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Myths and legends of Fever in Infants
It is always a concern that a baby this high body temperature because it is an indicator that something is not right.
However, fever should not be seen as the bad guy, quite the contrary, it is a sign that the body is reacting to the presence of a strange virus.
It’s hard to know what bothers the baby when it cries inconsolably or when appetite for no reason. They, unlike adults, can not tell you exactly what hurts the stomach, head, or feel cold. Crying may be a warning sign but the fever will always tell you something is wrong.
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Jul 10th, 2010
Conduct of normal childbirth
You are at the end of your pregnancy, you lose water or you experience painful contractions and close it’s time to leave for maternity. From your arrival at the facility in your room with your baby, this is what happens.
The arrival at the maternity
Upon your arrival, a midwife is your constant (voltage, temperature) and considers the cervical dilation. She puts on your arm a catheter to be used in cases of infusion and install two sensors in your stomach that monitoring records uterine contractions and the baby’s heart.
The early work
You are then installed in work room. You can get up and do exercises with a ball.
Every hour, a midwife measure cervical dilation and takes your constants. Of regular monitoring can estimate a healthy baby.
Gradually the contractions become more frequent and painful.
Namely: if the expansion is too slow, your baby may suffer. The wise woman you are given a product to accelerate the frequency and intensity of contractions. The contractions can cause vomiting.
Epidurals
The cervix is dilated to 3 cm: it offers the epidural you will give birth without pain. An anesthetist practice then a sting in your back, place a catheter into the spine and injects the anesthetic: your pain fade in 10 minutes.
Once the epidural placed, you can not move, eat or drink. You are under continuous monitoring.
Namely: You can request the epidural until 7 or 8 cm dilated. Make up your time!
Expulsion
When the cervix is fully open, it fades away undertakes baby and you feel an urge to push. This expulsion.
The midwife then install the brackets at the end of the bed to elevate your legs.
You should push strongly to the rhythm of contractions. This stage lasts about half an hour. The portion of the head is the hardest, then the body comes alone. Sometimes you make an incision of the perineum (episiotomy) to prevent tearing.
Namely: the gynecologist obstetrician is called in case of complications, if any need to use forceps or suction cups to help your baby out.
The issue
Your baby is born but it is not finished: it is the placenta. This phenomenon usually occurs without effort 20 to 30 minutes later.
Baby First Aid
Immediately after birth, your spouse can cut the cord.
A medical team takes care of your baby and unclog his airway by suctioning the mucus in his nose and mouth. Your baby is weighed and examined from every angle! Fontanelle, hips, genitals, shoulders, abdomen … The midwife then took his temperature and it takes a few drops of blood.
Once dressed and his ID bracelet in place, your puppy may find your arm.
Namely: we often measure the baby the next day.
And the mother?
Meanwhile, you are not forgotten! The most important thing is to check that all the placenta was expelled. The stitches are made in cases of episiotomy. After two hours of monitoring, you regain your room with your baby.
These are: the average labor lasts 12 hours for women giving birth to their first child and 8 hours for others.
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Feb 16th, 2010
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!
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Feb 9th, 2010
Gestational Diabetes
You have 28 weeks of pregnancy. Your health care provider (doctor / midwife) had been informed that you have gestational diabetes. Should you be concerned about gestational diabetes? The short answer: Yes Good control means a lot for your health and the health of your baby.
What is gestational diabetes?
Pregnant women who have never had diabetes but who have high levels of blood sugar (glucose) during pregnancy, they were classified as having gestational diabetes.
Gestational diabetes affects about 4% of all pregnant women. This corresponds to 135,000 cases of gestational diabetes annually in the United States.
We do not know what causes gestational diabetes, but we have some clues. The placenta supports the baby as it grows. The hormones from the placenta help the baby’s development, but these hormones also block the action of insulin in the body of the mother. This problem is called insulin resistance. The insulin resistance prevents the mother’s body to use insulin. You may need up to three times more insulin.
Gestational diabetes starts when your body is not able to make and use all the insulin it needs for pregnancy. Without enough insulin, glucose can not leave the blood and converted into energy. Glucose builds up in the blood to reach very high levels. This is known as hyperglycemia.
How gestational diabetes can affect your baby?
Gestational diabetes occurs in the mother in late pregnancy, after the baby’s little body is fully formed but while the baby is growing. Because of this, gestational diabetes does not cause birth defects as those seen in mothers with diabetes before pregnancy.
However, the lack of treatment or lack of control of gestational diabetes can affect your baby. When a woman has gestational diabetes, your pancreas works too hard to produce insulin, but insulin does not lower glucose levels in the blood. While insulin does not pass through the placenta, glucose and other nutrients do. Therefore, too much glucose in the blood goes through the placenta, giving the baby high blood glucose levels. This causes the baby’s pancreas produce more insulin to rule out blood glucose. As the baby gets more energy than it needs for growth, excess energy is converted into fat.
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Oct 22nd, 2009