12 reasons babies cry and how to soothe them

There's no getting around it: Babies cry. It's how they communicate hunger, pain, fear, a need for sleep, and more.

So how are parents supposed to know what their baby is trying to tell them? It can be tricky to interpret your child’s cries, especially at first.
Here are the most common reasons babies cry. If your little one is wailing and you don't know why, work your way down the list. Chances are you'll find something that helps.

1. Hunger

This is probably the first thing you think of when your baby cries.
Learning to recognize the signs of hunger will help you start your baby's feedings before the crying stage. Some signs to watch for in newborns: fussing, smacking of lips, rooting (a newborn reflex that causes babies to turn their head toward your hand when you stroke their cheek), and putting  their hands to their mouth.

Getting Started Baby Signing

Getting Started

When should I start baby signing?

You can start signing as early as you want but eight to nine months of age is a good age to start. It won't hurt to try earlier but baby may not start to sign till later.

What signs should I start with?

Milk, drink, eat, mommy, daddy, more, up, down, cat, dog (or other family pet). These are all good signs to start off with. When you start introducing a sign, you will want to say the word as you sign it. Be very repetitive. Part of learning language is done through repetition. The more your baby hears and sees the sign, the more familiar she will be with it. For example every time your baby wants to nurse or take a bottle you can ask her would you like some "milk" and sign "milk". Do this several times so she associates milk with the sign milk. She may watch you sign for quite a while before she actually starts signing back to you.

Baby Signing (The Fun of Teaching Your Baby to Sign)

What is baby signing?

Baby signing is using gestures or signs to communicate with your baby. Many moms use American or British Sign Language when teaching their babies to sign but it is perfectly okay to create your own signs. The purpose of baby signing is to communicate with your baby. Babies are able to use hand gestures much earlier than they can communicate with words. Not being able to communicate can be frustrating for baby and mom. Teaching your baby signs gives her the opportunity to communicate with you possibly months before she can actually talk.

Communicate with baby earlier: Babies who sign can communicate their needs sooner because they can communicate before they are capable of talking. This is particularly helpful for children who have speech and language delays. Some kids do not begin talking till they are two years old or older; therefore, baby signing gives them a way to communicate their needs.

Ideal Height And Weight Infants

To determine the weight and size of the ideal baby height, each region has different standards. Babies who originated the Asian region in general has a smaller body form when compared to infants who came from Europe, then the default is also not as heavy and as high as a baby from the region.
According to the standard size of the Indonesian Ministry of Health, weight for age younger infants under three months is between 3.4 to 5.7 kilograms. As for the ideal baby height is about 40.5 to 60 inches. Then, when the age of the baby step on the age of four to six months, the baby's weight is ideal is 5 to 7.4 kilograms. Size ideal for her height around 62.5 to 66 centimeters.
Once they entered at the age of seven to nine months, the baby's weight rose to around 8 to 8.9 pounds.

Causes of Infant Vomiting

Babies who we love, often experience vomiting. As parents, we often become frantic as our baby vomit. The panic usually happens because we do not know the cause of the vomiting baby so we do not know what really happened to the baby. Therefore, it would be nice if parents know what baby cause vomiting, so no one in taking action.
One of the causes of infant vomiting are common colds. Colds actually only a layman's term in the medical world because this term is not known. In medicine, the symptoms of colds is just the beginning of a disease to be diagnosed further.
However, there are some characteristics that colds babies could be identified. Characteristic features of the baby colds among them;
1. Behavioral changes in infants. Babies are usually calm, be cranky and whiny.2. Baby not eating, stomach bloating accompanied by vomiting. Sometimes followed by mild diarrhea, which usually defecate 2 times a day, 3 times now.3. Fever or elevated body temperature.

Keep Babies From the Excess Noise

Noise could threaten the baby's hearing. And as long as this problem of hearing loss in infants and toddlers received less attention due to noise. In fact, recently there have been reports that the noise cause of the 2nd hearing loss in infants and toddlers in the United States.

Permanent disturbance. When your toddler fun to explore, it is not possible without realizing they are exposed to noise

Intelligence Games for Babies 4-6 Months

Your baby is now 4-6 months old, moving more swiftly. Home range power was growing. Here's a game that honed intellect and stimulate its development:

Play-a-boo. Renyahnya laughter began to enliven your home. He did not want to lose yell, "Ba!" when asked to play-a-boo. Occasionally babies pay attention to your reactions and begins to imitate your facial expression.

Playing rattle. The baby was so intrigued with rattle searching and trying to hold his own. Since its legs rested body is still strong, he tried to reach by rolling around and can ... hooray! He just held and often rattle fall because his hands were still holding strong.

Autistic Signs In Children

The following signs could be identified from infants aged 1 year and above. If you find one of the following signs, you should be "suspicious". Consult this to your pediatrician.

1.  Infants less an expression, such as smiling, laughing. If you do not even ever see him smile, you should be "suspicious"  
2.   Did not react when his name was called. 
3.  Babies do not ever produce any sound, such as mumbling, spraying saliva, or experimenting with the tools of articulation (lips, tongue, oral cavity) to try to communicate with you.
4.  His eyes rarely meet face or make eye contact with anyone who approached her face. Or, you often find baby concentrate observing an object within a few minutes.
5.  Baby, rarely never even imitating the motion of objects, or reply to your hand waving.

SWIMMING MAKES HIGH IQ

So, ma'am-sir, take your baby swimming. Although still a baby, no problem. In fact, the newborn was not going to sink when released into the water.
Results of research in Melbourne, Australia, showed statistically IQ of children who are taught to swim as a baby higher than children who are not taught to swim or be taught to swim after age 5 years. The children were measured his IQ when they were aged 10 years. Not only that, the physical growth, emotional and social even better.
Other research has shown that babies are taught to swim more easily than adults, because babies have never had the X factor such danger. Is not the baby does not understand the danger? After all, babies love the water so that he too would like to be invited to swim. Well, this makes it easier to learn to swim.

Beautiful Friendship The Baby

Socialization skills are developed through a gradual process, and the initial stimulation is an important support. Social contact early is a good stimulation for the baby's development.
Answering cries. Many argued that the baby can not really see before the age of 3 months. Whether or not this conjecture is still a debate among development experts and researchers. What is clear, since the first day the baby has been able to capture the stimuli and respond. Although limited, the baby responds to the user at the sound of a mother, father or baby crying sound other. Try and observe their interaction in the showroom when the new-born baby. Not infrequently the new baby's cry into the room will be answered with cries of other babies.

Protect Baby From the Dangers of Pneumonia

The forgoton killer, as the WHO for pneumonia illness, which included the collection of IPD disease. Your baby is protected?

Pneumonia or inflammation of the lung is a forgotten disease. In fact, based on data the World Health Organization WHO in 2003, this disease is the largest cause of mortality, over the measles, rotavirus, tetanus and hepatititis B.

The disease is caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, a bacterium which has more than 90 types and 11 of them classified as dangerous kind. These bacteria are found in the throat and nasal cavity of children and adults healthy, easily spread by spattered when the person coughs, sneezes or speaks.

Beware of pneumonia and IPD

Pneumonia is one of the diseases IPD (Invasive Pneumococcal Desease), which is the term for a series of diseases consisting of inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia), inflammation of the lining of the brain (meningitis), blood infection (bacteremia) and sepsis (blood infection continuation).
Similar to pneumonia, other diseases IPD also caused by the bacterium S. pneumoniae. IPD can affect anyone, but the most vulnerable groups are infants and children under age 2 years, because their immune systems are not perfect. Symptoms and risk of IPD diseases other than pneumonia (pneumonia) are:

Let Your Toddler Be creative with Drawing

Graffiti is the first expression of the creativity of a child. Development experts argue that creativity is the main bridge learning process. Creativity is well honed since childhood, will give children the ability to solve various problems it faces, whether in work or daily life in the future. Long before children become important because of its discovery, we need first to appreciate the creativity first, in the form of graffiti, at the age of 1 year. 

Basically Instinct Support! In the book Young at Art: Teaching Toddles Self-Expression, Problem-Solving Skills and an Appreciation of Art,

Miracle Toddler

There are a million children under five child behavior. here's some miracle they and their secrets behind it.

   1. The best Explorers. All the objects in the house became the object of exploration and curiosity target toddlers. Even items that appear "trashy", such as soap boxes, plastic, and bottles of mineral water, considered a treasure.

   2. Imitate. People who are bigger, whether it be father, mother, or sister, is a role model toddlers. As a "big fan", he will imitate everything that made his idol. Whether it's brushing teeth, combing hair, wearing lipstick, even shave!

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1. Pause to breathe
If observed, the baby can breathe more rapidly for a while then slows and can stop up to 15 seconds before breathing normally again.

Doctors usually refer to the 'Periodic breathing' and it is common in infants until

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Every baby is definitely going to suck the finger. Especially in newborns until the age of 3 months, sucking fingers often done. This shows the baby in good health and normal, because the suction reflex was already supposed to have a baby from birth. That is why, when the baby will suckle, the mother's nipple do not have to be forced inserted into the baby's mouth. Simply slide-sliding cheek with the nipple, the baby will look for direction nipple.

But not mean that all babies have a good suck reflex.  As Prof. Dr. dr. Nartono Kadri, Sp.A (K), there are some babies