How to Introduce Textured Solid Food to Baby

Baby-Textured-Solid-FoodQ: How I introduce solid food that is more textured to my child?

A: There are many ways to introduce more textured food to baby, you can give certain foods often to your baby so that she’ll get used to eat textured solid food in stage by stage. Check these followings food you can give to your baby:


The Development of 12 to 14 Months Baby

Baby-12-14-Months-DevelopmentHere in this article we want to make a summary about the baby development in 12 to 14 months old.
Language Development

  • Baby’s vocabulary is developed into 12 words, most of them are nouns which explain a group of certain objects, such as car for all vehicles or house for all buildings.
  • Try to follow certain song.
  • Interest to follow a conversation and learn how to do it, such as give and wait for answer.
  • Try to join a few words to create a sentence comprised of two words.
  • Understand that language is a social contact tool and also have a function to communicate basic needs.
  • Showing objects or shapes in the picture books and photos, and she tries to mention its name.

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Lactose Intolerance

Lactose-IntolerancePeople usually have misconception about cow’s milk allergy to lactose intolerance. Actually, lactose intolerance is not the same as cow’s milk allergy. Lactose intolerance more often occur than cow’s milk allergy. Lactose is a major component of cow’s milk. Then, we can say that lactose intolerance as cow’s milk intolerance. There are studies showing that the highest likelihood of lactose intolerance is often occurs in black population and the lowest in northern Europe population. Read the rest of this entry »


Baby Story Tips: Read Stories

Baby-Story-Tips-ReadingDoing storytelling for baby will bring great impact for their development and also their closeness with parents. On the other hand, storytelling provides quality stimulation. But it will only happen if you do this activity rightly. For that purpose, we try to share these useful baby story tips when reading the stories in order to get the benefits of it. Here are the tips: Read the rest of this entry »


The Benefits of Music for Babies (Mozart Effect)

Music-Benefits-for BabiesMusic is the most pleasant activity and is a perfect form of emotional expression. For children (including fetus and baby), hearing classical music will stimulate their intelligence development. He is Frances Rauscher from California University who conduct the research about Mozart Effect. His research concluded that classical music can enrich baby’s spatial ability – brain temporal, which is the ability in understanding the construction of 2 and 3 dimension objects. Also, music is able to make baby later to be more understand about math and science. Music has influent on baby’s brain development through its rhythm, melody, and harmonization. Generally, we can say that music can significantly stimulate baby’s imagination, learning ability, concentration and perspicacity. Read the rest of this entry »