Added January 29, 2012, Under: Babies, Children's Health, Environment, Parents
Most of us have had experience of pink eye or conjunctivits and know how highly contagious it can be. It is alarming for parents the first time they see this condition on a young child because it may make the eyes extremely red and even spread rapidly. The good news is that it usually causes no long term damage either to the vision or the eyes themselves.
Some types of pink eye go away on their own while other require treatment.
The ...
Added January 12, 2012, Under: Babies, Children's Health, New Moms, Pregnancy
If you are planning a nursery for your new baby, then top of the list is always the crib or cot. But which one to choose? I have discovered a great convertible nursery bed that is four-beds-in-one so that in spite of a more costly outlay at the beginning, you save money in the long run on this nursery bed that can be used indefinitely.
With add-ons, the nursery cot just keeps on growing and giving.
Stokke AS is a Norwegian company ...
Added November 22, 2011, Under: Babies, Children's Health, Parents, Skin Conditions
Eczema can be especially troublesome, and even unbearable, for some children when they suffer from those irritating symptoms of dryness, itching and inflammation. If you are a parent of a child with eczema, you will suffer with them and want to do everything you can to relieve the symptoms.
Too much heat and sweat can make the skin even more irritated and itchy. When the body sweats, valuable water and moisture is lost from the skin. Keeping the skin moisturized is ...
Added November 13, 2011, Under: Babies, Exercise, Health, Pregnancy
Managing stress and stressful situations is is all about taking charge: of your thoughts, your emotions, your schedule, your environment and of course the way you deal with problems but until you accept responsibility for the role you play in creating or maintaining it, your stress level will remain outside your control and you will not be able to take charge.
Stress making you reach for the bottle?
Many behaviors that increase in times of stress are actually very negative. These could ...
Added October 27, 2011, Under: Babies, Children's Health, Diseases, Parents
Helping your child to look after his or her teeth from an early age is of course very important. All the time those baby teeth are coming through, the next set of (adult) teeth are being formed and bringing up the rear. So it is vital to pay attention to both the temporary baby teeth and the lifelong adult teeth. Children’s teeth start developing before birth. Milk teeth are very small and begin to be replaced by permanent teeth from around ...
Added September 28, 2011, Under: Babies, Children's Health, Parents, Sickness
If and when your children get sick, here is how to go the natural way with some good old fashioned home remedies:
1. Think BRAT for DIARRHEA. - that is a choice of bananas, rice, apple sauce and toast
2. Black licorice will cure children's CONSTIPATION nine times out of ten.
3. The chemical reaction between baking soda and vinegar creates a cooling effect that will soothe your child’s MINOR BURNS. Just pour equal amounts of the ingredients into a bowl to bathe ...
Added September 22, 2011, Under: Babies, Exercise, New Moms
There are those who always have and enjoy a hearty breakfast every morning and then there are those who skip breakfast and eat something later.
Breakfast is literally “breaking the fast” from the night before and it really does have many benefits.
- Breakfast increases your metabolic rate – that is how fast you burn calories. Eating breakfast will prevent your metabolism from going into the hunger-mode. Several hours after you have eaten, your metabolism shuts down and ...
Added September 18, 2011, Under: Babies, Exercise, New Moms
Yoga, when specially adapted from classical yoga, is a great form of exercise for moms-to-be, helping them to be ready for childbirth with a strong and clear mind while assisting with the body's physical changes during pregnancy. Yoga introduces deep breathing, mindfulness and relaxation techniques that benefit and prepare a woman both physically and mentally for childbirth.
Yoga is an ancient Indian form of exercise with an holistic approach, concentrating on both mind and body while its roots can be ...
Added August 4, 2011, Under: Babies, Parents, Technology
Baby monitors are such an everyday convenience to moms and dads, that perhaps no one gives a second thought about whether they are actually safe for your baby. In the old days, parents would spend half their evening listening out for sounds of their baby waking up and often it was only when the baby reached the screaming stage, that they actually heard them. And of course the bigger the house, the bigger the problem.
Currently, there is a ...
Added July 13, 2011, Under: Babies, Children's Health, Exercise, Parents
In new guidelines published, and in an attempt to reduce the growing problem of obesity in the UK, the British Government is encouraging parents to provide exercise opportunities for babies and preschoolers every day. The campaign says that children under the age of 5 - including babies who can't even walk yet - should exercise every day while those who are walking should be physically active for at least 3 hours a day.
The Government officials are asking that ...
