From the Desk of Ceci Davis

If you know someone who is expecting their first baby, please tell them about this new FREE program.

Even though it appears to be geared to a very young new mom, there is no doubt in my mind that a new mom of any age will benefit from this program!

Click the link below to register and for more information.  The program will also be available in Spanish.

http://www.text4baby.org/

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This is a wonderful gift for a mom-to-be or the first time mom.

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Here is an excellent article about a study conducted on 9 month old babies.

Take a look. Just click on the link below.

9 month old

Also take a look at the latest news on children’s health on the right hand side, under pages, look for Parenting news.

Parenting Tip

From the Desk of Ceci Davis

Will you be traveling with your baby this summer or for the up coming holidays?

If yes, go take a look at this article. Simply click the link –> Travel

 Trying to manage both the stress and family, we would have neglected a very important aspect of our child’s life: may be their emotional well being was neglected. In the child’s life, the first three years is a crucial stage and hence having a “part-time” parent float in and out of their life can be very painful and may weaken them.  Parents, educators, care takers and involved adults are essential as they make a joint effort to ensure that child’s emotional and physical needs are met on a daily basis.  By neglecting the child’s emotional needs in the first three years may result in devastating consequences like violent, disruptive and defiant behaviors.

Initial three years of child’s life is crucial in number of ways: When bonding and separation takes place. Whatever they do now and listen to are very important, if it is negative aspects then they never forget in their life. Hence parents have to take a very good care of their kid. A child may misbehave due to the interruptions in either of these processes which in turn will affect their relationships later in the life and will obstruct them in developing their own healthy relationships as adults. It is parent’s responsibility to ensure that, their child won’t get affected by any kind of interruptions.

Brain growth is most rapid during the first three years of the child’s life, the likes of which can’t be experienced again. Child’s brain would have been “Hardwired” from the experiences already by the time they are three years old.  The brain will be conditioned to expect positive things only if these experiences are loving, supportive, safe and positive. If those were frightening, hurtful, abusive, or dangerous experiences then the brain is conditioned to expect negative things.

It is crucial that parents and care takers should make a joint effort to ensure that the child’s emotional needs are met in a positive, constructive and healthy way. This is very important. Also parents should ensure that the care takers are stable and stagnant.

Always ensure that child is comfortable and secure with consistent schedules and routines. Do not compromise on this. Make sure you spend more time with your child in spite of your hectic life style and busy schedule. Assure your kids that, you care for them a lot and you are never too busy for them. Say “I Love You” to your children at least once every day.

Taking care of your child is a very stressful task as it requires ample management of emotional, behavioral and spiritual aspects of the parents. But never express that you are tired of them, always carry the smile on your face so that, they feel comfortable with you.

Child’s emotional well-being is as important as their physical needs, so make sure that your child knows that it is growing safe, secure, treasured and loved.

Charles is a professional webmaster since 2004. He is also a skilled programmer of business and research systems. He also creates websites for friends and a few for himself. Charles is interested in self improvement techniques and will be adding more self improvement information to the site Self Help Tactics.

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Have you or have you not set a bedtime routine for your baby?

Your baby needs to recognize when it is time for bed – end of the day, go to sleep no more playtime.

So one night you do everything in your room after the bath. The next night maybe in the kitchen. And the next night in the livingroom. This is not good.

You need to do your best to have a ritual for bedtime for your baby. That means same time everyday no matter what and in the same room. Consider having a special nighttime lullaby or music. Also have a bedtime book to read to your baby.

More to come…

For more information right away, visit ->  http://www.morebabysleeptips.com

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Baby sleep problems are a universal challenge. Do you know how to help your baby sleep through the night? You will when you read and use these 6 simple rules.

Rule 1 – Don’t let your baby become overly excited before bedtime.

A couple of hours before you plan to put your baby to bed make sure your baby is not playing excitable games. Ask any family members to not play with baby in a way that will cause excitement. You know how hard it is to sleep if you don’t do relaxing things before bedtime. It is the same for your baby.

Rule 2 – Don’t have toys in bed not related to your baby’s bedtime.

When you put your baby to bed, remove all toys that may be in the crib that are not related to bedtime. Your baby should only have the thing that you or your baby chose to represent bedtime as mentioned below.

Rule 3 – Do teach your baby how to self-sooth self to sleep and associate certain objects with bedtime.

Your baby should have a toy or favorite blankie to take to bed. This way when your baby wakes up during the night baby could reach for it and go back to sleep. Also consider the use of a pacifier. It has been proven most useful. In fact, a study by the Kaiser foundation found that it could help in the prevention of SIDS.

Rule 4 -   Do set up a same time same place routine for bedtime established for you baby.

As I mentioned in other articles, set up some type of a routine to represent bedtime. So, no matter what, put your baby to bed at the same time every night no matter what. Prepare your baby for bedtime in the same room every time.

Rule 5 – Do tank up feeding during the day.

Feed your baby enough during the day. Now I’m not saying to force feed like a goose. But, if your baby wants to play all day and not eat enough, your baby will want to eat during the night instead of sleep.

Rule 6 – Make your baby comfy.

There is so much cute clothes out there for you baby, but, it might not all be comfortable. If your baby is fusing and s/he has been diapered and fed, try a different pajama set. If the one already on is snug, try one that is a little looser.

So I’d like to encourage you to use these tips.

And I would also like to offer you free access to a 5 week baby sleep tips mini guide at http://www.freebabysleeptips.com to learn even more ways to help your baby sleep through the night.

Disclaimer:  The information presented is informational only. Please
consult with baby’s doctor before using any technique in
this document. The entire contents of this publication is
based on research. It is for educational purposes only.
It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information
from research and experience of the author. No guarantees
are given in any form by the author.

Traveling is stressful for baby and you.  Travel is a busy and stressful time. If you are dragging baby around with you, it will also be stressful times for baby. If you are going to a family reunion, all those people could make baby get over active.  If you are in a cold climate, make sure that you don’t overheat your home. This will cause baby not to sleep comfortably.

Also if the room is too hot it becomes unsafe as far as SIDS goes.  Keep the room temp at about 72 degrees.

Traveling with baby by plane is something that would make me shudder.

Now a-days there are so many travel delays that you better be well prepared for. Recently my brother had to go to another State on business. He usually takes his wife and very young child.

He was so thankful that they did not go along this time because he had so many delays, layovers and lost connections that he did not even know how they could have made it through a very tough time.

Once you are on the plane give baby something to eat or drink during takeoff and landing.  Offer a pacifier at the very least and do wake baby up during the take off and landing and do the above to help with any ear issues.

Okay, here it is night time and the kid is not going to sleep.

What to do!?

Here are a few tips.

* Give baby a warm bath.

* At the fist signs of fussiness, put baby to bed.

* Try rocking baby in your arms or rocking chair.

* Try walking around with baby in your arms.

* I read about CD’s that have nothing but white noise on them that help baby settle down. There was one  that was a sound of a hair dryer and another of a vacuum cleaner! Go figure.

* Or you can get a music CD made specially to help baby sleep.

*If you have already set up a night time routine, that means it is time for bed and sleep for baby as suggested in some of my other articles, DON’T change that routine, whatever it takes.

At the very least do your best to keep baby from getting over excited during the day during these very busy and fun times.

I invite you to give thought to baby’s needs during travel.

Disclaimer: The information presented is informational only. Please consult with baby’s doctor before using any technique in this document. The entire contents of this publication is based on research. It is for educational purposes only. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from research and experience of the author. No guarantees are given in any form by the author.

 Okay mom’s, how about this mistake. Are you quilty of making it?

So it is evening and the family is home and they want to play with the baby. Do you let them play games that excite the baby just before bedtime?

It is great that the family wants to play with the baby BUT the activities should be RELAXING for the baby!
Tell Dad not to play airplane or catch the baby in the air before bedtime. If you have other kids, let them know not to exited the baby.

The best thing would be to hold baby and read. Clear out the crib i.e. get the toys out. Give baby a favorite toy to settle down with.

For an audio version of baby sleep tips click on -> baby sleep tips

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Do you pick up your baby as soon as the crying starts at night?

Believe it or not, the kid might not even be really awake! I know I did this all the time with my kid. I did not know any better.

I learned that if you rub the tummy, the kid just might stop crying and go back to sleep.

Stay tuned for more…

 For an audio version of baby sleep tips click on -> baby sleep tips

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