Protect Your Baby While Sleeping at Night

The time for baby to sleep is important because it affects the growth and development. So it is important for parents to make sure babies sleep since birth to protect the sleep process.

A pediatrician said that the babies age are difference, different from the way in his sleep. It are necessary to understand the parents to be able to protect bedding.

In newborn infants up to age four months, parents should follow the circadian rhythm or biological clock, babies. So parents are fit the crib. After the babies four months, parents can begin to organize babies sleep time.

To protect the sleeping babies, or that babies sleep quality, parents can do several things. The sign is babies sleeping soundly in between babies woke up with a relaxed face, muscle contraction is not active, cheerful and active, ready to move after waking.
 

* Infants fed.
 
Make sure the babies already fulfilled the needs of food, drink before bed. Breast milk can provide for this, because the maximum absorption of breast milk, babies were more satisfied.

* Warm water bath.
 
Approximately 1-1.5 hours before the baby to sleep, bathe it with warm water. This can help babies sleep more comfortably ahead of time.

* Absorbent diaper.
 
The use of absorbent diapers also help keep babies comfortable while sleeping. You did not "disturb" sleep because they have to change a wet diaper and awakened him.

* Care Kangaroo Method (CKM)
 
CKM can protect babies to sleep because it creates a calm atmosphere and dim. CKM or skin to skin care (skin care) for the newborn that is easy, which is using the body to warm the baby's mother. This treatment is recommended for Low Birth Weight Babies especially birth weight below 2500 g.

Kangaroo method makes the baby feel more secure and comfortable with his mother, because he recognized the odor of maternal milk, also feel the heartbeat of the mother that he had kenalnya since in the womb.

How to do CKM, the infant is placed perpendicularly against the skin on the mother's chest between her breasts. Babies are naked, and only a diaper, hat, and socks. Mother and babies is covered by a special fabric or clothing. Attachment of the skin should be as wide as possible, and attaches directly without intermediaries.

Indonesian People Still Ignoring Breakfast

Many adults and children ignore the breakfast. In fact, breakfast is not only supplies energy to move. With a nutritionally balanced breakfast regularly can prevent obesity.

At night, the body as in the fasting state. Currently there is no intake, blood glucose levels down. Consequently, the function of organs, especially the brain, impaired.

When initiating activity of on morning day of, breakfast becomes important. Eat regularly with snacks in between main meals beneficial stabilizing blood glucose levels. They are not breakfast likely overeat or snack during the day while waiting for a meal at random. Eat regularly prevented obesity.

However, a survey in five major cities in Indonesia showed that 17 percent of adults not eat breakfast, and 13 percent did not eat breakfast every day. Numbers do not have breakfast in children varies from 17 percent in Jakarta, to 59 percent in Jogyakarta.

Analysis of food consumption data from the Health Research Association in 2010 showed that 26.1 percent of Indonesian children with breakfast only drink water. Although the breakfast, 44.6 percent of people eat foods with nutrition less than body requirements.

A good breakfast should meet the nutritional needs of 15-25 percent of daily needs. Food intake must be sufficient fiber, low fat, contain no trans fats, and complex carbohydrates. "Balanced diet should be done at breakfast," said professor of the Division of Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Titis Prawitasari.

He regretted that some of the breakfast habits of Indonesia. Many who only eat carbs plus a little protein, such as fried noodles, fried rice with eggs, or rice with vermicelli uduk.

Parents, says Titis, plays a major role in regulating the diet and give examples of the child. If a limited time to prepare breakfast, parents can prepare a simple meal, but contain high nutrition, such as cereals or wheat bread has milk protein content.