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The baby pacifier
If you chose to give a pacifier to your baby, here are our tips to good use with baby.
Why the pacifier?
For baby to suckle the baby is a real pleasure and even a physiological need that reassurance.
This stage lasts up to 3 years. During this period, some babies are discovering for themselves how to calm down with the thumb, but not always.
The first few months, give your baby a pacifier to calm thus allows many tears.
To you identify what your baby needs: he does not his thumb, the pacifier but not why it’s a good thing baby also learns to calm himself with a familiar security blanket.
Note: if you are breastfeeding, the nipple may, especially in the first weeks of life, disrupt sucking reflexes and make breastfeeding more difficult.
Choose a pacifier
Choose a teat of a new quality mark (Bébisol ®, Remond ®, Chicco ®, etc..) Teats poor quality can be dismantled and become dangerous to baby.
Check the absolute strength of the nipple and change it when in doubt.
There are different sizes of nipple: choose the right one! In fact, too big nipple can cause the heart to high infant.
The hygiene of the teat
A pacifier, it often falls to the ground … and so it becomes dirty. The pacifier, not to carry germs, should be regularly washed with water and dishwashing liquid and rinsed. You can also sterilize.
The loss of the nipple
Baby fell asleep the pacifier in his mouth but was lost. When he awoke, he cries for the return.
If baby is big enough, put several pacifiers in the bed to be sure he found at least one. If baby is too small, no choice: he must get up!
Attach the nipple to the baby’s pajamas with a short chain (about 10 cm) that will not wrap around baby’s neck. There are such strings in all stores childcare or in supermarkets.
Do not tie the pacifier around his neck so it does not fall: this dangerous system could strangle your baby.
When removing the nipple?
Ideally, for his 3 years, your little no longer use the pacifier (or thumb) elsewhere than in his bed. The risk is to curb his language development.
It may be that your baby is dependent on its tototte, especially if used early. Few children who only decide to part with their pacifier.
Namely especially do not worry if your child still sucks his pacifier and do not make a drama. Help him by asking him to pose while you tell him a story, for example, or walk.
Pacifier or thumb?
The pacifier has several advantages over the thumb can be washed when dirty and discarded when the child is ready. It deforms under the palace baby because it keeps the shorter the thumb.
The thumb’s many other cheaper, we will not lose!
Oral Hygiene Dental baby
The first baby teeth have emerged? No need to wait to worry about your child’s teeth. Here’s how to wash their baby teeth and teach him to have impeccable oral hygiene tooth.
The thrust of baby teeth
The baby teeth have begun to form during pregnancy but usually shows its first baby tooth, an incisor, between 6 and 12 months. On average, a 1 year old baby has 4 teeth. It will then turn the upper incisors (about 10 months down, 12 months and above) and lateral incisors (between 7 and 16 months) and first molars (around 12 months). Finally, the canines (between 16 months and 2 years) and second molars (between 20 and 33 months) will complete the teething baby.
About 3 years, a small child has his 20 baby teeth. And they begin to fall between 5 and 8 years to make room for permanent teeth.
To learn more about teething, you can refer to our fact sheet devoted to the topic of the teething.
Fluoride supplements
Just because your baby has teeth it should be ignored.
If you have sensitive teeth or a history of decay, your baby may also develop caries, and the pediatrician may prescribe fluoride. This mineral, given the form of drops or tablets, protects tooth enamel, which limits the risk of cavities in baby teeth and strengthens tooth enamel formation.
Up to 2 years, pediatricians often prescribe a tablet of 0.25 mg or 4 drops of fluoride each day. Between 2 and 4 years, double the dose: 2 tablets of 0, 25 mg or 8 drops per day.
Eating
However, fluorine is not a shield to decay! Good oral hygiene tooth also requires food. Because sugar promotes the onset of caries.
- Do not add sugar in the bottle of water or giving baby fruit juice throughout the day. When baby is thirsty, give him water pure.
- Avoid leaving a bottle of milk in bed: the sugar and the acidity of milk are harmful plaque.
- Avoid also enjoy the bottle nipple: Your mouth contains bacteria! But caries is an infectious disease that is transmitted through saliva.
Weight gain during pregnancy
The weight of pregnancy does not come as the baby or your cravings. They are distributed in your body to accommodate baby. And over the months.
Ideal weight gain?
The number of pounds to take during pregnancy is not the same for all women. There is no ideal weight. However, there are many weight ranges. They depend on your body type and exactly your BMI (body mass index), calculated according to your height for weight.
Pregnancy Weight
Thus, experts suggest making:
- 13 to 18 kg for lean women;
- 11 to 16 kg for women of normal weight;
- 7 to 11 kg for overweight women;
- 16 to 20kg for twin pregnancies.
Not only the baby
Taking pounds is not only related to the baby. Neither the fact that you eat more. But to prepare your body for childbirth.
The weight depends on each woman. But the distribution of pounds is always more or less identical.
For example, you take 13 kg, your weight is distributed as follows:
- 3.5 kg (35%) for the baby;
- 500 g placenta
- 1 kg in the amniotic fluid;
- 1 kg in the uterus;
- 1 kg for blood;
- 500 g to 1 kg per breast;
- 2 kg to 2.5 kg of stored fat;
- 2 kg for the liquid in the tissues.
Kilos targeted at weight gain
The capture of pounds spread over months. In general, the rate of 2 to 7 kilos in the first half of pregnancy and 500 g / month until the end.
The first two months, weight gain is almost zero and generally passes unnoticed. Especially if you’re prone to nausea and therefore little appetite. The weight gain really begins during the 2nd quarter. It is at this point that your body makes reservations for breastfeeding.
Finally, you will certainly carry more weight in late pregnancy. For the baby grows so much.
Some women are also water retention in late pregnancy. This may be difficult to live as water retention gives a swollen and puffy. Rest assured, however, then those pounds are lost more easily than others.
Insufficient or overweight
You have understood, the weight gain is different for every woman (and each pregnancy). However, be careful and consult your doctor or midwife if:
- You lose or gain weight without explanation;
- Your weight is below the minimum recommended depending on your BMI;
- Conversely, you pass freely.
Know that in the case of underweight, your baby may be born with growth retardation. And you risk complications in late pregnancy (hypertension, phlebitis, etc..) If overweight.
Note: Also note that rapid weight gain and may evoke excessive gestational diabetes. This requires special supervision.