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What Can I do about heartburn?

You can minimise the effects of heartburn or reflux by eating small amounts of food, frequent meals, and by drinking fizzy drinks, milk, peppermint tea. Avoid to lye down straight away after meals. Put extra pillows to prop yourself up rather than lying totally flat.

What cause heartburn?

Heartburn or reflux can be caused by what you eat or have a genetic conditions. Rich fatty or spice foods and caffeine, can make heartburn worse so, it is recommended to avoid it. Eat and lye straight away after, can cause heartburn as well.

Heartburn and pregnancy

What is a heartburn and why it seems to be getting worse during pregnancy?

Heartburn, reflux or indigestion is a burning sensation in your food pipe knowing as oesophagus. The condition is very common during the pregnancy, especially in the later stages as your expanding uterus puts pressure on your stomach. Also, the presence of the hormone progesterone, can make it worse because can help the valve between your your oesophagus and stomach to became softer and less likely to close properly. It can make small amount of stomach acid scape up into your oesophagus.



You can read more about what cause heartburn or reflux in http://babyfeedingtips.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-cause-heartburn.html and what can you do about it http://babyfeedingtips.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-can-i-do-about-heartburn.html.

Routines for Toddlers

Even though some parents would say that their child haven't got a proper routine they somehow have behaviours which can be call a routine. For these parents the child behaviour can look naturally difficult some times and it is. Although,  you can only say that by putting your child in a routine and see what works better for both of you. In general, researches had shown that toddlers love their routine. They like to know what is coming next and they can becoming clingy and anxious when have their routine disrupted.

Another thing you should now and be prepared to, is that toddlers as any of us, changing their routine in agreement with their new needs. This means you should be prepared, time from time, to adapt to a new routine depending on the development stage they are.

For example; when you have a newborn, she only need sleep and milk in the first 4 or 6 months, so,  you can conclude, it is not you who decides how much milk or how often they will feed. Each child need different amount and establishing their feeding routine. Some babies will need feed every hour while others every 4 hours and so on.

When your baby starts to weaning you will have a little be more chance to fix a routine that suits you both by structuring  three solids meal a day.
By 12 months, she will be eating 3 meals a day and snacks between the meals instead of milk. She will also, be taking one or two long nap a day instead regular catnaps.

If you have put your child in a routine and everything is going fine until before bedtime and then everything gets chaotic, baby starts to crying don't wants to go to bed etc. You should first ask yourself the three more important questions;

1) Is she wet?
2) Is she hungry?
3) Is she hot or cold?

Those are the most important questions after of course, you know that you baby is not ill. It is simple, if your baby played nice during the day and by bedtime is not showing any signing of cold or flu, she is just missing some kind of comfort or wants to get the attention, or go to your bed etc. Teething also can be disturbing for a child sleeping pattern because teeth tending to grows and be painful at night. Give your child a cuddle and some pain killer will do instead put her into your bed.

Babies and toddlers are very clever to get what they want. Through the life, while they grow they get even better in this art and all of these behaviours will come up easily or difficult depending on how you do take care with them while they still young. For these reason, most of the child advisor recommend that you shouldn't teach your child to get depending on anything, any external behaviours before go to bed. This can be; bedtime stories, toys on bed, massage, milk or other especial treat. If is time to bed you should put your child on bed and she should fall sleep naturally, by herself in her on room.

In case you had started any comfort and wants to switch to the natural sleep, there are a lots of Technic you can use to create  a routine for your child. Controlled crying and gradual retreat are some examples.

If you are expecting a second baby, sticking your tod's routine can help her to adjust to having a new sibling, because routines can combine your first child need for stability with your new baby's demands. Also, a new baby on routine can help you to get your older one to nursery on time etc. as I said before, it can be challenging in the first 4 months but once you newborn  has a regular nap routine, you will get some one-to-one time with your older child and eventually for yourself.

When your child starting nursery or preschool her routine will change again and again it can be a hard time. A good nursery will have some settling-in sessions and this can give the nursery a chance to observe her routine and help her adapt to any changes. If they are good they will try to change the minimum, respecting the basics in your child routine. Sense you know what need to be change in order of your child to socialize better and the last word still be yours, some of the changes can even being for better.

Meanly you should know that if she gets the right amount of sleep, food and stimulation during the day, she should sleep through the night.

Drinks and Pregnancy - What you should know

For some mother to be pregnancy can be a very delighting and stressful time especially for does who enjoy have a drink with a friends and parties.


New research published in the Journal Of Epidemiology And Community Health concluded that children of mothers who drank one or two units of alcohol a week during pregnancy have suffered no ill-effects by the time they are 5 years old. They also do not have a behavioural difficulties and neither are they behind in their intellectual development.


The study looked at 11,500 children who were born between September 2000 and January 2002, mother were questioned about their drinking habits while pregnant. Through It they found that children whose mothers had been regular drinkers - having seven or more units a week, or six at one sitting ( one unit being half a glass of wine or third of a pint of beer ) were more likely to have behavioural and emotional problems than those whose mothers abstained during the pregnancy.


However, there was no evidence to suggest that the children of light drinkers, whose mothers had no more than the odd glass of wine a week, had been in any way harmed.
In fact, the children of women who had a couple of units of alcohol per week were 30% less likely to have behavioural problems and and had higher scores in mental developments tests than those of women who hadn't had any alcohol at all.


The government stands on the side of caution by advising pregnant women should stay away from alcohol.
The executive Director of of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome-UK, Susan Fleisher adds; We support and reiterate the Department of Health guidance, which is to avoid alcohol when pregnant or trying to conceive.


The Dr. Yvonne Kelly of University College London's department of epidemiology and public health, is the author of the report and argues that the findings should help to give women credible information to help them decide whether to drink alcohol during pregnancy.