5 Great Ways to Boost Your Baby’s Immune System
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There is nothing more precious than bringing a newborn baby home from the hospital. I don’t know about you, but I was a nervous wreck the first few weeks of my newborn’s life. Because I care so deeply about my baby, I want to protect her and keep her safe; which includes protecting her from germs and sickness. Although there’s no “foolproof” way to ensure that your baby never gets sick, these 5 ways to boost your baby’s immune system can help lessen the likelihood of illness.
5 Great Ways to Boost Your Baby’s Immune System
1.Make sure your baby is well rested: The more rested your baby is, the better their body will be able to fight off any infection or illness that may try and enter their body. Make sure your baby is getting adequate sleep at night and napping during the day.
2. Wash and sanitize your hands: Right after I have a baby, I put a large bottle of hand sanitizer near the entrance to my home. This serves as a reminder to all who enter my home to wash their hands before holding my baby. I also put sanitizer at various locations around my home and sanitize as often as I can. This helps my other children to remember to sanitize their hands throughout the day – not just when around the baby.
3. Use physical barriers: Although it’s important to remember to keep your baby away from large crowds for the first few weeks of your baby’s life, when you do need to venture out in public with your baby, use physical barriers to protect them from germs. One of my favorite ways to do this is by putting a carseat cover over their carseat. This still allows me to bring them on quick errands without people touching and breathing on them.
4. Breastfeed: Breastfeeding passes a mother’s immunity on to the baby; this helps protect the baby while their own immune system is maturing.
5. Similac Pro-Advance™ and Similac Pro-Sensitive™ Formula: Although breast milk is an awesome source of immunity for babies, for those of us who can’t, or choose not to breastfeed, Similac Pro-Advance™ and Similac Pro-Sensitive™ Formula are two great options. These two formulas are the first two formulas that provide your baby with 2′-FL Human Milk Oligosaccharide+ (HMO), an immune-nourishing prebiotic previously only found* in breast milk.
HMOs are prebiotics found in breastmilk that help with your baby’s immune system. They feed good bacteria found in the gut, where 70% of your immune system exists. Some HMOs are also absorbed into bloodstream, providing your baby with immune-nourishing support elsewhere in the body. Because HMOs are currently not found in any other formulas, Similac Pro-Advance™ and Similac Pro-Sensitive™ Formula are helping narrow the gap between breastmilk and formula. How cool to have formula now available that contains some of the same immune-nourishing benefits as breastmilk?!?
As parents, we all love our babies and want what’s best for them; including a healthy and happy life. Thanks to Similac Pro-Advance™ and Similac Pro-Sensitive™ Formula helping build your newborn’s immunity has never been easier.
How do you best protect your baby’s immune system?
*at significant levels
+ not from human milk
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Such great tips for little babies! They can be susceptible to colds!
These are amazing tips to boost your baby’s immune system! It is really important that you ensure your child can be as healthy as possible and these tips will certainly help!
I was THAT mom that didn’t let too many people hold her babies until they were several months old. It’s just not fun taking care of a sick infant, and the people who GOT them sick are nowhere to be found. Wonderful tips here!
Keeping our sweet little ones healthy is so important. Thank you for sharing this. I love your helpful tips.
These are such great tips. A lot of people forget that the immune system needs a well rested body to be able to protect it. Babies are no different!
Similac is the only formula my Daughter could handle. I did all of these things to help improve her immune system.
My Daughter is due to have our first Granddaughter in August. I will have to share this post with her. She is trying to learn as much as she can.
These are great ways to boost your baby’s immune system. There are so many illnesses out there I want my baby to be as strong as possible.
When my kids were babies they were never sick. They loved to sleep and I am wondering if that had something to do with it?
My tip is to throw a bottle of hand sanitizer in your diaper bag, in addition to one in your purse. They make all natural ones now that are safe around infants.
These are some great tips. One of the biggest ways to boost a baby’s immune system is to make sure to always sterilize baby bottles and pacifiers. I get so surprised when some parents just “rinse these items off” rather than actually sterilizing them. It makes a huge difference!
Great tips! I did a lot of these tips when my kiddo was a baby! I think that all of these tips are very doable for anyone with a newborn!
You’re definitely right about these. Rest makes a huge difference and remembering to wash your hands will save you a lot of trouble!
Great tips. Hand sanitizer strategically placed throughout your home is a wonderful idea.
Getting enough rest is SO important! So many people under-estimate the power of it.
Similac is such a great company. They have always been the leader in formula. I love them.
These are great tips. Babies have such fragile little systems. It’s important to protect them.
I love your baby photos and miss having a little baby so much! Great tips!!
These are all great tips for keeping your baby protected from germs. Having the hand sanitizer by the front door is brilliant.
These tips are really helpful and easy to adopt.