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Summer Infant Baby’s Health And Grooming Kit
Posted by admin on June 9th, 2010
Summer Infant Baby’s Health And Grooming Kit
- Sixteen piece kit
- Features a durable hard storage case
- Set includes comb, brush, nail clippers, 2 emery boards, nasal aspirator, digital thermometer, 5 alcohol swabs and emergency information card
Summer Infant Baby’s Health and Grooming Kit The Baby’s Health and Grooming Kit from Summer Infant is a comprehensive kit that contains essential items to either keep your baby well groomed or for tending to them when they are sick. Convenient hard case keeps these items organized and easily accessible. 16 piece kit includes: Comb Brush Nail Clippers 2 Emery Boards Nasal Aspirator Digital Thermometer Medicine Spoon & Dropper 5 Alcohol Swabs Emergency Information Card Durable Hard Storage Case
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Baby Einstein – Baby Van Gogh – World of Colors
- Features classical music by Bizet, Mussorgsky, Strauss, Brahms and Tschaikovsky
- Includes parents guide to video
- Enhances motor skills
- Length of DVD: 72 minutes
- Length of VHS: 30 Minutes
Discovering a rainbow of colors through art, music and poetry!
– Introduces babies to six basic colors
– Exposes little ones to famous Van Gogh masterpieces
For a growing baby, the world is like one huge masterpiece just waiting to be discovered. And as babies’ eyesight develops, their ability to recognize and respond to colors makes their new discoveries all the more exciting! Baby Van Gogh presents little ones with a mesmerizing introduction to six basic colors: yellow, green, o
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Different types of baby slings
Posted by babyhealthcare on January 13th, 2010
Backpack carrier:
A backpack carrier where the child is strapped at the back of the carrying adult is a very comfortable baby carrier. With the child secured in it, the parent can work without any obstacles in front. Kitchen chores like chopping, whipping etc. can be done with a baby strapped at the back, though it is best not to go to a lighted stove with the child, even though he will be covered from it by the carrying adult. These are very useful for those want to carry a child during a long walk or even a minor trekking expedition.
Backpack baby carrier is available in several sizes including those designed for carrying grown children. Some come with padded straps, others with metal frames, or may have head rests or sunshades. The larger ones could be a bit heavy and with a grown child in it, it is not something suitable for a frail mom, or a dad with a not very strong back.
Front carrier:
This is generally simpler in design and is better for smaller infants. A front baby carrier is also referred to as classic baby carrier. It comes in different sizes and adjustable straps. The straps of front baby slings go over the user’s shoulders, then around the waist, and lock in front. The baby can be placed in it both facing inward and outward. It is extremely useful for nursing mothers.
Wrap carrier:
Also known as Asian baby carrier, or just as wrap-around, a Wrap carrier is just a long strip of strong fabric. These are just wrapped around the body of the mom and the babe in a complicated design going around the mom’s waist and shoulders and finally knotted on the shoulder or at the front. Users can be creative with it and change knotting patterns or position. Wrap carriers are generally made of quilted, colorful material. This is the conventional mode in which women have kept babies tied to their bodies long before factories started churning out baby slings.
Sling carrier:
A sling baby carrier is quite similar to a Wrap carrier and basically consists of a long swath of cloth that wind round the mother and child and remain supported by a strap on the shoulder. This in itself has several modifications. In some sling carriers the end points are passed through rings to make securing easy.
Beco baby carrier:
This is a baby carrier with a very flexible design, which can be worn at the back or at the front. Its main advantage is that the same carrier can be used for carrying a newborn as well as a toddler. It has got an infant insert that will let the newborn remain in a raised position. The insert can be removed when the child outgrows its need. These baby slings can be strapped on and off pretty fast and can be folded very compactly when not in use so that transporting it is never a problem.
At La Stella Blu we have searched the world far and wide to provide you with the safest, most well made, and stylish baby slings available. With so many baby carriers to choose from like Beco baby carrier and Ergo baby carrier, its a difficult choice
Making Baby Girl Gift Baskets
Posted by babyhealthcare on January 12th, 2010
There are many options when it comes to making baby girl gift baskets. It’s actually very easy and fun to make these types of baskets. Unless you want to buy a new baby gift basket, which can still be fun but it might not be as original. Depending on how old the baby is, you might want to focus more on the parents when it comes to what type of gifts you put inside. For example, if the baby is only an infant you don’t need to put toys and other items in for the baby because she won’t be able to enjoy them yet.
Instead, put things in there the parents will use like diapers and bottles and even formula. These things are very expensive and when you have a new infant it can seem as though there’s never enough of any of these items. Therefore, when making a baby girl gift basket, put anything in there you think will get used and don’t forget to make it pink.
It’s A Girl!
When shopping for items for the baby girl gift basket, you’ll come across a lot of items at the store that say “It’s a Girl!” on them. These are great for putting in the baby girl gift baskets. You can still put things in there the parents can use, but you can use these other girl items as fillers. A baby girl gift basket should have pink all over it and these items are perfect for dressing up your basket before you give it.
Important Items
There are many items that you want to put in the baby girl basket that are invaluable to any new parents. These items include baby formula, which the baby will go through quickly, baby bottles, which the more the parents have the less they have to wash between feedings, baby diapers, which are always in short supply with a new infant, baby food, which will come into play sooner or later, as well as bibs, baby clothes and rags and small blankets. Of course, you may be limited on the size of the basket but the more items like these you can fit in the basket the better the parents will feel and the more they’ll appreciate your baby girl gift basket.
Now all you need is the basket itself, some filler paper or grass, some plastic or wrapping paper to wrap it with and a big bow. That’s all it takes to make a baby girl gift basket. Just make sure you go all out on the pink because, after all, “It’s a Girl!”
What Items To Set In The Christening Gift Basket For Baby
Posted by babyhealthcare on January 9th, 2010
Every gift basket is reserved for a collected presentation of different items that are aimed by the giver to provide to the primary receivers of the items of appreciation. Likely, different gifts are given depending on the occasion being celebrated at the time. For a christening occasion, it is expected that a gift basket would contain the most important items that the infant and its parents deserve to have.
If you are the giver of the said set of items, you are sure to have a current dilemma of what particular items should you actually include in the basket. To be well guided, the paragraphs that shall follow would give you a clearer vision of what should you actually add up in your gift basket.
Items to be Chosen for Christening Gift Basket for Baby
It is very important that the chosen items for the christening gift basket for baby are related to each other making the entire gift basket more applicable for the utilization of the receivers. Here are some choices of items that could be picked from by the sender of the basket:
Diapers and Baby Essentials [Baby Products Such as Powder and Baby Cologne]
This particular set of christening gift basket for baby shall indeed give the receivers a chance to use the said items for giving the child a comfortable feel.
Bath Basket [Baby Shampoo, Baby Bath Ducky, Baby Towel, Baby Bathrobe]
Bath essentials are indeed useful for keeping the baby clean, providing the items mentioned above for the caring of the child shall indeed give the chance for the receivers to give their child the right feel of freshness every after bath.
Baby Feeder Basket [Feeding Bottles, Baby Feeding Plate, Fork and Spoon, Baby Food Items, etc]:
This particular basket is supposed to make the christening gift basket for baby more applicable for the sake of nourishing the child. It should be observed by the giver at all times that the presentation of the christening gift basket for baby must not be overly crowded. Through choosing the right baby gift items for the receiver of the gift basket, you are sure to give the right kind of support to the newly christened baby and his parents.
Some gifts have a sentimental value, for they serve as a reminder of the giver’s thoughtfulness. Certainly, with the right motive and the right choice of gift set items, gift baskets are sure to become a strong implication of the giver’s care to the receivers of the gift.
Crafting Your Own Baby Christening Gift
Posted by babyhealthcare on January 8th, 2010
It is believed by many Catholics that christening their babies would better protect their children spiritually as they grow up. Hence, for this reason, christening an infant is considered as a major occasion. Friends of the parents are invited to join in the celebration; relatives are even at times required to part take in the occasion.
If you are one of the invited ones to enjoy the said joyous occasion, what should you do? What should you give the parents? Or what should you give the baby? The dilemma of finding the right gift for such occasions has been striking many invited guests to christening occasions over the years. Hence, to be able to give you an idea of what particular gift could be given when attending a baby christening occasion, the following shall be a presentation of the primary considerations that you should give attention to when preparing a baby christening gift for the said occasion.
Tips for Giving the Perfect Baby Christening Gift
In providing the right kind of gift for a child during a christening occasion it should be remembered that there are certain notable considerations that should be given attention to. Likely, gifts do much to draw people together and maintain friendships, because kindness begets kindness. The motive, however, is often as important as the gift itself. When last have you questioned your motives in giving gifts? When you give gifts, is it usually because you feel obligated to do so, or do you truly give from a generous spirit? Do you give largely out of regard for the occasion, or is it because of interest in the person? Are your gifts offered freely, or do they have strings attached?
In considering the basic requirements for giving a baby christening gift, it should be constantly observed that the gift need not b expensive, instead, it should be practically usable for the parents’ child care responsibilities to the infant and should be much meaningful as a remembrance of you to either of the parents or the infant. Certainly, with these considerations put into mind, creating the perfect baby christening gift would be a much easier task to consider.
Certainly, with this matter being perfectly given attention to, making a personalized baby christening gift could also be given attention to. A personalized baby christening gift shall indeed give better meaning to the present that is provided to those whom the occasion really counts.
Top Quality Video Baby Monitor – Let’s Review Summer Infant’s Best View Handheld Baby Monitor
Posted by babyhealthcare on January 8th, 2010
The Summer Infant Best View Color Video Baby Monitor has all the necessary requirements that parents need, making it one of the top quality video baby monitors available. It’s 100% digital technology provides crystal clear audio and video with a secure, private transmission up to 350 feet. The Summer Infant Best View Handheld Color Monitor has a large color screen at 2.5 inches which is larger than most handheld video baby monitors.
A very useful and unique feature of this video baby monitor is the ability to remotely pan, scan and zoom on the camera. Parents using this digital video monitor have given it an average customer rating score of 4.5 out of 5 which is simply quite outstanding.
Video Picture Quality:
During the day the color picture quality is excellent and the black and white night vision is also very good, even in a totally black room. Black and white night vision is standard with color monitors with infrared technology. There are red lights on the front of the camera around the lens which most people find are not too bright, but someone has experienced these lights to flash every 5 seconds which in turn makes the vision on the monitor flash also. The majority of people do not experience the flashing red lights on the camera and it is presumed that those who did have either a faulty camera, or the room was not dark enough for the camera to distinguish between functioning in night or day vision.
There are green lights above the camera lens and soft red lights all around the camera lens that should not be flashing on and off. There is a green power indicator light on the camera that is generally considered to be too bright, some people have resolved this issue by covering it with electrical tape.
Audio and Reception:
The sound quality is very good, it’s so sensitive you can hear your baby breathing if you want to. There are a wide range of audio settings, from loud to quiet, to off. The LED lights that indicate sound from your baby light up even when the volume is turned off, they also don’t change based on the volume setting on the parent monitor.
The one common complaint from parents using the Summer Infant Best View Handheld Baby Video Monitor is that it doesn’t have a volume control knob, but you have to enter into the menu to adjust the volume, it’s very easily done but some people don’t like this feature of the monitor.
The range is very good, the manufacturer quotes 350 feet but to expect an optimal distance for in home use of 60 feet. Many people have used this monitor over multiple floors in their homes without any interruption in transmission of audio and video, there is also no static with this video baby monitor.
Transmission & Interference:
The Best View Handheld Video Baby Monitor system operates at 2.4GHz (802.11g) a common frequency for many household wireless networks. The majority of people that use this video baby monitor system do not experience any interference or decreased performance of other electronic devices such as wireless router, laptop computers, iphone, wireless printers, TiVo, NAS, PS3, XBox 360, Wii and cordless phones. There is however, the other minority that do experience interference with wireless routers (802.11g) and other electronic devices. Trying 802.11n (MIMO) might solve interference issues for some people.
Other Features:
Batteries: The monitor uses 3 AA rechargeable NiMh batteries which are included, and last up to 10 hours. If you are running the monitor on batteries instead of AC power the screen turns off automatically to conserve battery life and you have to turn the video back on by pressing a button on the top of the monitor, the baby monitor does not automatically turn off the video image if it is connected to the power.
Remote Pan and Zoom: A great feature of the ‘Best View’ video baby monitor is the pan/tilt and zoom functions. The camera has a motorised mount, it can be turned through a wide range of motion, it’s controlled by a small joystick on the handheld monitor. When the camera moves it’s very quiet so it wont wake up your baby, it pans about 320 degrees so you will be able to scan most of your child’s room, this is an advantage to monitor the toddler who likes to get out of bed and play in their room. The camera can tilt upwards 90 degrees and downwards about 40 degrees from horizontal. There are 2 zoom levels (not continuous as with the pan) which work quite well, it’s nice to be able to see if your baby’s eyes are open or closed.
Extra Camera: A unique feature of the ‘Summer Infant Best View Baby Video Monitor’ is that it can take up to an additional 3 camera’s, making 4 in total, a great benefit when you have more than one young child you want to see and hear.
Parents opinions about the Summer Infant Best View Color Baby Video Monitor usually run along the line of ‘love this monitor’, ‘absolutely great monitor’, ‘fantastic baby video monitor’, ‘best video monitor I have seen’, ‘great buy, worth the price for peace of mind’, the consensus is that the Summer Infant Best View Color Baby Video Monitor with 2.5′ screen is one of the very best quality and most popular video baby monitors available today.
Baby Gifts for Baby’s First Birthday
Posted by babyhealthcare on January 7th, 2010
In our lives, there is always a point that we became a Godparent to the son or daughter of our relatives and friends. And this happen upon the Baptismal Ceremony for the child. Being a Godparents, you are promised to bring the child up in the Christian faith, and took responsibility for this.
When the child turns one, you are invited to a baby’s first birthday. Of course, as Godparents you may opt to bring some baby gifts for the child. And maybe you may not have your own child yet so you are not familiar with what is suitable for a one year old. Below are few suggestions for baby gifts to give on a baby’s first birthday.
You must be having hard time thinking about baby gifts that you will give for baby’s first birthday. Finding gifts for babies can be a bit challenging when we are thinking of how much they can appreciate that gifts that we give. At first we should think of your budget and you have to think of something that could surely give the baby a big smile as he opens the baby gifts.
At the age of one year old, babies go from wearing a one piece infant outfit to separate tops and bottom pieces. You could choose clothes with animals printed on them as baby gifts. Also musical toys make a good birthday present. Toys that makes the sounds of the different animals could help baby learn. Toys that have the voices of the baby’s favorite characters are also a baby gifts good option.
Baby photo album could also be a good present. Parents could always have fun posting pictures and memories of their babies through a photo album. The parents will surely appreciate it and when the baby grows he will surely appreciate seeing those pictures on photo albums. This could be a baby gifts that a family could really treasure.
It is baby’s first birthday and parents with one-year-old babies can never have enough picture frames for baby photos. If you opt to buy a picture frame, consider the one that notes the one year birthday or if the baby’s name is pretty common, find or make a picture frame with his name on it.
Also why not give a baby gifts that surely he will treasure as he grows? A book is something a parents can used to get a baby’s attention especially those with big colorful animals printed on it. Books could be memorable for a child because as baby grows up he could learn a different stories with moral values as explained by their parents. Books are also the best educational item you could give.
Lastly, if you want to give a religious item for a child as baby gifts, I do suggest a necklace with a cross pendant. Being a godparent it is a privilege but is also a responsibility to assist in your godchild’s spiritual growth and religious education. This will be a thoughtful gift that the parents and child will cherish for years to come!
Young cancer patients helped support Montreal woman with brain tumour
Posted by babyhealthcare on December 21st, 2009
MONTREAL – All that Weifun Chang wants for Christmas is to live.
That, and maybe have the strength to hold her 22-month old son.
The 30-year-old woman hasn’t been able to do that for the past few months because she couldn’t move her left arm. She has also had difficulty walking.
Chang was diagnosed with a brain tumour in June 2008 and since then has undergone radiation and chemotherapy.
“We don’t know if it’s the radiation, if it’s dead cells in my brain that’s causing damaged blood vessels that’s leading to the weakness in my left arm – or if it’s a new tumour,” she said.
She made the comments in an interview last week in her suburban Montreal residence.
The couple’s modest home was a bit noisy that day with the sound of their sick infant’s coughing and crying.
By the end of the hour-long interview, Chang was so exhausted her eyes gently closed as her head slumped unto her husband’s shoulder.
She was two days away from surgery that could prolong her life.
Three times during the past year, doctors have told her they thought the tumour was coming back – three times, they were wrong – her 36-year-old husband, Frederic Messier, pointed out.
Chang just wants “the scares to stop.”
“I’ve been praying for a boring week for four months, praying for a boring week where nothing happens,” she said.
But something always happened.
“The baby has gastro, I get a cold, we have grandparents who are sick, we have medical appointments that get cancelled,” Chang said.
She and her husband’s life changed forever last year just one day before the couple were to return to home from Taiwan.
They went there for a five-week vacation to show off their newborn to Chang’s family.
The date was June 24, 2008.
“I woke up after breastfeeding my baby, I don’t remember much, but I think my husband found me convulsing in bed in a generalized seizure,” she said.
“Prior to that, there were absolutely no symptoms. It came out of nowhere.”
Chang then underwent surgery and doctors in Taiwan found the tumour to be malignant. That led to six weeks of radiation therapy.
After a brief recovery, she returned home where she then had to endure chemotherapy for 14 months.
Chang has been getting support from family and other young cancer patients who have dropped by to chat and help with the cooking.
But, along with the battle with cancer, they also share another problem: They are all young people who feel abandoned and have slipped through the cracks.
“People think that cancer is an illness for old people and really, when me and my fellow young adult cancer survivors sit in (hospital) waiting rooms, we feel isolated,” Chang said.
“We’re out of our parents’ homes, we should be working, we should be taking care of ourselves – this is what’s expected.”
Chang said support services to help young adults deal with cancer are only now emerging.
“What we’re hearing is that doctors just don’t believe that young people could be getting cancers like the way we’re getting cancers,” she said.
“For example my diagnosis is actually much more common in men who are 45 and older.”
Dr. Petr Kavan, a medical oncologist, says adolescents and young adults with cancer are an “underserved patient population” who don’t even take part in clinical trials.
“We really don’t know, even from a medical perspective how to treat these patients, if they should be treated as children or if we should treat them as adults,” he said in an interview.
But Kavan has been developing a program with McGill University since 2003 to help young cancer patients. He’s also working on national recommendations on how to better serve that segment of the population.
A 2006 report prepared by Cancer Care Ontario, a provincial agency, determined that approximately 10,000 cancers are diagnosed in young adults every year.
It also said almost two-thirds of young adult cancers occur in women. Of those, breast cancer is the most common.
Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in young men and melanoma is the second most common cancer among young adults.
Doreen Edward, a survivor of colon cancer, runs the VOBOC foundation, a charitable organization that focuses on cancer patients between 18 and 39.
Edward, 55, first set up VOBOC – Venturing Out Beyond Our Cancer – to help terminally-ill adults.
But she later switched her focus to the “lost tribe” of adolescents and young adults with cancer, who don’t realize how serious their cancer is.
“They only ‘get it’ when they’re almost in palliative care,” Edward said in an interview.
Her Montreal-based organization grants special requests and diversions to young people who lose their cancer battles.
Chang underwent surgery last Thursday and doctors successfully removed the dead tissue that they were after in her brain.
Her husband says his wife’s left arm, her left leg and the left side of her face “appear to be moving as well as before.”
But tumour cells were also detected in a sample that was taken by doctors.
“We’ll know more in early January,” Messier said in an email in which he thanked friends for their support.
Despite the fresh worry, the young family has planned some low-key celebrations over the holidays, Messier said Sunday.
Christmas Eve will be spent over a quiet meal with Messier’s parents and Chang’s mother. And on Christmas, they’ve decided to revel in simply being together as a family – Messier, Chang and their baby boy.
Health Canada issues warning for baby beds due to potential suffocation risk
Posted by babyhealthcare on December 18th, 2009
OTTAWA – Two infant deaths in the U.S. have led to the recall of Amby Baby Motion Beds in that country, and Health Canada is advising Canadians to stop using the hammock-like baby bed due to a potential suffocation hazard.
Health Canada hasn’t received any reports of incidents or injuries in Canada related to the products, but says they should be disassembled and disposed of, and consumers are encouraged to notify the department if they find the products for sale.
The Amby Baby Motion Bed consists of a steel frame and a fabric hammock which are connected by a large spring and a metal crossbar.
Health Canada says the product’s inclined sleeping surface increases the risk of the infant rolling and becoming wedged in a position where he or she can no longer breathe.
The design of the Amby Baby Motion Beds’ sleeping surface is unstable as all support points are connected through a single joint above the hammock.
The resulting range of motion of the sleeping surface, the inclined angle of the sleeping surface and any motion of the baby on the sleeping surface can contribute to changes in the hammock’s centre of gravity. This can result in possible entrapment in a corner or side of the product.
Health Canada and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission are aware of the deaths of two infants from suffocation while using the products.
There have been three other reported incidents in the U.S. surrounding the use of the beds, one of which resulted in an injury from metal fragments falling into an infant’s eye. There were no injuries reported in the other two incidents.
The deaths of a four-month-old in Georgia and a five-month-old in Oregon have led to the recall of about 24,000 Amby Baby Motion Beds, which are marketed to parents of fussy babies with colic or reflux.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says there is only one model of the hammock available. It has a label sewn onto it that says, “Amby – Babies Love It, Naturally.” The beds were sold online, through www.ambybaby.com, www.ambybaby.ca and other Internet retailers dating back to 2003, and shipped directly to consumers.
On its website, Amby says it plans to offer a free repair kit as soon as possible, “but not earlier than January 2010.”
