APP. PediatraWeb

Maintaining an adequate and balanced diet, consisting of essential nutrients and the calories necessary to promote growth and meet the physiological needs at various stages of development. Nutritional needs vary considerably with age, activity level and disease of the environment, and are directly related to the rate of growth.

A type of feeding that a baby feeds on his mother's milk. Milk, precisely, is a food of unique characteristics that allows the mother to transmit her defense mechanisms to the newborn, while the act of breastfeeding succeeds in strengthening the mother-child relationship.

Child development consists of a succession of stages or phases in which there are a series of physical and psychological changes that are going to imply the growth of the child.

Child learning is the process through which the child acquires or modifies skills, skills, knowledge, behaviors or values as a result of study, experience, instruction, reasoning and observation.

First aid is a series of emergency medical procedures that apply to an infant who has suffered an accident or is suddenly sick until he or she can receive adequate medical care. In the case of children, accidents are much more frequent than in adults, because children have no notion of danger.