Baby Care Basics

It is the general consensus of baby experts that babies should be given toys to play with. The first reason for this is that for them, playtime is also learning time and the tasks that infants need to learn are best learned by playing with toys

During infancy, much of the growth is focused on the muscles and the bones. That is why the rate of growth during those years is much faster than at a later age. It is necessary that babies have all the nutrients that their muscles and bones will need to develop normally. But it is equally as important that they have the means and the tools to train those muscles and bones to perform tasks such as keeping their balance and handling objects.

At their age, babies do not yet have the mental abilities to device practice exercises for themselves. To compensate for that, they have been given an intense curiosity about everything they see around them. Babies will want to touch, feel and handle objects. That is part of getting accustomed to the environment as well as getting to know how to cope with the environment.

Contours that can harm the infant are definitely not appropriate for toys. Included in these are protrusions which are pointed and edges which are sharp. The toy’s outline should also not be angular or pointed. It is best to confine your selection to toys with rounded shapes.

Balls and rounded hoops are perfectly safe for the baby to handle and play with. For the first year and a half, do not give the baby box-type toys, particularly if the corners of the box are pointed.

The materials used for coloring toys should also be one of your selection criteria. Firstly, avoid dyes or paints that have toxic chemicals in them. While this kind of toy is new, the paint may be invisibly exuding toxic discharges into the air. You should also remember that babies love to lick at and put things into their mouths. Some coloring substances are also flammable, Even if you wouldn’t think of leaving a candle lit in baby’s room, there are unpredictable accidents that happen every day in the world.

Before purchasing any toy, you need to know from the vendor what sort of paint was used on the toy. Do not purchase if your vendor does not know. Look for something somewhere else or another person in the same store who knows. Choose toys painted with water-based dyes as these are the ones which are not poisonous and non-flammable. Latex paint or mild paint are organic and non-toxic coloring substances.

Latex paints use latex (a type of plant sap) as the binder for their pigment. The binder is the ingredient that holds the pigment fast to the painted surface. It is therefore, strictly organic (unless of course the pigment used is not). Being organic, it does not contain actively harmful ingredients.

Milk paints are even safer than latex for use on babies’ toys. This type of dye has been used for hundreds of years and has begun to enjoy increasing popularity today. Specifically you expect to find milk protein, clay, lime and organic pigments in milk protein.  As always, you should be sure the baby is not allergic to either latex or milk.
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Bennetta Elliott is a writer for Personalized Gift Express, which offers Personalized Gifts , Sports Team Gifts or anchor text 1 for article 1

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