If you’re breastfeeding or planning to breastfeed your baby, here are some useful tips on breastfeeding:
A mother’s milk supply may vary at different times of the day. Most mothers feel fuller in the morning and less full in the evening. If the mother’s milk supply seems to be lower in the evening, more frequent breastfeeding will satisfy the babies’ needs.
Babies can be hungry an hour or so after being fed. Human milk digests more quickly than formula milk. So breastfed babies need to be fed more frequently than the formula fed baby.
Give babies practice at nursing before mother’s breast become full. Give the baby lots of time at the breast in the first few days, allowing him/her to learn to breastfeed effectively before mother’s breast becomes fuller as milk supply becomes more plentiful - usually on the 3rd or 4th day after birth.
If a baby is sleeping or uninterested in nursing during his/her few days, suggest mothers encourage him to breastfeed often.
If baby latches on the breast well, the mother will be able to avoid or minimize sore nipples in the early days after the delivery.
Good nutrition and plenty of fluid are important to the quick healing of a mother who had a ceasarean.
Most exclusively breastfed newborns babies need to be nurse on average 8 to 12 times in 24 hours in order to get enough milk.
A healthy baby with a good latching pattern will naturally settle into the pattern or breastfeeding that is right for him/her.
Some normal and healthy babies spit out regularly after nursing, at least once a day, during their first 3 months.
Some reasons why babies spit up include a strong let-down, immature muscles control, allergy, consume too much milk. Sometimes the reason for spitting up cannot be determined.
Colicky babies suffered from intense physical discomfort, entire body is tensed, usually pulls up his legs towards is abdomen and screams in a high pitch voice.
Colic usually occurs during the late afternoons or evenings and can last for hours. While crying, these babies tend to swallow alot of air, which may make them feel even worse. By holding the baby when he/her cries, he will feel cared for until he eventually outgrow this sensitive stage.
If nursing doesn’t helps, some of the following comfort measures for babies can be tried.
Change his diapers, undress completely to see if any of his clothing may bothering him, get into a warm bath, give him a massage, put him in a sling or softer baby carrier and walk around the house or outdoors or take him to a quieter room.
Lay him tummy down after massage and pat his back.
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Place great moments on a canvas and get crafty this holiday! Children can bring along their favorite pictures, postcards, tickets or any images that they love and make collages on a painted canvas. Children get to experience not only the joy of painting, they get to pick up various materials and add an edge to their artworks.
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Schedule Monday- 1030am to 130pm
Tuesday- 1030am to 130pm
Thursday- 1030am to 130pm
B) Collage on Canvas (1 ½ hr- 4 lessons)
In this crafty holiday, children can get hands on with using various interesting materials. Concepts/ theme will be child initiated. Instructor will guide and develop ideas with the child individually. Children will get to experience the fundamentals of painting on a canvas, at the same time explore various creative touches using alternative materials that will be available during the sessions.
Fees - $160 (includes all materials)
Schedule Tuesday- 230pm to 4pm
Thursday- 230pm to 4pm
Friday- 230pm to 4pm
Saturday- 330pm to 5pm
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Wonder how you can keep your children meaningfully occupied this June holidays? Why not engage them in My Art Pencil’s colourful activities that will enhance their creativity and artistic confidence.
Our holiday art workshop is specially designed for children age 3½ to 12 years old. In this 4-day workshop, children will gain better understanding in the subjects through story-telling, drawing demonstration, colours and shapes.
They will be exposed to different art materials, learn their uses and the effects of their combination on the art piece. In school, children have much exposure in left-brain learning, now is the ideal time to polish their right-brain skills.
At My Art Pencil, we believe that drawing is not a gift but a skill that can be acquired. Learning through art is vital to the development of young minds. With the current focus on verbal and numerical skills (left brain), art provides an avenue for children to nurture their intuitive and creative skills (right brain), hence, attain whole brain learning.
Our Programmes
We respect that every child is unique and learns at a different pace. While striving to provide a comprehensive curriculum, we also recognise that cultivating passion for art and freedom of expression are equally important. Each child receives personalised attention and makes progress in a non-competitive yet stimulating environment.
Play Art
At Play Art, we understand that young children are fascinated by every mark they make, colour they mix and shape they create. Hence, classes are conducted in an interesting and motivating manner that not only stimulate creativity, but also satisfy curiosity in young children. Children are taught to draw and paint independently with the use of various art materials. From paint brushes to bare hands, enjoyment is maximised in the process of painting.
Suitable for children age 3½ - 6 years
Junior Art
Older children enjoy details, complexity and realism in their artwork. This programme offers more challenging drawing techniques that sharpen visual skills and enhance artistic confidence. Children learn to draw through the understanding of shape, size, space, distance and proportion. The application of colour scheme gives children a sense of fulfillment as they see their master pieces come alive. Creativity is also enhanced through the knowledge gained on the subjects learnt.
Most of the modern parents nowadays are working parents. Working mothers dedicate their time and effort to both workplace and home. Working fathers are working hard to support the family.
Both parents are exhausted at the end of the day. Time is so limited to complete lots of responsibilities and we tend to miss out the time hugging our child.
When is the last time you hugged your child? Is it an affectionate hug with both your arms wrapped around your child and held them close to your heart? Is it just wrapping your arms around your child and letting go in a second, and then quickly turn your head back to your work? Are you too busy to hug your child?
Hugging is not just healthy for our body, but healthy for our soul as well. Researchers from the University of North Carolina found that hugging increases the bonding hormone oxytocin and decreases the risk of heart disease.
Hugs reduce high blood pressure and reduce stress. If you are living in a very stressful life, start hugging your love ones! Sometimes, hugging our love ones are much comfortable than words. Hugs help us develop good feelings. When we feel good all the time, we are attracting positive energies towards ourselves and eventually lead us to great happiness. This is my personal experiences of feeling good at all time!
Hugging our child helps us strengthen our bonding with our child. When we hug our child affectionately, the child will feel a sense of acceptance. He can sense how much mummy cares and loves him from a hug or skin-to-skin contact. The sense of acceptance is very important in affecting his overall growth and development.
A child who feels accepted and loved develops better learning ability as compared to a child who feels unaccepted and unloved. This is because the former child is able to boost his self-esteem and confidence from feeling good about himself as well as his environment. He wants to explore and find out more about his surrounding which encourages the child to learn and re-learn.
Whereas a child that lack the feeling of acceptance will feel lonely because he feels that no one loves him and this negative feeling doesn’t motivate him to learn. Some of these children will deviate and create a lot of social problems when they grow up.
I hug my children in the school regularly. Hugging my children is a must-to-do list every morning before the day starts. It actually helps me to bond with them faster and easier. Some children who are not used to hugging show unwillingness or discomfort initially when I put my arms around them.
I remembered an incident with a three year old Chinese girl a year back. I would greet her when she reached school. Before I managed to put my arms around her, she would look at me and quickly turned away. I did the same action with her schoolmates and everyone would be smiling after I hugged and spoke to them. She watched quietly.
After few days, I tried putting my arms around her and this time she didn’t turn away. She just stood there and allowed me to hug her. The first time I hugged her, her body was stiff and her expression was serious. I kept repeating my hugging practice with her.
Eventually her facial expression softened and she would even return her hug whenever I hugged her. She started to open up and participate in most activities in school. Her development was encouraging and her learning ability improved tremendously. I develop good feeling just by hugging the children. Therefore, hugging benefits both giver and receiver.
I notice that hugging our child is not commonly practise in most families in our society. When our child starts schooling, we tend to stop hugging our child. We tend to be reserved and do not show our affection towards our child, maybe because we are afraid that by showing it, we look ‘weak’ in front of our child. Some believe that giving hugs to our child will spoil him. All these are just old-fashioned way of thinking.
We are now living in 21st century, please change the mentality and perception. Hugging do wonders in a parents-child or teacher-child relationship. Human touch heals and boosts self-esteem as well as brings a sense of security for both the giver and the receiver.
From this moment onwards, do practice the following ritual in your daily life:-
Say good morning with a hug
Say good night with a hug and a kiss
Say thank you with a hug
Say sorry with a hug
Hold our child close to our hearts for a few moments so that he can feel our love without saying a word. Begin nurturing our child with lots of hugs from this moment onwards because we can never hug our child too much!
About the Author Rosabel Yip is a passionate Montessori educator in Early Childhood Development. The first 6 years are the most important years for a child to build a strong foundation of their approach to adult life in future & encourages adults to prepare a right environment to nurture their child with love and patience.
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Most of the modern parents nowadays are working parents. Working mothers dedicate their time and effort to both workplace and home. Working fathers are working hard to support the family.
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