Complete Baby Guide

This is the time when the baby has come out from the comfortable and warm womb of mother to the outer world. Everything is new to the baby including breathing and feeding.

Having a child is not only exciting and enjoyable but also a means a responsibility for all loving and caring parents. The physical, emotional and intellectual development of the child receives a profound influence by the quality of care given to them in their childhood. Few parents possess adequate knowledge about the appropriate manner in which children should be taken care of. The child's health, growth and learning issues remain unnoticed by many parents till it is predominantly apparent. There are two extremities of parenting which is observed these days pertaining to lack of support of experienced grand parents or other family members.

• Undercaring parents, busy with their life so much that they overlook the craving demand of their babies emotional and health needs till any problem becomes predominant. Many children suffer from avoidable nutritional deficiencies, physical ailments and inappropriate development due to inadequate care by uninformed parents.
• Overanxious parents suffer from constant, unwarranted worry about their child's health, even when the child is healthy and growing normally. This also sometimes result in complications with them and baby and in few cases even doctors mislead the parents in this aspects.

Apart from this, parents are often faced with unexpected and baffling situations such as, the baby crying in the middle of the night for no apparent known reason, refusing feeds or having a sudden bout of vomiting. They may sometimes be required to deal with an acute medical emergency at home at an odd hour, such as a sudden high fever, diarrhea, incidental fits or an accidental injury. The quality and promptness of immediate care given by the parents in such emergency situations may be crucial in preventing a major crisis. This also helps in determining the final outcome of the child's subsequent treatment by medical experts.

In the journey of life, the baby encounters many people handling her, new sounds, smell, tastes and visuals. Every moment she has something new to learn, think, feel and react. The only thing she remembers is the voice, smell and touch of her mother. In this age babies see and hear more than what we are capable of as they have not developed selective grasping feature. As everything in the world is new to her she would not have developed selective absorption behavior.

As the days go by she adapts to the external environment and learns many things in stages. The reacting and learning process, physical development, motor and cognitive development may vary from baby to baby. Even the gender matters to the same.

This site takes along to an exciting, happy journey of stage by stage discovery from the time of a child's birth to toddler stage. This site can also be a source of reference for the students and teachers of home science, practitioners of child health and nutrition, Day Care centers, and for the study of child psychology and development.