Baby Care Blog

There are plenty of baby monitors on the counter today, but I look forward to something that’s not just functional but good to look at as well. And as a food for my search, I came across the teddy bear baby cam. The Teddy Cam is a cool combo of a chic cam and a cute design. The advanced baby monitoring system placed inside this plush toy helps you keep an eye on your baby, nanny and also your husband (if needed) right there on your TV.

Specifications:

Can be attached to your own TV.

Wireless network between the TV and
Cam.

Use it in any room of your house

Built-in 2.4GHz transmitter to send video signals

Range 100’-200’

1/3″ CMOS black & white camera

four-channel 2.4GHz

Price: $53.99

Available at Smarthome

A group of Chinese kindergarten children perform at a show as part of the week-long celebrations leading up to the International Children’s Day on 01 June, in Shenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning province on 29 May 2007.

People release balloons during the 5th International Missing Children’s Day on 25 May 2007 at the Champs de Mars in Paris. “The main purpose of the International Missing Children’s Day is to encourage the population” and “to spread a message of hope and solidarity on an international scale to parents without any news of their children”.

Looking or a perfect baby shower gift for your expecting friend and confused about what to get? A cute little onsie? A toy or for that matter a pram? Don’t bother yourself so much for here is a one stop shop solution to all your baby gifting problems.

Log on to www.thebabybunch.com and you’ll get gift items suiting not just your taste but your pockets as well. These guys offer gifts set like a bunch of flower, with useful baby products to make it attractive and exiting for the mother and useful for the baby.

The bunches are available in three sizes, the smallest one containing a T-shirt, hat, bib and four pairs of socks, priced at $49.95, while the two larger than that is priced at $59.95 and $69.95, and include cute onesies, mitts, sleep suits and special burp cloths.

All clothing in the baby bunches is 100% cotton, and is perfect in size for babies 0-6 months and softer than you-know-who’s bottom. Some of the most popular varieties of bunches at the baby baunch include names like Pink Bunch, Blue Bunch, Yellow Bunch and apricot organic to name a few.

I don’t think you can find a gift better than the baby bunches to help the baby make a new start of life.

Via: BabyBunches

Wanna give a healthy heart to your baby?

Here’s all that you can do prior to his/her birth to ensure that he is healthy at heart. The guidelines are issued by the American Heart Association to help reduce congenital heart defects in babies.

1. Ask your gynecologist to include a multivitamin containing folic acid in your medication.

2. Get your diabetes test done, and in case it is diagnosed then take proper care of yourself to maintain it.

3. Take the vaccination against rubella influenza.

. In case you are suffering from any disease those effects your diet like PKU (phenylketonuria), then be in constant touch with your doctor to take care of your diet.

5. Keep yourself away from people suffering from flu or any other communicable infections.

6. Keep away from organic solvents, found in products like lacquer and paints.

Make it a point to pay special attention to the above mentioned guidelines and give birth to a healthy baby with a healthy heart.

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Kids love puzzles. And kids love cakes. How about combining the two? Must say the result will have exceptionally exiting effects on the kids. But how?

Hmm…check this out.

The cool turtle cupcake pan creates 12 unique cup cakes, which come out as pieces of a puzzle which join to form a cute turtle. Isn’t it good?

Not just that it makes cake different, but also bring the fun element in eating, thereby making kids eat the cake and play with it too.

With this around, you’ll never have to force your little one to finish his portion. But I hope your kid might not end up loving his turtle so much that he forgets that it’s actually a cake that he is supposed to eat. Anyway…all the best for your cake making experience!

Turtle cup cake pan is priced at: $14.99

They say music is soul to the ear…and this old adage is coming to the rescue of a maternity hospital, which is using classical Vivaldi music to relax premature babies. This came forth as a revolutionary technique aimed to reduce stress among the preemies. The project’s music expert is Mauricio Linori.

The main objective of the research is to do away with the stress that the premature babies have to go through once they come out of the safe, relaxing surroundings of the womb much before they are good enough to deal with the world outside. The main aim of the therapy is to increase the sleep hours that give babies an environment that is closest to that of the womb.

The nurses pipe music into the incubators and observe the babies’ reactions and to know other benefits (if any) of the music therapy, which include:

Physical benefits: weight gain in case of under weight babies.
Social Benefits: improvement in baby-parent relationship
Lowered cardiac rhythm and improved breathing

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 The baby drop box in
Japan called the “Stork’s Cradle” that we talked about sometime back, got a drop finally the very day it was installed.
The baby is a preschooler aged 3, who was dropped by his father. “I came with Daddy,” said the little kid. The father was spotted coming in holding the baby’s hand as he approached the hospital.

 
Sankei Newspaper said, “We must rethink the meaning of the baby drop-off,” “Unlike a baby, a toddler may suffer from trauma. This little boy must be experiencing great loneliness.” This was because the Drop box was intended to reduce the number of infanticides, abortions and was meant only for receiving newborns who were small enough to not remember their past, and not for kids who might get affected by this kind of an act of their parents.

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Child Rape laws in
Texas have been revised towards the stricter side. According to the revised rules, sex offenders who are convicted two times for raping children under 14 would be not be considered for any other punishment other than a death penalty.

 
This regulation got an approval on Friday, following which the State House passed the bill. Apart from this rule, another bill creates another new category: continual sexual abuse of a young child or children, carrying a minimum penalty of 25 years to life in prison.

 
It seems a correct move as, there can be no better way to make a country safe for kids and dangerous for offenders other than by issuing punishment as strict as these. Moreover, life imprisonment or any other punishment cannot even suffice to the emotional and psychological trauma that a child has to go through.

Via: NYTimes

If you have given birth to a baby who weighs less than 5.5 pounds at the time of birth, then you have to extra cautious while taking his care, informs a Dutch study. Make sure he is not exposed to second-hand smoke, since a low birth weight baby is more vulnerable to succumb to respiratory disorders including coughing, wheezing and pulmonary infections up to age five.

“Size and maturity are major factors in the development of the lung. In children with diminished prenatal growth, and consequently low birth weight, a disturbed lung development is associated with a relatively small airway caliber. This can cause decreased lung function and more respiratory symptoms later in life,” opined Dr. Johan C. de Jongste, a professor in the department of pediatric respiratory medicine at Erasmus MC/Sophia Children’s Hospital

Though exposure to smoke is equally harmful at the higher age but the extent of risk and association between birth weight and respiratory symptoms decreases as the baby grows up the age of five years.Via: Forbes

It seems the British government actually took it to heart when Children’s Commissioner Sir Al Aynsley-Green, claimed Britain as one of the worst countries in the developed world for a child to survive…thanks to the way adults ‘demonize’ the kids here.

With a view to repair the loss, the government is all set to introduce a scheme wherein pregnant women whose unborn babies have been judged to be at risk of criminal behavior and social exclusion will be targeted. There will be a Nurse-family partnership to break the vicious circle of disadvantaged families by identifying those most in need of support early on.

The mothers will be advised on diet, exercise and parenting skills in order to improve upon the tiny lives which otherwise end up being the most vulnerable members of the society while growing up and the unwanted elements as adults.

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