Easy Potty Training

Most parents dread potty training, especially because most of the advice they are getting about it is contradictory. The good news is, potty training does not have to be hard if parents follow a few simple steps.

A Team Effort

Before beginning potty training, parents need to agree the time is right. They also need to agree on the words to be used to discuss potty training with the child.

After the parents have made the decisions regarding methods and words to be used, be sure to inform other care givers who will need to help your child use the bathroom.

Show and Tell

Educating your child about her body and its functions is the first step in easy potty training. She needs to learn how her body works and what the feelings coming from her bladder and bowels mean.

This doesn’t need to be highly scientific, keep your conversations with her at her level and use the words you’ve chosen for her training.

The next step is to let your child go to the bathroom with you. She’s probably been doing this anyway, so use the time to explain to her that everyone goes potty.

Children are naturally curious, she’ll ask plenty of questions, answer them plainly and simply. If your child hasn’t been following you into the bathroom already, you may feel a little invaded at first.

It’s important to relax so she gets the message that using the bathroom is a natural process and everyone does it.

Praise Praise Praise

Praise all her efforts and reward her successes. She will be eager to do it again. One of the best rewards are stickers she can put on a potty chart to celebrate times she used the potty or had a dry night.

All in all, your child is just as eager to be potty trained as you are. She’s starting to see the difference between babies and big kids and wants to be one as quickly as possible (because they have all the fun!).

Let her learn at her own pace and your diaper days will soon be over.

http://www.pottytrainingtips.us provides articles and information on How to Start Potty Training for new parents.

Swine Flu Precautions for Your Preschool!

Childcare locations across the country are looking for ways to manage the H1N1 virus before they reach pandemic proportions. The Center for Disease Control is working closely with the National Association of Education of Young People to protect children at many child care and day care facilities throughout the United States.

The most efficient way to reduce the spread of this virus into an outbreak is it to sanitize all common areas. At Brilliance Preschool Academy, every day toys are cleaned and sanitized at the end of each and every school day. This should be the common practice of all childcare facilities to provide a germ-free environment. The priority for the administrators is to provide a healthy and safe environment for a child.

Schools should follow the published guides by the CDC on how to protect their student body. Anyone who handles children under the age of five years of age are encouraged to get vaccinated; since this age group has the highest risk levels for the H1NI virus. See if your child’s school has plans to have all their staff members receive their shots. It would also be wise to check with your pediatrician to see if your child needs to be vaccinated.

The CDC also recommends that all preschools have an emergency plan in place in case there is an outbreak of swine flu in the building. The plan should include provisions to immediately notify all parents and that communication should advise parents that it is essential to keep students home if they begin to display flu like symptoms. The CDC reports that the “symptoms of 2009 H1N1 flu virus can include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills, and fatigue, and sometimes diarrhea and vomiting.”

When you visit your preschool you should see posters around the building encouraging the children to practice good hygiene. Materials are available from the government and the NAEYP free of charge, which reinforce the importance of hand washing and covering the nose and mouth when sneezing. Despite the best efforts of any school it still may become necessary at some point to close to control any outbreak. The CDC says if too many children or staff members become ill the best course of action will be to shutdown for 5 to 7 days.

Stop by Brilliance Academy’s site where you can find out all about Dallas Daycare and more use tips.

Diabetes In Pregnancy — Symptoms

Diabetes in pregnancy — just like type 1 and type 2 diabetes — presents in a variety of symptoms which are quite different from patient to patient. Symptoms appear in different ways over the course of weeks or months, and oftentimes the person is not even aware they are diabetic. When your doctor first confirms your pregnancy, he/she will prescribe a glucose tolerance test to determine that you are not diabetic. The test is necessary because gestational diabetes symptoms are commonly not significant. Even if your test comes back negative, it’s still possible to develop gestational diabetes later into the pregnancy.

Gestational diabetes symptoms include increased thirst, blurred vision, always feeling hungry, fatigue, increased urine output, skin infections or abrasions that will not heal, and weight loss. These symptoms are found in type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well.

In most cases with women, once the baby is born her blood glucose levels return to normal and the gestational diabetes disappears. Although, if you do develop gestational diabetes during your pregnancy you are at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life. This can be avoided through eating a healthy well balanced diet, regular exercise and maintaining a healthy weight.

When you are pregnant, your insulin needs are 2 to 3 times more than the normal needs and if you are overweight this is a lot worse. If a woman’s body cannot produce enough insulin to help overcome the insulin resistance then her blood glucose levels increase above normal.

Diabetes in pregnancy must be properly diagnosed and treated, otherwise it could place the baby at risk of over-developing inside the womb, which will of course cause a difficult birth. This will also place the baby at increased risk of complications like high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. Therefore, it is crucial that you are tested for glucose tolerance between 24-28 weeks of pregnancy, and you may wish to test again later in the pregnancy.

Monitor your body for symptoms of gestational diabetes and notify your doctor immediately for any signs in order to avoid complications later on.

Learn more about Gestational Diabetes. Stop by Sue Kennedy’s site where you can find out all about Avoiding Type 2 Diabetes and maintaining optimum health for you and your baby.

Getting Rid Of Parental Stress

Having children is one of the best things one can experience. However, this does not come for free. Most parents experience a lot of stress caused by the children and the responsibility for them. Once children are born we rarely have more than a week in a row without worrying about our kids. Unless you really want to go nuts, it is an imperative to learn how to cope with such situation – fast.

First, remember that you should be calm. In situations where you can’t keep yourself together much longer, just walk away and take a few deep breaths. How can you know that the time is right? It’s simple: if you clench your fists and hear your voice rising, the stress attack is on the way. A few minutes more and you will lose your temper unless you go away. Remember that screaming will not do any good, even for you. If you have to scream, do it alone.

Speak your mind, even if it hurts. If you decide to let the situation spin out of control because you ignored the first signs of a problem, you’re the only one to blame. You can’t count on your children that they know what makes you stressed or what you want them to do unless you tell them. Avoid confrontation and you will end extremely stressed about more and more things until you won’t be able to hide it anymore and explode, possibly ruining the relationships you might have with your children.

Another thing is that you have to remain in control of a situation. Never let it follow its own course if you feel it’s not going to end well. If your kids are going to do something improper, bad or simply stupid, be the first to tell them that. If you can’t cope with the problem otherwise, use everything you have in your power (including grounding and similar punishments) to keep your children from doing things you don’t accept. Explain your reasons to them, but never let them make big mistakes – it is the shortest way for a parent to suffer a nervous breakdown.

Remember that even the smallest problems can greatly increase the parent’s stress level. In order to keep it in check, you have to always be able to relax, make sure that everything is under control and breath deeply anytime you meet a stressful situation. Also, solve the problems that cause you stress right away. Remember that when we talk about children, no problem can just go away. They will aggravate until you actually do something.

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The Right Age For Potty Training

One of the most frequently asked questions by first time parents is “what is the right age for potty training?” The short answer to that is There isn’t one.

Regardless of what you may hear from well-meaning friends and relatives, the right age to potty train your child is when your child is ready. Attempting to potty train a child who has not shown any signs of readiness will frustrate both you and the child and very possibly make him resistant to potty training in the future.

Helping Your Child Get Ready

You can help your child get ready for potty training by encouraging his natural curiosity. Let him follow you into the bathroom and explain that you’re going potty. Let him learn how the toilet works. If his natural curiosity leads him to start happily flushing everything in sight, a simple toilet lid lock from the hardware store will save your sanity and your pocketbook.

You can also help him recognize that he goes potty. Ask him if his diaper is wet. When he starts to tell you on his own that he needs to be changed, he’s getting close to being ready for potty training. Switching to cloth diapers at this point will also help since the cloth diapers don’t wick the moisture away from his skin, he will be more able to feel wet.

Be Ready Yourself

Prepare for potty training by having the things you’ll need on hand. If you decide to use a potty seat or potty chair, have it ready. Your child will need training pants or underwear which you can let him choose. He may decide to give it a try if it means he gets to wear his special new Superman underwear.

Get Your Team Ready

Anyone who interacts with your child needs to be prepared to support your potty training efforts and methods. Daycare providers, relatives, friends or anyone who may need to help him needs to know what words he’ll use to tell them he needs to go potty and what do to help him.

He will become frustrated with the process if he tries to tell someone he needs to use the bathroom, and they don’t understand what he means or what routine he’s expecting. If you are using a sticker chart or other reinforcement/reward system, he will be very put out if he uses the potty and doesn’t get a sticker from grandma.

The only one who can tell you when your child is ready for potty training is your child. By being ready yourself, you’ll be able to act quickly and take advantage of the window of opportunity when it presents itself

http://www.pottytrainingtips.us provides articles and information on How to Start Potty Training for new parents.

What is a chemical pregnancy and how does it work?

I took an at home pregnancy test last week and tested positive, but then had my period a few days later. I would have conceived between September 20th and 24th, and my period came 6 days ago. I started reading up on this and found a lot of questions about chemical pregnancies. How do they happen? And how long will the pregnancy hormone stay in my system if the egg has already been flushed out? I can’t get into my gyno until next week and I need to know what’s going on now.

What pregnancy test is it that tells you how far along you are?

One of my friends were telling me about a pregnancy test that tells you how far along you are in your pregnancy,up to three months I think she said.What is the brand/name of that test.I have took two first response pregnancy tests and they both came out positive.I am trying to make sure with much more expensive pregnancy tests.What is the brand of that pregnancy test,and what are my chances that I really am pregnant from two positive results?

How accurate is a pregnancy blood test 7 to 8 days after conception?

My friend had a blood pregnancy test done 7 to 8 days after possible conception and the result came back negative. She is still having pregnancy symptoms. She asked the lady who gave her the results and the lady said that the test should not be done until atleast 10 days after conception to be most accurate. How accurate is a pregnancy blood test 7 to 8 days after conception? Thanks in advance!

When do pregnancy symptoms start acting up?

When do pregnancy symptoms start acting up. Is it different for everyone? I just want to know. Do women usually get their pregnancy symptoms the first few days?

I stopped breastfeeding and want to start again, suggestions on how to get my milk producing?

My son is 8 weeks old now, and I stopped breastfeeding at around 4 weeks. I still have some milk, because when I squeeze my nipple, milk comes out. How can I get my milk production back up to continue breastfeeding? Or is it too late?

What is the evolutionary history of breastfeeding in our species?

What is the history of breastfeeding in homo sapiens and our ancestors? At what age did early humans stop breastfeeding?

Did it help advance our species?

What do you think when someone refers to modern breastfeeding as “disgusting and primitive. We are not cavemen”

How does breastfeeding tie into “survival of the fittest”?

Experience With Pregnancy

This is for a HEALTH class project! I hate that subject!
Please answer the following question:

what did you experience while going through pregnancy?

2. How old were you?

when will i ever use this?!

I am breastfeeding and now have axillary engorgement. What are my options if this is ectopic axillary tissue?

I have been breastfeeding only 4 days. Right axilla swelling began to develop at 28 weeks gestation, but has swollen dramatcially in the past 24 hours since my milk “came in.” It is currently about the size of a deck of cards. I am currently afebrile and am willing to deal with the discomfort. However, will this condition worsen (or improve)? Should I continue breastfeeding?

pregnancy and doctor care

One of my friends told me that her sister had a baby and she had to get the baby examined and the doctor had to stick his arm all the way to his elbow to see where the head is…has this ever happened to you moms?
shes 6′3″…but do they really stick up their whole hand to feel where the baby is? why cant they do an ultrasound?

Breastfeeding Moms- Are you willing to start speaking as if breastfeeding were the norm?

So instead of saying that breastfeeding is best. It should be breastfeeding is normal and formula is inferior. Maybe if we all started speaking as if breastfeeding is normal more people would do it. Instead of thinking breastfeeding is something extra, or special you could do for your baby people will just see it as normal.

For example: Not breastfeeding increases the risk of allergies, obesity, etc.

Do you think if people began speaking as if breastfeeding is normal more people would be willing to breastfeed, or less likely to fall for the fantasy that formula is okay.

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