The new normal is a pivotal moment for children at home. How parents respond to the changes in their household will greatly affect their children’s lives forever. The prolonged home quarantine allowed parents and children to bond together, get to know more about each other, be involved in one another’s activities, and rediscover their relationship as they spend more time at home.
Staying Protected With Vaccines
For many, vaccines are just what babies and toddlers need. After that, it becomes out-of-mind. To respond to this, Mommy Mundo teamed up with Sanofi-Pasteur to bring a three-part event series on vaccinations, aiming to shed light and raise awareness on why vaccines should be a part of a person’s yearly habits.
A Mom’s Guide to “Premies”
Premies or preemies are the term used for babies that are born before 37 weeks of gestation. There are a number of reasons why babies may be born prematurely. Hypertension, heart or kidney problems, diabetes, an infection in the vaginal or urinary tracts, or stress are just a few of a host of reasons that lead to the statistic that approximately one out of every 10 babies will be born before their mothers can carry them to term.
10 Self-Care Tips for Moms with Newborns
It is important that moms with newborns take the time to care for themselves and not just their children. Not practicing self-care can lead to physical illness, feeling emotionally drained, and/or not being able to properly function in your role as mother, wife/partner, friend, etc.
Premature Labour 101
Most, approximately 90% of expecting mothers, will carry their babies to term. “To term” means 37 weeks of pregnancy onwards. Around 10% of women may go into labour before 37 weeks. This is called premature labour or preterm labour, and it is aptly defined as when your body gets ready to give birth to early or goes into labour more than three weeks before your due date.
The Importance of Written & Verbal Communication
What is important to remember when it comes to written and verbal communication is that children need not be perfect from the get go. It is something that can be worked on over long periods of school time, and even well into adulthood. Parents should simply encourage communication (of all forms, which includes listening, observing, and understanding!) in order to help their children hone their communication skills.
The Role of Your Nutrition Pre-Pregnancy
Usually women begin caring about their health and nutrition–the food and nutrients taken in by the body—once they discover that they are pregnant. Ideally, however, for women trying to conceive, looking into health and nutrition even before pregnancy is an important first step often overlooked. The more prepared a woman is in terms of her health and nutrition, the better her chances of conception and the better the chances she will have a healthy pregnancy.
Talking Tots & Speech Development
Many moms can relate to being worried about their young children hitting the right milestones, and speech is right up there as one of the major milestones moms and dads look out for as their babies turn to toddlers and those toddlers turn to children.
