Top 15 Essential Tips for Caring for Your Baby

• For children who have recently weaned, drinking water stored in bamboo stalks (sealed inside the bamboo) may help prevent bedwetting later on.

• Clean a pig's bladder, combine it with sticky rice and cook thoroughly, adding a bit of pepper. If sticky rice is unavailable, simply chop the pig's bladder and serve. Give the mixture to the child on an empty stomach 1 to 3 times a day, 20 to 50g per serving.

• Method 1: Use a bamboo stick (about 1.2 meters long) and secretly place it near your baby’s sleeping area. This traditional remedy is said to stop nighttime crying.
• Method 2: Mix 3.75g of castor seeds with water and apply it to your baby’s belly button.
• Method 3: Take a handful of small, fresh tea leaves, wash and crush them, then place them on your baby’s belly button, securing them with a bandage.

Babies who are still breastfeeding often experience milk reflux. Here are two remedies you can try:

• Method 1: Use 30g of five-flavor fruit and 20g of licorice. Take half of the five-flavor fruit raw and the other half roasted. Grind everything into powder and store it in a clean, tightly sealed jar. Each time, mix 2g of this powder with rice water or porridge water, and give it to the baby twice a day.
• Method 2: Clean half of the pink ear (a type of herb), grind it with boiling water until it turns into a thick liquid, then mix one teaspoon of this liquid with breast milk and feed the baby. Administer this remedy twice a day and continue until the reflux stops.

Note: Avoid overfeeding the baby. After breastfeeding, hold the baby upright for a while until they burp before laying them down.

If a baby is fed irregularly, they may be fed multiple times throughout the day without ever being full because their stomach is never empty enough to feel hunger. If this continues day after day, it can impact the child's health and even disrupt their digestive system. To improve nutrient absorption and regulate the baby’s digestive system, it is important to feed the baby at set times.

Following the body’s natural digestive rhythm, which releases digestive enzymes every three hours, you should space feedings accordingly. A feeding time of 15-20 minutes is usually enough to satisfy the baby. At night, since babies sleep more, they need fewer feedings—just two during the night should be sufficient. Mothers should establish a feeding schedule to ensure both their health and the baby’s well-being.

After one month, babies should start receiving a daily serving of fresh fruit juice or vegetable juice to boost their vitamin intake. For this, choose large, seedless oranges. Sterilize a needle with boiling water, use it to puncture the orange segments, and let the baby suck on the juice. Squeeze the orange to release more juice while the baby sucks. Make sure both the orange and your hands are clean to ensure the juice is safe for the baby.

• Take a handful of black alum leaves, wash them thoroughly, crush them with boiling water, and let it settle. Have the baby hold the liquid in their mouth.
• Clean a handful of soybean roots, slice them thinly, crush them, then mix with saltwater. Squeeze the juice and have the baby hold it in their mouth and swallow slowly.
• Take the leaves of the shrimp-tail plant, wash them well, crush them, and extract the juice. Have the baby hold the juice in their mouth, and apply the leftover pulp to the area where the bone got stuck. If the throat is swollen and the baby cannot swallow, use Chinese chives leaves, wash them, squeeze out a few drops of juice, and drip it into the baby's throat. Then let the baby hold the shrimp-tail leaf juice in their mouth.

• If your child contracts measles, try using fresh water spinach leaves, dry-roast them, and brew them as tea. This can help eliminate the virus and prevent a recurrence.
• Take 150g of white radish, wash it thoroughly, and extract the juice. Add 15g of rock sugar, steam until the sugar dissolves, and let it cool. Give the child this mixture twice a day.
• Use 50g of carrots, 25g of Chinese yam, 10g of young mulberry leaves, 50g of rice, and 15g of rock sugar. Cook all ingredients into a porridge, and give it to the child when hungry, twice a day, for 4-5 days. This will help clear the measles symptoms.

If your child is suffering from nosebleeds due to internal heat, take a handful of cleaned pennywort leaves, crush them, and squeeze out the juice. Mix this juice into a glass of cooled boiled water, adding a little sugar. Have the child drink this mixture several times a day. Place the leftover pulp on their forehead while they lie down. Continue this treatment for 2-3 days, then reduce to once or twice a week to stop recurring nosebleeds.

For children who have poor appetite, are underweight, and frequently have loose stools, try this remedy: clean a large handful of pennywort roots, dry them, roast them, and grind them into powder. Add this powder to rice porridge when cooking or mix it directly into the child’s porridge for effective results.

Alternatively, you can use a blend of 10g of Chinese herbs: Sa Sham, Dong Mai, Cowpea, Jade Bamboo, Tian Hua Fen, Malt, and 15g of Lily. Boil these herbs together and have the child drink the decoction twice a day, 1 dose each time.

There are 3 effective methods to treat heat rash in children. You can try any of these:

• Method 1: Clean the outer skin of a watermelon, removing any remaining flesh, then rub the rind on the rash areas of the child's body. It's best to do this after the child has bathed. Apply 3 times a day, and the rash should improve within two days.
• Method 2: Clean the rash with warm water, then apply a small amount of toothpaste. This is also a very effective remedy.
• Method 3: Crush bitter melon to extract the juice, and gently rub it on the rash. After a few days, you should notice significant improvement.

• Method 1: Apply breast milk to the areas where the child has been bitten by mosquitoes. Do this 3-4 times a day for 3 days, and the bites will heal without leaving scars.
• Method 2: For older children, dilute vinegar and gently rub it on the bites, then apply a gauze pad over them.
• Method 3: Toothpaste is also a very effective remedy for mosquito bites. Simply apply a small amount to the bite.
• Method 4: After the child is bitten, soak a cotton ball in concentrated saltwater and apply it to the bite for about 10 minutes, then rinse it off.
• Method 5: Use a small piece of ice to apply cold compresses to the bite area. This method works very well too.

• Clean the pear thoroughly, cut it into small pieces, add a little water and boil. Use the resulting water to cook brown rice or regular rice to make a porridge, which can help relieve heat for the child.
• Let the child suck on honey or use a cotton swab soaked in honey to apply it to sores in the child's mouth. The best results are achieved when done before bed.
• Wash some fresh spinach leaves, crush them, and squeeze out the juice. Mix this juice with a little honey and apply the mixture to the sore areas using a cotton swab. Repeat 2-3 times a day, and the sores will heal gradually.