When my baby’s tooth is about to come-out, I saw her uneasy feeling. She likes to bite her finger, murmuring something with a bit cry as if telling me that she is uncomfortable with what she has in her gums.  To lessen her discomfort feeling due to teething, I gave her a teething toy chilled from the refrigerator. I see that by biting it gives her a relief. Sometimes, I rub her gums with a clean finger or a wet gauze.

So how to take care of your baby’s teeth?

Since my baby has few teeth already, I know that it will be prone to tooth decay if not taken cared properly. The followings are the things that I considered doing to prevent tooth decay:

1. The pacifier that my baby is using must be clean and without any trace of sweets.
2. I only give her plain milk and water when I bottle fed. I do not put sweetened drinks on it.
3. I brush her teeth according to the suitable brush on her stage. Note that you can see various kinds of brushing style specifically designed for your baby’s age and teeth stage. You can see this toothbrush in baby care section/department. Toothpaste is not necessary until the baby reach 2 years of age. Just a plain water and a specific brush will do.

The foreign exchange market demands high risk and fundamental analysis.  One needs to know the language existing in the forex trading.  The technicalities in the market can easily be understood, but the process involving the transactions may need one or more tools in order for dealers to gain more and avoid or predict future losses.  In the modern age, traders can virtually calculate, compute, evaluate and determine foreign exchange market’s charting, pricing and technical analysis.

A handful of forex trading tools are available to help beginners, or even expert dealers, to assist them in formulating anaylsis for the currencies exchange rates. These tools are helpful to the traders as they assess, calculate and predict their gain and possible losses. To begin with the forex market, beginners need to practice the business first. One of the training software for forex trading tools that can help beginners, is a Forex Simulator. This system is available online and can be downloaded. Yet, most free downloads of this software are free-trial versions only, and has limited functions. This simulator is a quite convenient for newbies. It is designed to combine forex price date management via advance charting controls and digital record keeping. However, this software is not for real trading, hence, practices only the beginners.

After learning the basics, another forex trading tool that is beneficial to traders is the detrended price oscillator system. This forex technical indicator tool eradicates trend prices by filtering cycles longer than the moving average. This helps traders define the short term cycles and thus the overbought or oversold levels are determined easily.

Another valuable forex trading tool is the software that is predominantly used by brokers. It is also recommendable to traders of all skill levels. This software functions as the global forex trading system and serves as online trading. It has fully operational charting package, white-box language for coding personal indicators and trading strategies. It also has advance features to further assist traders to do their analysis and trade-off tactics.

One must realize that trading takes time to master and there are absolutely no short cuts to this process. These forex trading tools are some of the essential steps to logically calculate the risk that the traders are facing – predicting gains and possible losses. Another strategy to follow is to learn the effect of economic, social and political events on the currency prices. Reading business news can also help traders follow the flow of the foreign exchange market and keeping in touch with the forex community can also be a good way to keep track on the flow of the currency prices.

Online forex has reached a lot of traders all over the world. Beginners are daunted with the technical language used in the foreign exchange market.  However, technology has broaden sources to help traders, expert and beginners alike, to improve their trading skills.

The movement of the currencies these days has always been the center of all business transactions. It has been moving extremely, up and down. Its vital role in the economy constantly creates a big fuss either in a small or big enterprise. The trading in forex takes in a high level of risk and may lose lot money, if not handled that well.  How to trade forex, one needs to know in any investment in foreign market exchange is that you should not deal your money that you cannot afford to lose.

I start massaging her one leg from pelvic joint down towards the ankle. I massage her stomach gently with a circular direction and I smoothly glide my palm on her chest. I massage her wrist and hand and let her lie on his stomach for me to gently stroke her back from neck to buttocks.

The following are the benefits from massaging a baby:

• Massage can enhance the bond between me and my baby.
• It helps my baby to relax.
• Enables my baby to have a better sleep.
• Ease my baby’s fussiness.

As a reminder, massaging baby much be done in a calmly and gently way for baby has delicate body structure.

As a mother, we are very concerned to what our baby is eating. It is a fact that food allergies are much more common in families with a history of allergy, including asthma, hay fever, eczema and food allergies. Some food allergies are easy to see as soon as the food is eaten for the first or second time (e.g. flushed face, red and itchy rash around the mouth or tongue – can spread to the entire body, sneezing, watering of eyes, vomiting and diarrhea).

Baby Food

Delayed allergies may also be a problem for babies. When this happens, it is sometimes difficult to pinpoint a particular food that causes the problem. However, it can be distinguished by taking a look on the usual main culprits of food allergies like cow’s milk, soya , egg, nuts, wheat and shellfish.

What should I do if allergy happens?

Try to eliminate or removed the suspected foods that cause allergies from your baby’s diet. These will get better only when it is removed. In doing this, it is still better to seek guidance from a doctor with experience in handling baby with food allergies. It is never a good idea to try an elimination of diet without support from an expert as the nutrients lost in key parts of your baby’s diets are crucial to your baby’s growth and development and needs to be replaced.

So, the best thing to handle baby food allergy is not to panic and talk to your doctor.

The followings are the signs that I considered before I let my baby try solid food:
1. My baby seems hungry all the time.
2. My baby is putting and chewing her fingers in the mouth.
3. My baby is excited whenever I am eating. She shows interest in what I am doing, sometimes extending her hand.

I actually introduced solid food to my baby exactly on her 5^th months. I started giving her Rice-based Milk Cereal and I make a home-made puree. My baby is still young, so she still needs to consume more milk. According to my baby’s pediatrician, a baby at this age must still be fed for about 500-600ml of milk a day.

I do note the feeding routines of my baby. I feed my baby with milk in the morning and other milk feeds throughout the day. I let her eat the puree in mid day, where she is very active so that she will be attentive to what she is eating. Another bottle of milk before bedtime.

Home-made puree is the best first  solid food that you must let your baby try. So, I allot some time to cook my baby’s food. You can also see video below on how to make puree (Credits to: www.thefoodrecipe.com - Baby Food Recipes Link

The followings are the things that I do to minimize the vomiting incident of my baby:

1. Handle baby gently after feeding, particularly when twisting, moving or turning her upright to burp.

2. I give smaller but regular feed rather than filling her tummy to full.

3. I keep my baby in upright angle position while feeding her.

4. If she falls asleep as soon as after feeding, I raise her head in the cot by slightly placing a pillow underneath the mattress to lift her to a slight angle. I do not use a too soft pillow to avoid the tendency of suffocation if she moves.

Personality Empowerment Workshop for Teens & Tweens.

Attend and Learn the following:

TV Hosting, Emceeing for Events, Acting for Commercials, Print and Ramp Modelling, Basic Make-up, Fashion Styling, Voice Projection and English Speaking Skills.

Be mentored by MTV and Film Directors

Pose for a Fashion

Make-over Shoot

Walk the run-way & host an event

Receive a printed modelling portfolio

Act in a music video

Star in your own TV show on SouthSpot (Ch. 19 on Sky Cable; Ch.21 in Gen.San.)

Teacher Jill with the Students

The workshop is  open to girls and boys ages 8-19 years old.

Schedule of classes:

- April 10 to May 05, 2012

- May 8 to May 30, 2012

4 hours per session (20 days)

Morning and afternoon classes available

Tuition fee is Php 7,000 for 20 days which is inclusive of snacks, materials, handouts, and copies of all their recordings and photographs. Students will receive a printed portfolio of their fashion photo shoots. They will perform on stage for a fashion and talent showcase. They will also act in a music video, and star in their own TV show to be produced by SouthSpot. There’s definitely no other workshop in town that offers the same experience and value for money.

Register at SouthSpot Studios, 59-B Aala Bldg., F. Inigo St., (formerly Anda), Davao City.

For more information, Please contact 0922-8384981 or visit www.spotlightworkshop.blogspot.com
Program Director: VIRGILIND “Jill” VILLANUEVA-PALARCA

I personally use Dr. Edwards Sterilized Drinking water during my baby’s early stage but as her milk demand increase, I changed to boiled water. Frequently buying of ready sterilized bottled water is costly. I just take tap water and boil it then let it cool down. You must let the boiled water to be cooled to about body temperature before adding powder to maintain the number of living cultures in the milk. If you are travelling and unsure of the tap water quality of your place then, you might consider buying bottled water and boiled it.

Can I use mineral water when preparing my baby’s milk formula?

Mineral water is not recommended in the preparation of milk formula. It contains some minerals that the baby does not need. Your baby’s milk is already a correct balance of minerals that your baby needed and adding additional content in the form of mineral water can agitate the balance.

Creating the experience of being fed satisfactory and pleasurable is essential whether you are breastfeeding or bottle-feeding. Comforting your baby physically is the most important factor of this. What I did to encourage bonding with my baby is to hold my baby close to me and let her know that she is guarded and protected. I keep her pressed close to my chest so that she can hear my heartbeat and smell my natural scent. I speak in low tones to her and sing. I always ensure to have an eye to eye contact. I smoothly rub her chin, and encourage her to do the same in return.

Babies love to be embrace and held, so I do skin to skin contact from time to time, which imitate the breastfeeding experience. I make it a routine so that my baby knows what to expect and looks ahead to this as affirmative experience.