Baby Care

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One dilemma new moms face is how are they going to feed their new babies.  There are two types of baby care feeding, breastfeeding and bottle feeding.  It is wise for the mom to decide before the baby is born because nutritionists come to your room the day you are admitted to find out if you are going to breast feed.  If your answer is yes, then they will send a breastfeeding coach to your room.

The breastfeeding coach supplies you with information on how to breast feed your baby so that you are a little prepared when baby is born.  This information shows you different types of positions to hold the baby so that it is more comfortable for you when feeding.

1) The football position – This is when you hold the baby in one arm in the manner that football players hold the football when they are running with the ball.  If you are right handed, then you hold the babies head with the palm of your hand.  Your right arm will be under their back and their feet will be behind your arm.  Your left hand to hold the breast in position so that you can lunge (my choice of words) the baby’s head carefully onto the breast so that the mouth is around the areola.

It is much more comfortable to place a pillow under your arm and the baby resting on the pillow (in newborn stage) before you start breastfeeding to prevent your arm from getting tired.

2)  Cradle Position – This is when you hold the baby with the bend of your arm under their head and their body up against yours.  Their stomachs should be placed up against your stomach with the entire body aligned straight in the same direction to minimize discomfort.  It is easier to do this in a chair so that you can rest your arm (with the baby in it, of course) on it.

3) Cross Cradle Position – This is just like the cradle except you are holding the baby with the other arm.  Instead of holding the baby in the right arm on the right breast, you will be holding the baby with your left arm on the right breast.  This gives you more head control to make sure the mouth is carefully around the areola when feeding.

4) Tailor – This is when you hold the baby across your lap normally (for older kids) with right arm behind head and them feeding on right breast.  Something like cradle but with older kids.

5) Lying down – This is the “lazy” position (again my own words).  You lay on your side, let’s say the right side, and baby is lying right next to you.  This makes it easier to direct your breast into babies mouth correctly.  It also eliminates having to hold the baby during feeding.

Breastfeeding is the recommended baby care feeding because you are giving the sweet baby all the necessary natural nutrients that help fight certain immune diseases.  It also gives them a better IQ.

Banana is an amazing and fabulous fruit: it satisfies your hunger, supplies the body with energy and useful substances. It has a convenient natural packaging. Even babies are not allergic to bananas. That’s why banana is often included in baby food. Adults also eat them with pleasure – with the exception of those who have diabetes. Energy value of bananas is 90 kilocalories per 100 grams. Fibers they contain facilitate intestinal transit and contribute to good digestion of sugar and fat. Bananas have balanced vitamins. They contain lots of vitamins E and C, and vitamin B6.

Banana is also a source of trace elements: 100 grams contains 42 mg of magnesium and 348 mg of potassium, the content of the last is comparable only with dried apricots. In addition, tropical fruits are a source of calcium, iron and phosphorus.

Once there were only green bananas, and they slowly turn yellow in

our house. Today bananas reach the desired condition in special places filled with ethylene gas at high humidity and temperature around 13 oC. Here they stay from 4 to 8 days – depending on the established regime, according to the fruit and market needs. Fast mode allows bananas ripen for 4 days, but they are delicious when they are kept for eight days.

Ethylene is not accidentally chosen for ripening of bananas – during the maturation in natural conditions bananas themselves emit this gas.

Buying bananas, we first assess their appearance: color, presence or absence of black spots, the size of the fruit andtheir degree of maturity. It is known that a good banana is yellow, juicy, with shiny and sleek surface and do not have too ribbed form. The black dots on the surface are a sign that the fruit contains maximum sugar. But if the entire surface of the banana is black it’s a bust, indicating that the firm-supplier could not keep their products properly. However, such fruit is harmless and completely edible.

Meanwhile, according to an existing document, bananas are divided into three classes. Best – “extra” should be a minimum length of 20 cm, volume of 3-4 cm. Sometimes they can have the same thickness but be a couple of centimeters shorter. Requirements for the second class: length -14 cm, volume – 2, 7-4, 1 cm, however, usually fruit of all varieties: thick and thin, long and short – are sold at one price.

The basis of the export products is bananas which are used in culinary. Best-known varieties are Cavendish, Gro Michel, Lakatan. Export class bananas must endure all the difficulties of transportation.

Bananas which are used in culinary, are dessert and vegetables bananas. Today small dessert bananas can be found in our own sales network. Their value is considerably less than the traditional: 8-12 cm, thin skin, with the taste of honey, sweet and delicious. For the price they are twice expensive.
All the remaining bananas for us are exotics. There are a variety of bananas with a taste of an apple. There are red bananas, with red-brown, red and burgundy skin and pink core. Vegetable bananas can be boiled, fried, dried, put in the soup instead of potatoes. They are used in chips and even beer production. These fruit contains a lot of starch and is not sweet.

Delusion N1: Rely on the taste of the child

Parents sometimes are mistaken and wrong. For example, in fashion at the time of the emancipation of women they were mistaken about the need for infant feeding with breast milk. It was believed that this process would spoil the body and can be painlessly replaced by artificial feeding. As a result, pediatricians had to convince the careless mothers that bare necessity for their children during the first months of life is mother’s milk and no artificial substitutes can fully replace it.

Today, pediatricians have to convince women to a lack or absence of their own milk (but this problem is very crucial – almost 70% of Russian women suffer from reduced secretion of milk. So they try to refute another common parental mistake: “In order to feed a child can be used any children products. After all, this is not so. If you can not feed the child with breast milk, the replacement would be by the best food in the form of an adapted liquid infant formula.

Delusion N2: Feeding the child with different mixtures

Most parents feed their kids with a mixture of non-adapted cow’s milk. It’s a serious mistake to feed babies with cow’s milk, because it is rich in natural and useful substances. In fact, proteins in this milk are “too heavy” for the body of the child. Any pediatrician will tell you that when artificial feeding should be used only adapted milk formulas, as by their composition and properties they are closer to human milk. Such mixtures can be used from the earliest days of baby’s life. We, following the recommendations of the Professional Institute of Nutrition RAMS, will advise the mixture “Agusha”. They are proved to be the best; many modern parents know and prefer to use this mixture.

Delusion N3: the mixture does not have a healthy effect

“Agusha” – is a mixture of two types: unsalted and sour-milk. By the way, pediatricians recommend unsalted mixture. Sour-milk mixture from “Agusha” is a unique product, which contains live lacto- elements that suppresses the growth of pathogenic flora and is an excellent preventive of dysbacteriosis. Doctors recommend the sour-milk mixture in case of functional disorders of the digestive tract among babies – colic, constipation, and depressed immunity and high risk of respiratory and intestinal infections. Moreover, its inclusion in the diet reduces the manifestations atonic dermatitis among children, often occurring with the introduction of complementary food.

Delusion N4: the mixture can be prepared “by eye”

Liquid mixtures “Agusha” are very convenient for parents. The process of its

preparation can be expressed literally in a nutshell: warm up – and feed! Believe me, this is much better and more useful than to feed the baby with dry mixture diluted “by eye”. Moreover, not every mother uses required boiled water. And how much harmful can be water from the tap, we keep silent.

Delusion N5: “adult” products can be used

Curds or yogurt, parents must eat these themselves – for them it will be much more useful than for their child. For children are invented and developed their own, children yoghurt, cheese, cream and juice. And they are all sold under the brand name familiar to us “Agusha”.

From six months children need an additional source of protein, calcium and phosphorus. Thanks to the latest technologies, “Agusha” contains basically the valuable whey proteins, rather than crude casein, as in “adult” curd, which is poorly digested in the stomach of the child.

From eight months to the diet can be added no less useful for children yogurt “Agusha”. Children yogurt is enriched with vitamins and minerals. It also adds natural fruit and berry fillings.

Fruit juices can be added to babies diet from three months. They are rich in vitamins and trace elements, and their range is also very diverse.

Both babies and mothers gain many benefits from breastfeeding. Breast milk is easy to digest and contains antibodies that can protect infants from bacterial and viral infections. Research indicates that women who breastfeed may have lower rates of certain breast and ovarian cancers.

Breastfeeding is an important woman’s issue, human rights issue, health issue and feminist issue. Breastfeeding empowers women. Women who wish to breastfeed their babies but do not, because of inadequate support from family or health workers, constraints in the workplace, or misinformation, often feel guilty because of this failure at something they wanted to do.

Human breast milk is the most healthful form of milk for human babies. There are a few exceptions, such as when the mother is taking certain drugs or is infected with tuberculosis or HIV. Breastfeeding promotes health, helps to prevent disease and reduces health care and feeding costs. In both developing and developed countries, artificial feeding is associated with more deaths from diarrhea in infants. Experts agree that breastfeeding is beneficial, but may disagree about the length of breastfeeding that is most beneficial, and about the risks of using artificial formulas.

Feed your baby as often as he or she wants to be fed. This may be 8 to 12 times a day or more. How often your baby wants to feed may change over time as he or she goes through growth spurts. Growth spurts occur at about 2 and 6 weeks of age and again at about 3 and 6 months of age.

Let your baby nurse until he or she is satisfied. This may be for about 15 to 20 minutes at each breast. Try to have your baby nurse from both breasts at each feeding. The box below lists the signs to watch for so you’ll know your baby is getting enough milk. If you’re nursing fewer than 8 times a day, be especially aware of these signs.

Signs that your baby is getting enough milk

Acts satisfied after each feeding.

Gains weight constantly after the first 3 to 7 days after birth. Your baby may lose a little weight during the first week after being born.

Has about 6 to 8 wet diapers a day.

Has about 2 to 5 or more stools a day at first and then may have 2 or less a day. Stools will be runny at first.