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Limited time and energy with a little one(s) at home? WE KNOW!

Our team of medical experts has created some quick reads and short clips to get you through!

Infant Dehydration
Infant, Nutrition Farida Kwaji Infant, Nutrition Farida Kwaji

Infant Dehydration

Dehydration is when the body does not have enough water to function at its best. Our bodies do not have a way of storing backup water when needed. For this reason, fluid intake is more important in the short term than food energy intake.  

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Meconium
Infant Farida Kwaji Infant Farida Kwaji

Meconium

While in the uterus, your baby was being entirely nourished by their placenta through their umbilical cord. Because of this, when your baby is born, their first feeding out of the uterus is the first feeding for nutrition they have ever had! Like all feedings thereafter, this first feeding triggers the muscles of their intestines to start to move and squeeze as the first digestive process begins. Usually this will trigger the first bowel movement. This is called Meconium.

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