Early Motherhood

Once a baby arrives, it can seem as if the laundry doubles! Many parents think they need to use baby detergent to clean their baby’s clothes. It may be reassuring to know that this isn’t necessary for most babies.

If baby detergent isn’t getting rid of stains and odors on your baby’s clothing as well as you’d like, it may be time to switch to a regular liquid detergent. Unless your baby has allergies, eczema, atopic dermatitis or other conditions causing sensitive skin, washing your little one’s clothes with the rest of the family’s clothes isn’t likely to irritate your baby’s skin. Liquid detergents are your best bet because they work for all types of clothes. You may even want to use stain-removing detergents for tough stains.

Feeding a baby for the first time is an exciting experience for any new parent. It can also be a little intimidating, especially if you don’t know what to expect. So here’s a quick guide to one important aspect of feeding – burping.

Burping helps to get rid of some of the air that babies tend to swallow during feeding. If babies aren’t burped frequently, too much swallowed air can lead to spitting up, crankiness, and gassiness in some babies. However, doctors believe that colic – 3 or more hours a day of continued crying – is probably not caused by gas. It may be hard to tell which came first, the gas or the colic, but research suggests that more often than not, a colicky baby has developed gas by swallowing too much air during crying spells. Prescribing antigas drops has not proven to be an effective way to treat colic or gas.

All parents will have to inevitably face anxious moments when their babies and toddlers had bumped their heads. Usually, when a baby started turning over, he/she will probably fell off the bed accidentally.

Therefore, to prevent this it is best to place babies in a secured baby cot all the time. No amount of barricade (usually made from pillows/bolsters placed around the bed) can prevent the fall.

As a baby grows bigger, during the time when he/she started to learn to stand, more accidents like these can happen. Child-proof the home long before the child started exploring. Remove all sharp edges furniture.

Each year thousands of young children are killed or injured in car crashes. You can help
prevent this from happening to your child by always using car safety seats and seat belts correctly.

All new cars come equipped with air bags. When used with seat belts, air bags work very well to protect older children and adults. However, air bags are very dangerous to children riding in rear-facing car safety seats and to child passengers who are not properly positioned. If your car has a passenger air bag, infants in rear-facing seats must ride in the back seat. Even in a low-speed crash, the air bag can inflate, strike the car safety seat, and cause serious brain and neck injury and death.

To poison proof your home:

Most poisonings occur when parents or caregivers are home but not paying attention. The most dangerous potential poisons are medicines, cleaning products, antifreeze, windshield wiper fluid, pesticides, furniture polish, gasoline, kerosene and lamp oil.

1) Store medicine, cleaners, paints/varnishes and pesticides in their
original packaging in locked cabinets or containers, out of sight and reach of children.

2) Install a safety latch – that locks when you close the door – on
child-accessible cabinets containing harmful products.

3) Purchase and keep all medicines in containers with safety caps.
Discard unused medication