How to care for a newborn baby should be known to all young mothers and those who are going to become them in the near future.
Every morning, after you have washed yourself and breakfast, you should unfasten the baby completely, remove the diaper from it. Air baths are very useful for the tender skin of a newborn, they prevent the occurrence of diaper rash, irritation. Air baths are hardened for the baby, strengthen his immunity. You should carry out air baths at least 3 times a day, the room before this should be thoroughly ventilated, but do not allow drafts, because a newborn can easily catch a cold. In the warm season, air baths are useful to spend outdoors - in the shade on the street or on the loggia. While the air bath lasts (20-30 minutes), examine the skin of the baby, pay special attention to the wrinkles. It should be checked every day, whether the baby has appeared in the groin in the groin, in the armpits and in other places.
Proper care for the newborn begins with the treatment of umbilical wound after discharge from the hospital. The umbilical wound will be followed by a doctor who will come to the newborn. A baby with a wide umbilical wound can be dangerous to bathe, because the risk of infection that can lead to infection of the blood - sepsis is high. Particular attention should be paid to the processing of clothes of the newborn - it is boiled, ironed on both sides. The umbilical wound should be treated every morning until it heals. This is done as follows: dry crusts remove 5% peroxide hydrogen peroxide, and then the wound is greased with greenery. If the navel begins to become wet, bleed, immediately inform the doctor about it.
Caring for the baby, put on a clean, easily washable underwear, do not forget to wash your hands with soap more often before going to do the baby.
Daily morning care for the newborn provides: treatment of wrinkles with boiled water, after which they can be processed with powder, baby cream or sterile oil. Face and eyes of the newborn in the morning should be wiped with a cotton swab moistened with boiled water or a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Eyes are processed from the outer edge to the inner edge. If mucus and dirt accumulate in the nose of the newborn, it is necessary to clean the nasal passages to it every morning with a cotton flagellum. If the baby is difficult to breathe, you can put sterile oil or breast milk in his nose.
Also, you should wipe the baby's ears, without touching the ear canals, so as not to damage the eardrum. The ears are wiped with cotton balls moistened in boiled water.
If the baby has thrush, it should also be treated with the mucous membrane of his mouth. If the child is healthy, then this is not necessary.
Proper care for the newborn is not so complicated, but some procedures can cause great difficulties, for example, cutting nails. Nails on the arms and legs of the newborn are cut about once every 5 days. If the kid does not let you cut his nails, then do it when he sleeps, so you reduce the risk of pricking him or improperly cut the nail. Use for the cutting of nails special children's scissors with rounded edges. Before using scissors, they should be treated with alcohol.
If the baby's head has white crusts, then this is normal for all newborns. They should not be cut off, it is better to spread the baby's head with vegetable oil, so when bathing the crusts will go off by themselves.
With proper care of a newborn, he should not have diaper rash or irritation. But if nevertheless there are diaper rash (for example, if the baby's skin is too vulnerable and sensitive), then make sure that the baby does not lie in wet diapers. The chair strongly irritates the skin of the anus of the baby, it becomes bright red. If the diaper rash is not strong, then they are treated with a solution of potassium permanganate, lubricated with baby cream or powder. Do not use the cream and powder at the same time. For severe diaper rash, the newborn's diaper should be boiled and ironed on both sides. At intertrigo, the air baths, of which it was written earlier, are excellent.
In a particularly hot season, particularly in the summer heat, a child may have a fever. Children's swab is small pink pimples appearing on the back, in the armpits, face. The sweat does not itch and does not excite the baby. Usually the places affected by the swab are treated with a soda solution, barely touching them. The best cure for sweating is also air baths, and regular. If the room is hot, you can not wear a baby at all, let him lie naked.
Proper care for a newborn child is based on the fact that it should be washed after every bowel movement. It is useful to wash the baby with cold water, which contributes to tempering the body. At first, boiled water is used at room temperature, and then cold water is directly from the tap. If the kid urinates, you can just dry his skin with a dry diaper.
It is advisable not to wear a headdress on a baby. The kid can not catch his ears at room temperature. Diseases of the ears in newborns are mainly associated with water ingress into the ears during bathing or when regurgitation.
If you swaddle a baby, do not wrap it tightly so that the child can move limbs freely. A tight swaddling interferes with the normal development of the newborn. Keep your underwear, diapers and clothes clean, never throw dirty diapers on the floor. Dirty diapers should be immediately washed, dried preferably in the open air, or even better in the sun, as sunlight kills germs.
At first, baby diapers are recommended to be washed with baby soap so that there are no allergic reactions.