You should reconsider whether you have the following
mistakes when taking care of your children.
The birth of babies is an extreme joy and
happiness of parents. We get excited of taking care of the babies and try to
give the best things in life. However, as first time being parents, we hardly
avoid making mistakes.
Let’s check out the primary popular mistakes.
The
birth of babies is an extreme joy and happiness of parents.
Letting infants sleep the whole night
There’re many parents glad to tell everyone
about their children sleep all night. However, that’s not right. Infants sleep
a lot, but their bodies need to absorb foods each 2-3 hours for at least 2
first week. Sleeping 8 hours successively can be the sign of severe jaundice.
Moreover, sleeping too long can make children face with dehydration. Parents
should make sure that their children receive the essential amount of water have
feed them each 4 hours at least at night.
So, what’s the appropriate time for
children to sleep the whole night? The amount of sleep and sleeping time of
infants are various. Therefore, if you found that your children keep gaining
weight after the first 2 weeks and still have the ability to sleep in 8
succeeding hours, you can enjoy your full sleep at night without concerning
about the responsibility of waking them up.
Letting
infants sleep for too long a time is not really good.
Feeding children against their wish
There’re many new mothers worrying about
the fact that their children keep asking for foods and eat irregularly make
children to follow a strict eating schedule from the day born. However,
scientists have proved that children are smarter than we thought: they know
when they feel hungry and full; feeding children accordingly to their need will
better. Therefore, moms should forget about the strict rules about eating times
for infants. As long as infants eat each 4 hours, you should let them decide
their own eating schedule.
Cradling when infants are crying is spoiling them
The concepts seem to be right but it’s
completely old-fashion. In fact, when children are over 4 years old, they
rarely cry unreasonably. If they cry and we don’t comfort them, in the long
run, they won’t cry anymore. However, in that case, we leave a hole in their
soul.
Cradling and comforting children when they
cry will help them know that their parents a stand by them, which helps
strengthen the relationships and connections between parents and children.
Neglecting in keeping children’s oral hygiene
It’s
never too soon to start taking care of children’s oral hygiene.
Infants don’t have teeth, but it doesn’t
mean you can ignore their oral hygiene. It’s never too soon to start taking
care of children’s oral hygiene. To children who have formula milk, you should
clean their tongue with salted water every day. The white coating on tongue can
hurt infants, make them lose appetite and have bad breath.
Letting children listen to music to stimulate their
intelligence
Music can make children feel comfortable
and make them stop crying but, there’s no research can prove that music can
increase children’s intelligence.
In fact, moms should only let infants
listen to music in 15 minutes and 3 times a day in maximum. Listening to music
continuously will make children lose the ability to focus on the voice of their
mother, which makes them slow to speak and lazy on talking.
