10 weeks

Behavior and development

How does the baby develop?

If your baby sleeps well all night and his sleep lasts 5 to 6 hours, you are one of the few lucky mothers. Most 10-week-old babies wake up in the middle of the night. But even if your baby does not sleep all night at this stage, it is better to sleep and stay awake for a long time than fluttering sleep. Your baby will probably have 2 to 4 long naps and stay awake for up to 10 hours a day. On a side note, whether your baby is a night owl or a morning baby bird, this sleep pattern will stay the same throughout your baby's childhood.

By the second week of the third month, your baby will be able to:

Making sounds in many ways instead of just crying;

Head can be raised 45 degrees when lying face down.

 What do you need to do to support your baby?

The ways to communicate with a baby are endless. To support your baby's development, you can try the following now or in the next few months:

Action description: don't move without telling your baby. You can narrate the baby's dressing process: “Now I'm putting you on a diaper… now I'm buttoning your shirt”. In the bathroom, explain about soap and washing, that shampoo makes hair shiny and clean. The act of doing and expressing will help you talk and train your baby to listen to what you say, thereby helping them begin to become more aware of the world around them;

Ask lots of questions: don't wait until your baby can answer before asking questions for them. This will stimulate the baby's ability to learn as well as cognitive;

Opportunities for babies: research shows that babies whose parents talk to their baby more often learn to speak sooner. Let your baby coo, whisper, or giggle at you;

Say simple sentences when talking with your baby;

Raising voice tones when speaking;

As your baby progresses, let your baby become more involved in many things. Note that these things need to fit the baby;

Imitate: Your baby will love being praised when he imitates you;

Speak rhymes;

Read aloud to your baby;

Receiving cues from babies: when babies start not paying attention to what you say, they often close their eyes or look away, start crying or irritating. In other words, the baby showed no desire to hear more. At that time, let your baby rest.

Health and safety

What should mom discuss with the doctor?

Each doctor will have its own way to check the baby's health. General physical tests, as well as the number and type of assessment techniques and procedures performed will also vary greatly according to your baby's individual needs. But you can anticipate and consult your doctor about problems after your baby has a health check:

Tell your doctor how you and your family are doing, about eating, sleeping, and your baby's development, and about caring for your baby if you are planning to return to work.

Consult your doctor if you have questions about breastfeeding, returning to work and any concerns about your baby's health or behavior.

Mother should know more?

Reflux phenomenon

What is reflux?

Reflux is when food and acid move from the stomach back into the esophagus. Your baby will spray or vomit a little milk after feeding. This is very normal for all babies. It is estimated that up to 50% of babies vomit every day. Most of these are short-lived and will not harm your baby. However, if your baby burp a large amount of milk on the same day or vomit several times a day, the baby is most likely suffering from gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Reflux can be accompanied by prolonged irritability and pain when eating. In severe cases, your baby will either cough or not gain enough weight.

Why is the baby reflux? 

The main cause of reflux is that the baby's esophageal sphincter (the type of muscle connecting the throat to the stomach) is too weak. Most children are born with relatively loose lower esophageal sphincter. Because of this laxity, food cannot stay in the stomach. If your baby swallows too much air and eats too much, he can also get reflux.

How is reflux diagnosed?

Your baby will also be further checked with a pH tester. This device will be inserted into your baby's esophagus by a doctor to measure reflux and acidity. Other ways to check for reflux in your baby include x-rays and gastrointestinal endoscopy using a wire tube with a camera attached and placing it in the baby's digestive tract for examination and sampling. experiment.

How is reflux treatment?

In most cases, the reflux will go away on its own before one year because the baby's sphincter is stronger. If your baby is on formula, your doctor may suggest that you switch to soy milk or the less allergenic one. You should try to split meals and feed your baby many times to avoid too full or full stomach. Some studies suggest that adding grains of rice to breast milk or formula to make it thicker may improve some reflux symptoms.

You can also keep your baby upright during and after meals, with his head held up about 30 degrees to help prevent milk from bouncing back. Even if your baby burp regularly can help relieve reflux symptoms. Doctors can prescribe medications to lower the acidity in the stomach or prescribe an acid blocker for your baby to take every day. These pills are similar to those taken by adults with heartburn (however you should not give your baby any medicine without a doctor's prescription).

Turn over

Baby is learning how to roll and turn over. At this age, babies can turn from side to back and back. It takes more than a month or so for your baby to roll a full circle because he needs a firmer neck and strong arm muscles to do this.

As your baby gets more active, it means you have to use one hand to hold your baby during diaper change. You should not let your baby lie on a bed or any place that is too high and far from the ground without watching your baby because he or she is now able to move and fall easily.

Mother's concern

What are the things you need to care about?

Drooling

Your baby's salivary glands begin to work from the moment they're still in the womb. But you may notice that your baby starts drooling during this period. The reason is that the baby puts everything in his mouth and therefore the amount of drool he produces will be more than the amount he can swallow.

However, be aware that drooling does not mean your baby is teething. Your baby's teeth will not come out yet and you will have to wait at least two weeks before your baby's first tooth begins to appear. Most babies have their first tooth around 4-7 months old. If your baby develops early, one of the two teeth between the lower jaw will grow at 3 months of age. (And there are also rare cases of baby teething at birth.)

Many parents often wear overalls now to stop drooling. However, you need to remember to remove it when your baby sleeps to avoid choking baby. Luckily, drool on baby toys and other objects contains proteins (proteins) that prevent illness, so your baby can play and touch anything that you don't need. worry that your baby will get sick.

Whisper

At first the sound of breathing, cooing or a rumbling belly seems completely random, then you will begin to notice these sounds appearing when you talk to your baby, when your baby is playing with stuffed animals, when he finds himself in the mirror or even when he sees a decorative duck in a crib. Pronunciation exercises will often be more advantageous if you and your baby are both interested.

During this process, your child will also experiment and explore the combination of throat, tongue and mouth working to make sounds. For parents, cooing is the first sound a baby uses for communication after crying. And that's just the beginning. Within a few weeks to months, your baby will begin to laugh out loud (usually around three and a half months), squeal (by four and a half months) and make other sounds.

Babies can pronounce consonants at very different stages: some babies are able to pronounce consonants when they are only three months old, others have to wait until five or six months to be able to develop. this function. When your baby starts trying to pronounce consonants, he often makes one or two sounds at the same time and repeats the same chords (three, ga, or da) many times. The next week your baby may move on to a new chord and seem to forget about the original chord. Actually, babies do not forget but because their ability to focus is limited, they often only master one thing at a time.