Room and furniture for the newborn.
The room in which your baby will live should be clean and fresh air. Therefore, it is daily wet cleaning, and while you are winding the baby you need to take it out to another room so as not to catch a cold in the draft. The cot should be removed from the window and door. The pillow and the mattress should be chosen flat and rigid.
It is more convenient to have a separate changing table. It can be folded clothes for the child, sheets and diapers - warm and thin, diapers and diapers. If there is no opportunity to purchase such a table, then any other, even written, will do. In this case, before swaddling the baby, the table should be covered with a special oilcloth for children. After use it will need to be thoroughly disinfected.
Underwear for babies.
Lingerie, which you need to have at the time of discharge from the hospital, includes the following items: sliders and raisins - about eight to twelve pieces, thin diapers (cotton) about twenty-four pieces, as many you will need diapers, but instead they will be suitable diapers, warm diapers (flannel) will need twelve pieces, one warm blanket and two thin ones.
Before putting on the child all the linen must be washed and ironed with a hot iron on both sides.
Morning procedures of the newborn.
To begin with, gently wash the baby's face with boiled water or two percent solution of boric acid (dilute as follows: in one glass of boiled water dissolve one teaspoon of boric acid). After washing with the same solution, carefully wipe the ears, then you need to make sure that the solution does not get inside the ear canal. The baby's eyes are best cleaned with sterile cotton balls. Before the procedure, they need to be moistened in a solution of furacillin or manganese. Each eye should be wiped with a separate ball, from the outer corner of the eye to the spout. A solution of furacillin is easier to buy ready in the pharmacy (1 to 5000), potassium permanganate can be diluted independently, pour crystals with a small amount of water, stir until completely dissolved, then the resulting dark liquid is poured into boiled water so that a solution of pale pink color is obtained.
The nose of your baby is most conveniently cleaned with cotton wool, soaked in sterile vaseline oil. We also make sure that the marigolds on the handles and legs are always short-cut, otherwise the baby can seriously scratch himself.
Baby skin care.
The newborn has very tender and vulnerable skin. If care for it is wrong, then it ceases to perform its protective function normally. The child needs to bathe every day in boiled water. For the first time in the water, you can add manganese, as well as for the eye. To wash the child with soap it is necessary not more often than once a week - soap dries the skin. Bathing is as follows: with your left hand, we support the head of the baby so that the water does not get into the ears, and the right one for about two minutes water the child with water. Washing the baby with soap is completed by washing the child with clean boiled water. Having redeemed the child, we wrap it in a bathing diaper and take it to a changing table. On the table, we soak it with a diaper and transfer it to a dry one, which must be prepared in advance. All wrinkles on the skin (neck, groin, armpits) after bathing treat the skin of the child with baby cream or butter. The cream should be selected with the help of a pediatrician.
Care of the umbilical cord
According to the discharge from the hospital, the navel is often dry, occasionally a crust on it, which then falls off by itself. Sometimes it happens that the navel begins to become wet, in this case it is cauterized with greenery. If you see that there is pus from the umbilical wound, you need to show the baby to the doctor.
That's all, a course on "How to take care of a newborn after childbirth" can be considered finished.