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Do Babies Have Dreams When They Sleep?

June 3, 2020 By Karen Leave a Comment

When adults fall asleep, we experience a cycle called light sleep and deep sleep. In light sleep, our brain and body adjusts from being awake to being asleep. This is the stage that dreams often occur. On the other hand, deep sleep is when our body and brain is fully at rest. The transition from light sleep to deep sleep happens on the first hour of sleep. However, for babies, the transitions happen in a shorter span of time occurs multiple times during sleep. This explains that yes, babies do have dreams and they dream more than the adults do. About 70% of their sleeping time, they experience dreaming.

When Do Babies Start to Have Dreams?

Studies shows that as early as 30 weeks gestation, a baby inside his mother’s womb could already experience REM (Rapid Eye Movement) Sleep. REM is when one’s eyeballs keep moving behind the eyelids. This is also the phase of sleep that dreams occur. So even from inside his mommy’s tummy, few weeks before he is born, a child can already experience dreaming.

What Do Babies Dream About?

Babies can already smell, hear and feel from the time he’s still in the womb. A Pediatric Expert says that a baby inside the womb might have dreams about his amniotic world and his everyday experiences inside his mother. From newborn stage and infancy, every changes he could encounter and development he had may improve his dreaming as well. From the clearer vision of his room, to the soothing feeling he had when sucking his pacifier. All his dreams would vary from his day to day life experiences.

Do Babies Have Nightmares Too?

Worry not mommy, it is said that an infant still don’t register his fears to include it in his dreams. Your baby could have cried during sleep, and there might be some reason for that, but babies don’t usually experience nightmares until he reaches the age of 3-5 years old.

Can dreams affect baby’s moods?

No, babies might not even be able to remember what he dreamed about during sleep. Most likely, by the time a baby wakes up, he will already put behind what he had dreamed about. And also, since they have multiple dreams during sleep, it’s no longer possible to remember and get affect by it.

Dreaming plays a big role in an adult’s world. That is the reason why parents are often wondering too if their babies could dream. Even though babies could dream, their dreams does not affect them same as how it does to adults. Their dreams are just happy fragments of their everyday experiences.

Filed Under: Baby Sleeping, Growing Kids, infancy, Newborn, Toddler Life

How to Handle a Picky Eater Child

June 2, 2020 By Karen Leave a Comment

As a mother, it is always our joy to see our kids growing healthy. It is always on our goal to let our kids try different foods that contains the right nutritions they are expected to get everyday. But how could you achieve that if your child is a picky eater? How can you encourage him to change his eating habits so that each meal time will no longer be a horror for both mommy and her kid? In this article, lets find out how we can handle a child who is a picky eater.

When and Where Eating Happens

Establish a routine in eating and a permanent place to share your food. Your child should be able to eat 3 proper meals a a snacks in between. It is our role as a guardian to decide what food we should offer to our child, and it is our child’s decision already to take it or not. However here are some tips to help your child to be interested in trying different foods.

Tips to Help a Picky Eater Child

•Offer an Appealing Menu to Try On. Entice his or her curiousity by offering a meal that looks, smells and tastes yummy.

•Happy Meal Time. Do not pressure your child to eat what is on the table. The more pressured he is, the more he’ll set in his mid that he doesn’t like to eat what’s there. Make meal time a happy family time.

•Be an example. When the toddler seas that other members of family are eating what is on the table without asking for what’s not there, it will encourage him to try it too.

•Don’t bargain. Whatever is served should be consumed. Don’t serve his favorite food because he said he wants it. Don’t give in to his wants.

•He will eat when he’s hungry. At start, you may not like it when your kid only eats a little, and you just let that be. Experts says the child will more likely to eat more the next meal to make up from the last mealtime. Once he’s hungry, he will ask for food.

•Let him take Vitamins that might improve his appetite and eating habits. Ask your pedia about it so that you will have proper reccomendations on what to give your child too.

•Don’t easily quit the established routine. If you see only a little improvement, don’t quit right away or withdraw your plans. Be patient and try and try again.

Being a picky eater is not a behaviour that lasts for a lifetime. Eventually, it will improve through time, patience and dedication of parents to help their kids through it. As long as you don’t give up, there’s still hope. Just do your best to provide a healthy meal each time. Even if you fail, remind yourself that things will get better.

Filed Under: Growing Kids, Mommy Life, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler Life, Young Kids

What Second Hand Smoke Can Do to Your Baby

May 30, 2020 By Karen Leave a Comment

The world has always been warned that cigarette smoking is dangerous to our health. It is the cause of life-risky diseases such as lung and esophageal cancers, heart disease, stroke, aneurysm and a lot more. If smoking has been dangerous to adults who are smomers, how much more and what could have been its effect to the second hand smokers especially the babies? Is it as life-threatening to children as it is to adults? Let’s find out.

Effects of Secondhand Smoking to Babies

•Respiratory Infectons. Babies who are exposed to secondhand smoking are much more prone to develop respiratory infections and lung diseases.

•Ear Infectons. Experts speculaten that when a child is exposed to secondhand smoke, the tube in his ear may become blocked up or inflamed. This can cause for water and dirt to be trap inside the ears making it an ideal place for bacteria and infections.

•Asthma and Allergies. Children are more probe to asthma and allergies once exposed to secondhand smoke. Not only because of the toxicity of the smoke but also because of the contained harmful chemicals in it.

•Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. This refers to sudden death of healthy infants (below one year old) during sleep. There is no scientific reason for it but secondhand smoking is one of the factors that researchers see as a contributing factor.

•Sickly Children. With the exposure in secondhand smoking, children are more prone to getting sick. They could easily get cough, wheezing, bronchitis and even pneumonia.

How to Save Children from Secondhand Smoke

•From pregnancy, avoid smoking or avoid being in the same room with someone who smokes. Even if the baby is still inside you, he is unsafe from all the hazardous things you could encounter like secondhand or thirdhand smoking.

•Newborn babies are very vulnerable. Protect them. Never let anyone smoke around you. Even inside the car with windows down, it is still unsafe. Completely eliminate smoking from your daily lives. The child’s welfare should come first.

•When going out into the public, always be vigilant and check if the place you are in designates a smoking area or not. Children are helpless so stand up for them.

•Ask relatives, friends, nannies, baby siyters and care givers to step outside when they smoke. Inform them that you don’t allow smoking near your children.

•As early as toddler stage, teach your kids to avoid people who are smoking. Make them understand how dangerous and risky it is for their health.

It takes a very consistent effort and sacrifice to be able to raise our children. They are supposed to be well taken cared off. Take the responsibility to save and protect your children from secondhand smoke risks.

Filed Under: Baby Care and Needs, Baby's Health, Parenting, Pregnancy and Health, Toddler Life, Young Kids

Why do Babies Cry When Sleepy?

May 28, 2020 By Karen Leave a Comment

Parents are left in wonder why little ones often throw a fuss and cry whenever they feel the urge to sleep. Well, not really all the time, but there are really times that before they fall asleep, they would cry. Up until this time, there is still no scientific reason why children tends to cry when they are sleepy, however, studies were able to identify certain factors that may have contributed to these behavior. In this artice, let me discuss further these factors and how they can make us understand what our baby wants or needs.

Understanding Why Babies Cry

From the moment they made their grand entance into our world, babies don’t have proper way to communicate and directly tell his parents what he wants or needs other than to cry it our loud. Crying is never a perfect way to communicate too, that is why it is important for parents to understand the reason why our babies cry. It could be that he is hungry, having a gassy tummy, uncomfortable in his bed, itching, in pain or maybe just sleepy.

Factors Why Babies Cry When Sleepy

•Transition of Behavior from being widely awake to being sleepy.

Crying could be the baby’s means to pour out his emotion when he don’t quite understand why he suddenly feels the urge to rest and sleep when awhile ago he was so lively and awake.

•Too tired to go to sleep.

Study shows that those babies who had been awake for quite some time, have played for a little more, have been active before they felt sleepy, they arethe ones who would most likely cry and give a fuss before sleeping.

•Fighting not to sleep. It could also be that babies are trying to fight against sleep. They could have been enjoying their waking times and crying because they don’t want to end it to sleep.

I know, listening to your baby cry could be very frustrating as parents. However, there is also a method on how to get your baby sleep faster through “crying to sleep”. After crying for some time, your baby will feel more soothed and ready for sleep. He will be able to sleep more soundly too. This method has been proven and tested to me through my sons.

Also, before anything else, try to check too if your baby has been feeling unwell to make sure that his crying is merely because he is sleepy and not because of anything more serious.

Filed Under: Baby Sleeping, infancy, Parenting, Toddler Life

Why You Shouldn’t Kiss an Infant’s Face

May 25, 2020 By Karen Leave a Comment

What gestures do we usually use to show love and affection to little ones? Hugging, kissing, verbal compliments, giggling and the likes. But, do you know that it is really not advisable to kiss a newborn’s or infant’s face, lips, not even hands. Frustrating, trully. Especially for Momma’s like me. Everytime my baby is sleeping right next to me, or when im cuddling with him and he stares back at me, or just simply when he makes a cutie face look, i surely want to dive and shower him with kisses. How I’d giggle and want to kiss those cheeks soundly. But no, I’d rather not risk it. Why? Why should we be cautious with this thing? Read on to find out why.

The Risks of Kissing a Baby

•Cavities

Streptococcus Mutans is a kind of bacteria present in a person’s saliva. When you kiss a baby, it can be passed on to him and it can cause cavities in his teeth. Oral hygiene is very important especially when you are around the little ones.

•Cold Sores Caused by Herpes Simplex Virus type1

An adult who has stronger immune system may be unaware that he is carrying such virus. However, a baby who has never had any antibodies and immunity to fight against these viruses will surely be in trouble. Cold sores and blisters may develop around the mouth area and spread in the face. It may even get worse if unattended.

•Allergies

A woman who is wearing cosmetics and lipstic that has a strong chemicals on it might trigger allergies to babies. Also, someone who has been out for a meal might still got bits of food around his mouth and would trigger allergic reaction when he showers kisses to the baby.

•Respiratory Syncytial Virus

This virus causes Respiratory and Lung Infections. Considering that it is highly contagious, babies are vulnerable to it. An adult’s simple cough and cold could already be a different case when it comes to babies. When someone is sick, he should not get around to babies without any protection like mask.

•Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

This disease is very common among children. It can easily be passed through close contact, touching and kissing. It’s symptoms includes sores especially in mouth, hand and feet, children feel extra tired, they might experience sore throat, and fever might come too.

In Handling Kids and Babies, Remember to:

•Maintain your good hygiene. As a mother or someone who handles the baby daily, you should be clean all the time too.

•Wash hands or sanitize hands before handling babies especially newborn and infant.

•Keep baby clean all day long by wiping with wet wipes and baby wipes. Keep him fresh too.

•Tell people around you to practice hand washing and sanitizing too before they touch the baby.

•Educate people near that kissing the baby is a No No. Make them understand why too.

Handling newborn and infants requires extra care and attention. They are the most vulnerable when it comes to germs, virus and bacteria around us. Practice the do’s and don’ts. It is better to contain our affection and overwhelming feeling towards the baby by ourselves than put them at risk. No regret will ever come first so better take precautions seriously.

Filed Under: Baby Care and Needs, Baby's Health, infancy, Newborn, Toddler Life, Young Kids

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