| Breastfeeding Revisited thanks to WHO and UNICEF
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Good Health begins with mother.There is no substitute to her milk .
Breast feeding has been revisited this week due to the efforts of WHO, UNICEF and breast feeding steering committees as a socially acceptable and respectable practice....
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BREASTFEEDING
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Good Health of an infant begins with
the well-being of the mother. It has been known for a long time that nursing an infant with breast milk is the best and most complete form of nutrition for infants.
The mother's milk protects the infants from wide range of diseases. Breastfed infants are said to be healthy and stronger with well-developed immune systems to fight infection thereby lowering the rates of chronic childhood diseases. Hence there is no real substitute to mother's milk.
Breastfeeding allows the mother and baby to emotionally bond in a special way, as it also meets both the nutritional and nurturing needs.
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BABY
NAMES
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Choosing a name for your child is one of the joys of parenthood. It is often a time when even the close family comes together.
The name would be a tug, which remains life long with the child making him or her an individual. Hence many times finding the right name can take long.
Medindia has got together a baby name selection that focuses on helping parents of newborn to find the most suitable name for their little one.
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| IDEAL BABY WEIGHT
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Ideal baby weight calculator is a tool that can help parents to find out whether their child is overweight, underweight or just the
right weight for his or her height.
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| IMMUNIZATION
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To protect a child against various infections, a child needs to be immunized at various stages of life. Since a child's immune system is poorly developed he/she can contract several diseases like whooping, cough, measles & rubella. Hence it has become mandatory that children have to be immunized routinely, as per an immunization scheduler, to prevent them from infectious diseases.
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| THUMB SUCKING
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The question that is often asked by parents is whether thumb sucking is normal phenomena in their newborn baby. Well, it is found that some infants begin sucking their thumb while they are still in their mothers womb.
Thumb sucking is a normal and a natural instinct in babies. However this non-nutritive sucking is believed by doctors to be done for comfort and survival. Sucking for a new born baby brings food and this food brings comfort.
Research has found that approximately 70% to 90% of infants suck their thumb. Most of these children however gradually stop on their own between the ages of 3 and 6.
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