Guide for Moms

Archive for January, 2012

Still lap or hold the baby while driving in the car? Stop it now! Collision when the car brakes suddenly or collide, can harm the baby due to hit the dash board or the chair in front of him, bounced up to hit the windshield, or pinched by your body that hold him! So make sure your baby always sitting in the car seat on the way, and buy the best car seat now!
• Customize your child’s car seat with a weight. There is a car seat that can maintain their body weight (BW) infants only up to 9 kg, there is also car seat that can hold up to 18 kg, can be used up to toddlers. Do not force the use of child car seat when the body weight already exceeds its capacity, because if you still do it the car seat can no longer guarantee the safety of your children. In addition, the child was not comfortable seated in the cramped car seat. If your baby’s head over the top of the car seat, it’s a sign to replace the car seat with the bigger one.
• Place the car seat properly. There are two things to consider when installing the car seat, the first, make sure the car seat is properly installed on the car seat. Second, make sure the seat belt is properly installed in the baby. Expensive car seat means nothing, if it is not installed properly.
• Put in the back seat. Cars equipped with air bags that can come out when the impact occurred. This will harm the baby if the car seat was installed in front seat. If you still want to install the car seat in the front, make sure you turn off the air bag.
• Looking to where? Infants placed rear-facing until at least age 1 year or 9 kg baby weight. Children over the age of one year or 9-18 kg body weight sit facing forward so there will be available space for his legs to bend. Children with body weight 18-36 kg, sitting in a booster seat because when he seated in car seat, he will likely to be choked because the seat belts do not fit through the shoulders and abdomen since he was not yet high enough.

Teether (toys to bite) can be used to stimulate the growth of baby teeth at age 5-6 months upwards. At that time his milk teeth begin to grow, baby will experience itch and pain on gums area due to crowd out of the dental gum tissue. With biting something like teether, your baby will feel comfortable. Solid grip and easy attached teether could also train infants fine motor skills.
In order not causing a harm when using teether with infected diseases or injury (if any part is sharp) you should follow these tips when choosing the right teether for your babies:
• Buy teether from manufacturers whose reputation is great.
• In order to keep the hygiene, after use wash the teether with hot water or a special cleaning fluid, then store them in a clean container.
• Select the teether that is made up of latex and contains gel, because it will feel colder than the water-filled teether.
• Adjust the shape teether with baby’s mouth. If your baby’s age is 5 months old then select a small teether.

Play mat is not just the mattress that keep your baby clean when play on the floor furthermore the right play mat could provide the brain stimulation to your baby.

Play mat come with different colors and shapes. There is a play mat that offers attractive colors, sounds, toys, books that attach to the mat to a multi-functional. You can choose from a variety of funny mattress offered on the market, that’s right for the baby. The main one, adjust the pads to play with toddlers. If the baby can not roll around and sitting, just use the pads to play that is not too wide. When he made many moves, wide base with a variety of three-dimensional toy suited him.

Colors and shapes. Children need color stimulation, so do not be surprised if he was interested in bright contrasting colors. Full color play mat just like the color of the world that invite your baby to explore it even more. He would love to examine the different colors and try to reach it. Understand it, toddlers do not yet know if the base play only two dimensions. He can learn basic colors while strengthening the muscles of her eyes.

Studying the form. Not just color, children also learn about the form. Choose a mattress or play mat that have objects that is recognised easily by your child such as balls, boxes or dolls. There is also a kind of play mat or pedestal that provides new toys in three dimensions. So, your baby’s hand could reaching dolls, mirrors or toys attached to the pedestal. That way, not only the eye and fine motor skills are honed, the cognitive and sensory motor skills are also stimulated. Even more importantly, kids love it!

Several Criteria of the best play mat for your babies and kids:
• Provide appropriate facilities for baby’s development. For example, have different textures or different age-appropriate toys.
• The size is based on the development of the child’s motion.
• The color range.
• thick enough so
• The objects or toys attached to the base is not easily loose when it is touched or played or can injure children and did not restrict his movement on the mat.