• Breast milk

Give the proper attention to breastfeeding because it’s the healthiest food for your child. The baby development may be done easier and better for a well nourished child.

• Your baby’s toys

Try to find toys that ask your baby to push, spin and pull with hands.  In this stage, baby development is made by stimulating her hearing, sight and touch. Brightly colored toys are preferred by small babies. You should also try toys with sounds, different textures and surprises because these capture her attention and will not get her bored quickly.

• Allow your baby to explore

Encourage your child to move around. On these lines, he will learn how to crawl and you will help his physical development.

You should also show the world to your infant. He will surely become bored if his room is the only place he sees. Take a walk and present him the museum, the park, the shops,  the zoo or any other place outside the home.

• Play time is play time…don’t reduce it

Running, walking or crawling are the natural physical activities for your child. Pay attention to formal exercise classes, like swimming or gym, there are many cases of bone fractures or muscle strains.

• Eye contact

The sight of your baby can be stimulated by eye contact. This method is useful in baby development by improving the memory and helping her to discern the faces. Your face moves can be imitated by your baby even if she is very small.

• TV…better not

If your baby is under 1 year, you should avoid letting her watch TV. Even if you are a busy parent don’t forget your baby in front of TV, he may develop eyestrain, violence tendencies or passivity.

Learning and growing is a long and difficult process for your baby. It will take time before your child will assimilate the skills, but if you are calm and patient, you will find the answers to all questions and you will know how to stimulate baby development even if it seems to be a difficult test. Don’t forget to give him a hug every time you finish an activity.

Baby food
First thing you should do for your child if you want to avoid foodborne illness is to wash your hands well, with soap and water, after: you touched pets, changed a diaper, used the toilet and every time you touch the baby’s food.

There are also other tips which can help you to feed your baby with safe food:

•   Use a separate dish

Avoid feed your baby from jar and use a clean dish for your baby food. In this case, additional food can be put in the refrigerator and if your baby needs more food, serve it with a clean spoon. Throw away the remained food in the dish. Don’t store in refrigerator, more than three days, an opened baby food. Also, the spoon of your child is only his spoon, so don’t put it in your or anyone else’s mouth.

• Inspect the packing of baby food

When you open a jar, the lid must “pop” and not be rusty and the glass shouldn’t be chipped. If something is not right you’d better throw it away.

At plastic pouches pay attention to leaking and swelling.

• Pay attention to foods at room temperature

Don’t let opened bottles of liquids or pureed baby food out, more than two hours, at room temperature. Room temperature is favorable for bacteria to grow quickly.

Infant formula
It’s true that breast milk is the most nutritive food for your baby. But, in some cases the mother is unable to breastfeed and a good substitute of milk is baby formula food because it can give to your baby a proper nutrition.

• Cow’s milk…why not?

If your child is under the age of one, you have to know that the cow’s milk is not good for him because it doesn’t have, like baby formula food, a correct balance of nutrients which helps your baby to develop normally and may causes to him anemia or kidney function.

Never give to your child raw milk and you must avoid to consume it too because it may contain dangerous microorganisms.

•   How to properly prepare infant formula?

Firstly, boil the water for one minute, after reaching the boiling point. Then, let the water to reach body temperature. Now it’s time to mix the formula.

It’s good to sterilize nipples and bottles before using them for the first time. From that point on, it’s enough to wash them in dishwasher or by hand.

Don’t prepare more baby food formula than you will need. If you store improperly the remaining food, bacteria can grow quickly in prepared formula. It’s better to prepare small quantities of food.

Following this tips regarding baby food and infant formula, you can avoid to contaminate your baby with foodborne illnesses and you are now ready to proper prepare and storage them.

Caring for a child not only focuses on choosing the right food or buying the latest products for babies: a loving parent must ensure that his child is protected from all threats coming from outside. One of the issues to be considered relates to child care and staying away its skin allergies.

Baby skin is very sensitive and can be “attacked” by external factors easily. Do not neglect your child healthy skin and it does not minimize the importance of health.

Here are some items that need to consider for keeping your child healthy:
Pediatricians recommend that children do bath every few days, but there are parents who prefer to repeat this action every day. Regardless of the frequency with which child is washing is important that the room temperature is sufficiently warm.

In addition, to avoid the current, whether they come from air conditioning or open windows. Use hypoallergenic shampoo and soap for children. For cotton towels when drying naturally choose it wipe the little one carefully to avoid unintended scratches.

Diapers for children are, indeed, very useful for keeping the little ones hygiene. However, parents ignore the fact that the material they are made of can be harmful to babies skin. There are many cases in which children irritate diaper because you must intervene here too.

Diapers that are too tight around the waist and around thighs can cause them discomfort. If you notice that your child does not easily accept a type of diaper, replace it. In addition, to avoid any problem, change it as soon as you notice that it watered.

Avoid using any cosmetic product of child care. Just because you want to smell nice and look fresh, does not mean you have to resort to cosmetics. However, if you cannot avoid, make sure the products that you use on your baby’s skin to be hypoallergenic and very “light”.

Last but not least, remember that it is better to prevent than to treat. Consult your pediatrician before making any decisions relating to products and actions in regards to your baby and do not cease to monitor him to determine the things that he does not tolerate.

This problem can occur when you lose the feeling of ”fullness” of the breasts, or if no leak from the nipples. Also, as he grows, child food needs grow and he will want more and more milk.

However, according to pediatricians, lactation reduced is a problem when it is not resolved, children suffer from malnutrition. For most women in this category, the problem can be solved if they learn to breastfeed properly. But in case of 2% – 5% of women with reduced lactation this problem can not be solved.

Breastfeeding of a moms can drop temporary unless feeding their baby when she should because nipple pain or they do not know how to breastfeed correctly.

Also birth control pills or estrogen-based mother’s malaise could affect lactation.
For some women, biological or physical condition, such as hormonal disorders or breast surgery, may cause lactation to be low.

But for most moms, the problem is not producing milk, but that does not know how to breastfeed properly and because of this, babies are not getting enough milk.

After he grows the breastfeeding can stop. It has to be replaced with milk.

At the age of 11 months, child nutrition should include 400-500 ml of milk per day, distributed at the table in the morning and evening. Milk can be given with a bottle or cup, depending on the preference of the child, simple or with added grain (in the form of flakes or powder grain - so-called ”mash”), if the baby accepts the offer on the table from morning cup milk together with bread and butter and something sweet.

The daily ration of milk should be maintained in coming years.

But in no case will force the child to drink the whole cup of milk, if he refuses. For the first year of life, many infants begin to no longer like milk and in this case are not advisable to push or force your child to drink it, it will try to give milk with cereals (powder or flakes) form of puddings, meal or will be replaced by other dairy products: cheese, yogurt, depending on infant preferences.

Milk is very important even after your kid is not a baby anymore.