pediatrician in the first two years of life of our baby one of the most important will be the application of vaccines to protect our baby of various diseases.
As we said vaccines and their proper application in the appropriate time frames protect our baby from diseases like polio, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and varicella name a few that are very dangerous for health of our baby, each of these vaccines will be applied by our pediatrician possibly in each of the visits we make to your office.
The importance of vaccines
It is always important to keep parents informed about the different tables vaccination offered by our hospital or international entities such as the Academy of Pediatrics updated it annually to accurately know how often our baby should receive vaccine to prevent different diseases.
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From the first months of life is the human voice that attracts baby’s attention. We recommend using lullabies to stimulate their curiosity. Hearing is a sense that you are connected and running at all times, has no on-off mechanism, therefore there is no need to direct it consciously.
From the moment of his birth is advisable to talk to your baby in front. The quality hearing your child’s learning environment depends on how early we stimulate your ear.
As auditory stimulation stimulate your baby’s hearing
What is auditory stimulation?
Is specifically to talk to your baby, introducing new sounds to go “associating” this sound with their surroundings or environment. At no time should speak ill baby, that is emulating the speech of a child or desmoldando words. They should talk to the baby properly, in a suitable volume and pace.
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There are per-bedtime routines, this circuit repeated daily actions tell the baby that is about bedtime for sleep also help you relax and predispose it to rest. The routine also reduces the number of times the baby to wake up during the night. The dream child cut causes havoc on parents who do not have the ability to recharge overnight.
Dream Baby Dream Baby vs. the dream of parents
The baby through the routine associated with pleasant manners when you go to sleep, giving confidence and tranquility. This routine is established by performing the same actions for several days at the same times.
We offer a sample routine, it can be customized based on each family manages schedules for bed: at 6 pm can be defined as the baby’s bath time and in the process you can use to play with your child the bath, this is a good way to tire and predispose to sleep. At 7 pm you can mark as the time to breastfeed or take a bottle, this is sacred time for the child and the mother, is the perfect time to pamper your baby with lullabies or soft music.
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The experts suggest that 25% of cases of obesity and diabetes in children can be prevented by breastfeeding the baby until 24 months of age, this was confirmed by an investigation of the Breastfeeding Committee Spanish Association of Pediatrics. Well baby breastfeeding reduces risk of suffering some form of cardiovascular disease or leukemia.
Breastfed infants during the first year of life get a score higher on tests of cognition and IQ assessment that apply at school age.
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The order in which these are generally similar, the difference in what round of the first four front teeth make their expected appearance, is it down or up?. This situation creates expectations among parents who are anxious about the appearance of your child’s first tooth. The care of the baby’s first tooth start the same day that it looks at the child’s gums.
The first baby teeth can appear from 5 to 6 months old. The eruption of teeth usually leads to an upset in the baby, it can cause, crying with pain in the gum, not very severe diarrhea, fever and even colds are associated with infant teething.
Teething Baby Teething
Every parent notice a delay in your child’s teeth should not worry about the amount of calcium the baby. This mineral has already been absorbed by the baby from the womb until their first months of life. It is not correct calcium supplementation with a teething child late. Only if it shows no sign of their first teeth at the age of 15 months can discuss this situation using a dentist specializing in pediatrics.
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Identified as an allergy disorder that affects the immune system of the baby. In this case the child’s body perceives the milk as a hazardous waste and for the same reason that responds with immediate symptoms such as hives, breathing problems, so in most cases have rashes or hives baby skin down to suffer a severe anaphylactic shock which can be fatal. A case of allergy is not treated professionally can result in death, as there are adverse reactions resulting in interference with Read more...
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Another problem with the use of antibiotics does not obey the intervals between doses or stop treatment in the middle without the supervision of a pediatrician when the mother thinks the child is cured. Specialists teach that between the intake of antibiotics reaches the point of infection, the drug will lose strength, ie the amount of antibiotic in the body falls to a level where it is effective.
Therefore it is important to follow the dosing interval to maintain an adequate level of antibiotic in the body and its better efficiency. It is also important to continue the treatment until the end to ensure that all bacteria were eliminated even if they re-multiply. Therefore, the times and days must be strictly followed. Only then the treatment will be effective.
Pediatricians also emphasize that vaccines and health habits to help prevent disease, but treatment should be evaluated by a doctor forever.
Given the risks associated with the abuse of antibiotics for children’s health and the health of all, the doctor gives some basic tips:
- Do not pressure your doctor to prescribe antibiotics, or the pharmacist to dispense without a prescription;
- Only take antibiotics prescribed for each situation, keep leftovers and do not give antibiotics prescribed for other children;
- Complies with the dose, changing the dose or dosing intervals;
- Is the treatment until the end, do not stop taking the antibiotic, even if you feel better;
- Schools and other child care providers should be informed about the infection and ongoing treatment.
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