I. WELCOME MY BABY…

Picture of Newborn Baby, Photo By Jdwarne

After having waited for nine months, the sweetheart comes finally. The attendance of a baby as new family member gives deepest heart feeling in a family its funny face, smile, laugh is great blessing or gift.

Newborn baby pictures, Photo by Bubbagurl

When coming home from hospital and going home, ensure that the baby has gotten its own room or specific room which is beautiful, full of bright color completed with sleeping equipments, toys for new born baby, wardrobe for clothes (diaper and other baby cloths).

Picture of M. Danial newly born / My son

Though it is still little, but it has been able to feel warm welcome from family members.
Besides mother, love caress from father, grandparents and brother or sister can be felt by the baby…welcome with saying”welcome home my sweetheart…we love you much…”the baby will feel peaceful and comfort. When the baby is 10 days it has been able to recognize its mother through hearing, smelling and sight though it is not clear. When have been 1 until 2 weeks, most of babies often do as follow, it:

1. likes sucking thumb or bottle nipple
2. likes being held or cradled
3. likes to the sound
4. likes something move or bright
5. can differ it is mother from other people based on the voice or sound.

The baby which has just been born moves reflectively it will last during several week and will be less suits with the age. Baby which has just been born reacts when listens the sound and averagely woken up every 3 hours to get milk from its mother.
“Congratulation for your baby birth…”



II. BABY BLUES

Baby blues is emotional change that often happened to mother who has just born especially after the first baby, it is caused by less preparing herself in facing the changing after giving birth either physically or mentally and also there is no enough support from her husband, parents and big family in facing the new situation. The matter can be overcome if husband, parents and big family can give support fully heart, with giving congratulation for the birth of the sweetheart so it can grow the self confidence and big spirit to grow the baby.

Overcoming baby blues can also be done with the way, reading the book on how the way to take care the baby a lot, discussing preparation to welcome the baby and many kinds of problem that will come with husband, parents or other family.

Beside that you can also share your experience with other mothers who have ever born a baby, often go to doctor for consultation, share with husband about job division in home and that is also important is watching more the TV program related with taking care of baby with doing all, you are hoped to be more ready to be good mother for the sweetheart. If sad and stressed feeling are still inside of your heart, it is better to look for professional assistance. personally, becoming a mother is the greatest award, because you have been trusted by the GOD to be the mediator with the next generation, beside that when you have been old one day, you will not feel loneliness and uncared, because your child, will take care of you, keep and pray for you if you are dead. Not all women are given the trust to have baby, you deserve to be proud of your self for having a baby.



III. BABY CRYING

Crying baby pictures, Photo by Woood44

Crying is the way the baby communicates with its mother and people nearby. Usually the baby which has just been born, cries, when it wants drink or food or feels hungry, the diaper must be changed because of being wet, cold and hot, itch, loneliness, pain or being sick along with does not feel comfort. Baby crying is very various in expressing many things and most of mother can not differ what kind of the their baby crying is and only react fast to seethe condition of the baby. To make your baby stay calm when crying,hold your baby tightly in warmness of love and swing slowly, talk to the baby softly and milk it. You can also give very soft massage, wrap it or sing for it or hold then bring to walk around the home.

Baby crying, Photo by Amanda

You can also make it calm with playing soft song with low volume, or hold and put your baby on your chest while squeezing its back, so your baby feel warm and calm. If your baby cries, do not be panic, relax and give your touch that it misses.



IV. BABY SLEEPING

At whatever age, qualified sleep is sleep that makes body feels fresh when wake up.
The portion of sleeping for baby ideally more less 18 hours with uncertainty time, remembering is biologic hours is not mature yet, then after at the age of six month, will be formed sleeping pattern, in the night is longer that at noon. Children can sleep for 10 hours at night, added sleep at noon for about 2 hours until 4 hours. By the age of 5 years, children can sleep for 10 hours until 12 hours in the night without sleeping at noon or 2 until 3 hours sleep at noon if sleep at night is less.

Cute Baby pictures By Bachtiar Syah

In order to be able to exist the ideal number. The routinize forming holds very important role. Develop a good schedule of sleeping since early, so the growth process is not disturbed. If routinize of sleeping has been formed, in future, when he or she becomes adult, she or he will not get problem related with sleeping at 13.00-14.00 is the best time for children to sleep at noon, because in that period, the biologic hour is decreasing of their awakening. While if a child sleep at noon before at 10 A.M. or at 4 P.M. her or his biologic hour will be disturbed. The next effect is the sleeping process at night will be disturbed that finally will disturb their health.

Cute Baby Photo by Cupcakes

Also a just sleeping at night with the need of children. This time many young family let their children sleep first and when their parents go home from working about at 21.00 P.M. or more, the children will be waken up and order togetherness can be built with talking and playing together. The effect for short time, maybe, has not been seen yet because their children age make them can sleep again easily but that habit become big problem after becoming adult. Because at the age of children, their basic sleep habit is being formed. So, the sleep habit of children must be calculated from what time, a child should wake up. For example if a child wakes up at 6 A.M., so at 8 P.M. becomes the best time for the child to sleep, but it is necessary to remember that whoever include children will get difficulty in sleeping if everything around them are still active.

That is why parents should be able to create quiet and comfort situation for children to sleep. If once children sleep more than at 9 P.M. will not be a problem if she or he can wake up later than usual. The effect of less sleeping for adult is different from children. For adult if less sleeping, the body becomes weak and pale, but for children in contra ire, they become more active, this matter is normal reaction from body that automatically tries to stay awake from sleepy.

Cute Baby Pictures, Photo By Giffoee

Step to go sleeping or rapid eye movement is is very vital for the development of children psychology and intelligence development. The medical experts believe that sleeping is ensured as the step to care the mental ability of each individual in sleeping there is a dream. Dream for the baby and children is the exercising of their brain nerve, same as muscle that need to train continuously. Try hard your baby sleeping time is enough for quantity and quality.



V. MOTHER’S MILK IS VERY IMPORTANT

Mother‘s milk has the best nutrient composition because it contains complete nutrient, balance and specific that needed by baby. The giving of mother’s milk without any other additional until at the age of 6 months and continued until 2 years.

The giving of mother’s milk is very useful because besides being able to pile the tie of strong emotion and inner between you and your baby, mother’s milk also gives balance nutrient for the baby growth and it is easy food to digest. Mother’s milk can increase the baby immunity and reduce the possibility of allergic reaction. Your calorie will be burn for amount 550 cal everyday and your uterus will be recovered as the beginning. Beside that mother’s milk is very practical because you do not need to mix, heat or sterilize, nipple of a nursing bottle like if using formulas milk with giving mother’s milk, you can also be avoided from the risk of getting breast cancer. Because the mother’s milk is very important for your baby, so do not make your baby gets lack of mother’s milk. To make your milk ( mother’s milk) can come out well, there are some tips :

• Milk your baby every time it needs the more often you milk, there more milk you can give.
• Increase the motivation of milking and ensure yourself that you can milk it well
• Milk in quiet place and comfort food consumption with balance and high nutrient.
• Consume food containing much liquid like fruits, mineral water and milk
• Stay away yourself from stressed and a lot taking a rest to make your thinking quiet
• Calm attitude when milking will give calmness and make mother’s milk comes out well.
• Do breast massage regularly
• When milking your baby look at your baby, look at its eyes, talk to your baby, touch its head, hand and limbs, in order you and your baby feel the love in the most beautiful memory in your both life and inner tie between mother and baby very deep.

VI. SAYING WITH TOUCHING

Funny baby pictures, photo by Skmmenon

Massaging the baby will be to join emotional tie between you and your baby. You will know more your baby body and understand its gesture well.

Massaging the baby has many uses better for the baby, it will make the baby sleep easier and well and it wakes up with increase concentration massaging can also stimulate your baby brain through, nerve fiber in the skin and muscle to release chemical called endorfin, namely a hormone to disappear stress, that will make the baby feel comfort and relax.

Massaging activity can be done after the baby has been bathed or when it is showed, wants to play massaging may not be done after the baby drinks milk or eat, wait until 2 hours afterward.
Before massaging, wash and clean your hand and prepare the oil. Start massaging from the front, cheek, around the mouth, shoulder, chest, stomach, arm, wrist, limb, knee and the last sole of feet. Do massaging softly and just use a little pressure using your finger and use baby oil to make your baby body warm.



VII. BATHING BABY

First,Prepare bathing utensils: wash lap or special sponge for baby, baby powder, baby soap, baby shampoo and plastic bath, tub, towel diaper and clean clothes, cotton to clean the eyes along with special oil for baby or “telon oil”.

Ensure that water to bathe the baby is warm, you can try with the baby position as comfort as possible. During bathing the baby, talk to your baby, play, joking and laughing. In future time its emotional and verbal intelligence become better.

The bathing time is not only making the baby clean and fresh but also the chance to express your love but need to be attended is the reaction of your baby bathing, because there is baby which likes when it is being bathed but there is also becomes panic when it is being bathed even tend to be the greatest time because it ever feels not comfort thing during bathing make the baby is not easy when it will be bathed for example its eyes ever got soap so they become sick because of that choose baby oil that not make its eyes smart. The best way is designing bathing time as the most wonderful time for you and your baby. After taking a bath dry softly with soft towel, rub softly with “telon oil” while giving slow and soft massage after that rub with baby powder to make your baby smells good. Be careful, avoid eyes area then wear diaper and baby clothes.

Congratulation for bathing your baby…



VIII. WEARING DIAPER

There are 2 kinds of diapers for the little cloths diaper to be worn many times because it can be washed and one worn diaper the good thing from one worn diaper is very practical but need additional fund because need many for stocking. While for cloths diaper felt comfort for baby because skin can breath well besides, it is more economical and friendly to environment, but need big energy to wash, because we should sink first in the hot water and special soap for washing baby clothes. Clothes diaper only absorb a little urine and should be change occasionally.
Wearing one worn diaper or cloths diaper is depending on your sight in seeing suited with your need.



IX. TOOTH GROWS....

Picture of Danial has not been teething

Usually the tooth of baby grows at the age of 7 months but there is also which grows before at the age of 7 months and there is also until 12 months, this matter is influenced by generation factor. The symptom of appearance of tooth that will grow has appeared since 3 months. The symptom are like fever, cries more than usual, very sick, so the baby cries often can not sleep well and like being angry.

The ability of the baby chew is not totally depends on the amount of the teeth that have been grown because baby can chew food though with the hard gum.

When the growth process of baby teeth happens, we can train with giving rather rough food texture. You can also give the little, finger food, food in form of a small ban as big as our finger that can be held by your baby it self. When the teeth become bigger in number and size, you may give rougher food.




X. BABY STUDIES HOW TO EAT

For the little, eating is new skill. The baby should study gradually. At the age of 6 until 9 is the critical age for baby to develop skill to eat. At this age the first teeth incisor to grow. Baby has ability to more wisdom to a side, up, and down. The baby can do process to chew. It also can record the taste of food in the food in the brain. This matter. Can be decided as the correct time to recognize it many kinds of texture and new taste to your baby the process of eating from opening month, moving, the lips, chewing and swallowing of food need exercising. Soft food can help baby to train ability to control the tongue move if until 9 months, baby is not accustomed to eat soft food, in future it will be difficulty to receive soft food.

If baby refuses to eat , you can try to do it again in other chance. It should be done continuously until finally the baby can be familiar with that. The giving of food to a baby need high patience and understanding. Trigger the baby spirit to eat becomes bigger and taking other family member to eat while still having activity to eat, baby also gets experience in socialization.

Some time if the baby does not want to eat up its portion, you do not need to force, maybe its gum felt sick or itch caused by the tooth growth process. In giving food to baby, you should give attention to several thing:

• The immunity system and the digestive of the baby has not developed yet perfectly. Because of that, be careful in giving or choosing safe food for baby.
• Recognize new food periodically, in case if allergic happens, can be know the cause as soon as possible.
• Start to give food which has ability to cause a little allergic like rice flour, apple, chicken meat beef meat and carrot.

As long as this time,the baby needs to study about scheduling of having meal regular eating time is needed to train reflect to baby digestive system. In order it is ready to receive, digest and absorb food in certain time.
Give mother’s milk, the best food and drink to your baby.