If you are a parent to be, you should be ready for all the challenges that you may encounter in raising a child and they say the most crucial age in raising them is before they reach one year old. One of those challenges you will encounter first is baby sleep problems.

Baby’s sleep pattern is different from the adult one, of course yes this is true because they need an extra sleep for their growth and development. So, baby sleep problems are very common and parents have to deal with it. There are many reasons why babies have an irregular sleep pattern and some of the most important key factors contributing to irregular sleep patterns are hunger, illness, pain and wet nappy. It is believed that many babies have the habit of night feeding till about seven to eight months of life.

Baby Sleep Problems

When the baby feels pain or something wrong to her/his body and the only way to tell her/his parents about what they feel is through expressions like restlessness, crying and unable to sleep since the baby can’t talk to their parent to tell them what they feel so they express it that way, isn’t it amazing? Some research and studies showed that babies that are breast fed are more likely to stay awake at night as compared to those who are bottle fed.  To help your baby sleep, you could try rocking the baby, playing some soft music, or giving the baby a massage or a relaxing bath and that would be helpful in that way.

Your baby’s cord blood will give a life to other people. What’s in it that makes it important? A cord blood is the blood that remains in the cord and placenta after giving birth that is usually discarded. This is the source of cord blood banking. Cord blood banking is a facility made to store and preserves your baby’s cord blood.

Cord Blood Banking

Why should you store your baby’s blood it is because the cord blood of your baby is a rich source of stem cells which help in the development of all tissues, organs and other systems of the body. The stem cells can transform into other types of cells in the body and create new growth and development and are considered the building block of the immune system.

Thus it is important because it is currently used to treat leukemia and other blood diseases and some genetic/inherited disorders. How is the cord blood collected, well it is simple safe and painless, your health care provider may use either of the two techniques by syringe method or bag method, in syringe method is drawing the blood immediately after the umbilical cord has cut while the bag method is by elevating the cord to be able to drain the blood, then after collection the blood will be processed and store to a certain blood bank.

Is there a health risk? No! there is no risk and it will not harm you neither your baby.