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When parents have a baby eight months old and every time she/he gets tired she/he wants a bottle. So you give her/him one and then she fall asleep and you take it out her mouth. Imagine, you at night do the same thing, what should you do?

It is very important that you break this habit immediately. Going to bed with a bottle will rot baby teeth and if they aren’t pulled, they will rot her adult teeth before they even come in. It is very serious. I’ve seen it happens and it is very sad to see a young child with no front teeth. It affects their eating habits because they have trouble biting and chewing food. It also affects speech.

Here simple tips you can do:

Try giving your baby a pacifier instead. If that doesn’t work, try to teach your baby to go to sleep without anything. It will be tough at first, but babies learn fast, and adjust well. If you stick to it for a week, you will notice improvements and baby will be able to sleep well without a bottle.

First, if you help baby fall asleep without a bottle, then your baby will be able to soothe herself back to sleep if she wakes up. Establish a bedtime routine, with a set bedtime. Then follow the same routine every night- for example, put on pajamas, read a book, tuck baby in and sing a song- and your baby will come to learn that these things mean it is time to go to sleep. If baby has trouble settling down, sit with your baby and comfort her/him.

Then gradually move closer to the door, and eventually out the door. Shorten the amount of time you spend sitting with your baby each night until baby is able to go to sleep on her own. You will be surprised at how quickly your baby adjusts.

Whatever you do, on a difficult night, do not give baby the bottle. This will confuses your baby and make it harder for baby to adjust to not having it. Be strong and trust, that baby will be fine. If you feel baby still needs the bottle before bed, give it to her a little earlier so baby doesn’t fall asleep with it and so your baby will not associate it with bed time. Good luck.

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Here is my aunt story when she hardly slept last night. Her kid (son, age two years) has a terrible runny nose and is coughing. She already have plug in vapor, humidifier inside the room, but still having difficulty breathing and sleeping.

In the middle of the night, as she was in the middle of asleep and awake, she tried to embrace her son and thought that she was so hot. She gets a towel and wash him forehead and legs to cool him down. Got him temperature and it was 102 degree. She seldom have that high fever. This morning he was still hot, and my aunt was trying to give him some medicine.

Ever since, her son hates medicines, and will not drink any of it. It has been a challenge ever since. Unfortunately, I was not successful, tried to mix it in water, no good, mix it in juice, no good. Finally, my aunt does not know what to do anymore.

As a parent of baby you can do some tips at here:

- The right thing in having a humidifier running. For the coughing, Try rubbing Vicks Vaporub on him/her feet and then putting socks over them. It sounds a little strange, but my aunt sons taught me this and it has worked every time.

- Try with hold baby’s nose and just let liquid go down him/her throat.

- Do not ever let a temp of 102 degree go without medication. There are too many other complications that can arises from that. And the coolness of a towel is a good thing, make sure it’s with cold water. This will help brings down the fever.

- Even if you need a pair of extra helping hands to hold the baby’s arm and legs. Then grab hold of little nose. Do not let go, put spoon in and make liquid go down, do not let go until it is swallowed.

- Put kids medicine in there drink or if an infant in there milk it has the same affect as it would if it wasn’t in the drink. It really works they never know the difference.

- If its vitamins, you can mix it to your baby’s milk. Now if it’s because the baby is sick you have to give it. Use dropper easier to let the baby swallow it.

- Most importantly do not let him/her see you put the medicine in him/her drink. My aunt sons always hated to take medicine for a fever or a cold, but if my aunt mixed it in his drink and he did not see me put it in there then he would drink the juice down without even knowing it was in there.

- If your kids/baby keeps up with the fever, you may need to take him/her to the doctor. If not you will end going to the nearest hospital.