Well manage marriage

To become a smart parent, you need to protect your marriage. Divorce statistics show about 50% of marriage failure. Children growing in divorce family are often filled with unhappiness and emptiness. As a parent, take a stand and put some effort into your marriage. To become a smart and effective parent, you need to provide happy and complete family to your children. Do not do everything for your kids only, put your marriage before your kids. Do not do everything for your kids only until neglecting the relations between you and your partner. Do plan some night date with your partner or planning a vacation with your partner. Do this for your whole family's own good. Protect your marriage in order to be a smart parent. Have a happy marriage and family.

Love yourself before you love your kids

You must love yourself first before you love your kids. As a parent, we hope to have happy and healthy adult. One of the best things we can do as a parent, is to give them foundation for becoming happy and healthy adut. In order to build a happy and healthy foundation, as a parent, you need to self care yourself as being a good parent and a healthy and balanced human being. You need to be healthy and happy also. You character in human being will affect your child growth.

Living in new century, parents are all stressed out with life and career. So many children living with stressed out parents. How are they going to be healthy and happy when growing up with stressful parents. Make your relationship with your kids to be fun and playful. Let them enjoy and exposure to happy and healthy human being then they will naturally growing up to be health and happy human being.Do not be on the brink of parent burnout, because it is not a pleasant thing for you and your family to experience.

Baby Language

A newborn baby may seem like a mystery to you where you don’t know how to communicate with them. But newborn does have a surprising ability to communicate. They will communicate with you by expressions and gestures. Try to understand the expression and gestures then you will understand what your baby trying to tell you.

If your baby eyes is widely open and he has worry expressions, he seem like having little effort to suckle and long pauses this show that the milk flow is insufficient. But if you feel that you have sufficient milk, then something wrong with your breastfeeding. Try to adjust the position of your breast in order for the baby to latch properly.

If your baby shut his eyes, show signs of sleeping but still firmly attached to the breast. This indicates that the flow of milk slowed down until baby fell asleep while waiting for the milk flow. Removing baby from the breast will make him start to root and fuss.

Baby pulling off the breast, screaming, flails arms, attempts to relatch. Baby is frustrated by the slow flow of the milk, but he is not rejecting the breast yet but may eventually do so if the flow remains at low level.

Your baby is sucking and swallows well for few minutes only then settling into a drowsy state. Normal and health baby will feed steadily until full as long as there is a good flow. If you need to keep on stimulate your baby to suck, this show that the milk flow is too slow. Newborns will suckle slow flowing breast for few minutes then become lazy.

Gripping on nipple but jerks head away from the breast showing the frustration towards the slow flowing milk.

Your baby is startled, eyes is widely open, show noisy gulps and almost no pauses. This shows that the milk flow is too fast. So hold the baby upright and try to lean after latching to make sure baby’s throat is higher than the nipple.

When your baby pulls off and relatches frequently and he does not maintain a deep latch, this baby is probably overwhelmed by the flow of milk. So the baby is having a shallow latch, in order to control the flow of the milk. The overflow of milk also cause milk drips and sprays each time the baby pulls away from the breast.

Baby show he is very hungry after the first breast but refuse when offered the second breast, the baby is most probably still hungry but the flow of the second breast is too fast and he prefer to latch to the first breast for more leisure feeding.

When the baby needs to burp? Some babies burp during breastfeeding and continue without a pause. Do not interrupt a feeding to burp the baby unless they seem uncomfortable where they are swallowing well but the upper body is wriggling or twisting.

Basic Parenting

Basic parenting for all the new parent in the world. Cover all the topic that new parent will need to know and learn in order to take care of their infant and give the best to their baby.Every parent wish to give everything the best to their new born. In order for you to give the best to your newborn what you need to do? You need to learn and know more. Welcome to parenting world.

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Breast Feeding Problems

Ouchh........It is pain! I suffer sore nipples. Breast feeding's mother suffering from nipples sore. Feel helpless, no idea how to treat them? What is the main cause of nipples sore? This happened because your baby doesn’t latch on properly.
It is easier to prevent sore nipples than to treat them. Prevention is better than cure. To avoid nipples sore make sure your baby latch on the right way. If it does not, take off your baby from the breast by releasing the suction using your finger in the corner of baby’s between the gums. Make sure your baby is latched on the correct position during breast feeding. If you feel your baby sucking hurts, this indicates that your baby is not latched on the correct position. Try to a position when your baby sucking do not cause any uncomfortable to your nipples. Other than that, if your baby is position and latch on the proper way, the sucking pressure, his tongue and gums action will be concentrate on the areola but not the nipple.

Breast engorgement

New mothers normally will face a lot of breast feeding problems. Among the commons problems are pain due to breast engorgement and sore nipples. Why do this happened and how to overcome it? First of all, understand what breast engorgement is and why this happened first. Breast engorgement basically is the milk level contained is greater than the areola or the size that they should contain in. Just imagine a 500ml container is filling with 550ml of water what will happen? This is breast engorgement.

Breast engorgement happened because your baby does not take the milk out as the body produce, the imbalance between milk produce and infant demand. Or it may happened if you normal breast feeding routine is interrupted, your baby suddenly stop breast-feeding due to poor appetite or increasing solid foods.

How to reduce the pain of engorged breasts? Get your baby to help you. When you are having breast engorgement, try to breast feed your baby. But, during engorged period, the nipple will be flattening. So you might need the help of hand or electric pump to pull off some milk first. You can also use hand, where finger on the bottom and thumb on the top and roll it from top to bottom. This will help to press the milk come out slowly. This will reduce your pain and eventually baby will attach and complete the job. Your baby is the most efficient comparing to any pump. So try to be patient and encourage your baby to help you.

How to breast feeding

How to breast feed your infant/newborn?This is specially brought for new parent who never experience breast feed before. But for those parent who are not sure about the proper way of breast feeding do have this as reference. It is simple and easy seven steps during breast feeding.

1. Put your thumb on top of your breast and other fingers below the breast.Dont touch the arelo (dark skin around your nipple) because this is where your baby's lips will be.
2. Try putting your baby's lips to your nipple until he opens his mouth widely.
3. Slightly push your nipple all the way in your baby's mouth and push baby's body close to you.This help by letting your baby's jaw squeeze the milk ducts under arelo.
4. To make sure your baby is latched on the correct position, check the lips of the baby, it should be pout out (not be pulled in over his gums) and cover nearly all of the areola.
5. Newborn will make some low-pitched swallowing noises.Baby's jaw may move back and forth.
6. If you feel pain, this indicate that baby is not properly latched on.
7. Your baby's nose may touch your breast during nursing.If you fear that your baby cant breathe, gently press down your breast near baby's nose to give him more room to breathe.