Speech development: voice training before the first word Speech development and learning to speak start long before your baby utters the first clearly understandable word. The first step is voice development, which begins with the first cry. The archaic sounds, i.e. crying, screaming, moaning, gurgling, form the basis for speech development. Your child masters these … Properly promoting language development in children
Gill Rapley from the UK has popularized baby-led weaning, or baby-led complementary feeding. This involves offering the baby a variety of foods to choose from intuitively: cooked broccoli florets or carrot strips, steamed fish, omelet strips, or soft pieces of fruit. Many midwives support the concept. Possible benefits include: Instinctively, baby-led weaning is designed to … Baby-led Weaning – Benefits, Risks
How to breastfeed properly? Breastfeeding correctly takes a little practice. Especially during the first days after birth, it often doesn’t go smoothly. This is perfectly normal, because hardly anything we do for the first time succeeds immediately. When it comes to breastfeeding, many women make the painful experience that this also requires a bit of … Breastfeeding: Advantages, Disadvantages, Tips
Developmental stage or growth spurt In babies, development takes place in stages and according to a relatively fixed sequence. Eight growth spurts characterize the baby’s development in the first 14 months of life. When exactly a baby takes a developmental step varies from child to child. So there is nothing wrong if your baby takes … Growth spurt in babies
Motor development – a finely tuned system Grasping, running, clapping hands: What you first learn in the course of motor development feels child’s play. But motor actions require a precisely coordinated interplay of many different muscles. These must be correctly controlled by the nerves. This in turn requires different areas of the central nervous system … Motor development in children
What is fever? Babies and young children get fever more often than adults. It is a protective reaction of the body, with which it tries to fight pathogens. They can no longer multiply as well at a higher temperature. In healthy children, the body temperature is between 36.5 and 37.5 degrees Celsius (°C). If the … Fever in Babies
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Breastfeeding with nipple shields The thin, transparent and odorless silicone or latex nipple shields can be placed over the nipple and are said to help with some breastfeeding problems: They are designed to protect heavily stressed nipples. As they are modeled on the shape of a nipple, they can make it easier for the baby … Breast shields: Application, tips, and alternatives
When to start complementary feeding? When it is appropriate to start complementary feeding varies from child to child. Some children are already ready for complementary feeding at five months. This is when mothers should really start giving their offspring their first porridge – even though they may have wanted to exclusively breastfeed for the first … Introduction of Complementary Foods – When, how to prepare
“Milk is disgusting!”, “I don’t like that cheese sandwich!” or “But I want…”, some children grumble in one go and stamp their feet on the floor. Who doesn’t know this? Healthy food is not exactly interesting for children. And what other moms cook always tastes better anyway. However, the treats advertised with cool slogans taste … Healthy-Nourished Children
Pumping milk: when is it necessary? When you pump your milk are more independent. Maybe you just want to go to the movies or sports for a few hours. Then it is enough to pump milk occasionally or to build up a small supply. If women pump milk for a longer period of time, it … Pumping Breast Milk: How to do it!
Apathy means apathy, unresponsiveness and a lack of reaction to external stimuli such as being spoken to, picked up or touched. In a narrower sense, apathy is a disturbance of the state of alertness. It affects the central nervous system and is a very serious and dangerous symptom in babies. If you notice or suspect … Apathy in Babies
