Toxic Baby Bottles

Besides baby bottles, a common source of plastic used in food storage can be found in the plastic polycarbonate lining of cans used to store and sell baby food. Another known plastic that can leach unfriendly toxins are based on Polyvinyl chloride or PVC.

Pregnant women should avoid BPA derived polycarbonate bottles and refrain from eating canned foods. The plastic lining in food cans contain polycarbonate. The first of the SPI codes represents the plastic resin PET or PETA and is represented by the number 1 inside the recycle triangle on the label or bottom of the container. The second SPI code represents the plastic resin HDPE and is represented by the number 2 inside the recycling triangle. HDPE has no known hazards and is used heavily in plastic toys.

Low Density Polyethylene is commonly known as LDPE and is plastic number 4, there are no known hazards as in BPA derived plastics, one reason why it is used in plastic food packages and soft sport bottles.
Polypropylene is a BPA free plastic and is plastic number 5 or PP in the SPI code. With the advent of new resin combinations, the SPI code included the number 7 designated as OTHER to differentiate these plastics from SPI codes 1 - 6. Many plastics were clumped under SPI code 7 including BPA derived polycarbonates and natural non-hazardous plastics.

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Ezine (Anna_Myers)

BPA in Plastic Baby Bottles - Are They Harmful to Your Baby?

If you go into the Baby Bottle Dept. in any major retail store you will see a variety of different types of Baby Products. Bisphenol is the main chemical that leaches out from the plastic in the Baby Bottles you are using for your child. We at Safe Homes do not recommend using any form of Baby Bottles made of plastic. The long term consequences of heating your child's formula up in plastic is not known yet. Do you want your Baby to be one of the victims of this long term study on our children's health.

Bisphenol has been linked to a variety of problems such as breast and prostrate cancer. I sure if her father would have known the seriousness of Asbestos, he would have never exposed his daughter to Asbestos Dust from his clothes.
Do you knowingly expose your Baby to a chemical called Bisphenol because it is easier to use plastic baby bottles than to use glass baby bottles. Your decision now can impact your child long into the future. Concerned parents should switch back to traditional glass bottles, though the bottles do carry the risk of breakage. By the way, there is a new generation of BPA-free plastic bottles now being sold in Health Food Stores such as Whole Foods.

We do not need to also deal with Bisphenol in Plastic Baby Bottles in our Baby's formula. Let's do the right thing for our children now and throw out the Plastic Baby Bottles and buy new Glass Baby Bottles.

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Ezine (Art_Emiss)

baby's brain

Baby’s Brain; Everything you do with your baby helps to develop their brain and helps them to learn. You are the most important first teacher for your child. Forming a loving, strong relationship with your baby helps their brain to develop.

How does my baby’s brain develop?

At birth, your baby’s heart, lungs and liver are fully developed. The connections for these actions have already been made in their brain before birth.

Your baby’s brain, however, needs stimulation from the environment to form completely. As your baby grows and is stimulated, the connections between the cells (or neurons) in the brain continue to form. These connections form pathways in the brain that are the basis for all learning, thinking, feeling and knowing.

There are so many connections in your baby’s brain that, if an electrician had to solder all the connections between the neurons, it would take millions of years!

How can I help my baby’s brain to develop?

To develop properly, the pathways in your baby’s brain need to be covered and protected – this happens with the right diet. You can help to strengthen the connections in your baby’s brain in many ways, such as feeding, holding, touching and talking to your baby. These all send messages to your baby’s brain via their senses. Help build pathways in your baby’s brain by:

Talking and singing to your baby

repeating learning experiences over and over.

How do relationships and experiences help my baby’s brain develop?

Building your relationship with your baby is the basis for learning and stimulation for their brain that helps them to prepare to walk and talk. Babies can be stimulated through ordinary experiences and quiet, close times with family.

Right from the beginning, talk to your baby in the language that you speak in your family. This will help them to learn to talk. Use the language you speak at home with your baby to help develop the parts of the brain responsible for language.

Wiring the Brain
A baby is born with more than 100 billion brain cells. In the first months and years of life, brain cells form connections in many parts of the brain. When we plant a garden, we want the crops that we planted to grow and thrive. By about age 3, the brain cells have made many more connections than the child will ever need. But the brain is also efficient at weeding out the connections. It keeps track of the connections that the baby uses most.

In time, the brain gets rid of the connections that it does not use regularly. From the moment a baby is born, every experience taken in by the five senses helps build the connections that guide development. No two brains are alike!

Here are some of the most important ways you can help your baby’s brain develop :

Remember that brain development begins before birth. Nutrition makes a big difference in brain development even before the baby is born. Women who are pregnant should eat nutritious foods, avoid alcohol and other drugs, and have regular prenatal care to help ensure that their babies are born healthy.

Stress can slow brain development.

Talk to your baby. Interacting face-to-face builds the brain connections needed for both language skills and a healthy emotional bond.

Hearing adults read helps the brain develop language connections. It also gives parents and babies a chance to spend time together and helps your baby build a lifelong love of books.

Choose high-quality child care. To ensure healthy development, babies need sensitive, loving care and stimulating experiences.

SHOPPING CART

Consider a shopping cart cover to keep baby clean.

Shopping cart covers provide a clean and safe place for babies to rest while parents shop. Before purchasing a shopping cart cover, parents should consider these points.

Children's Safety

Look for a shopping cart cover that has its own seat belt as well as a belt that attaches the cover to the cart. Do not count on using grocery cart belts as often the belts are broken.

Machine Washable

Covers the Entire Cart

Some grocery cart covers only shield the baby at the front, bottom, and back. Some seat covers are compatible to work with restaurant high chairs or with over-sized grocery carts found out stores like Costco or BJ's. Parents might want to consider how adaptable the seat cover is. Another point to consider is if the seat cover can be used as the child grows.

Pockets and Toy Holders

Attaching toys to the loops are a great way to keep baby entertained while shopping. Consider cart covers that have pockets that either Velcro or zipper shut and are positioned out of baby's reach.

Put the brakes on shopping cart calamities

It’s no wonder shopping carts are among the leading causes of head injuries to young children.

The latest emergency-room data underscore the fact that shopping carts can be hazardous to children younger than five. To prevent shopping cart injuries from falls and tip-overs, keep these cart precautions in mind:

--Use a stroller, wagon, or soft carrier instead of a shopping cart.
DON’T:
• Leave your child alone in the shopping cart unsupervised.
• Let your child stand up in a shopping cart.
• Place an infant carrier on top of the shopping cart.
• Let your child ride in the cart basket.
• Let older children push the cart when there’s another child in it.

The DIRTY & DISGUSTING facts about grocery shopping carts & restaurant high chairs. New Baby Shopping Cart Covers can protect and eliminate those nasty germs!

Shopping cart covers will cover the whole front part of the shopping cart. It will protect you and your baby. Many Baby Shopping Cart Covers also have loops to attatch toys and keys. Top reasons to buy a shopping cart cover :

1. Can protect baby and mom from over 20 different germs.

2. No more worrying about a dirty shopping cart.

Shopping cart covers also make the perfect baby gift. Some baby shopping cart covers even come with their own carrying bag.

THE CAUSE OF BAD TEMPER TODDLER

"Mooomm, I want to watch Cartoon now...., and I don't want to eat!, I wanna my milk right now..!".
As a parent, you often face this kind of situation, and sometimes parents often shout them back. Toddler usually adapt their behavior 60% from their parents and their surrounding is the rest. The surrounding include TV, Friends , and might from their nanny. At their fragile age toddler can absorb most from anywhere and anything, and their attitude could bring through adult.

These are another cause of bad temper toddler :

1. Limited social-emotional capability

Toddler curious about their attitude, and they learn by trial and error; such as eat, walk, communicate, etc. If they act (screaming, mean, crying) and the result are satisfying to them, they will exactly act the same in order to have the same effect. Instead The parents should help them to grow mature with their ability in positive manner.

2. Egocentric

All for me, all is mine, and I am the only one can do it. No wonder if their wish are not compromised, they would become mean. "NOW or NO" these two words are so powerful to use.

3. Doing anything forbidden

The more parents forbid them, the more he/she will do the opposite things. Toddler are curious what will their parents reaction. Guess as we scold or angry, their attitude become more mean. Their communication capability grow as their maturity. So beware what you say.