Checklist for the child seat purchase:

•     First, you should know when buying a seat, pay attention to safety certificates. The ECE quality label located on the back or bottom of the seat. Is there the ECE R 44/03 or ECE R 44/04 noted, one can safely access. Absence of these seals, you should opt for a different seat.
•     It is generally advised to buy the car seats at authorized resellers. There you can also check on the spot whether and especially how the seat fits in the car. Is then enough room for passengers to be? Does the belt? These and other questions can only be answered if one is on site and the seat does not have to blindly buy. In addition, the length of the belt must be sufficient to hold firm and secure not only the child seat themselves, but also then the child.
•     For more than two child seats, a car is too small with only a back seat. Either approach should be avoided to a large mini van or a seven-seater, or one of the children is old and big enough (at least twelve years and 1.50m tall) to sit in front already allowed.
•     Another, often underestimated point is the agreement with the child himself. Ideally, therefore, to go along with the child to the dealer. It is not so much to meet its own will, but much more a matter that a comfortable and not feel confined while driving.
•     The usual three-point system is soon replaced completely by Isofix (ISOFIX); from November 2014 compatibility in any motor vehicle required. With the Isofix you can attach all child seats directly in the car body, which means a huge plus especially as far as safety and flexibility. Isofix is ​​a very secure and easy-to-use mounting system for child seats in automobiles. Both child seat and vehicle must have the appropriate fasteners - the ISOFIX seats are then connected only via two metal hooks to the vehicle. The vehicle belt is no longer necessary for security. The system is standardized according to the standard ISO 13216, after which it got its name.
•     An additional possibility is that child seats to buy directly from the car manufacturers (integrated child seats), but this is usually intense price.

Common mistakes in the use

The most common mistakes in child safety are operating and installation errors.

•     Incorrect belt routing: The vehicle belt is not properly set the shell. The fatal consequence: In an accident the bowl from the supposedly secure anchoring tips.
•     Installation in the wrong direction: infant car seats should never be fastened IN direction of travel or just with the waist belt. The principle: infant carriers AGAINST set the direction of travel and ALWAYS secure with three-point seat belt.
•     Loose shells: infant car seats must be strapped down tight. A really strapped child seat can be seen immediately: When you press the release button on the Fahrzeuggurts the fortified infant car seat must formally "jump out" from the bench.
•     Always fasten straps as tight as possible to the body even if it is not so convenient. It may, at best, three fingers between the belt and chest fit. Thick clothing such as anoraks avoided so the belt can be as close as possible to the body.

Hazard bunk bed:  1000 injured children a year .

Each day, around 3 children due to accidents with bunk beds to the hospital. The most common injuries occur from falls off the bed, as in sleep or play. The accidents are an average treatment period of one week usually heavy, and by simple security measures often preventable.


"Bunk beds are not only there to sleep, kids use it prefers to play and romp. Here and there, bruises and scrapes can be as inevitable but probably serious injury. Furniture or furnishings have therefore lost nothing near a bunk bed, sufficiently high guardrails on all four sides of the bed are a must, a thick carpet with anti-slip cushion the fall, if the small "climbers" again next rise, says Dr. Rupert Kisser, Head of the Institute "Sure life" of the Board of Trustees for protection and safety.
Safe Life - Checklist for Children bunk beds:

•     Maximum bunk bed height 160 cm.
•     The upper bed is to be used only from the age of six years.
•     Take at least 16 cm height from the surface of the mattress to the top railing. Caution in thick mattresses!
•     Fix bunk bed with steel brackets to the wall.
•     Slats in the upper part bolted to the frame.
•     Head firmly affixed to the bed, because portable ladders easily slip away.
•     Start ascent in the long side of a gap 30-40 cm have
•     The distance between the feet of the ladder must be 20 - 30 cm be
•     All exposed edges and the parts should be rounded
•     The upper and lower bed and the head must be firmly attached .

Health in infants: Regular doctor

Before their first birthday are a total of six underground tests at the pediatrician to (the U1 takes place right in the delivery room or at a home birth in their own homes). Here not only the physical development (height, weight, etc.) of the Small documented, but also - depending on age - checked very specific skills. Thus, the motor and mental development are examined after six months in the U5. In the U6, shortly before their first birthday, the pediatrician examines the development of language and the play behavior. Also, vaccinations are an issue within the first twelve months. And of course, your child of the first diseases to be haunted: Three days of fever , diarrhea, otitis media, cough, runny nose and Co. can thus lead many a sleepless night.

Sometimes the doctor at the U6 designed as something difficult, as these often check in the Fremdelphase falls. But do not worry, it's a natural stage of development in your baby's life. Mama's apron strings or optional arm is in the first twelve months simply secure bastion for the infant who is able suddenly to distinguish between familiar and strange people.
Development in the infant passes individually

Do not be intimidated by the guidelines on what should your child what month of the first year all of it. Of course there are physical developments that occur automatically - three-dimensional vision improves, muscle develops, the head rises, the child learns to grasp and much more. But if your baby now been ten or eleven months only eliminates your shelves, usually say nothing about whether its development could be delayed. Because: Every child has his own pace.

Fertility: Ready for a Baby

Discretion, consider the tubby baby bellies of other women or look ecstatically in strollers. And suddenly he is - the desire for our own baby! The most important thing now: A good pregnancy preparation and especially patience. Do not be put under pressure from friends, with whom it has supposedly worked immediately with pregnancy. Every couple is different, every time it takes different amounts of time to be announced next generation. Whether you need two months or a year, until then - that everything is normal. About 80 to 85 percent of couples, it comes within one year of pregnancy . So enjoy life and let everything come relaxing on themselves.

Some couples but is denied long the fulfillment of the desire for children. The causes of infertility can be very different. However, they are equally common in men as in women.

On these pages you will find not only a lot of family planning, but also about the causes of infertility or infertility and possible treatment methods.
Fertility myths under the microscope
Pregnant faster thanks to cushion under the buttocks and vitamin pills beside the bed? What is it about the advice to get the couples with baby often wish to hear? We clarify
Couple lying in bed and cuddle
Couples get some adventurous tips to help the baby wish comes true

Couples get some adventurous tips to help the baby wish comes true
Who wants a baby, should remain lying after sex

Not true. Rigid rest after the climax does not work. Women also do not have to lift their legs to push candle or pillow under your butt to push the sperm in the right direction. Exception: fertility treatment . If the woman after introduction of semen rest for 15 minutes, the pregnancy rate increases of 18 to 27 percent, as a Dutch study shows. However, the treated ejaculate is much thinner than the natural one. Also applies to any conception: to guide the sperm right is not enough. "The fertilized egg must also settle in the womb," explains Professor Dr. med. Thomas Strowitzki, Medical Director of the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Fertility Disorders at the University Hospital in Heidelberg.

The female orgasm facilitates fertilization

There is no evidence. Although it is assumed that "the sperm are thereby promoted more quickly into the fallopian tubes because the uterus to contract," says Dr. med. Peter Rosenbaum, senior physician at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine at the University Hospital of Saarland. But attempts to promote fertility treatment with the hormone oxytocin contractions and thus achieve the presumed effect, were not successful.
Smoking reduces fertility

That's right. Among other things, acts of cigarettes a negative effect on the growth of ovarian follicles and thus the eggs. Furthermore, the concentration of the hormones estradiol and progesterone decreases - both important for the implantation of the egg. Women who smoke, so often have to wait much longer for a pregnancy . "For artificial inseminations they need almost twice as many cycles to get pregnant, as Non smoking inside," says Peter Rosenbaum. And who consumed cigarettes, can not get as long as children. In smokers, the menopause is one to four years earlier.
Fertile days women are particularly attractive

Yes, hormones are definitely not just blame that sometimes stretch the breasts painful or sprout pimples. They are also responsible for ensuring that women in their fertile days looks even prettier than usual reason. "The estrogen level is massively increased, among other things, for a smooth skin and good humor makes" explains Peter Rosenbaum. Moreover, women give her skin pheromones - called pheromones - from having a beguiling effect on men and let be sexually active women themselves. This increases the likelihood that couples find each other in all the right days.
A healthy diet helps to become pregnant quickly

Direct influence on the chance of becoming pregnant, has a healthy diet probably not. Even if the additional intake of vitamins and trace elements of fertility helps to change that is not fully understood. But under- and overweight - often the result of an imbalanced meal plan - can have a negative effect. So at extremely underweight women, the ovaries are no longer stimulated the menstrual cycle and thus the fall out. "It is common in patients with eating disorders before," says Thomas Strowitzki. Even if a woman has long since returned to normal weight, the rule could fail adds Peter Rosenbaum. "Contrast Obese women produce male hormones in adipose tissue," said the expert. This also often leads to lack of ovulation and period.
Daily Sex degrades the quality of sperm

As many sperm reserve until the big day? Needless, if you believe the latest results of science. Accordingly, namely is not the amount of ejaculate or the sperm count significantly. Whether woman is pregnant, but seems to depend on the mobility of the sperm. "In an Israeli study is here achieved the best results after only one day of abstinence," said Thomas Strowitzki. A night without sex so just fine.
Decreases only in women with age fertility

The men want to believe only too happy. But the truth is different. An eighteen year old boy is much more fruitful than a mid-forties. Advantage of the men: "Here the process is running slowly down, in women, the menopause is a clear cut," says Thomas Strowitzki. You can no longer have children then definitely, in men it is theoretically possible even to old age. It is more difficult but also with them. And: In case of late fatherhood , the risk of miscarriage is increased as well as the genetic alterations.

The photos of their own babies

The photos of their own babies are the most beautiful memory of this beautiful time. This not only serve as own memory but are always a nice gift for the grandparents, godparents or friends. The baby pictures can both hold a baby album or frame them, so you can view them anew every day. For this reason, you should not just give the baby photos the right setting, but this process also true, so long did you enjoy it.



Photos as art


If you want to put the baby pictures off in, you can invoke that can be drawn on a canvas photo . In such a photo canvas is any subjects can present itself as a work of art. Here the baby images with a high print quality on the natural materials are printed. Besides being able to get the canvas without a frame, you can let also drag the image onto a wooden frame. This way you get not only a living work of art for your own home but also a wonderful and unique gift.
The photo on canvas offers a perfect satin polish and is very stable. In addition to the normal printing also offers the possibility to create the image in a spatula structure. This spatula structure has the advantage that the baby photo looks much plastic in this way.


Baby pictures as collages


The photo collage of baby pictures offer themselves as a popular and very original gift. Here the design and your creativity are virtually no limits. The advantage of a photo collage is that you have to be limited not only to an image, but you can insert multiple images. In this way we obtain the photo collage is a work memory of the best moments and special moments.
Also in the photo collage you have the choice between different sizes and formats. So you can shop such as posters, on canvas, on a rigid foam board or acrylic glass. When choosing the design and layout and backgrounds here you have several options .

Photo album for the baby photos

Of course, it is therefore as important to choose a photo album for baby photos. Besides the possibility of conventional photo albums you can create digital photo albums today. A digital photo album offers the possibility that you can paste it in any place more pictures later. In addition, the images can also be digitally processed before pasting. They can be enlarged or reduced, cut or apply effects.
 

The crisis after birth

Finally, this long-awaited baby is here!

Your daughter - your son Now you've done it, the birth is well over, the father beams with pride grandparents are so happy -. And you, you are too?

In so many books is described as happy mothers behaved too. This is so in theory and in practice, it now looks for you is quite different. That expected from you and perfect "mother luck" is now only tears of a great fear and this absolute uncertainty as it should go further. You want to be the "perfect" mother and now this.

No one around you wants to believe what is going on inside you. You would have to be soooo happy! Should ........ Why does happiness have to adjust to command? It can come very quickly, this feeling of happiness, but it does not have. As ungrateful you are held up and you do not want to see your baby from breastfeeding you want to know anything. It's just you all too much!

You have the baby blues. A term that latches much more loving and more understanding than the old traditional concept of "Heultage" after the birth of a child. So there is this feeling low of a mother for some time, perhaps forever.

My friend heard as the Council of the Family "giving up again!" How easy! Why was not taken in the arm and could let her tears flow. Should be as happy woman. It is anticipated. But does not have to be! So I think it is particularly important to express these concerns and to address. For this reason I write about here!

When baby blues mood mother drops to an absolute minimum. This is done within the first 10 days of life of their child. He often occurs between the third and fifth day after birth. What causes this feeling low? Blame and are triggered by the strong hormonal changes, the use of the birth and the now completely new and different life situation in which the mother finds.

How is the baby blues to see? You as a parent feel a great sadness and cry very often. You are sensitive, irritated and your mood varies greatly. You feel exhausted and tired. You will find no rest and no sleep. You're afraid of what is and what is coming. You have trouble concentrating.

Breast and bottle?

Basically, the so-called Zwiemilch diet can work. This means that your baby is breastfed, but also gets industrially produced infant milk from the bottle. As before, although it is best for your baby if you are breastfeeding it fully. For various reasons, it may be that no longer works at this time. Maybe you had such a distinct breastfeeding problems that you simply do not want to breastfeed. Or you and your baby was sick and you had earlier than originally planned switch to bottle.

Want your child but at least a couple of meals served at the breast, for, example, morning and evening, or to comfort. Finally, it may be that you are already working again and no chance to see continue breastfeeding full. What you should know to mixed feeding:

Chest is going on bottle. Whenever possible, place your child at first before offering him the bottle. That helps, as regelmßiges pumping to maintain milk production going. Mixed feeding can mean the final farewell from breastfeeding. First, the milk production is reduced when you create your child rarely or shorter. Second, your baby will possibly not want to make the effort to drink at the breast. This is more difficult than sucking on the bottle.

Would you like to definitely at least partially breastfeed, get advice from a specialist, such. As at Biggi Welter, the lactation consultant of round-ums Baby. It also tells you how you can best express and store milk.

Products with the syllable "pre" in the name: Good for your baby milk formulas are following. They are free from starch and can be fed as needed. This comes in handy especially when mixed feeding. You can also give your baby milk that bears the number "1" in the name. Since it contains a number of carbohydrates (eg., Starch), but you need to pay close attention to the daily amount, so your baby does not get too much. If your child is considered to be at risk of allergies (perhaps because a parent has an allergy), it is recommended to him - to give HA-food - by appointment with the pediatrician. "HA" stands for "hypoallergenic". The protein of cow's milk was split in order to reduce the risk of an allergic reaction. If you are unsure of what and how much you should give your baby, consult your pediatrician.

Sleep


Your newborn knows of no difference between day and night. And be relatively small stomach can not hold enough food to keep it sick for a long time. In the very first time the hunger is stronger than the need for sleep. Because your baby needs to eat every few hours - day and night. Some children even doctors recommend that parents should not let their newborn sleep for so long that larger intervals between meals arise: All three to four hours, your baby needs his milk.
How long sleeps a newborn?

A newborn baby sleeps 16 hours a day or more. Sometimes your baby sleeps perhaps even three to four hours at a time. Like all people, including babies have different sleep stages: fatigue, REM sleep (REM = rapid eye movement, rapid eye movement), light sleep, deep sleep and extreme deep sleep. Be his waking hours The older your child gets, the longer. Initially, the three to four hours of sleep stages are usually stressful for parents, as they interfere with their sleep. Please be patient, this changes when your child is older and better adapt to the rhythm of life outside the womb.
Where to sleep our baby?

In the first few weeks, it is most parents prefer that their baby is sleeping in the master bedroom, as in a cradle or bassinet . Keep the baby to the parents' bed or not? This is controversial. Undoubtedly, most babies like the physical proximity to z. B. soothe easier. And nursing mothers do not need to get up to give their child the breast.

However, many pediatricians warn against taking the child with the parents bed: where it can easily lead to overheating because babies their body temperature can initially poorly controlled. If you have a bassinet or a crib with wheels, your baby may well also sleep during the day is about in your area in the living room. Do you already have a stationary crib, you can provisionally quiet during the day let your baby sleep times in the stroller carry bag, to have it in your area.

No matter where your child is asleep: watch out for his safety. Do not put anything in the crib that could block his breathing, so no stuffed animals. To ensure that your baby is not strangled or injured, may be near him no loose cords or cords; also there should be nowhere sharp or pointed edges. For sure you go when buying a crib, if you pay attention to the TÜV or GS seal.
How should we lie down our baby in bed?

Put your baby to sleep on his back, pediatricians recommend. Studies on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome suggest that the risk is reduced when a baby sleeps in one of these positions. Support your child in the back with a rolled towel or small a wedge (in baby supply stores) from so that it maintains its position. Do not put your child as possible to the abdomen. It is easier to make a blockage of the airways and the little ones who can lift your head little time being spent much of her breath breathe again. For premature infants or children who very much spit , but other sleeping positions can be cheaper. Discuss this with your pediatrician.

Sense of Hearing

• Sound excitement is the most convenient form of fetal stimulation, although the baby's ears are loadeded with amniotic fluid inside the womb. The child continuously listens to the mom's heartbeat, her digestion gurgling and blood whooshing via her body. So go on and speak to your baby.
• You could indulge in reading stories out loud and even singing to your child. Do not talk around the baby however to the baby (the hearing is not that strong yet).
• If it is close adequate to the belly, also the deeper voice of a papa might be audible to the infant.
• Low noise frequencies are understood to take a trip with liquids. Go on as well as play the reduced notes on the bass or the piano as well as percussion instruments. If your baby is wide awake as well as active, you may witness jigging reactions to the music.
• The mother's heartbeat is probably the most rhythmic as well as acquainted noise identified by an unborn child.
• You may wish to transform the music down if you really feel swift, disorderly movements from your womb. Shrill audios and sound are negative excitements.
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• Again, in uniformity with old wisdom, lullabies and soft, soothing voices of its parents are a baby's favorite sounds. Indulging in a sleep time routine of soft music as well as balanced rocking typically puts most infants to rest.
• Concerning five months after birth, the child understands the source of the sound. You will certainly see that your child instantaneously transforms towards the source of noise as well as tries to "deal with" the songs! Attempt and urge this actions to suggest to the baby what item is making the audio.
• Copying the sounds of animals is mostly a sure shot way of making a baby smile or laugh. They love amusing and repeated noises.
• It engages the baby's detects of touch as well as sound and the baby recognizes the source of the audio. By learning to play the shake or also items like spoons, etc., the infant attempts to manage the source of sound as well as finds that he/she could really make the audio and also stop it too!
• Use bath tub time to let your baby uncover the different audios of water (putting, sprinkling, spraying, and so on).

Feeling of Scent and Taste

• Inside the uterus, the nose of the unborn child establishes by the fifteenth week of pregnancy. The amniotic fluid that fills the nasal cavities as well as mouth of the unborn child is thought to be its very first tryst with odors and preference.
• Maintaining a healthy and balanced diet regimen and including several tastes is possibly the only excitement you could provide. Pregnancy desires might be your infant's means of telling you what it suches as!
• Irrespective of aware excitement; nonetheless, the sense of odor is best at birth.
• The fetus is revealed to ingest even more amniotic fluid when it has a sweeter taste compared to when it's bitter or sour. This seems to be in preparation to instinctively seek out as well as revel in boob milk as quickly as it is born. Sounds like your baby could have a craving for sweets even prior to its teeth start to emerge!

Children, in their toddlerhood, have relatively limitless packages of power, however all at once possess very short attention spans. Outdoor activities help them get some physical exercise, as well as instruct them to value their surroundings. It is advisable that you urge these from a very early age to avoid infatuation to video games as well as television. It goes without saying, tasks and also craft concepts for kids additionally keeps them from your hair for some time. Some activities will certainly require you to keep a careful eye on them. Anyhow, they could wind up being wonderful learning feels for your children. Here are a couple of ideas in case of outside ready kids.

Comply with The Leader
This is a video game that you could launch. Describe to the youngster exactly how the game functions, and execute different motions in order to captivate him/her. You can playing around, jump, avoid, or roll on the ground, and also view them squeal with excitement while imitating you. Eventually, inform the toddler that he/she is the leader, and also adhere to the activities.

Hopscotch
Find a suitable spot to draw a hopscotch board, as well as show the child exactly how the game functions. Apart from being a fun outdoor task, hopscotch likewise instructs them the essentials of balance as well as coordination.

Fencing Painting
This could show the youngsters the best ways to determine different shades. It additionally provides them a chance to learn the best ways to create. It is advisable to stick some paper undecided ahead of time, to avoid the fencing from obtaining too disorganized.

Planting Seeds
This activity is less of a game, as well as even more of a social task. You could grow some seeds in a garden, as well as tell the kids to water them daily. This offers the toddlers something to expect, as well as allows them to help the setting in their own little means. Once the plants sprout, the children are expecteded to create an attachment to them.

Tiptoes
This is an excellent video game to help your young child discover ways to walk effectively. It greatly enhances the feeling of equilibrium and also toughness in the little kid's little body, and shows him/her to distribute the physical body weight effectively. Make sure that the youngsters watch you do it, before setting on it themselves. You can reveal them exactly how to tiptoe in reverse and sideways.

Rope Walking
Another good approach to create the balancing abilities is to place a far rope on the ground, and make the young child stroll on it barefoot. Like other video games, this game also aims at establishing motor skills.

Act Seaside
Develop an imaginary beach in the garden, making use of a bathtub of water and also other coastline props like a floating tube, a lifeguards chair, a huge towel, and so on. You can also bring a barbecue basket that aids produce the picture that you are in fact at the beach.