Lolo the snail was not very convinced, but Juana insisted and they went together to do their homework!
At the end of the day, Lolo the snail approached Juana the turtle and said:
– “Juan you are right! It was better to have come to help all my friends and thus, among all, finish the tasks of the day!
Very good lol! That’s how it is! Always remember that small tasks also serve to achieve larger goals, and it is always better to help your friends than to stay home without having tried!
And so, Lolo the snail began to feel happier and every day, with a smile, he gave his best!

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We can say then that skin-to-skin contact favors breastfeeding, by stimulating the release of oxytocin and by allowing the mother’s breast with its texture and aroma to be available to the baby. There are numerous studies showing how skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth promotes short- and long-term breastfeeding.

Other benefits are the reduction of cortisol in mother and child, a hormone closely linked to stress. The baby regulates his heart and respiratory rate better, has less chance of presenting hypoglycemia, that is, low blood sugar, cries less and decreases his irritability. In addition, contact allows you to better regulate your body temperature and keep it within normal ranges.

On the other hand, it decreases the possibility that the mother presents postpartum depression, increases positive affectivity and adaptation to the signals of her children.

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In addition to the appropriate tests, your doctor may direct you to take vitamin supplements, such as folic acid or vitamin B12. It is very important that your doctor tells you what you should take, since the doses and type of supplementation will also be different depending on your background.

For example, folic acid supplementation before pregnancy is an effective preventive measure against neural tube defects, one of the most common congenital disorders. Neural tube defects are caused by an alteration of the embryonic process of neurulation between days 18 and 27 of pregnancy, when on many occasions the woman is not yet aware that she is pregnant.

It is also important to have healthy habits:

• avoid alcohol and tabacco
• sleep well
• do exercise
• take care of your diet

And above all things, forget about stress and anxiety and enjoy the process.

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Although the fever is annoying and generally scares us, we must know that it is not a disease in itself. It is a symptom that our body generates as a mechanism to defend itself!

Viruses and bacteria find it more difficult to grow or reproduce in a higher temperature environment. So this increase in temperature decreases the availability of certain elements that we have in the body and of which microorganisms take advantage of to live better. Fever encourages our immune response to function more efficiently.

There are many myths regarding fever, and this often leads us to be scared when our child has it. You have to know that fever by itself does not cause harm or is harmful to health.

What IS important is to discover what is the cause that is generating the fever to know if it is necessary to provide some specific treatment, or if it is simply something viral and self-limited.

Always remember to pay attention to its evolution, and offer: love and support.

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• May your expectations, regarding your baby’s dream, be real
• So that you have tools to help you accompany your child in this process

The first thing we need to know is that most of the situations that are interpreted as “sleep problems” are actually an incorrect interpretation by adults:

1. First, because we do not know the expected development of sleep in babies and children
2. Second, because it bears little resemblance to the dream of adults
3. Third, because the demands of the world of work do not give us room to accompany this process. We have to produce and perform as if we were not breeding.

The first thing we have to know is that: babies do not sleep straight through the night. It’s normal, it’s expected, and it’s healthy. And here the following myth is demolished: babies do not wake up from breastfeeding, they wake up because their maturational development requires it and, in any case, thanks to the characteristics of breastfeeding, they can go back to sleep.

The feeling of the first times, is that it is a continuum of 24 hours: “lactation and sleep”. And that’s why, too, we find it so exhausting and so disruptive with respect to our habits.

Deep sleep helps to rest the body but during this period, babies do not usually get very tired physically, the priority is to mature mentally and accompany them in this process.

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Call them by their name, try not to embarrass us or pass them on to them; It will allow them to begin to develop a genuine relationship with their body where they can get to know and explore it more freely. That they can begin to understand that there are parts that are private, will also give them the opportunity to teach that they have special treatment.

We have the representation that it is something bad, that it should be kept secret.

Trying to break these taboos will allow our children to establish freer and healthier relationships with their bodies.

Growing up with the possibility of recognizing that there are parts of our body that generate different sensations, gradually understanding that they are part of our privacy will allow us to develop self-protective behaviors.

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1. Dedicate time regularly: you need to dedicate an exclusive time every day and without interruptions to play. That time you allocate must be of quality; leave the day-to-day worries aside and give yourself 100% to the game with your child
2. Organize toys so you can easily see, grab and put them away. Also allocate time at the end of the game, a moment dedicated to saving and ordering and that this moment is also shared.
3. Define a space and place in the house to play. Let that space, at that moment, be for the game. And use objects and toys appropriate for your child’s age and responsiveness
4. Make the game a moment to create stimulating opportunities that enhance learning and brain development. Challenge him to learn and incorporate new knowledge.
5. Let him play, make mistakes and learn! Do not do things for your child or get frustrated if something does not work out and you want to correct it. Let him have fun, let him get confused, teach him to correct him and help him learn!

And always remember that the most important thing is to be able to share quality time and enjoy!

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• The Imaginary Game, that of Representing or pretending to be. These types of activities help them develop the ability to retain the image of what is represented in their mind, to think abstractly and to use their imagination.
• The musical game, both listening and singing. Strengthens neural connections. Through songs, you can learn new words to increase their vocabulary, as well as teach them names of people and objects! Constant repetition helps them fix concepts. In addition to language, listening to melodies and moving to the rhythm of music stimulates the auditory, visual and motor cortex.
• The artistic game for its part, favors sensory experiences. Painting, drawing, creating not only stimulates fine motor skills but also thinking. When the children observe that moving a pencil or crayon on paper leaves a mark, a color is painted… they incorporate the concept of the cause/effect relationship.
• Shared play helps them stimulate new ways of doing things. Playing alone or with others is not the same. When we play in the company of other people, we are learning to share, to listen to the other, to socialize, to take turns to play or do things, and to have a role within a dynamic.

The game contributes to the holistic development of our children. It helps them to enrich themselves with new experiences and situations that will provide them with tools to grow.

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How can we do to see if there is colostrum? Manual Extraction

This tool will be very useful to us throughout breastfeeding, starting with pregnancy.

If we are undergoing a healthy pregnancy, with no contraindication to having sexual intercourse, we can practice the maneuver without any problem. First to get to know and become familiar with our boobs, second to take advantage of if a drop of colostrum comes out, apply it. But, it may or may not come out at this stage and both situations are expected and do not condition anything.

• First we can perform some gentle chest massages to stimulate the ejection reflex.
• With fingers in “C”, two 2/3 cm from the nipple. Aligned yolk-nipple-yolk.
• Carry back, as in the direction of the ribs.
• From there press gently, as if we wanted to put our fingers together. Then release, repeat.

What can we use the maneuver for at the beginning? The first basic need of a newborn is contact, being skin to skin, movement, support and lastly food. It is vital to find that new form in the bond that was previously inside the womb and now must continue but outside, on the other side of the skin.

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It does not matter which one you choose, the most important is that the baby’s suction is affective and swallowing is heard.

1. Classic sitting
   The mother’s belly is in contact with the baby’s and her body rests on the mother’s lap.
2. Underarm
   The baby’s body passes under the mother’s arm.
3. Inverted sitting
   Same as the previous position, but in this one the mother offers the opposite breast.
4. Lying down
   It is the ideal position for breastfeeding at night or after a cesarean section.

To breastfeed, it is important that you and your baby are comfortable.

However, whatever the position is, it is always convenient:

• That before giving the breast, you wash your hands well with soap and water.
• That you are comfortable and with your back supported.
• That you take your baby to your chest, and not your chest to the baby.
• That your son is well attached to the breast: with his mouth open covering the entire areola and not just the nipple.
• That your baby’s head and body are in line with your abdomen (“tummy to tummy”).
• Have your son’s face in front of your chest, and his nose against your nipple.
• That you look your child in the eye, since through the look the bond is reinforced.

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