Choosing Suitable Book for Your Baby

Book is one of many tools that can be used to stimulate your baby by reading them a story or by giving them pictures to see in it. Spending a time with your baby with their favorite book could be a pleasant activity for both of you, especially for your baby. In order to give your baby the right stimulation you also need the right book according to your baby’s age. Here’s the slightly review about the kind of the books that may suitable with your baby’s age:

Story-Collection Book

This kind of book contains more writing than picture. This book is suit to be read when you are still pregnant (for your fetus in your womb) and when your baby still hasn’t able yet to sit. After that, you can keep the book until your child is fully able to read, so they can read the book by themselves.

Catalog Book

Every page of the book contains pictures with only one to two word(s) which has not formed a sentence yet. For example, a ball picture with its identity under the picture, it is written “ball”. This kind of book is suit for your baby from newborn until they are 12 to 15 months.

Short Picture Book

This book already contains story, but in one page there’s only one to two sentences only. Usually there is a relation between the pictures and the sentences. You can use this book from when they start to be able to sit until they get bore with the book or when you feel the story in the book is too simple for your baby. Generally, this kind of book still can be used until they are 2 to 3 years.

Long Picture Book

This book contains picture with 4 to 5 sentences or 1 paragraph. When you feel the concentration ability of your baby has been increased, you can give this kind of book to them. You can know whether the story of the book is too long for your baby or not, one of many ways is by knowing their impatient when they haven’t finished yet read the story of the book. You still can look for the more suit book for your baby, which is the book with the simple pictures in it.

Chapter Book

This book have long story with the picture or illustration in certain pages. If your baby is getting more like to put their picture book into their mouth, then you can start to give this Chapter Book. This kind of book will improve your baby’s reading skill.

Hopefully this posting will give you an assurance in choosing what kind of book that will meet to your baby’s needs.

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Baby’s Brain Development

The current progress in techniques of brain imaging has proven of what is believed by many researchers for almost 20 years, that environment has a dramatic impact on baby’s brain development.

In the early life of your baby, your baby's brain is busy shaping their network system. An activity in the brain will create weak electric connections that are called synapses. The amount of stimulation received by your baby has direct impact on how many synapses will be formed. The repeated stimulation will strengthen connections and will make it permanent.

Research shows that the first three years of life is a critical period for brain development of your baby. During the time period of three years, the brain weight will be increased three times and thousand million nerve networks will be formed in it.

Far in the brain there are two important structures that assist the development and growth of your baby. Two important structures are the hippocampus that controls the memory and the hypothalamus that controls the event bed. Experts estimate, hippocampus is not fully perfect developed, just 40% only, when the baby was born, later it will become 50% in the six weeks after the baby was born, and eventually it will be perfectly developed when the baby is eighteen months old.

For the optimal development of your baby’s brain, as could as possible avoid stress on your baby. Because, when a baby is stressful, their brain will respond it by secreting hormone called cortisol. If cortisol level is very high, it will slow the brain development of babies. Therefore, keep your baby away from stressful-atmosphere that can cause stress on them.

On the other hand, the brain will grow well when faced with a variety of new information. Therefore, introduce new things to your baby will be very useful for their brain development. Light activity, such as invite your baby to the library or took to the vegetables store can help your baby's brain develop properly.

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Invite Your Baby to Read

It is important to introduce books to your baby in order to make your little one become a person who loves to read. Reading a book is a form of stimulation in the development of your baby’s brain. According to the research, when baby was birth they already had hundred billions of brain cell that are need to stimulate in order to form a synapse between those cells. Those synapses will ascertain the delivering message among the brain cells, it means the smoother the delivering process of stimulation the faster your baby can understand to new information.

In buying a book for your baby, you have to pay attention to the kind of the book. The book should suitable to your baby’s age. Here is one of a guide to pick the best book for your beloved one:

0 to 6 months

At this period of age, you can choose the book with pictures and simple design with bright colors. It is better to choose the book that is made from carton in order to be more endures from baby’s bite. You can also choose the book that is made from plastic or waterproof-cloth that is easy to clean up. Basically, buy a book that is portable to be brought to the bathroom, garden, or bed room.

Find the book that is able to stimulate your baby’s five senses. As could as possible buy a book that contains objects that are often seeing by baby, such as doll or ball. Baby usually will point to the object and then smile if see those familiar objects. Besides, there is nothing wrong if you want to make your own book for your beloved baby.

6 to 12 months

It is not too different with the previous period (0 to 6 months). At this stage, you still can give your baby book that is made from cardboard material that displayed the pictures of baby, because at their age now, they start to interest with the other baby. The book should be contained safe material for your baby, because they will often put the book to their mouth.

Routinely, read a story for your baby from the book you buy it. When you are reading them a story, put your baby on your lap, invite them to open the book together and hold their hand to point the pictures on the book. Also, tell the story with the different intonation of voices to be more variation.

Happy having joyful reading time.......

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Nutrition for Being Smart Baby

Nutrition is the resource of energy to make the metabolism process in the body run properly. In baby, most of the energy is used to support their development, including the development of their brain. The nutrition needs in baby is different from one to another. This difference can reach the number between 10 to 15%. Nevertheless, the nutrition that is acquired by baby should reach the balance. It means that, the concentration of protein, carbohydrate, and lipid should reach the number between 10 to 15%, 60 to 70%, and 20 to 25%, respectively. It is counted from the calorie that is needed by per kilogram of baby’s weight.

Breast milk had been known and proven as the first, the main and also the best food for baby, especially from newborn until 6 months old. Breast milk can act alone to fulfill all of the baby’s nutrition needs in a right composition, including the specific nutrition to support the growth and the development of baby’s brain. The nutrition that are specifically needed supporting and helping brain development process are essential fatty acids, protein, vitamin B1, B6, Folic acid (B9), choline, iodine, ferum (iron), and zinc. All of the nutrition are contained in breast milk.

Essential Fatty Acids
The kind of essential fatty acids that are known in supporting the brain development process are linoleic acid (omega-6), linolenic acid (omega-3), and oleic acid (omega-9). Those essential fatty acids should be acquired from food, our body do not able to produce it. The research had been proven that babies who acquire breast milk will have the essential fatty acids’ concentration in the body higher than baby who did not. The omega-3 and omega-6 are needed to form the neurons and synapses, while omega-9 is needed in the myelinization process.

Protein
The basic component that is composed protein is amino acid which possesses function in the formation of brain structure. Several certain amino acids, which are taurine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine are the compounds functioned in delivering messages or stimulations (neurotransmitter). In breast milk contains protein approximately 1.2 grams per 100 ml.

Vitamin B1
The deficiency of vitamin B1 can cause the disturbance in peripheral nerve system’s function.

Vitamin B6
The existence of the bonding disturbance of vitamin B6 with an enzyme in the brain is able to decrease its concentration in the body, so that the condition can lead to stiff in newborn.

Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid)
The deficiency of vitamin B9, especially during the pregnancy, is able to cause the disturbance in the formation of backbone as long as baby in the womb. Further, problem in the backbone formation will cause the disturbance in central nerve system which is connected to the brain.

Choline
This compound is a precursor of a transmitter called acetylcholine. Choline is also a part of lecithin, a phospholipid that is generally found in the brain as component which composes a membrane of nerve cells.

Iodine
This mineral is needed to synthesize thyroxine hormone, a hormone which is needed in the formation of protein that possess a role in the brain development. Therefore, the deficiency of iodine will disturb either physical development or brain development.

Iron
This mineral is needed in myelin formation process. Iron is reserved in several brain networks for 12 months in the first year of life.

Zinc
This mineral is contained in almost every cell in the body, including brain. Zinc is an essential mineral which is become a part of about 300 kind of enzymes (metalo-enzyme) which helps the cells fission. The deficiency of zinc in the brain will lead to the disturbance of brain function which is called ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder)

In order to fulfill your baby’s needs for nutrition, you have to consume nutrition-rich-foods so that your breast milk will contain all of the nutrition that is needed by your baby. Just get used to always consume food with balance nutrition.

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