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Many parents are of the view that pool water can harm their babies delicate skin as they are prone to eczema and the skin-drying agent such as chlorine would be detrimental to the condition. What they don't know is that the pool's chlorine kills off any bacteria or viruses and actually improves or completely relieves the condition.
How to introduce your baby to the pool?
The arrival of a baby is almost always a cause of joy and leads to much pondering over how to take care of this life that has been sent to you to from God to fill our hearts with happiness and touch our lives with love.
Your baby is a living soul, who has been formed by the physical reunion of two bodies and also the union of a spirit created by God. The baby must be finding it quite an experience too, to find him housed in your body. So it is your duty to know how your baby is developing. It can also help you deal with your body to best nurture the growing life inside you.
1. Carry along wet baby wipes for a quick wipe-up for infant while traveling.
2. Never carry baby in your lap while traveling. Put them in baby travel safe seat preferably with bulkhead, especially if the baby is an infant.
3. Do keep extra baggage to dispose off baby’s used diapers while on run.
4. Carry along milk, cereals, baby food, hot boiled water along as you never know what you need.
5. Sterilized bottles and nipples should be carried if the baby is on bottle-feed.
Other activities include simple social games with the infant in which the parent holds the infant and gently turns or swings him/her. The reaction of the infant to this behavior is to firmly grasp or to hold on to the parent.
Dr Maria Makrides, an author on the study and deputy director of the Women's and Children's Health Research Institute in North Adelaide, Australia stated, "[DHA] supplementation will actually not give you a huge benefit in terms of neurodevelopmental outcomes and reducing depressive symptoms.”
Study to assess the benefits of DHA supplements
In a bid to evaluate the impact of fish oil supplements on both the mother and child, the researchers recruited 2,399 women who were not more than 21 weeks pregnant at the onset of the study.
Lead researcher, Cria G. Perrine, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control, division of nutrition, physical activity and obesity said, “Vitamin D receptors are present in almost every type of cell in the body. Most infants, starting at birth, will need a vitamin D supplement.”
“We have to educate moms and the health-care community that vitamin D supplementation is something that they should do (and) recommend,” added Perrine.
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