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Archive for February, 2010

While all parents worry about whether their child will have vision problems, there are a few simple things you can watch for if you are concerned that your child has vision problems.

The first step is to understand what the normal stage of vision are beginning at a baby and moving up to a toddler.

Consider the following things you can watch for and things you can do if you believe that something is wrong.
The First Stages of Sight

As soon as a baby is born they should be able to see shapes, light, and dark. In fact a newborn baby actually has the ability to bring objects or people in to focus for short periods of time. Within the first week your baby should start to focus on your face more often and respond to facial changes you make.

For example, the baby should respond to you when you are talking to them by looking at your face and possibly making faces of their own. You may even see the beginning of a smile.

By the time your baby is a month old he or she should turn their head to find you at the sound of your voice. They will also start to follow objects as they are moved in front of them. At the age of six months your child should be aware of their own hands and toys[baby toys] that are given to them.

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Many parents overlook their child’s unhealthy weight because they believe it is normal, research suggests.

Data on 2,100 Australian children found 40% of parents with an overweight or underweight child had not spotted this.

Among children, the underweight were more likely to think of themselves as average than the overweight.

The University of Melbourne researchers said parents would not act to help their children gain or lose weight if they did not see the problem.

Child obesity is thought to be increasing fast in many countries, and experts are hunting for effective ways to intervene, both at school, and home. The Australian research shows just how hard it could be to challenge parents’ perceptions of their children.

The Melbourne researchers analysed the 2,100 children using both Body Mass Index and waist circumference, to try to establish which fell into the “underweight”, “overweight” and “average” groups.

They then compared these results with the recorded perceptions of their parents. In total 43% of parents of overweight or underweight children placed their child in the “average” bracket.

For overweight children alone, this rose to nearly half. Remarkably, a very small percentage of parents had even more extreme views, assessing an overweight child as underweight, or vice versa.

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According to the new study, Infants cared for by caregivers other than their parents tend to gain more weight than children cared for by their parents.

The researchers found that children receiving regular care[child care centers] from people other than their parents are also less likely to be breast-fed and more likely to be introduced to solid foods early.

“The current study suggests this risk is greater among children sent to child care early than among children kept under parental supervision,” said Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University School of Medicine Prevention Research Center, who was not involved in the study.

More and more evidence suggests that the threat of excess weight gain and obesity is taking hold in America’s nurseries, Katz said. “Studies show obesity emerging as a problem even in the first year of life. This, in turn, results in a higher risk of diabetes in youth, and lifelong obesity and its many consequences.”

For the new study, Juhee Kim, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Karen E. Peterson, of the Harvard School of Public Health, collected data on more than 8,100 nine-month-old infants.

During home visits, between 2001 and 2002, the infants were weighed and measured, and the researchers gathered information about how the children were cared for.

Fifty-five percent of the children received regular care from someone other than a parent. Of these, half were in full-time child care, 40.3 percent began child care when they were younger than 3 months old, 39.3 percent began child care when they were between 3 and 5.9 months old, and 20.7 percent began child care when they were 6 months or older.

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