All parents should be familiar with the basic rules for caring for a newborn child. The newborn is too small and defenseless, it requires careful care of yourself and a significant time. Often, difficulties and lack of knowledge young parents experience if the child in their family is the first child. Consider 10 basic rules for caring for the baby.
1. Cleanliness is the key to health
In the room where the newborn baby will be, it is necessary to maintain cleanliness constantly. Strictly sterile order is not required, however, wet cleaning as often as possible should be carried out. When communicating with a young child, you should always wash your hands, nails should be short with your parents, so that the baby's tender skin is not injured. The mother should take regular showering, and before each feeding the child rinse your breast with warm water. Contacts of the child with visitors in the first months of life are extremely undesirable.
2. Observance of the required temperature and humidity in the room
In the room for a newborn, the optimal temperature should be 22 degrees. Should not she in any case be above 25 degrees. The humidity in the newborn's room should be about 40-60%. It is worth knowing that high humidity is fraught with overheating, but low air humidity dries the mucous, makes the baby vulnerable to microbes. It is always good to use a humidifier if there is a small child in the house.
The room should be regularly ventilated, taking the baby for this time from the room. It is recommended to air a children's room 4-5 times a day for 15-30 minutes - this depends on the time of the year.
3. Proper clothes for a newborn baby
Clothing for a newborn baby should always be made from natural fabrics. And the choice of things should depend on the time of the year. However, it is not always necessary to adhere to the rule: "You put on your child's clothing more than you put on yourself." For a baby, it is dangerous to overheat, and for this reason, it is not necessary to wrap the baby in any way, cover it with warm blankets.
Use for the baby immediately sliders and tights or swaddling - this is the choice of parents. Physicians are allowed, and one and the other. When the baby does not swaddle, then it is convenient to use a padded coat with sewn sleeves so that the toddler does not injure himself with sharp marigolds.
4. What should be the child's sleeping place
For a newborn baby you need a separate cot. It should stand in a sufficiently bright place, and away from drafts. A children's mattress should have a natural filler base, rather rigid. It is worth knowing that a pillow to children under one year is not recommended, instead of it a folded four-fold diaper is used. The cot should be as comfortable as possible with the lowered side.
5. Morning toilet of an infant
In the mornings it is recommended to wash the eyes of the child. A separate tampon is used for each eye. Wipe the eyes from the outer corner and to the inside. If you have pus, you need to see a doctor, because the problems can be of a different nature. The nose of the newborn is cleaned with a cotton wool, which is moistened with baby oil, with special helical movements. It is worth noting that the ears are cleaned only with visible large accumulations of sulfur with a special cotton swab just outside and within sight. Deep in the ears of the baby's tampon can not be shoved. It is necessary to know, the genitals in girls should be processed with a swab only in the direction of speredinazad.
Special scissors are used, which should be with rounded ends for cutting the marigolds of the newborn.
6. Treatment of umbilical wound
In a newborn baby, the umbilical wound is the most vulnerable place for germs, so it requires careful care. The umbilical wound is treated daily. From the dwarf crusts are removed with a cotton swab, previously moistened in a solution of hydrogen peroxide, after a cotton swab with a green. This procedure is best done after bathing. When the umbilical wound becomes inflamed or bleeds, it is necessary to call a pediatrician at home.
7. Application of cosmetics for newborns
In our time, a large number of different means for the care of the skin of babies has been developed. There is the main advice here - do not overdo it with makeup. The fact that the skin of the newborn must breathe. Only when necessary, it is necessary to apply a cream for newborns. Apply them should be a thin layer.
8. The use of air baths
Air baths for babies are compulsory! Always at every dressing, changing a diaper, a newborn baby is recommended to leave absolute for a few minutes, bringing the total time of such air baths to two hours a day. If you use disposable diapers, they should be changed more often. It is worth knowing that gauze diapers are undesirable because they do not breathe and can lead to diaper dermatitis.
9. Bathing a newborn baby
It is desirable to bathe an infant every day. And it is better to do this in the evening before night feeding. The water temperature should always be 37 degrees. It is worth knowing that before the full healing of the umbilical wound in water it is recommended to add a weak solution of potassium permanganate. After that, you can already bathe the newborn in ordinary water, from the column, from the tap. It should be monitored when adding potassium permanganate to the water, so that all of its crystals are dissolved completely, otherwise the tender skin of the newborn can be burned.
10. Walking in the open air
Walking in the fresh air should also be daily. Much also depends on the weather and season. The duration of the first walk is usually 10-15 minutes, with time, the time should gradually increase and be brought up to 40-60 minutes in the cool season and up to 4-5 hours in warm weather. The number of walks per day for a newborn is the most optimal - two. In winter, at a temperature that is below minus 5 degrees, do not take the baby out onto the street, nor is it recommended to walk in the presence of strong wind and rain. In this weather, it is convenient to use a balcony or a loggia. You can not keep a newborn in the summer in the open sun. Putting a child on a walk is the weather. And for protection from various insects, special meshes are used.