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The development of baby’s inner world begins from self-centeredness, their inner worlds are full of imagination and game, the outside boundaries and classifications don’t limit it. However, baby needs the rules and boundaries, if baby grow up in a creative environment with rules, his life experience can be gradually incorporated with creativity and discipline, and develop a healthy spiritual power.

Disorder means ease, baby likes to follow his inherent instinct to move without any directions. Order means focus, under external stimulations, baby needs willpower to keep focus on particular training, and from this to feel the power of growth. Hence baby moves between chaos and order, and if led the baby organize their toys, books, and even the room, in this training process, baby will grasp a sense of order, which is an important part of growth.

To develop good habits for babes to tidy up their toys with instinct-driven, Parents need to give support to the baby with discipline. Keep reminding baby; don’t always help, as well as the use of imagination, which is very important.

“Let the babes become their own heroes”, so they have the ability to “save their own toys,” rather than relying on mother’s help. Don’t always help babes to tidy up their toys, let them experience the disorder and messy, and hence develop the desire for order. When children need to find the toy, use imagination to encourage: “mommy! My bear doll buried in the building blocks”, “baby, you are bear’s little hero, go save him!”

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From seven or eight months to 2 years old, the infants show a close relationship to their parents and develop a sense of security from both of them.

Build closed relationship with infants will help them to form a health spiritual background; baby can use this as base to further develop the ability of understanding other people and environment.

Infants who have a good relationship with parents usually don’t feel afraid of strangers, and even try to get closer to them. And they also like to explore the surrounding environment, and not afraid of getting away from mother. Hence they tend to any new things attracted to them; and their intelligence level will be improved quickly.

Father also plays an important role for baby to develop better behavior and intelligence. Research shows that baby who received more Caressing touch from father often develop good spirit of curiosity and exploration.

Father can improve baby’s learning ability through the game. Therefore, those fathers who are good with “hide and seek”, “throw balls”, and other game, their children tend to have stronger learning ability. In addition, Baby who received love and appreciates from father usually has good speech and vocabulary skill and also the independent spirit.

Also the touch, hug and comfort from other family member like grad parents, uncles or bothers/sisters can help baby’s growth, therefore scientists believe that it does not matter the sources of touch come from, as long as it carries with love and care.

Contant Caressing Touch build a close relationship between parents and baby, and make baby feel been loved. And base on love, baby feel joyful and develop good learning ability which is important foundation for their intellectual development.

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No matter how much preparation has been done, when parents take care of the newborn baby at fist time, they still have lots of trouble, confusing and don’t know whether they have done correctly.

We will published five articles for the five Frequently Asked common baby sicknesses: fever, constipation, diarrhoea, common cold, flu and cough to provide parents as a reference information, so parents can tell whether they can take care this situation by themselves, or need to take baby for hospital treatment.

Fever
Baby fever does not necessarily represent the illness, but fever may be the clinical symptoms of a disease and needs attention or treatment. The fever could indicate the infection on your baby and parents should check any inflamed area on baby’s baby carefully. And also the external environment temperature is too hot, eat hot food, exercise, wear too many clothes or hot baths, etc, these may temporarily cause your baby’s body temperature slightly increased and after a period of time, body temperature will naturally drop down. However, if fever comes with cough, vomiting, diarrhoea and other symptoms could indicate respiratory or gastrointestinal related diseases. In short, the baby fever shows a lot of messages; parents need to judge the severity of the problem carefully.

Temperature measurement is the reference for the parents to determine severity of fever. Doctor recommends that for baby under 6 months old, parents should measure the axillary temperature, or rectal temperature. The measuring time required is at least 1 minute, hence result would be more accurate. The ear temperature measurement is more suitable for baby more than 6 months old, because newborn baby’s ear hole is too small, and not recommends putting measurement tool in it which may cause some infection.

Situation 1: The axillary temperature is 37.5 ℃ ~ 38.5 ℃ (ear temperature 38 ℃ ~ 39 ℃)

At this time, your baby’s body temperature is not too high, parents can do some things with:

1. To help your baby take a bath with warm water: to make baby’s skin pores open to release the heat, and also can make your baby’s muscles to relax, feel more comfortable.

2. Feeding water: This can help baby to sweat to adjust body temperature and also can refill the body’s water loss.

3. To reduce clothes: Cooling down the body temperature.

Situation 2: The axillary temperature is more than 38.5 ℃ (ear temperature 39 ℃), this indicate a high temperature, and parents can give your baby anti-fever medication.

After the above methods of treatment, parents can wait one hour and then measure the body temperature again. If they did not bring down a fever, parents need to observe baby’s vitality situation. If baby can eating, playing normally, parent can bring baby to the hospital next day for further checking, but if the baby’s physical and spiritual situation is bad, for example: Baby is unable to eat any more, and keep crying, parents should take baby to hospital ASAP.

Some parents are concerned about baby taking anti-fever medicine, which could affect the doctor’s diagnosis for the baby’s condition or causes of sickness. Actually the anti-fever medicine won’t affect Doctors’ diagnosis. Doctor recommends that if baby’s ear temperature is more than 39 ℃, parent should give baby anti-fever medicine, otherwise body temperature is too high and may cause spasm.

Other FAQs
Q1: When baby has fever, should we wiped baby’s body with warm water added with alcohol to help cooling it down?

A1: It should not do it. This will not only fail to reduce temperature, but also make your baby shaking and may lead to twitch.

Q2: When baby has fever, should we put more clothes on baby to help him sweat to reduce body temperature?

A2: It should not do it and this is also the common mistake from parents. In fact it will make harder to cool down the body’s temperature. Doctor said when baby has fever, if the baby has fear cold response such as: cold hands and feet, pale on face. In this situation parent can put more clothes on baby. This makes your baby feel more comfortable, and after that when baby’s body temperature increases and limbs getting warm, then parents should reduced some clothing to help cooling down the fever.

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Delicate skin of new-born baby needs care, especially in severe air pollution, ultraviolet scorching environment. Skin care is important to the baby washing and bathing, different baby shower supplies come with different formulations, but all their ingredients are very mild, very natural, well positioned to protect newborns tender skin.

At present, the main choices are Bath & Shower Concentrate, shower gel and soap. They are designed specifically for infants and can protect their skin better. When purchase shower supplies for baby, parents may purchase with individual preferences. However, we should first look at the market range of products, and find out which product is best for the needs of children of different ages. Different baby needs different bathing supplies, For example; newborn baby doesn’t act much, and so just a little cleaning required. When baby become bigger with increasing of activities, together with sweat, air pollution and other considerations, it is necessary to choose a strong shower bath supplies.

Tips of purchasing bathing supplies

1: Manufacturers reputation: In general, choose bath supplies with good and reliable brand. Ask relatives or friends’ recommendation and compared their opinions and experience to identify suitable one.

2: Packaging integrity: To buy bath product, it is necessary to carefully check if the product is packed properly. The broken package can deteriorate product and harm the baby’s skin.

3: The formula should be specifically for infants: Because the baby’s skin is different with adults, do not use adults’ shower supplies for baby to carry out cleaning work in order to avoid stimulating the baby’s skin. Similarly, when purchase for baby shower supplies, parents should identify “specifically for the baby” mark on the product, because they are made specifically for babies.

4: Clearly marked ingredients: bath supplies‘ingredients and content must be marked in detail. For protecting baby delicate skin, do not buy product with unclear ingredient detail.

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