Baby Einstein Blog

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS is a medical term used to describe the mystery death that parents worries a lot. It is also known as “crib death” since it always happens when the baby is left alone in the crib. This occurs among infants who are 1 month up to 1 year old. SIDS still has no medical explanation on what it causes. What happen is that babies die in their sleep and parents are left with questions of how and what it caused. This normally occurs during normal sleeping hours and in some healthy babies too.

Here are some choices to consider in preventing SIDS:

1. For pregnant women, avoid smoking and/or using of drugs nor expose yourself to secondhand smoking since those who are exposed to such has higher risk of infants dying of SIDS.
2. Let your baby sleep on their back to promote proper breathing.
3. Avoid / prevent smoking in your home (it is also harmful to your health so it’s much better to avoid it permanently).
4. Continue breast-feeding. Some studies show that breast-feeding reduces the risk of SIDS perhaps because of its nutritional content. Aside from preventing SIDS, it is also helpful to increase the baby’s immune system.
5. Make sure to have a regular check-up. This is also to ensure the baby’s general health.
6. Remove any hazardous materials from the crib / bed / bassinets (e.g. stuff toys and other toys, too much pillows). It is best to keep the crib where the parents sleep.

As they say, “prevention is better than cure”. So it’s better to take this seriously to avoid SIDS.

Although some people still prefer to be surprised at their baby’s birth whether it’d be a he or a she, ultrasound has become more of a necessity than just an option, especially now that it is more exciting to know the gender of the baby in a more lively manner - in 3D (three-dimensional).

Sharing my personal experience, we (me and my wife) were so young that we didn’t actually know that that certain day, she’d undergo Ultrasonic Fetal Scanning, as US FDA would define it, and surprised we were (or I think we weren’t given the option if we would consider my wife undergoing such process), to see a lovely image moving inside my wife’s womb. Really, it is one touching moment for the hopefuls. Though, I was kind of really expecting that I would see a figure where I could describe the physical qualities of an unborn baby because it was barely recognizable to be a baby.

Well, you can kiss those days goodbye. Well-known hospitals are now equipped with modern equipments to perform 3D ultrasound.

From the last months of bearing a child, pregnancy has never been this exciting after undergoing 3D ultrasound. Actual experiences show undeniable bliss from parents, to the grandparents, and the rest of the family after seeing the results, that they could actually see little fingers and toes, and even smaller details such as eyes and nose.

The experience gives these people the joy of pre-celebration as an addition to the family is to be joining them soon because it makes them feel as if the baby is already born. From this glorious moment goes the eternal debate whether who’s having the supreme blood, to which the baby would look more closely to. And grandparents… usually, they’re the starters!

An infant is a prized possession of a married couple. Together, with all their might, they keep the baby warm and away from any harm (hey, that rhymes), provide all the things he needs (sometimes more than enough), and build plans from their hopes and dreams, as their first step in fulfillment of effective parenthood, like an architect to a building - construction in progress.

As they’ve learned a woman is bearing a child, the soon-to-be parents (the mother herself), are unexplainably excited that they would always talk about babies, proper handling of newly-born, that they would spend hours exchanging ideas and past experiences with each children they have, showing only how hardly it is for them to wait for the forthcoming baby’s birth.

Truly, it is one touching moment when you see the baby react from the womb as you touch the mother’s belly, like it would stretch, feeling the warmth transmitted through the skin to skin contact (*tear*).

After few months come the cravings. It is believed that a pregnant woman, at this stage, craves for things, usually food, that sometimes gives the husband a very hard time to find (like what we usually see in the movies or in a sitcom on tv). Lucky for me, what my wife craved for was over-the-counter milk candies (whew!). Oh, and I didn’t actually knew it until my daughter was born because they’re everywhere, and it was easy for her to grab a bunch. Though, this whole thing proves nothing to do with the baby should he become as white as snow, or as tall as Shaq, according to the experts.

Nonetheless, it is a crap when you hear some people say that their child has fair complexion because they craved for coconut meat, or their child is so tall because they’ve been watching NBA during pregnancy.. Good grief!