Urinalysis and Urine Culture

Urinalysis and Urine Culture where two of the word's i heard from my baby girl pedia when she was diagnosed with UTI, Urinalysis I'm familiar with but urine culture? what is this, and man it cost so much. Then I learned that Urine Culture is a test to find and identify the germs that is causing my child UTI, and to determine what type of antibiotic the germ or bacteria is resistent to or not.

SIDS( Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)

Ever heard of SIDS(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)??? Ive run into an article at the net about SIDS.

Sudden infant death syndrome is the leading cause of death among healthy infants, affecting 0.57 per 1,000 live births. The most easily modifiable risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome is sleeping position. To reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, parents should be advised to place infants on their backs to sleep and avoid exposing the infant to cigarette smoke. Other recommendations include use of a firm sleeping surface and avoidance of sleeping with soft objects, bed sharing, and overheating the infant. Pacifier use appears to decrease the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, but should be avoided until one month of age in infants who are breastfed. The occurrence of apparent life-threatening events does not increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, and home apnea monitoring does not lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. Supine sleeping position has increased the incidence of flattening of the occiput (deformational plagiocephaly), but this condition can be prevented and treated by encouraging supervised "tummy time," meaning that when awake, infants should spend as much time as possible on their stomachs.

Man that's really scary, especially since im new to parenting, sometimes when me and my wife sleep at night, there's like this alarm clock on my head that suddenly rings and tells me to wake up and check if my baby is not lying flat on her tummy. Scary but its nice to know that Ive bump into this article at the net, this information really is very very helpful.

My scrapbook

Here's a photo i used on my scrapbook flair software, its a nice software you can use to make a scrapbook where you can add backgrounds and embellishments and more.

The Smile of a baby

Just got of from work today, I really felt tired and a bit stress out. Then when i came home, I was greeted by my baby with a smile, that toothless smile and both hands up trying to reach for you. Wow what a feeling, all my tiredness and stress just disappears. Now that's one powerful smile.

Poop problem solve

Hi there have you ever experience your baby having trouble with her bowel movement? Mine was, my daughter has a regular bowel movement when she was about 2 month old, until such time when her bowel movement came every 4-5 days, then sometimes to a week. This really troubled me, then came when she did poop, and man :-( the poop was so hard she cried so much, and it really breaks my heart to see those sad eyes looking at you asking for help,, and i can't do anything to comfort her. I tried calling the hospital and they advice me to use suppository med like(DULCOLAX) to soften her poop,, well it did great,, but still i was not comfortable,, inserting that thing in my babies butt, so i tried asking some people and they advice me to use prune juice,,, so there i am, searching at the department store to find this prune juice,,,we tried it and walla ;-) it did great, sometime my baby poop everyday, sometime every 2 days, or 3 days, 4 the most, but its more comforting than having to insert a suppository :-)