Posts Tagged ‘Child Care’

Fed Babies With Bottle

Baby bottle feedingFirst, I want to remind you that the baby’s weight is normal for their age and more important than its size is growing smoothly. Your cousin’s daughter has excessive weight, 11,300 kg for the nine months is too much even for a child (males are usually bigger than the girls). From now on it is quite likely (and desirable) that are less fattening.It is not unusual to end dieting!

As you know, breast milk provides antibodies against microbes. Breastfed children have fewer colds and diarrhea, and are better protected against allergies than those who take a bottle.

That does not mean that the former are always healthy and your daughter, nor the latter are sick often (fortunately, most are also very healthy), yes, obesity often present more often than breastfed babies. The differences among boys are more related to genetics and family rooms with the kind of food. Your daughter will probably weigh the same if you had given bottle of polenta.

What is my child?

childThe first goal should point the child and adolescent psychiatrist is to reach a diagnosis. The diagnostic process takes time, exploration, extensive and profound knowledge and a lot of reflective capacity.

The basic tool for diagnosis remains the interview with the patient and his family, together and / or separated. If necessary, appeals to some specific studies that are performed by other technicians Mental Health team: psychological study, psychomotor evaluation, assessment, pedagogy, language assessment, biological studies, etc..

The diagnosis involves not only say, “This child is such a thing.” A global diagnosis not only puts a name to what is happening to the child, but also analyzed the whole situation surrounding it and its environment.

Means being able to diagnose and to understand the situation settle on a good safe treatment recommendation.
Is a fundamental part of the consultation the technician and the patient and family understand each other. The diagnosis should be shared with the child’s parents, in terms that are understandable. A psychiatrist is a doctor and as such should be able to explain the patient’s understanding of the disease that affects it. The psychiatrist is a person and as such should be able to speak the language and communicate with people who ask for help in terms that can be understood.

We stand for dignity and respect of those who consult a child psychiatrist: the patient and his family are entitled to know, be informed and decide which are ultimately willing to risk.