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Young children have basic needs that are essential for their survival and happiness. As necessary as keeping warm, clean and dry, is to make them feel loved and wanted. The ways to prove it are endless. Melee touch is vital. The cuddling and touching are the beginning of a bond will be strengthened over time and will be the first causes of emotional expressions. Newborns begin to trust his mother to realize that the anguish caused by hunger is appeased regularly by her mother milk delivery. Furthermore, this ceremony is accompanied by caresses breastfeeding and glances quickly associated with feelings of well being.

All children must have endless opportunities to enjoy the world around them, and as it grows, it is our duty as parents to encourage them and encouraging them to explore. Young children express their emotions directly and immediately, and crying is the most common form of communicating their needs to those who are responsible for their care. Babies do not hide their emotions as us adults. If you are in any physical or emotional, then begins to mourn. A crying baby is characterized by powerful and pervasive, making it impossible to ignore. A crying child should not be neglected, because crying may indicate major life problems on their health. Over time you will notice the difference between the tears that initially may have been due to hunger or desire to be in your arms, and that becomes, if not comforting, in a fit of frustration is much more difficult to soothe.

When a child is born, the staff attending the delivery notes how he is using the Apgar test, a test that determines the baby’s vitality. To have a uniform valuation criteria are measured 5 variables to which a score of 0, 1 or 2. The sum of each variable is the result. The test is performed when the infant is 1 minute of life and repeated 5 and 10 minutes later.

What is valued? The body color of the child, which indicates the degree of oxygenation of blood. Heart rate , which, if it is low, reflecting the existence of difficulties in the baby’s circulation during the last minutes of labor. Respiration , which indicates if your lungs are expanding well. Muscle tone , which is due both to a good oxygenation of the blood as a good brain function. Muscle tone is the degree of contraction or relaxation of a muscle at rest. Thus, if a muscle has increased tone will be tense, contracted. If you tone down, will be relaxed. The response to stimuli. A baby with score = 0 does not cry or move when touched, even when pinched hard. A normal baby, with score = 2 cry vigorously when disturbed, move your leg to touch the foot, sneeze if something is introduced through the nose

What is the baby blues? Sadness or baby blues is a kind of mild depression experienced by 80% of all mothers after the birth of your baby and may persist until 2 weeks after giving birth. It appears as a consequence of major changes is experienced in your body and your life after pregnancy. Think about that when giving birth, and only in minutes, sudden hormonal changes occur in your body. This mentality creates sudden changes in mood and anxiety or irritation. To all this you add the responsibility he feels for the new role of mom, which is also normal to feel overwhelmed because of these new responsibilities.

The mixed feelings at this stage are one of its characteristics. It can be filled with love and pride for your baby but also irritated or crying about things that never bothered you. What are the symptoms of baby blues? There is no common denominator on the symptoms generated by the baby blues in women, although the most common are: Altered nervous and anxious, Distress or feeling of loss, Insomnia or exhaustion, Impatience, Stress, Reluctance general, Cicoltimia, Crying, and Difficulty concentrating. What is the treatment? Fortunately the baby blues is not a single disease and disappears within 2 weeks. No need for any treatment, all that is needed is the support of your partner, family or friends, and rest and wait until you get used to this new stage.

Between 2 and 3 years of age, children need to sleep between 9 and 13 hours a day. The most common is that they take a nap for 2-3 hours after eating and the rest at night. Some children hate naps. If you still do not nap your child is not irritable or apathetic, do not worry or force him to sleep. If very long naps and at night you trouble sleeping, try to reduce the hours of siesta. Some children between 2 and 3 years are very rigid with respect to the rituals of sleep. Sleep rituals help children overcome the fears of the dark, night, solitude … fears that often arise between the first and second year and that are common to bedtime. Once purchased the right habits of sleep, ideally dispense with the rituals to sleep.

Although, in general, between 2 and 3 years, children tend to sleep without difficulty, it is not uncommon for some children resist going to bed or that, once in bed, gets up or cries. Many times, despite being sleepy, the children’s desire to continue with the elderly, or anxiety that causes them to think of separating from them, shall be liable to fatigue. Some children from 2 to 3 years and have fear of the dark, relatively common after 4 years and which has been said that, at bottom, is nothing to fear of abandonment. In these cases, put a light socket in the room or leave the door ajar can be very helpful for the child to overcome his fear. When all is said and done, it is only a transitional stage and within the ordinary.

The mother must learn how to express milk by hand and start a new baby’s feeding routine, ten days before going to work. When a mother is returns to their work, after the period of maternity leave, to include in your daily routine extraction and storage of breast milk to continue feeding the child. “Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended up to six months. The easiest way to accomplish this task is being trained in the manual removal of the milk,” says Hernando Méndez, neonatologist and pediatric service coordinator Kennedy Hospital. After The World Health Organization is suggests keeping it even until 2 years of age, if possible.

First, it is necessary to make a massage around the breast in a circular motion to stimulate milk production. Then performed movements directed toward the nipple milking. “Before you do, wash your hands thoroughly, using short nails and remove jewelry,” says Mendez. The technique should be repeated two to three times during the workday. “In the office, set the time to pump, carry a thermos of ice to be sterilized bottles and a fridge to store it and use the same day or next day,” says Mendez, who said that it is best used when nursing to give the baby breast milk collected at night and the weekend.