How the Brain Grows can be Influenced by How It’s Used
Children can be born into a mind boggling array of living situations. They may be bundled into bearskin blankets in the arctic cold, or they may be carried skin to skin in slings through tropical jungles.
They may hear one of hundreds of language with countless dialects.
Those native tongues may be expressed in ways that are loud, harsh and drunken, or in voices that are soft lilting and friendly.
A bay may be sheltered purposely from life’s cruel realities or tossed out to “sink or swim” on a beggar’s barrio.
From the start, a child’s brain begins to adapt to the place and spaces into which it has landed.
No single, specific blueprint for brain growth could cover what’s required to survive in all possible environments.
The brain starts with only a general mandate: “grow connections as needed.” Brains are built to change in this manner in order to stay alive.
Survival depends upon continually adapting to new input and changing conditions.
This survival instinct is unconscious but powerful. The rapid speed with which a young brain adapt allows for a baby to gain maximum advantage within whatever climate culture or family system she happens to be born.
During early development, for more connection are formed than will eventually be needed – trillion more! The brain of atypical two year old, for example, has almost twice the number of connections that your brain has.
Daily routines such a feeding, batching and paying strengthen particular synapses, while those connections that are no reinforced by repetition eventually wither away.
This natural process is called neural planning.
How the Brain Grows can be Influenced by How It’s Used
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Nursing Baby
Nursing Baby
The best protection and nourishment a mother can give her newborn is to nurse her baby. Many doctors now encourage mothers to nurse their babies, pointing out that mothers milk contains up to six times as much vitamin E as cow’s milk and almost twice as much as selenium.
The first few days are important for breastfeeding. The mother secretes a clear yellow liquid, called colostrum which is high in protein and certain vitamins and minerals and lower in milk, sugar and fat.
Colostrum contains antibodies that protect the baby from infections that you will never find in a commercial formula.
Colostrum protects against some of the most dangerous bacteria such as E. coli which accounts for about 80 percent of cases of meningitis of the newborn.
It protects against allergies, Breast fed infants have one half the incidence of inner ear infections, and one fifth the incidence of respiratory infections, and two and one half times less digestive upsets than bottle fed babies.
Breasts milk can provide most of the baby’s nutritional requirements during the first year of life.
Even though solid foods are introduced around six months they cannot provide sufficient amounts to satisfy nutrient needs.
The protein in mother’s milk contains all the right amino acids, and is easier to digest. The iron in mother’s milk is absorbed readily into body.
Nursing Baby
The best protection and nourishment a mother can give her newborn is to nurse her baby. Many doctors now encourage mothers to nurse their babies, pointing out that mothers milk contains up to six times as much vitamin E as cow’s milk and almost twice as much as selenium.
The first few days are important for breastfeeding. The mother secretes a clear yellow liquid, called colostrum which is high in protein and certain vitamins and minerals and lower in milk, sugar and fat.
Colostrum contains antibodies that protect the baby from infections that you will never find in a commercial formula.
Colostrum protects against some of the most dangerous bacteria such as E. coli which accounts for about 80 percent of cases of meningitis of the newborn.
It protects against allergies, Breast fed infants have one half the incidence of inner ear infections, and one fifth the incidence of respiratory infections, and two and one half times less digestive upsets than bottle fed babies.
Breasts milk can provide most of the baby’s nutritional requirements during the first year of life.
Even though solid foods are introduced around six months they cannot provide sufficient amounts to satisfy nutrient needs.
The protein in mother’s milk contains all the right amino acids, and is easier to digest. The iron in mother’s milk is absorbed readily into body.
Nursing Baby
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Advantages of Breast-feeding
Advantages of Breast-feeding
Breast-feeding gives your baby a tailor made formula for good nutrition and a whole lot more. The following are some advantages to breast-feeding.
*Human breast milk can strengthen the baby’s immune systems and help reduce the risk of allergies, asthma and sudden infant death syndrome. It can also decrease the number of upper respiratory infections in the baby’s first year of life.
*Mother’s milk contains nutrients that are ideally suited to a baby’s digestive system. Cow’s milk isn’t as easily digested and your baby can’t readily used the nutrients of contains.
*Human milk also contains substances that help protect a baby form infections until his own immune system mature. These substances are especially plentiful in the colostrums that mother’s breast secret during the first few days after the bay is born.
*Babies are more likely to have an allergic reaction to cow’s milk than to the mother’s milk.
*Breast feeding is emotionally rewarding. Many women feel that they develop a special bond with their baby when they breast-feed and they enjoy the colostrums surrounding the whole experience.
*Breast feeding is convenient. Mother never have to carry bottles or formula with her.
*Mother’s milk is cheaper than formula and bottles.
*Mother doesn’t have to warm up breast milk. It’s always the perfect temperature.
Advantages of Breast-feeding
Breast-feeding gives your baby a tailor made formula for good nutrition and a whole lot more. The following are some advantages to breast-feeding.
*Human breast milk can strengthen the baby’s immune systems and help reduce the risk of allergies, asthma and sudden infant death syndrome. It can also decrease the number of upper respiratory infections in the baby’s first year of life.
*Mother’s milk contains nutrients that are ideally suited to a baby’s digestive system. Cow’s milk isn’t as easily digested and your baby can’t readily used the nutrients of contains.
*Human milk also contains substances that help protect a baby form infections until his own immune system mature. These substances are especially plentiful in the colostrums that mother’s breast secret during the first few days after the bay is born.
*Babies are more likely to have an allergic reaction to cow’s milk than to the mother’s milk.
*Breast feeding is emotionally rewarding. Many women feel that they develop a special bond with their baby when they breast-feed and they enjoy the colostrums surrounding the whole experience.
*Breast feeding is convenient. Mother never have to carry bottles or formula with her.
*Mother’s milk is cheaper than formula and bottles.
*Mother doesn’t have to warm up breast milk. It’s always the perfect temperature.
Advantages of Breast-feeding
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