Monitoring infants’ growth needs to be commended or practiced since their early stage in order to ensure that babies are developed optimally. Because, we understand that a kid that is smart and healthy is the dream of every parent in the world, so it’s important to always fulfill the baby’s nutrition need.
One of many ways to make sure our baby grows up well and healthy is by monitoring the growth of the infant. Being a company to them is the biggest investment in their health so that they could stay away from serious disease.
Why Is It Important to Monitoring Infant’s Growth?
Based on Ikatan Dokter Anak Indonesia or IDAI, a rapid growth process occurs when a child is on their 1000 HPK or Hari Pertama Kehidupan, which means 1000 first days since the baby is inside of the womb until the second year of the baby’s life. In the first 1000 days, the brain and other vital organs are formated so the baby’s growth really depending on their life on this phase.
Because of that monitoring the growth of infant, need to be conducted, apart from making sure that baby getting enough nutrition they need monitoring could help preventing the risk of stunting. Stunting is a condition where infant’s height is not growing as well as how it should be like other infant their age. This cannot be easily handled if we dont detect it sooner.
Monitoring Infant’s Growth and Prevents Stunting Since Early Age
By monitoring the growth of infant, the unnatural growth will be detected sooner then stunting could be prevented sooner. This condition not only affecting infant’s growth physically but also mentally and their cognitive ability. Stunting should be prevented so that infant could grow optimally.
The prevention of this condition could be done by doing as following :
- Healthy and balanced dietary habit
For the sake of infant’s growth optimalization balanced nutritional intake is required. Make sure dietary needs such as minerals, vitamin, calsium, carbohydrate, protein and irons are fulfilled. Other than that, you could also add additional nutrition that stimulate growth hormone such as whole grain, flour, etc.
Moreover, make sure infant eats within a regular schedule. For example, breakfast on six or seven o’clock in the morning, lunch on twelve utnil one o’clock in the afternoon, and dinner on six or seven in the evening.
- Exercise or do some physical activity
When infant start to actively moving around, direct them to do physical activites such as running, biking, dancing, or just strolling around the house. This kind of physical activites that could stimulate child’s motoric ability so that they could grow optimally.
Other activities such as water games, outbond, copying animal’s sound, balance game could also stimulate child’s motoric ability.
- Making sure infant always sleep comfortably
Infant’s phase is an age where sleep time should be sufficient, parents should make sure that infant sleep early at night. Infant with from three until six months need sleep as much as they need nutritional intake. They need at least 14-15 sleep duration each day.
Other than adequate, sleep should be comfortable and cozy. Sleeping cozily will help stimulate growing process, because during sleep infant’s growing hormones is released abudantly.
Detecting Stunting and Monitoring Infant’s Grow by Measure Regularly
As mentioned before stunting could lead to several unsettling condition. The effect of stunting could lead to short term disturbance such as physical growth disorder and even worse brain growth disorder. If stunting not handled properly since early age, it could lead to long term disorder such as weakening of immunity, heart disease risk, even obesity could occur. Thus, it’s important to prevent horible posibility to happen.
Measuring the length of infant regularly is one method to make sure that infant’s growth is still on track, be spared from stunting possibilty.
Always keep in mind that An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Measurement Tool to Monitor Infant’s Growth
Metresis – Portable Infantometer by Solo Abadi Indonesia is the best measurement tool choice to measure and monitor infant’s growth. Portable Infantometer is a tool to measure infant’s length age range from 0 to 2 years. Measurement will be done in supine position, designed to create a sense of comfort for infants.
- Measurement scale is accurate and easy to read
Measurement scale is used to reading measuring result that is adapted with international standard and quality control for precision and accurate measurement result.
2. Three types of measurement
Portable infantometer provide three types of measurement that is infant’s length measurement, height measurement, and head measuremen
3. Premium design
Measurement board designed to adjust infant’s feature so that they could feel comfortable. Head and foot slider is easily moved adjustable to infant’s length. Made of aluminium, stainless steel and nylon thus it could last longer.
4. Exclusive storage bag
Portable infantometer Solo Abadi is equipped with exclusive storage bag so it is easy to bring everywhere. Moreover, this bag could also use for protecting the tool, and to minimize damage.
Here’s the detail of portable infantometer by Solo Abadi :
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