Baby Care and Parenting Tips

Since baby guinea pigs are so small and tiny it’s always a good idea to take more precautions to help to make them safe while they are in their cage.  Take their little heads for example, their heads could easily become stuck in between the bars and this would lead to asphyxiation.

One way to prevent this from happening is to line the cage walls with cardboard from the bottom up to around one foot.  If your cage is made from wire grid, then you could add a new wall by placing more grid on the outside and then putting cardboard in between the two cage walls.  After the babies have gotten to be around 4-6 months old this extra wall or cardboard can be removed.  They have now gotten big enough to not worry about their little heads becoming stuck.

After the new babies are born and mom has had time to sufficiently bond and clean them it will be safe for you to touch the newborn pups.  Your smell on the new pups will not affect the mom from taking care of them herself.  This would also be a great time to monitor their weight.  By keeping track of their weight this will give you some idea of how well their health is coming along.

If by chance your baby pup is not growing at the same rate an another one then you will need to step in and place this pup with the mom alone at feeding time.  This will ensure that this little pup is receiving their fair share.  If this pups weight does not improve or any of the others are not gaining weight, then you need to get in contact with your veterinarian as quickly as possible.

Baby pups also require alfalfa rich hay in the form of pellets as it is beneficial to their growing needs and is also good for a pregnant guinea pig.  Since guinea pigs are a plant based eater they need to not be given, sugars, fats, seeds/nut or animal products.  They do need a fresh supply of water kept at hand and timothy hay.

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Baby care is an indispensable part in the life. Parents should learn something in heart to take good care of their children. And the first one they should know is to be as considerate as possible.

Always, babies or infants are so weak that parents have to be considerate to avoid any neglects that are dangerous to the kids. Then, what should parents do to look after babies well?

1 Sleeping

Sleeping issues are of great significance when it comes to newborns. It takes a lot of commitment in taking care of baby, including the sleeping positions of the baby, how long they sleep and how often they sleep. Enough sleeping is one of the basic condition for a baby’s growing up.

2 Eating

As a newborn, the baby spends most of his/her time in sleeping and eating. Whenever he/she wakes up, he/she is apt to cry for drinking milk or eating something fluid. Be considerate of the babies so that you can know when they are hungry and when they don’t want to eat at all.

3 Bathing

If you are considerate enough, you should pay your attention to the bath time of the baby very carefully. You should learn how to bath the baby and what to do for your baby during bath time. Remember that infant is much weaker than children or adults, so make sure that the temperature is warm enough when bathing the baby.

4 Comforting

Babies, in fact, are quite difficult to comfort. But if you fail to comfort the infants, they will cry loudly to make you bored and unhappy. There are many aspects you should take into consideration when comforting the babies, such as the burping babies, teething of babies, equipments use for feeding babies, and so on. Additionally, you should focus on the hunger, tiredness, pains or some common illness of the baby if you hope the baby to live a comfortable life.

All in all, it is not easy to take care of a baby. Just learn to be considerate and patient as well. Only if you have been considerate enough, you are able to look after a baby.