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]]>All that you need, is a facecloth and warm water to clean your little one’s gums.
Dentist and Pampers Institute member, Dr Imraan Hoosen shares his tips on how to ensure that your baby’s gums remain healthy in this Pamper’s YouTube Video.
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]]>Development Specialist, Melodie de Jager believes that walking is the “Graduation Day” of movement and every other milestone until then is just baby learning at University.
So moms, make sure you keep your babies moving!
Watch the YouTube video for more.
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]]>By two years old, your baby should have finished the teething process, having cut 20 milk teeth in total.
Besides the tell-tale sign of a tooth popping up, other signs also give parents the teething heads up.
These signs include;
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]]>As your child’s nervous system matures with age, so does their capacity to cope with sensory stimulation in their ‘awake’ time.
Here is a guideline of approximate ‘awake’ times before ‘stress’ levels are reached:
0 – 6 weeks : 40 – 60 minutes
6 – 12 weeks : 60 – 80 minutes
3 – 6 months : 1 ½ hours
6 – 9 months : 2 hours
9 – 12 months : 2 ½ hours
1 – 2 years : 3 – 3 ½ hours
2 – 3 years : 4 – 5 hours
3 – 5 years : 5 – 7 hours
Parents of children that don’t sleep often think that by simply keeping them awake all day, will ensure they will sleep all night long. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sleep makes sleep – that is for sure!
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]]>As moms, it doesn’t matter how vigilant we are, our tiny tots can crawl and walk their way out of our line of vision in a matter of seconds.
For this reason, it is vital that we baby proof our homes sooner rather than later.
“You may think you have all the danger points covered, but you’ll be surprised how your perspective changes when you get down to baby’s level. It’s a good idea to crawl around your home before declaring it baby proof. By way of example, there may be a plug point underneath a counter which you may have missed, or a sharp corner of a tile that has gone unnoticed,” advises Astrid Anderson of Fountain Medical, distributor of Clevamama in South Africa.
According to Anderson, one area in the home that requires particular attention is the kitchen. “From hot stoves and ovens to boiling kettles and ceramic dishes that may break, the kitchen is a minefield for inquisitive little explorers. The good news is that there are products on the market that can give moms more peace of mind when it comes to this hotspot.
The Clevamama™ Transparent Oven Guard, by way of example, helps protect little hands from scalds and burns. The guard reduces oven heat by up to 50% thereby preventing injury. The transparent material also allows moms to see into the oven and is easy to clean. Using heat resistant double-sided suction pads it only takes seconds to attach to a metal or glass oven door.
Used alone or in conjunction with the Clevamama™ Transparent Oven Door Guard, the Clevamama™ Oven Door Lock is a heat resistant lock that prevents children from opening hot oven doors. This simple effective lock is easily attached and very secure.
About the Author: The Clevamama™ Transparent Oven Door Guard is available at Baby City, Toys R Us and Baby Boom while the Clevamama™ Oven Door Lock is also available at these and selected Checkers stores.
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]]>It is important to communicate confidence and calm to your baby when you begin. He needs to see an emotion that makes him feel secure that you are comfortable with what you are doing.
It is no good to start with sleep training at bedtime only to relent later out of desperation and give your baby his ‘crutch’ (such as feeding to sleep). The message that your baby receives in this case is that he must cry long and hard to have the old method reintroduced. Any inconsistencies will simply prolong the process of sleep training.
Sleep training is an act of teamwork between you, your partner and your baby. It is completely essential that you all work together and do not undermine the process for each other.
If your child has developed a habit whereby he is dependent on you for sleep, he will protest within minutes (probably even seconds!) of you leaving the room: This is where the hard bit comes in. Accept that your baby is going to cry, however, you are going to control how long he is going to cry for and you are going to be there for him every step of the way. T
here are two methods of handling this – neither one is better than the other – do what feels right for you at the time. One thing though, remember to be consistent and stick to one method for at least a week.
If you are anxious about separating from your baby, and if you feel uneasy about leaving your baby on his own whilst he is learning to put himself to sleep, you may want to stay with him for the process. All sleep coaching is hard work and may be very emotionally draining, so if you feel angry and frustrated when your baby cries and feel that you might physically harm your baby out of tiredness and frustration, then this is not the sleep coaching method for you.
This method allows you to pick up your baby when he is crying and comfort him until he is calm, but it differs from the first method in that you actually leave the room for short periods of time from the beginning, before returning to pick him up to calm him once more. If you feel that you could possibly harm your baby physically (out of sheer exhaustion and frustration) this may the method of choice for you as you are able to step away from the situation for very short periods of time in order to catch your breath and re-focus on the goal in sight.
Changing unhealthy sleep habits is exhausting and the key to its success is to focus on the goal at the end of it all. Accept that you will be tired and frustrated at times, but try not to get bogged down in the immediate drama of the moment, and rather look at your long term goal.
The process of falling asleep unassisted is a skill that needs practice, so bear in mind that success comes only after a period of practice, so don’t give up!
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]]>I hear it so often: “My baby cannot sleep through the night because he is teething really badly!”
Maybe I was just lucky that my son took teething in his stride; the sore gums, the drooling, the runny nose, the horrible nappies – all the usual “teething symptoms” was something I just read in books. But then, I also have to be honest – he was sleeping brilliantly.
You see, the good news is – your child is getting teeth! Fantastic, he won’t be the only baby that looks like a toothless little shark.
The bad news is, it might come with some sleeping problems.
The ugliness of it all may be that you will use your teething baby as an excuse for everything that has ever gone wrong in your life.
Now the question remains whether your little teething bundle of saliva can actually sleep, sleep train, be trained for sleep and sleep better, whilst teething.
The answer is a loud, very definite: YES.
If you are going to wait for your baby to stop teething before you actually train or teach him or her to sleep, you are going to wait more than two and a half years. Since sleep is a skill we need to teach our children, the faster we give them the gift of a good night’s sleep the better.
If you want your baby sleep through the night, take restful naps, be healthy, happy and still have teeth, you can help your baby or toddler by teaching him or her how to sleep unaided.
Think about it, if your little one can put himself to sleep without your help, he won’t wake you up during the night the five times he wakes at night because of sore gums.
In my experience, I have found that babies and tots who have learned the skill of sleeping, handle teething and illness much better.
Lastly, a good way to test whether your child is restless because of teething, is to think about whether he is showing other signs of teething, and whether it is also bothering him during the day.
It is important to remember that if your child is truly teething, it won’t just bother him at night!
About the Author: Good Night is a child and baby sleep consultancy that specialises in helping parents with children who struggle to sleep soundly. For more information, visit: www.goodnightbaby.co.za
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