What Is a Dominant Hand? Hand dominance is the preference for using one hand over the other to perform fine and gross motor tasks. This includes activities like writing, cutting, and catching and throwing a ball. The dominant hand is not really a choice because it is not a conscious decision that we make as children. Genetics and the individual’s brain play a role in which will be the dominant hand....
Sweating A couple of days after you give birth, you may find that you’re sweating a lot. You may wake up in the middle of the night soaked in sweat. Sometimes women experience this odd post-labor and birth symptom only at night, while others find it happens all day. This is normal and should only last a few weeks. Try to shower when you can and wear absorbent fabrics like cotton when you sleep to help make you more comfortable....
Overview UTIs don’t resolve on their own. These infections need medical attention and prescription medication, but the good news is that they’re usually pretty easy to treat. The most important thing is to get timely diagnosis and treatment, because if left untreated, UTIs can cause damage to the kidneys or lead to more serious infections. Causes UTIs are often caused by normal bacteria that are found in the bowel. While the urinary tract typically fights off any bacteria it comes into contact with, sometimes the bacteria will cause an infection....
If this sounds like your child, you are no doubt frequently frustrated. However, there are three simple techniques you can use to help your child pay attention and keep you from getting frustrated. Make Physical Contact Try touching your child lightly on the shoulder or arm as you address them by name. The physical touch helps bring a gifted child who is engrossed in an activity or thought back to the world....
While some teens are able to use failure to become better, others become immobilized by their intense fears. The good news is, you can teach your teen how to conquer his fear of failure so he can bounce back better than before. Here are five ways to help your teen get over the fear of failure: Teach Healthy Self-Talk Sometimes teens draw incorrect conclusions about themselves based on failure. A teen who fails a math test may tell himself, “I’m stupid....
The Sound of Croup Cough Many upper respiratory infections can cause a cough and parents often use the term “croupy” to describe those coughs, but there is really only one croup cough sound. But for those of us who have never heard a barking seal, the above description isn’t necessarily helpful. A croup cough has also been described as the yelping of a fox or the barking of a dog. In 1814, John Cheyne, a British doctor, described a croup cough as a “most unusual cough, rough and stridulous....
“This process allows medical professionals to not only make a birth weight estimate but also address any underlying problems that may occur down the road,” explains Mackenzie Schutz, RN. Knowing if the baby is head down is important at the end of pregnancy in order to plan for a safe delivery. These maneuvers get their name from the influential 19th-century German obstetrician and gynecologist Christian Gerhard Leopold, who discussed and propagated their use among other physicians....
“Parents might often be distracted—for good reason—by the time the placenta comes out,” says Ericka C. Gibson, MD, an OB/GYN and the physician program director for perinatal safety and quality for Kaiser Permanente in Atlanta, Georgia. “They want to bond with their baby and the placenta becomes very very secondary at that point.” It’s understandable that you might not even think twice about the placenta that nourished your baby inside your body all those long months....
A doula is a non-medical professional who is there to emotionally and physically support the family before, during, and after birth. Doulas as a concept have been around since the beginning of childbirth, but they became really popular in the 1980s. A postpartum doula is one who specifically helps families during the often difficult newborn phase, which might be especially overwhelming as the family transitions to a new stage of life....
Labor is broken down into three phases: early, active and transitional. Early labor is referred to as the latent phase. This is the least difficult phase of labor but often lasts the longest. Some women are in early labor for several days, while others remain in this phase for only a few hours. Though every woman experiences latent labor differently, latent labor is invariably the first step in the childbirth process....
In construction, scaffolding is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and provide access to the materials necessary for building, maintenance, and repair. The philosophy is similar in educational scaffolding and works almost the same way. The difference is that the goal is to build independence in children. The idea is that children can more readily understand new lessons and concepts if they have support as they’re learning....
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” Hester wore the letter “A” on her chest for the world to see. It was a way for the community to shame her for her adultery. The scarlet letter of slut-shaming is much more permanent and much harder to handle, whether it takes place on the Internet or in school hallways. According to a study conducted by the American Association of University Women, slut-shaming is one of the most common forms of sexual harassment affecting students in middle and high school....
Laparoscopy allows a healthcare provider see the abdominal organs and sometimes make repairs, without making a larger incision that can require a longer recovery time and hospital stay. Whether or not diagnostic laparoscopy should be done in people with infertility is controversial. Laparoscopic surgery to help diagnosis a cause for infertility is performed only after other infertility testing has been completed, or if symptoms warrant testing. Laparoscopy should not be done routinely, however....
But often those strange sleep sounds are unexpected. Few of us have been warned that our babies would spend half the night grunting, gurgling, sneezing, squeaking, and whimpering. The truth is that most babies don’t sleep very soundly or deeply at all—and can be quite noisy. Many go through periods where they toss and turn, fuss and cry, wake frequently, and make all kinds of strange sounds. All that sleepy movement and noise may seem a bit alarming—and not be ideal for your own sleep....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests introducing yogurt and cheese when a baby is around 7 or 8 months old. Of course, if your baby has a known milk allergy or you have other concerns, you should discuss introducing cheese and other cow’s milk products with your child’s pediatrician first. Nutritional Benefits of Cheese Milk products, including cheese, provide a number of nutritional benefits. According to the USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans, dairy products are one of the core elements of a healthy diet....
But now, things have gone kind of haywire. For some reason, every evening at about 4 p.m., your baby gets extremely fussy. They won’t sleep or settle. They whimper and cry. Often, they even refuse to eat. Either that or they won’t stop eating. They seem fine during the first half of the day, but every evening—like clockwork—they turn into the world’s fussiest baby. What on earth is going on?...
While child health and development experts point to research that indicates that physical punishment is not effective and puts kids at risk for a number of negative outcomes, research shows that spanking is practiced still practiced in some homes. However, the number of parents using spanking as a discipline strategy is decreasing, according to a national survey on corporal punishment. In fact, only 37% of children were subjected to corporal punishment in 2014....
But what if your little bundle of joy is a little…funny looking? There’s no need for pangs of parental guilt if you secretly feel the newest member of your family isn’t as adorable as you expected. Obviously, your child’s looks won’t change your love for them. But if you’re wondering if it’s normal to feel your newborn isn’t a candidate for baby modeling, the answer is yes! A number of factors affect infants’ appearance–and many of them are subject to change quickly as your baby grows....
Rapidly Changing Teen Brains Before the routine use of the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), it was difficult to see what was going on inside a teen’s brain. Most of what researchers had to work with were the brains of children and adolescents who had passed away prematurely. Now we can see how the brain’s structure is developing with the help of MRI scans. They show that the teen brain changes rapidly once puberty hits....
Premature babies born after 33 weeks gestation may be ready to begin to feed on a nipple within a matter of days while babies born before this time may have a little bit of a journey until they are developmentally ready to begin this task. In utero, a baby’s intestines are fully formed by 20 weeks gestation, but the important functions of the intestines do not develop until 28 to 30 weeks gestation....
