Infertility is designated as an inability of conception after a year of regular intercourse without contraception. Within one year of regular unprotected sexual intercourse (3-4 times per week) pregnancy will occur in approximately 85 percent of couples. Epidemiological studies of developed European countries show that four percent of couples who want children end up with [...]
A pregnant woman needs about ten more grams of proteins than usual and as much as 15 grams more when breast-feeding. The normal daily intake is around 0.8 grams of proteins per two pounds of the body weight. An average woman consumes around 800 grams of calcium daily. It is advised that a pregnant woman [...]
Narcotics and sedatives (injection into a vein or into muscle): Mainly medicines from strong group of analgesics are used to alleviate pain successfully. Most used is pethidine which is injected by a midwife and lately under the control of anesthetic services remifentanil. Remifentanil has several advantages compared to pethidine. It is more rapidly degraded and [...]
Child development expert Sue Palmer explains that children need games and playing as much as food and sleep. We live in a modern world where times goes too fast. Sometimes we do not have time even for cooking and cleaning. Consequently parents have less and less time to play with their children.
British child development [...]
You can raise your children to become responsible Internet users without being a computer expert.
The most important is that you try to explain why the Internet is not a good place for disclosing personal information to strangers, why a single image should not be published on web, that it is not advisable to be [...]
Hiccups are a common and perfectly normal for babies and you should not be worried.
Young parents are often worried because their new born is hiccupping dozen times a day and even for several minutes together. This is normal for babies and will eventually disappear by itself. A hiccup usually appear because the food returning [...]
Modern technology and fast lifestyle often deprives us of spending quality time with our family. This includes soothing touches and warm hugs for example. Massage is an ancient practice that can help you to stay close and connected with your children. It can also provide children comfort, security and trust. Infant massage has been an [...]
Remember, you are still family
No matter the situation and facts you are still a family. Many single parents’ families are very emotionally health and fully functional – this is not luck; this is just a matter of choice.
You as a parent should try to remember what ideals your family gave to you, write [...]
Febrile convulsions appear by children from the age of six months to the age of six years.
Heat crams occur with the rapid rise of heat. The child loses consciousness and becomes unresponsive, it may be curved back, his eyes turn back, lips are compressed, body becomes stiff, jitter of toes and legs appear. This [...]
Dutch scientists have come to the conclusion that laughter is instinctive and that crying and sobbing are learned later in life.
Crying is not something that babies know, it is something that they learn – that says the Dutch study published in the magazine New Scientist. On the other hand laughter is something completely natural. [...]
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