Cute baby of the month

Here is a picture of a baby which is really cute.

Mercy support centre for parents and babies

Mercy Family Birthing Unit provides further support after going home through the Mercy Support Centre for Parents and Babies.

The aim of the Support Centre is to extend quality, optimum care to both parents and babies, by experienced Midwives and Lactation Midwife.

Support Centre Aims

• To support and advise women in breast-feeding management, mothercraft techniques and settling techniques

• To supervise breast-feeding - observing position,technique and to offer advice regarding breast-feeding

• To assist with unsettled infants

• To advise with regard to reflux and colic problems

• To offer post-natal distress support

• To refer you to the appropriate health professionals for further treatment as necessary

• To ensure correct consistent advice is given

• To provide valuable reference resources:Videos, books,pamphlets.

This is a FREE parenting advisory service for all women who have their babies at Mercy Family Birthing Unit for up to eight weeks post-delivery.

For a nominal fee the service of the Lacation Midwife is also available for mother's who deliver elsewhere for up to eight weeks post- delivery.

Open Monday to Thursday 8.00am - 3.30pm.

For appointments please telephone the Mercy Family Birthing Unit on (08) 9370 9420.

If further information please view or download the Mercy Support Centre for Parents and Babies brochure

The Midwives and Lactation Midwife will notify your Doctor of attendance at the centre.

Please allow for a 1-2 hour stay at the centre.

Source - http://www.mercygroup.com.au/parent__babies_support.asp

Children's Programs - Babies and Toddlers

Planning for babies and toddlers occurs through relationship-based experiences and interactions. The emphasis is to promote and maintain a secure attachment between a child and their primary caregiver (see primary caregiving), then with the wider environment. Relationship-based programming recognises that children need to feel safe and secure in a predictable and responsive environment. Programs are dynamic and responsive to individual children's interests and intrinsically motivated purposes, taking into consideration a child's emerging sense of autonomy, agency, identity and belonging and opportunities to experience interdependence and independence.

Staff and families work in partnership to offer children potential pathways that are individually relevant and challenging. Various lenses are used to achieve a programming cycle of noticing a child's pusuits, behaviours and communication and striving to understand them in the context of the environment. Staff then plan to offer children opportunities to extend or repeat their learning and revisit past experiences. These lenses revolve around children's secure attachment and patterns of relationship and connection, their wellbeing and involvement in the environment and their primary caregiver's ability to be emotionally available to children as individuals.

For more do read at - http://www.gowrie-adelaide.com.au/cms/?q=node/3

Baby shopping

Here is a website for baby shopping

http://www.bizrate.co.uk/babytoys/mid103435/products.html

Home of surrogacy, surrogate parenting information

Founding director, Bill Handel, started his practice of surrogacy in 1980, through the Law Offices of William Handel. In 1986, the Center for Surrogate Parenting, Inc., was incorporated. Bill Handel and Karen Synesiou are the co-directors and co-owners of CSP. In our over 23 years of helping infertile couples become parents, we have celebrated the birth of over 979 babies.

We believe that surrogate parenting should be a collaboration of professionals who guide the entire process. The team should consist of doctors, psychologists or psychotherapists, attorneys and an agency that is the liaison between all the participants. CSP has created a "team" that is unsurpassed anywhere in the world. CSP is unique because we have created a team that is involved with each surrogacy arrangement from beginning to end. Your counselor is by your side from the moment you enter our program and continues to offer you support, companionship and guidance long after your delivery. She is very intimate with the details of your relationship with your couple, husband and children and is not called to help out only when there is a need. You do not have to explain your situation before receiving help, she already understands the dynamics. With other programs a counselor is usually only contracted to screen you and thereafter only when a "situation" arises.

Once you are accepted into our program, we immediately begin the screening process. We do not wait for you to meet a couple. At CSP we complete our psychological and medical screening before you choose a couple. We know through experience that once a surrogate mother and a couple meet, the bonding process and friendship begins immediately. We also know that if a surrogate mother does not complete the psychological or medical screening process, all parties incur a lot of heartache. Therefore, we prescreen our surrogate mothers. When you choose a couple you are absolutely confident that you can help them and won't let them down. We believe in this so much that CSP actually incurs these costs! No other program prescreens their surrogate mothers. CSP invests our time and money on you as a sign of our confidence in you.

It will take you approximately three months to get through our screening process. Of course, we could rush you through, but experience has taught us that we need to move at the pace you set. We allow our surrogate mothers to meet a counselor and attend group support meetings before committing to a couple. The counselor will discuss with you the impact your pregnancy will have on your husband, children, extended family and friends. At group support meeting you will meet other surrogate mothers at various stages in our program. One lady may be meeting her couple, another recently pregnant, another may have delivered, and so on. Attending group will allow you to learn first hand what it takes to be involved in surrogate parenting. Once you have met a counselor and attended group meeting you will truly understand the journey you are about to embark upon. The next step is to undergo a full medical screening and before you know it you will be choosing a couple!

Today, surrogacy and egg donation remain unregulated in almost every State. This means that anyone can start their own egg donation or surrogacy program. Each agency can set its own standards and rules, and therefore it is imperative that surrogate mothers should thoroughly investigate their choices, work with an agency that can offer experience, who works with skilled professionals and has a good reputation. CSP has been guiding surrogate mothers for over 23 years, we must be doing it right! Our main goal is to ensure that our surrogate mothers and their families take no financial risks. We ensure that couples deposit all anticipated trust funds into an account PRIOR to any medical procedure taking place. The reason we insist on this is to ensure that we always have sufficient funds to pay for your medical bills and expenses. Life events happen and could impact your couple's ability to deposit funds at a later time. For example, they could be injured and unable to authorize the payments, could be sued and have their accounts frozen, get divorced and cannot agree on who is to pay what amount, etc. Our priority is our surrogate mothers and to this end we will not take any financial risks that could affect her. Many programs allow couples to deposit funds as the pregnancy develops. In such cases it is the surrogate mother that takes the financial risks if her couple will not or cannot deposit the necessary funds. Of course, the contract everyone signs provides that the Intended Parents are responsible for all expenses. However it could take years and substantial attorney fees to recoup your fees. CSP would never allow a surrogate mother to take a financial risk with her family.

CSP has a worldwide reputation as being the leader in the field of surrogacy and egg donation. We are proud of our practice of always looking after our surrogate mothers and their family.

Find out more at - http://www.creatingfamilies.com/surrogacy/smcsp.HTML

How to Read to your babies

First, be comfortable, cosy and relaxed - both of you. On the other hand, hearing a story can be very calming for a child who is in 'one of those moods'.

Next, make sure your child can see the book the right way up as you read.

For babies and toddlers up to 2 years

• point at pictures and say or ask names of things (depending on age)
• use a slow sing-song voice
• use different voices for different characters - be entertaining
• spend time talking about the pictures before turning the page
• say a name and ask your older baby or toddler to point to the item
• give huge praise each time your child points at and names an object

For 2-4 year-olds

• give your child time to look at the pictures before you read
• ask, 'Where's the...?' 'What's that called?' 'What's she doing?'
• always follow text with your finger as you read
• with familiar stories, see if your child can join in or finish phrases
• ask questions like: 'Why did he do that?' 'What happens next?'
• discuss things you both liked/didn't like and why

For 4 year-olds and over (and possibly some 3 year-olds)

• as for 2-4 year olds
• ask your child if he can remember the order of events in the story
• try paired reading (sometimes called shared reading)

Special activity
If you think your child may be ready for a real reading activity, try this: choose a word which appears several times (such as a name) show it to your child and tell him what it says: can your child find the same word again?

This is a first 'Look and Say' or 'Whole word' activity. For information about Look and Say and the other methods of teaching reading, click here.

FINAL TIP:
Let your child see that reading is part of your life. Do you have books and newspapers in the house?

for More information, do visit - http://childliteracy.com/babies.html

The Abandoned Babies Center - Nairobi, Kenya

The Abandoned Babies Center is part of Dacoretti Childrens Home in Nairobi, Kenya. The home takes in abandoned babies throughout the Nairobi area. The goal is to place the children in adoptive families. Those that are not adopted stay in the ABC home until they are ? years old. At that time the children go on to Dacoretti or other children's homes in the area.

The children are raised in cottages where they are broken up by age. Families interested in adopting from ABC can contact them to gain more information on the adoption process.

For more information, please visit http://www.africasangels.org/Organizations/FrancesJonesAbandonedBaby.asp

The Love of Christ Ministries (TLC), was established in 1993, specifically to meet the needs of these, the most innocent victims of violent crime, homelessness, HIV/Aids and general social turmoil in South Africa.

TLC is dedicated to salvaging these fresh, untarnished lives, through adoption into a community of families which is structured to focus on one objective. This is to raise and nurture the poorest of the poor into valuable, educated and skilled members of our nation.

For more information, please visit - http://www.africasangels.org/Organizations/TLC.asp

Christian Baby Therapy Centre

The Baby Therapy Centre is an early intervention service, which helps all babies and toddlers with an impairment or development delay to expand their competence. Families of these babies are assisted to cope with the enormous burden they face.

13% of all babies have a mild to severe handicap, arising from injury, disease or genetic disorder. The good news is that early treatment and stimulation increase the chances for normal development in the period of maximum brain growth!

With this earliest treatment, secondary handicaps and fixed abnormalities are prevented in impaired babies who are otherwise deprived of learning experiences.

Mission statement,

The Baby Therapy Centre was established in 1994 as an Early Intervention service:

• to expand the competence of all impaired babies and toddlers
• and assist their families to cope

The first few years of life are critical for the building of a stable developmental foundation, upon which all further skills are built. In these years children learn to sit, crawl, walk, communicate, play and feed themselves etc.

If there are any barriers preventing this, the child is not able to reach his/her potential!

13% of all babies have a mild to severe handicap, arising from injury, disease or genetic disorder.

The good news is that early treatment and stimulation increase the chances of for normal development in the period of maximum brain growth! With this earliest treatment at the Baby Therapy Centre, we assist children from birth to 3 years of age to overcome barriers through various techniques, and to prevent secondary handicaps and fixed abnormalities.

Early Intervention services include individual therapy sessions, addressing each childs specific needs, and group therapy sessions, often including participation of parents, thereby optimising learning and interaction skills. Our approach is holistic and the whole team is involved according to the need of each child.

The Baby Therapy Centre is a non-profit organisation, founded and run on Christian principles.

We are situated in Lynnwood, Pretoria, and run various clinics and outstations.

Taken from https://www.givengain.com/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?c=116

Laparoscopy & Test Tube baby Centre

At http://www.kjivf.com/, you will find a Laparoscopy & Test Tube baby Centre.

Here is their introduction,

Welcome to "KJIVF" website, hosted by KJIVF Laparoscopy & Test Tube baby Centre for knowledge and guide lines about the Human Infertilities and Treatment . As we know Infertility is a big problem today. A infertile couple leads a life with stress and worried about their future. KJIVF & Laparoscopy Center is a premier center of Delhi providing high quality advanced infertility care & treatment under one roof where we discuss every aspects of your infertility and work towards your parenthood.

After healthy discussion we try to find out one of the appropriate cause of infertility and then sketch the plan of treatment along with you. Most of the infertile couple are treated by means of medicines or some of them have to go under small surgical operation to find out the appropriate cause of infertility.

Our Clinic

KJIVF & Laparoscopy Center is a premier center of Delhi providing high quality infertility services of international standard & minimally invasive surgery (Key hole surgery) under one roof at an affordable cost. The center is fully air conditioned, aesthetically designed & equipped with latest ‘State Of Art' equipments like Heracell incubator (Germany) HEPA filters, fully digital 3D Sonoace 5500 imaging system & Asculap endoscopy system to ensure best possible out come. Our pathology division is ISO 9001-2000 certified. One of the most important feature of KJIVF is complete in-house expertise. We don't depend on any outside expert & no batch system is followed at KJIVF. Each couple gets personalized care & individual attention under supervision & expert guidance of Dr. Kuldeep Jain, Director KJIVF to ensure best results. We are having a unique quality control system to ensure international standards which is done periodically by experts in this field.

How To Reach

KJIVF is situated at the heart of Trans Yamuna, Gagan Vihar, near Karkardooma flyover & is easily approachable from all sides.

A babies daily timetable

Here is an ideal babies timetable taken from
http://www.centralchildcare.co.nz/babies.htm

Daily Routine

The following table outlines our daily routine.

Time	Activity
7:30am	Main Centre Opens Babies have free play in the Toddlers area
9:00am	Babies Centre Opens All Centre Mat Time
9:15am	Nappy Change
9:30am	Morning Tea
10:00am	Planned Activity
11:00am	Free Play
11:15am	Nappy Changes
11:30am	Lunch
12:00pm	Bed Time
1:00pm	Nappy Changes
1:15pm	Free Play
2:30pm	Nappy Changes
3:00pm	Afternoon Tea
3:45pm	Move Over to Toddlers Area
4:00pm	Babies Centre Closes
4:15pm	Nappy Changes
4:30pm	Free Play
5:00pm	Snack Time (as appropriate)
5:45pm	Main Centre Closes

MOTHERS AND BABIES RESEARCH CENTRE

There is a website about mothers and babies, a research centre at http://www.mothersbabies.com/

It is developed by The University of Newcastle

They have a few departments located in Australia

DIVISION OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ENDOCRINOLOGY
JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL
HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
NEWCASTLE
AUSTRALIA

Baby Center website

Here are a few resources on the internet available about Baby center's

http://www.babycenter.com/
They have a few international sites as well, It also has parents information and pregnancy related article. They have an online store for those who would like to buy Baby products.

About Baby center .com

BabyCenter.com, the leading destination on the Internet for new and expectant parents, together with its companion site ParentCenter.com, a Web resource for parents of children ages 2 to 8, is dedicated to helping you find the information and support you need during pregnancy and in caring for a baby, toddler, or child.

Having a baby is a life-changing event, and raising a child is an exciting ongoing challenge. We're here to offer guidance, with easy-to-use sites that feature original high-quality content and practical advice from trusted sources such as obstetricians, pediatricians, developmental experts, nutritionists, and fellow parents.

Why are we the most trusted parenting resource on the Web? For these reasons:

• Parenting expertise. The seasoned professionals on our editorial team have worked at major magazines such as Parenting, Parents, and Health. More important, many of us are moms and dads who are living the subject firsthand, raising newborns, toddlers, and older children. We thoroughly research and fact-check every article we publish. We're the only family site that uses a team of medical advisors to ensure the reliability of the material we produce.

• Shopping guidance. Many parents and parents-to-be are overwhelmed by the complex choices they face in picking out the right baby gear, baby clothes, toys, nursery accessories, and other essentials. And parents of older children face a mind-boggling array of toys, games, software, and more products marketed for kids. We'll help you make better buying decisions with our popular buying guides and product comparisons. Shop online at the BabyCenter Store for new and expectant parents, babies, toddlers, and big kids.

• A sense of community. Our bulletin boards and chat sessions offer a thriving support system, letting you connect with other couples, women due around the same time as you, and medical professionals for answers to your questions. By taking 30 seconds to become a member, you'll receive free personalized e-mails written especially for your stage of pregnancy or your baby's age.

• Helpful e-mail newsletters. When you become a member of BabyCenter and Parentcenter, you'll receive free, personalized e-mails written especially for your stage of pregnancy or your child's age.

• Recognition as a trusted source. BabyCenter.com focuses exclusively on pregnancy and early childhood, letting us concentrate on helping you make confident, informed choices. Since the site's launch in November 1997, we've been featured on CNN and CBS, in Time, Fortune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and in hundreds of other newspapers, magazines, TV shows, and radio broadcasts. And we've won three Webby Awards, the industry's highest honor. See a complete list of BabyCenter's awards and honors.

• Respect for our users. Your privacy is important to us. We won't share information about individual readers with any advertiser, marketer, or outside party without your permission. See our privacy policy.

• About ParentCenter
ParentCenter.com is an easy-to-navigate one-stop resource designed to help parents of children ages 2 to 8 better manage and enjoy the day-to-day challenges of raising great kids.

ParentCenter takes a friendly and informative approach to content, offering helpful experts and a vibrant online community. ParentCenter includes more than a thousand original articles created especially for the Web, covering the topics of children's health, fun and activities, learning, and parenting. Information is organized by age and grade so you can find the most relevant information for your child's situation quickly and easily.

Also on ParentCenter are unique features that allow you to tap into the collective wisdom of thousands of other moms and dads, and tools to help you understand and celebrate your child's own, special abilities.

• About the company
BabyCenter LLC is headquartered in San Francisco. Our team of editors, designers, marketers, and technical staff is devoted to providing new and expectant parents, as well as parents of children ages 2 to 8, with trusted guidance. The company produces BabyCenter.com, the Web's most complete information source on preconception, pregnancy, baby, and toddler; BabyCentre.co.uk, a version of BabyCenter for British parents; and ParentCenter.com, for parents with older children. BabyCenter LLC is a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies.

• Editorial and Advertising Policy
BabyCenter is dedicated to providing parents and parents-to-be with high-quality, medically reviewed content. Our editorial team is made up of professional writers and editors, many educated at top journalism schools in the United States. We want to be your most trusted parenting resource. That's why we offer practical advice from expert sources, such as obstetricians, pediatricians, midwives, developmental psychologists, and — equally important — fellow parents.

With only a few exceptions, our content is all originally reported, fact checked, and reviewed by our Medical Advisory Board. Our editors and advisors are constantly updating and reviewing articles, and we make every effort to make corrections in a timely manner. In 2005 we began documenting this process on each story (look near the article title for the last reviewed date and advisor's name).

As part of our mission to provide readers with trustworthy information, we adhere to a strict policy of separation between editorial and advertising content. We believe you should always know the source of the information you're reading. We never allow advertisers to influence editorial content, and all advertising is either clearly separated from editorial content (in standard placements such as banner ads and right-hand units), or clearly labeled "advertisement" or "from our sponsors."

BabyCenter receives the bulk of its funding from paid advertisements. Other revenue sources include sales from our retail arm, the BabyCenter Store; our subscription business, BabyCenter Plus; and a custom publishing division.