Room temperature

During the first six months keep your home at 65 to 70 degrees. At night, these temperatures can be lowered if the baby is well covered.

Bathing

Bathing is fun for most baby’s. Especially if your child has fun toys, cups and latex squeaky beasts. Toys made of PVC free materials can safely be used in bath and bed.

Bathing temperature

Fill the bathtub with the cold water and add hot water to the proper temperature. Test the water with your elbow.  Best is to use a bath thermometer to ensure that the water temperature of 90-100 degrees (F) or 38 degrees Celsius  is safe.

Never leave a child in the bath alone. Purchase tap covers so that the children can’t turn on the hot tap and burn themselves.

Particularly in the beginning make everything ready before bathing,  baby shampoo, cotton, sterile gauze, alcohol, beta dine ointment, body cream, lotion, wipes, diaper, hair lotion, comb and clothes after the bath.

The preparing of the baby’s room
The setting of the nursery and buying the required material is a nice relaxed way to prepare the birth of your child Keep in mind the delivery date with purchasing furniture. Also remember that paint fumes are bad for the (unborn) child. Only use water-based paint and ventilate the room well many days after painting.

Before your baby goes to sleep
Newborn babies recognize the smell of their mother immediately. To give them a familiar feeling put a cloth with the scent of the mother in the cradle.

Sleep rhythm
In the first months you must assume that it could be you once or twice per night from bed to. This can be very tiring. Please try after childbirth you from time to rest when your baby is sleeping for example. After about eight weeks the sleep patterns of your baby will gradually change.

Feeding
Since six months a baby can get used to a fruit or a vegetable snack. For this food better use a special baby spoon. The soft plastic layer protects the mouth and gums. If your baby is eating by itself, is also formed cutlery practice what your baby can easily use.

Entertainment
Sounds, movements, colors, your baby is curious. Want to distract attention here, then a rattle indispensable. Your child may feel it is a magnificent entertainment.

Teeth
When the first tooth comes through, you start with the oral care. A finger toothbrush is intended to playful learning brushing teeth. When teeth come through, do a finger toothbrush and the painful itching gums gently massaged, this feel good what you do.

Common cold
If your baby has a cold you can clean quickly the congested nose of your baby. Remember that a baby with a cold can’t clear his/her nose. The nose cleaner suck the moisture from the nose and get your baby back air.

Bright colors
Your baby responds best to bright colors, especially in the first months. A toy or rattle sound with which the baby can chew toys are perfect.

Baby’s favorite toys
The range changes regularly. As a result, some are not to order. If your baby a
cuddly pet, it is advisable to copy half before buying it not to order.

Activity toys
Activity toy is good for the development of the senses of your baby. This is a varied and instructive toy.

Our ten month old, Theo, cracks up watching his dad play golf on the Nintendo Wii.

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Babies also having a charming effect on the lives of neighbors, family friends and others. Watching a baby grow, and learn to walk and talk, is one of the most magical things that anyone, related or not, can experience.
1. Of course you want to shower the baby in your life with affection.
There are all sorts of occasions for giving a baby gift. From new arrivals to baby baptisms and christenings, from baby birthdays to celebrating a baby’s first steps. Baby gifts can be given at a baby shower before the baby even arrives.
And baby gifts are particularly special when they are given for no occasion at all.
Whether you’re a new parent, a favorite aunt or grandmother, a doting uncle. A next door neighbor or “just a friend,” baby gifts are a great way to tangibly demonstrate your love and affection for the baby.
2. Baby Gifts can be educational.

Baby gifts can help a baby learn about the world, but unlike some lessons, baby gifts educate in an entertaining way. Certain types of toys, like foam spelling blocks, baby books, and puzzles with large, soft pieces can all teach babies how to relate to their surroundings. Mobiles hung above a baby’s crib help the baby learn how to visually
Focus and build attention span. Baby spoons assist a baby in learning how to eat with utensils like a “grown-up. For more detail go to: www.babies-tips.com.” And soft, cuddly plush toys and dolls help a baby learn how to show affection and attachment to others.
3. Baby gifts can assist the baby’s parents.
A baby shower is a traditional event that is held some period of time before the baby’s arrival. Typical baby gifts that are given at baby showers include baby blankets, diaper bags, lotions and powders, carryalls and totes, sweaters, hats, onsides, layette sets, socks, and baby booties and shoes. All of these types of baby gifts help the prospective parents get ready for their baby’s arrival and to be prepared for bringing their baby home from the hospital after its birth.
4. Baby Gifts can commemorate a special day in a baby’s life and can become cherished family heirlooms.

A keepsake baby birthday gift such as a bangle or bracelet set with the baby’s birthstone, a beautiful music box that will delight the baby for years to come, or a photo album filled with pictures of the baby, can all become treasured possessions. The same is true for baby christening or baptismal gifts such as a child’s first Bible, a christening gown or a baby’s first tiny cross or rosary. These types of baby gifts are cherished family mementos, often kept for dozens of years, and sometimes passed down from mother to daughter or from father to son.

There are baby gifts that would be perfect for any occasion. Baby gifts can be educational or they can be soft and snuggly toys. Baby gifts can be purely practical – such as baby clothing – or they can be beautiful and decorative, such as an embroidered baby blanket. They can be heirlooms that are passed down from generation to generation, or they can become “hand-me-downs” that are lovingly passed from an
Older child to a younger child. But whatever baby gifts you give, you can be sure that they’ll be loved by all they touch.

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