Physical Health of Your Child

Keeping healthy your child is essential in building character of your child. Because physical fitness is necessary to have a sound mind. Therefore, it is important to nurture habit of doing exercise in childhood. Generally healthy child is always safe from sickness.

For adult, exercise means going a gym. That is not same about kids. Understand simple thing. Kids like to play. They enjoy it with their full physical energy. Therefore playing and being physically active is also exercise for them.

Children those like to play will have several physical benefits.

Stronger bones and muscles.
Low probability of being overweight.
Low blood pressure and cholesterol.
Better sleep.
Sound mental health.
More productivity towards life.

For parents, inspire your child to participate in various outdoor games. Stay with your child while playing. Appreciate his or her game. It will increase your child’s moral. Always remember, parent’s appreciation is more important than any other in building child’s character.

Taking Care of your Child’s Smile

If you want your child’s smile with healthy teeth, here are few guidelines that can help your child’s teeth health.

- Before appearing your child’s teeth, use slightly wet cloth to clear gums.
- Once you see teeth, use child’s soft toothbrush to brush your child teeth.
- When your child reach at 2 or 3 age, teach him or her how to do brush with proper care. Try to stay with your child while brushing.
- Have a dentist visit every three months for checking your child’s teeth.
- Do take care of your teeth properly. Because, children naturally follow their parents habits.
- Have healthy foods. Keep away your child from foods and drinks that can cause your child’s teeth to decay.

Take proper precaution of your child’s teeth. His or her healthy smile may build his or her self esteem. Help your child to enjoy eating foods with strong teeth. Always remember prevention is better than cure.

Benefits of Infant Massage

Infant massage has often been criticized as only being a tool to bond with baby, and nothing more. This is wrong, in fact, it has a lot of benefits. Here are some below:

1. Helps promote a bond between mother and baby
2. Promotes healthy brain function
3. Promotes sense of self
4. Reduces colic and gas
5. Promotes healthy circulation of blood
6. Stimulates healthy muscle growth
7. Uses reflexology
8. The oils used can promote healthy skin (such as sweet almond oil)
9. Helps baby develop body effictively
10. Baby will know he or she is loved, hands on touch

You can find useful and free how-to videos on infant massage on Youtube or by searching the net. This is a great tool that can be used with infants. Just make sure the room is really warm and you are using oil like olive, almond, or safflower oil. Do not use baby oil.

Trail Mix

You can make your own trail mix. Sure, you can buy a prepackaged one at the store but there is a sense of health when you take the ingredients and create something to call your own. Here are some suggestions to put in your trail mix:

Pumpkin seeds
Pepita seeds
sunflower seeds
cashews
dried pineapple
raisins
crasins
cranberries
orange cranberries
dried blueberries
almonds
chocolate chips
peanut butter chips
white chocolate chips
macadamia nuts
dark chocolate chips
brazil nuts

and many more!

What can you do with it. Well, you can put it in smaller containers or baggies and grab one on the go or carry them around with you or in your car for when a hunger stike happens. You can also sprinkle some on your salad for a sweet and salty crunch that is also healthy. You can put them in your children’s lunch boxes or take them while shopping so they aren’t hungry.

Trail mix is also a fun way to get the family involved on creating healthy snacks and they will know what they are putting into their body.

You can also do a similar version with granola. The possibilities and varities are endless.

Breastfeeding and alcohol

First of all, if you are pregnant, you should absolutely not be drinking. There is a rumor going around that says a pregnant woman can have a glass of wine per day. I highly doubt this is true since everything you consume as a pregnant woman passes the placenta of the baby. Don’t risk it. Is your child’s health worth it? No.

However, a breastfeeding woman can have (some) alcohol if she does so in a conservative manner. First and foremost, if you DO have a glass of wine or a beer, do so directly after a feeding, not before. The “unwritten” rule is to wait two hours to feed after having an alcoholic drink.

There is an oldwive’s tale that tells breastfeeding women that a glass of wine or a bottle of beer a day will increase your milk supply. I used to think this was a bunch of crap. UNTIL I read on a medical website (like WebMD or something) that drinking dark ale DOES produce more milk. Who knew?

I don’t like beer anyway, nor do I have lactation problems, but I guess if you do choose to drink (two hours or more before a feeding), then consider dark ale. Oh and red wine is filled with antioxidents!!

Varicose veins

Varicose veins are bluish, itchy, achy veins that are usually occurs in legs. It is hereditary. Some pregnant women usually have this during pregnancy period. Long standing is one of its causes. If you are pregnant, gaining weight and prolong walking will make your veins noticeable. There’s no way in preventing varicose veins. But making it minimal can reduce the soreness and preventing it from becoming worse. Wearing support hose that can be both in department store can help. Exercise regularly can help in blood circulation around our body especially in our legs. Avoid sitting with legs crossed. When sitting, elevate your legs to relax the vein. Avoid long period of sitting and standing. Through this recommendation you will notice a difference experience by having a varicose veins in your legs.

Be healthy this Christmas season

Christmas season is usually describe by a cold weather. Some countries experience having snow while for the others, fog and cold. This is also the time were people should take care of their health. Sickness like colds, cough and asthma usually triggers. Proper healthy regime should always keep in mind. Always complete your clothing that complements the weather. Wear something comfortable but should come up with this season. Drinking fresh juices such as oranges,strawberries and lime can help to strengthen your immune system. Taking up vitamins also added to be free from sickness. Eat fresh vegetables and live a healthy lifestyle like free from vices such as smoking are a big help. Let’s take care our body and enjoy this season with a worry free diseases that usually comes along.

BPA on Baby Feeding Bottles

Plastic bottles have been condemned for some time now, ever since studies have found a link between cancer and the plastic bottles used in bottled water, juices or anything consumable that uses plastic bottles. But in the midst of this findings, a new bad chemical has again been found in plastics - Bisphenol A. Biphenol A or BPA is a chemical used in most plastics to make the plastic more durable and not easily breakable. This includes anything plastic. Polycarbonate plastics and most plastics with a marking of #7 on it usually contains this toxic chemical.

How does this concern baby feeding bottles? Since most feeding bottles for babies are made from plastic, research has shown that BPA is present in most of these bottles. What’s alarming about it is that the most popular brands of feeding bottles have BPA. This includes Avent, Dr. Brown’s and Playtex.

Does this harm our babies? Research shows that when the plastic is exposed to high temperature, the chemical in the plastic will leak. Therefore, if the plastic feeding bottle is sterilized or boiled or if it contains hot liquid, there is a tendency that BPA will leak into the milk which the baby will drink. They say BPA is linked to cancer, slow mental development and other diseases.

What can we do about it? Most parents switched to BPA-free plastic bottles like Born Free, Green to Grow and ThinkBaby. A lot of BPA-free options are now available in the market. Avent and Dr. Brown’s have also released BPA-free versions of their original feeding bottles.

 How do I know if it’s BPA-free? PES and Polypropylene are the popular BPA-free plastics used in feeding bottles. And due to growing concern over BPA, manufacturers have now classified on their packaging if an item is BPA-free.

Should I really be concerned about BPA? Most parents argue that they have been using feeding bottles with BPA for decades now, yet their babies do not show any side-effect. For me, it is always better to be safe than sorry. I would rather spend a few more bucks to make sure that I have nothing to worry about my baby’s health. Rather than scrimp over the money, worry at night, and regret it later on.

Don’t make your child bonsai

Those parents are really wise and intelligent who always provide positive backing to their children. They neither force their children nor support misbehavior of them. In fact, teachers keep such expectation from true parents.

But, today many parents constantly force their children to do something. They want their children to fulfill their motives. Such parents are addicted to their uncompleted dreams. They think that their children will complete those uncompleted goals. Such parents think that their child should be someone what parents wants.

If you are one of the wise and sensible parents, never keep such type of compulsory attitude about children. I think, you should find hidden qualities of your child. Try to find out those hidden intelligent of your child. Don’t make a bonsai of your child’s tree of qualities. Let his qualities grow. Cultivate latent cleverness of your child. Your child always expects indirectly good mental support of parents. He may not be that much capable to express it. But you are surely competent to understand him.

Practice no condiments for kids

Childrens should not practice to eat with condiments if not necessary. When they grow older the effects of having too much taste into something is not good. Like being train to eat spicy foods which can be a habit for them. Too much spicy in our food is dangerous in our health. Eating too much salty or sweet foods can lead to a serious health risk like diabetes or kidney problem. Sometimes this is the habit that is hard to break when they grow older. Start now since they are still young. Train them to eat right and healthy.

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