Archive for June 22nd, 2012

Visiting the Pediatrician

We talked about already, the importance that requires choosing a good pediatrician and what are the things that we must bear in mind.

Visiting the Pediatrician

Probably a week after birth the child must go to do a complete check as it grows and then periodically once a month. The aim of the pediatrician is to verify that your child is developing properly.

This will consider the following items in the query:

  • Growth: We ask you to undress, and then weighed and measured, the length and head circumference.
  • Head: The soft spots of the fontanelles should remain open during the first months.
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Vegetarian families and anemia in children

We all know that vegetarian food is based on the exclusion of animal foods, including red meat, which is the main source of iron, especially necessary in the early years of children for a perfect brain development and prevention of anemia.

Vegetarian family

In these cases the family chooses to carry a pure only and exclusively a base of vegetables, this point must be taken into account, since it is very important to child development that not missing or iron, or vitamins, so it should increase the vegetable consumption as necessary to balance the daily requirement of iron available, especially the first year of life. Read the rest of this entry »