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For the baby’s zzzz…..
Sleep is very important to a child’s health and well-being. And more so, creating a sleeping comfort zone for your baby is crucial in getting the required quality sleep that his body needs, to function as it should. Apart from providing a nice room that has dim lights, a stable bed and clean and soft…
Milestones at month 11 – bear with his separation anxiety, he will survive
As a parent, you are more excited than your baby as he approaches his first birthday. Of course the importance of the date at that age, while a big deal for you, is lost on the child. As you plan your baby’s birthday bash, a rush of apprehension hits you as you are not sure…
They’re suffering under our care
As busy as life has become, children have not been left behind in the rat race. Nowadays, it is no secret to find children awake as early as 4 a.m, to begin their day that usually ends around 6 p.m due to traffic jams. One wonders where this generation is heading to if children will not be left to just…
BABY INFECTIONS AT HOME
Germs and bacteria are literally all around us. As parents, we get immensely paranoid at everything and everyone that comes into contact with our little ones. As well we should be. We as adults are at times walking contanct transmitters of different bugs and viruses….Germs and bacteria are literally all around us. As parents, we get immensely paranoid at everything and everyone that comes into contact with our little ones. As well we should be. We as adults are at times walking contanct transmitters of different bugs and viruses….
UNDESCENDED TESTICLES
Is your baby boy at risk? One of the examinations that a doctor performs upon the birth of a baby boy, is a thorough review of the baby’s genitals. This is done to confirm that both testicles, or testes, are in their normal position in the scrotum. It is not unusual for babies, particularly premature…
Childless? – letting another woman get pregnant on your behalf
Wandia and John had been trying to bear a child countless times, unsuccessfully. They had listened to every old woman’s folktales on fertility enhancement and would have visited a local mganga were it not for the good Lord forbidding it in His word. Then once, after months of drinking beetroot and amaranth—she believes that was…
Sun Allergy – When the sun is not so friendly
According to Dorlana’s medical dictionary for health consumers, light allergy is an uncomfortable condition that results from extreme sensitivity to ultra violet light. This happens when there is an enzyme deficiency in the repair of DNA damaged by the ultra-violet light. It begins in child hood. Unprotected sun exposure is dangerous to a child with…
Your Word 29
After numerous questions from you, dear reader, on how to bring up your child and what to do—and not to do, we finally heed your call for more information on baby care and development. BabyLove, intended to help parenting easier and more enjoyable, is here for you. Feel free to send as many questions as…
My baby’s medicine overdose — she drank a bottle of bronchial syrup!
My baby’s medicine overdose — a brush with death, because I was “careless” for once, only once… I tucked in our nine month-old daughter under the warm blanket. Medicine overdose was no where near my mind. I had just administered some medicine to our two year-old son who slept in the same bedroom. He was…
Save your Baby from Rickets
Vitamin D is essential in promoting absorption of calcium and phosphorus from the gastrointestinal tract, which children need to build strong bones. A deficiency of vitamin D makes it difficult to maintain proper calcium and phosphorus levels in their bones. If the body senses an imbalance of calcium and phosphorus in the bloodstream, it reacts…
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