Road safety is an extremely important issue that belongs to everyone, but especially to those of us who have children, to ensure that they always travel safely. For some years now, campaigns and reports have been made about how safe it is for babies and children to travel backwards.

A study prepared by the La Caixa Foundation paints a serious picture of low birth rates in Spain. We are at the tail of fertility, with 1.3 children on average, compared to the other countries of the European Union, and the tendency of the only child is also consolidated. It reflects that the Spaniards have fewer children than we would like to have.

Quarantine is the traditional way in which the postpartum period of the puerperium is known, a stage that lasts between six and eight weeks and that is characterized by the return to normal of all the organic and physiological changes that occurred in pregnancy and childbirth. The quarantine is defined by the Dictionary of the Royal Academy as "Time of 40 days, months or years."

As we know, cases of children with allergic disorders are increasing in industrialized countries, making asthma the most common disease in childhood. Eczema is an inflammatory skin disease also called atopic dermatitis whose origin, like asthma, is allergic.

Yesterday we published an entry explaining that artificial milk is not sterile, and that it is therefore advisable to bring the water to a boil to know that it is at 100 degrees, and from there calculate the appropriate time to make the mixture at a temperature of between 70 and 90 ° C, in order to provide heat to the powder and thus eliminate a large part of the microorganisms, and perhaps pathogens, that it may contain.

After giving birth, one of the things that most worries recent mothers is the reappearance of the rule after childbirth. The duration of postpartum amenorrhea (absence of menstruation after childbirth) varies greatly from one woman to another. Female hormones need some time to stabilize and return to function as they did before delivery.

I tell you a scene that I lived a few days ago, when I returned to my workplace to make the "official presentation" of my baby. I choose that situation because I have it more recent, but the reflection does not start from there, since it is something that I can live quite frequently and surely you also know of worried mothers and calm mothers or, affectionately, "suffered" and " you calm down. "

The photographer Erin Hoskins specialized in photography for babies and pregnant women faced a great challenge, creating the most beautiful photographs of a pregnant mother of quintuplets. The session came with a challenge added to the initial and it was that Kimberly Tucci the future mother of the quintuplets was already 30 weeks and at any time could be called for hospitalization.

Just as a decade ago seeing a child of 2 or more years having a tit was relatively strange (people hallucinated quite a lot when they saw Miriam, my wife, breastfeed Jon at that age), today it is still a controversial practice , but more and more normalized, especially since more and more people know that it is advisable for a child to be breastfeeding up to 2 years or more.

Around two years, a new stage begins for our son. After hearing the magic word several times from our mouth, it is he who always says "no". This is a very important stage in the growth of the child, through denial he takes the first step towards identifying himself, realizing that he can intervene on events, simply by saying no.

Today, as every Wednesday, we want to know more about our readers with the question we send you weekly in our Answers section. With the arrival of good weather, many families are preparing for the "diaper operation" and that process begins in which the diapers are taken from children.

After approximately 40 weeks in which your baby has been living inside you and is accustomed to hearing the beating of your heart, at the time of birth, of course, you still need to feel close, instinctively, to feel safe Once he adapts to his new life. And is that your baby not only rests when he sleeps, he also needs to relax the rest of the day and one of the best ways to get it is by noticing that you are present most of the time.