JANUARY 2018 www.themomandcaregiver.com VOLUME 20 ISSUE 1 20Celebratin YEARS!g Pregnancy - Baby - Toddler - Preschool - School Age - Family Follow Us www.themomandcaregiver.com 1 A Free Magazine for Parents and Caregivers CONTENTS EDITORIAL 04 Celebrating My 20th!!! 05 EVENTS CALENDAR January NEW BEGINNINGS 06 The Scoop on Poop 08 AS THEY GROW Does This Make Sense? FRANKLY FATHERHOOD 10 The Circumcision Decision 11 BRUSHING UP Can Your Teeth Indicate You Have Celiac Disease? CELEBRATING 20 YEARS 12 Where Are They Now? 14 BIZ SHOWCASE ooobaby KID ZONE 15 So Proud of My Mummy 16 FOSTERING DREAMS, ADOPTING HOPE Lessons Learned on the Journey LIFE BALANCE AND HAPPINESS 17 Welcome 2018 18 PET FRIENDLY The Power of Pets for Seniors BEAUTY AND WELLNESS 19 A New Year, A New You 21 FOOD FOR THOUGHT From A to B – the Low-Down on Supplements WHOLE HEALTH 22 Meet Miso – Your New (Healthy!) Secret Ingredient On The Cover This is what joy looks like! 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Copyright 2018 © 2 January 2018 Follow Us www.themomandcaregiver.com 3 Sabina Manji - Chief Editor th JANUARY EVENTS 01/2018 CELEBRATING MY 20 !!! SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THUR SDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY ndo 1 2 3 444 5 6 Happy New Year’s Levee Board Game Playdough Free Play Western Mustangs Five Oceans Winter Afternoon Eldon Houseajors Extravaganza LPL, Stoney Creek Women’s Hockey London Brewing Movie New Labatt Park do1 LPL, Pond Mills Thompson Arena Co-operative LPL, Jalna Year! 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 London Lightning Storytime Beginning with Baby Storytime Jan. 11-14 Music for Young Bilingual Storytime Budweiser Gardens LPL, Central LPL, Cherryhill LPL, Sherwood World Financial Children LPL, Landon Group Continental London Children’s Editorial Cup Museum Western Fair 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Imagination Station Stargazing Night Jan. 16-Feb. 3 London Lightning Jan. 18-20 Jan. 18-28 Mini Pop Kids Live Museum London Hume Cronyn Memo- Silence Budweiser Gardens London Food & Wine Nurse Jane Goes To Centennial Hall rial Observatory Grand Theatre Show Hawaii Western Fair Palace Theatre 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Free Guided Tour Storytime Nature in the City Jeff Dunham Western Mustangs Jan. 26-28 Jan. 26-27 Dear readers, friends and supporters, What a happy moment and experience this has been. Museum London LPL, Central (tracking migrant Passively Aggressive Men’s Hockey Lifestyle Home Pirates of Penzance birds) Thompson Arena Show Western University “Yesterday, when I was young, “Twenty years ago, I was so young. Wolf Performance Western Fair there were so many issues wait- Hall ing to be done.” My new baby – this magazine – was begun. 28 29 30 31 27 For More Details and Events Visit This month The Mom and I ventured onto the publishing stage. Surfin’ Safari Curious Public Nature in the City Books for Babies Caregiver magazine is printed Bill Culp LPL, Central (fossils) LPL, Stoney Creekrt Aeolian Hall Wolf Performance Symposium with the pride, joy and happi- The magazine, printed in black and white, on just one Hall Museum London ness of 20 years of trial and er- page.” Your Online Parenting Resource ror, change and growth. How we’ve grown! And, so have the 16 cover children Yes, this is our 20th anniversary from past editions, holding the one they were featured edition! Our cover this month came in. Over the next 20 years, we hope some of their chil- about purely by accident – it was not dren will keep the tradition alive. staged or planned. What you see has not “Success is the sum been altered or filtered in any way. My inner child was So, folks, here we are. It’s January 2018 and another 20 Jan. 11-14 Jan. 18-20 January 29 World Financial Group Continental Cup London Food & Wine Show Curious Public of small efforts, glowing with happiness and this moment was cap- years begin. Please continue to join me on this journey. Western Fair Western Fair LPL, Central repeated day in tured by Cynthia, our photographer, simply by chance. We’ve got some exciting things planned! and day out.” January 15 Jan. 26-28 January 30 Robert Collier I want to share my absolute appreciation to you, my I want to close my editor’s note by acknowledging, with Stargazing Night Lifestyle Home Show Nature in the City (fossils) dear followers, advertisers and staff by showing just deepest sincerity, the care and dedication that our sup- Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory Western Fair Wolf Performance Hall how much this anniversary means to me. My smile port staff has given. sings, thanks to you all! The confetti represents the ideas, love and sharing that The Mom and Caregiver has You also made this happen. offered to the winds of time and what we have received in return. Happy New Year to all! Publisher/Chief Editor Sabina Manji Sabina Manji, Assistant Editor Melissa Warkentin Chief Editor Copy Editor Melanie Drew KIDS CRAVE ATTENTION Designer A. Brophy Creative 519-652-9226 Photographer One-12 Photography Why not give them a stage? Visit danceextreme.com Call 519-657-DANCE [email protected] Photostyling Sabina Manji and Melissa Warkentin 4 January 2018 Follow Us www.themomandcaregiver.com 5 Pregnancy - Birth - Postpartum New Beginnings THE SCOOP ON POOP our baby’s health can be observed in more often than formula-fed babies. eating or drinking anything red. Blood or an intestinal infection if your baby it softer. As a rough guideline, an ounce Ytheir poop. In the first days of life, a Younger babies tend to poop in succes- can be seen in newborns who swallowed seems sick. If poop is dry or hard, your per day for every month of life up to four newborn’s bowel movements consist of sion so perhaps wait until your baby is blood during delivery or are sensitive to breastfed or bottle-fed baby may not months can be given. a thick black or green substance called done before a diaper change. Infrequent cow’s milk protein. Irritation of the anus have enough fluids. meconium, which fills your baby’s in- stooling may not mean constipation if may cause streaks of blood to appear You baby’s poop will have different pat- testines before birth. Once meconium stools are soft and your baby is gaining outside stools. Visit your baby’s doctor Once your baby starts to eat solids, terns, forms and colours. If you don’t clears, stool changes to yellow-green, weight and feeding well. to make sure it’s not a problem. Black harder poops may mean your baby is know what it means, ask your doctor! usually appearing mustard-like with poop after your baby’s first few days of eating too many constipating foods. Try seedy particles. Poop colours vary but pay attention to life may suggest old blood and merits a offering more vegetables and fruits, like Becky Biqi Chen was a resident in general certain ones. White poop is unusual and visit to the doctor. prunes. If your baby is still constipat- pediatrics for three years at the Children’s Normal pooping patterns vary from one may indicate a liver problem so contact ed, ask your doctor for advice. A bit of Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre. She is currently specializing in pediatric gastroenterol- poop every several days to several poops your baby’s doctor right away. Red poop If baby poop is watery or exceeds feed- fruit juice like apple or pear juice might ogy during her fellowship at the British Columbia per day. Breastfed babies usually stool may indicate blood if your baby is not ing frequency, check for dehydration help draw fluid into the poop to make Children’s Hospital. Angela Peeters Share the gift of life www.surrogacycommunity.ca Be a surrogate and join hands against infertility [email protected] Support for every unique journey 226.377.4252 Exeter, Ontario 6 January 2018 Follow Us www.themomandcaregiver.com 7 Newborn - Baby - Toddler DOES THIS MAKE SENSE? As They Grow ll children use their senses to play and learn. watch your feet on the pedals or your hands on the AThere are the five senses we can easily name: vi- handlebars. You don’t need to figure out how much sion, hearing, touch, smell and taste. And then there pressure you need to push the pedals. Instead you are two other senses that are “invisible” but just as can watch where you are going! important. These two senses help us maintain bal- ance and make us aware of the spatial orientation Activities to improve the proprioceptive sense in- of our body. clude pulling a wagon, pushing a cart and lifting – anything that involves movement with or against The vestibular sense relates to movement and it resistance.