Tag: Childcare

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Sugar Mother’s Doubts: Can I Breastfeed with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus?

With the improvement of living standards and the increase of elderly parturients, many expectant mothers have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus and become special [sugar mothers]. Except for a few sugar mothers who need insulin therapy, the vast majority of pregnant women can control their blood sugar by adjusting their diet and exercise. Originally, these sugar mothers could have breathed a sigh of relief, but they were still worried about whether they could breast-feed after delivery. Can sugar mothers breastfeed? Sugar mothers can breastfeed normally. The vast majority of sugar mothers suffering from gestational diabetes mellitus will return their blood sugar to normal after delivery and do not need to use drugs to reduce blood sugar. Even if medication Read More …

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No milk when your breasts are small? After six months, the milk is not nutritious? These misconceptions make you cut off your baby’s food rations in minutes.

In order to urge the whole society to actively support and encourage breastfeeding, the International Breastfeeding Action Alliance (WABA) has designated August 1 to 7 each year as International Breastfeeding Week. I am a public nutritionist and a mother at the same time. Up to now, my little fellow has been exclusively breast-fed for 19 months (adding supplementary food at the age of 6 months). In the process of breast-feeding, I have also encountered many problems. I have also found that many people around me have misunderstanding about breast-feeding. Today, I will refute the rumor. Milk powder is more nutritious than breast milk? Who said that? Breast milk contains all the nutritional ingredients needed in the early stage of human Read More …

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40% of Haitao milk powder is unqualified? How to Buy Milk Powder

Milk powder is an extremely sensitive and fragile topic in China. Many people are keen on [sea-panning] milk powder, believing that the quality of these [milk powder eaten by foreign children] is guaranteed and the price is cheap. Recently, a CCTV program asked relevant testing agencies to test the ingredients of 19 hot-selling sea-panning milk powder on the online shopping platform, and found that 8 of them did not meet the Chinese standards. The program claimed that [it does not meet the food safety standards of our country] [long-term consumption is harmful to the health of the baby] [it can seriously cause mental retardation of the baby]-this reminds readers of [big head doll] and [melamine], which naturally arouses great concern. Read More …

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Use [ten drops of water] to treat prickly heat? Beware of poisoning!

One of the most disconsolate things for parents in summer is that the baby has prickly heat. How itchy is the prickly heat? I believe that anyone who has grown up will never forget that feeling. Therefore, how to treat prickly heat and how to prevent prickly heat always perplex countless parents. Recently, many people have asked, can you use [ten drops of water] to prevent or treat prickly heat for your baby? [Ten Drops of Water] Ding Ma didn’t know much about this medicine either, so she hurriedly asked Teacher Ji to tell her parents about it. Can [ten drops of water] cure prickly heat? Whether this problem can be treated or not is actually known by looking at Read More …

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Does the baby take too much when going out? A list will stop you from messing up.

Nowadays, many mothers are willing to take their children out, no matter far or near, they always have to take a lot of things. The older children are fine. If the children are younger and have more things to bring, they will often forget this and that. Thinking of the messy appearance of mothers before taking their children out, Ding Ma decided to sort out a [necessary list for taking their babies out]. Mothers will be much easier to remember these four words by comparing the list. Clothes Taking the baby to travel means that the baby needs to contact a brand-new environment, and the familiarity of clothes is very important. In addition to keeping warm, beauty, comfort, convenience to Read More …

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The baby is allergic, this also can’t eat that also can’t touch, how to ensure nutrition?

The baby’s allergy to food is a very headache for many parents, especially when preparing food for the baby, they are not only worried about causing the baby’s allergy accidentally, but also worried that avoiding allergic food for a long time will cause the baby’s malnutrition, which is really nerve-racking. Ding Ma invited a nutritionist with allergic babies to tell parents how to ensure nutrition for babies with food allergy. My little fellow is allergic to a variety of foods. At present, we know: nuts such as egg white, milk, peanuts and walnuts, aquatic products such as fish, shrimp, crab and shellfish, and tropical fruits such as longan and mango. However, the little fellow is now 20 months old, with Read More …

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How big is the newborn’s stomach? How much milk should we feed?

Novice parents will always worry about whether the baby is not full when they see that the newborn baby has drunk a little, either they want to feed sugar water or add some milk powder. Ouch, mother-in-law, in fact, the stomach volume of the newborn is not as large as you think. A little milk is enough for the baby to eat. Indiscriminate feeding of those things will interfere with the growth of the baby (such as aggravating jaundice) and will also affect breast feeding. How big is the newborn’s stomach? Various authoritative data show that the gastric volume of normal full-term newborns (birth weight above 2500 g) changes as follows: About the size of cherries on the first day Read More …

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Babies often spit milk, how to prevent it at ordinary times?

When the baby finishes eating milk, occasionally milk will flow out along the corners of the mouth, or with hiccups, or when the mood is excited and the movement range is large, it will suddenly gush out from the oral cavity and nostrils. However, the baby has no other uncomfortable manifestations, and has good growth and development, good spirit and good milk intake. This situation is spitting milk, or overflow milk. For babies under one year old, physiological spitting is a very common phenomenon, which is common in babies aged 4-6 months. This is related to the fact that the baby’s digestive system is not yet mature and does not need special treatment. It will decrease as the baby grows Read More …

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Just add supplementary food, should I drink milk or eat supplementary food first?

Q: The baby has just started to add supplementary foods. Should he drink milk or eat supplementary foods first? A: Mothers should understand a principle, that is, only when the baby is not too hungry can they be in a good mood to try supplementary food. If the baby is especially hungry, the baby will concentrate on drinking milk, because this is the way he is familiar with, and he knows that he can fill his stomach and meet his needs. For fresh food, he is not interested in tasting it now, perhaps because he is hungry and cannot think at all. Therefore, at the beginning of the addition, give the baby some milk to relieve hunger, be careful not Read More …

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The child wet the bed again, what should parents do?

In my dream, I went to a toilet. I felt uncomfortable in the middle of the night. I felt wet sheets and bedding, only to find that I was wetting the bed. On the one hand, it is very uncomfortable to sleep in a wet bed, but on the other hand, I am afraid to tell my parents. I believe many people have had such experiences when they were young. As they grow older, most people will gradually stop wetting the bed. However, the bad memories related to bed wetting may always be remembered in my mind. After entering another stage of life, our children, like themselves when they were young, have the problem of bedwetting. How should we deal Read More …