The main thing is to choose the moment before feeding, when the child has not yet had time to get hungry and has not started to demand food. After giving the baby a chest, wait at least 15-20 minutes before bathing. However, each child has his own peculiarities: one calmly bathes on an empty stomach, the other requires breast in the bathroom. Individual preferences are better not to break, but to adapt to them. It is important that the mood of a small bather is good. The procedure should be fun for both sides of the process. Do I need to swim every day? Now, in the winter, when he almost does not get dirty and sweats less? Yes! Because, among other things, every night the bathing accustoms the child to the regime of the day. Consider the details in the article on the topic "Is the daily bathing of a child useful?"
Where to bathe?
While the navel does not heal completely (this will take 10-14 days), the baby can be bathed in water with a very weak solution of potassium permanganate. Usually in the first couple of months after healing the navel, parents use a baby bath for bathing a baby. Then they transfer the procedures to a large bath. However, this can be done immediately after the healing of the umbilical wound. Just before bathing the baby, the bath should be washed - with baby soap or soda, but you can not wash it with chlorine-containing products. Do not use foam to swim, her baby can swallow, especially if you are engaged in breastfeeding; broths of herbs without a preliminary sample - some medicinal plants, for example, a string, can cause allergic rashes in the baby; soap, especially antibacterial - it is contraindicated for children up to a year, as it breaks the pH level of the skin and erases the protective hydrolipid pollock, which is resistant to bacteria, viruses and other harmful environmental factors. Excessively hard water can be softened with sea salt or special salt for children's baths without perfumes. Boil water for swimming is not necessary.
How to bathe?
Prepare everything you need for bathing: a bathtub, a pitcher with clean water for washing. Running into the room and back, leaving the baby in the bathtub alone, in no case impossible! Towels for the baby from the first days should be personal; it is easily replaced by a large flannel diaper, you do not need a washcloth in the first year, and then it will be useful only for handles, and even after drawing. Free all household chores for half an hour. You should not be rushed or nervous: children unerringly feel the bad mood of adults and begin to be capricious from the beginning of procedures. The temperature in the room where the baby is bathing should be 24-25 degrees, that is, the usual room temperature. Warm the bathroom, keep the door closed tightly, for fear that the baby will blow, or pour hot water into the tub, when you think that it has cooled - this is the biggest folly of what young parents do. The ideal temperature for the first bathing is suggested not by a thermometer, but by the mother's elbow, dropped into the water. If you do not feel cold or heat, then the temperature is 36.6 degrees. But each child has his own threshold of patience: heat-loving this ideal temperature will seem too low; frost-resistant, on the contrary, will begin to be capricious and demand to make it colder. Do not mistake mistakes at first. How much water should be poured into the tub? So much so that she covers the toes of the baby, who half-sitting in the bathroom.
To immerse the child in a bath it is necessary, supporting the left hand of the head and head, and the right - the ass. So the kid can easily move his legs. Do not use detergents twice a week. The baby needs to be soaped from the head to the legs, lastly, by washing the perineum. My head, do not wash off the foam under the tap, so as not to scare the child. Wash off soap so that it does not remain on the skin and does not cause irritation. The length of stay in the water depends on the age of the child. The time of the first bathing should not exceed 5-7 minutes; a couple of months old can splash in the tub twice as long. Already able to sit and play in the bathroom, babies can wash and half an hour. In any case, do not leave a crumb of one for a second. Sing songs, gently stroke the baby and talk with him, often praise. Wipe the crumbs with soaking movements, not forgetting the wrinkles of the skin. After bathing, it is best not to abuse lotions and creams, unless the pediatrician recommended it. If you combine bathing with hardening procedures, temporarily abandon them if the kid behaves atypically, if he has signs of illness, his teeth are painfully cut if you have introduced a new lure.
Does not want to swim
At mum, trembling with horror at the sight of a bath, and the kid comes from screaming before bathing. Such a hydrophobia is treated exclusively by the positive attitude of the adult participant in the event. The fact is that children of the first years of life do not have conscious fears, for example fear of drowning. But it is the behavior of adults that can provoke inexplicable at first glance phobias. Mom could frightenedly grab a "ducked" baby or scold for a long sitting in the bathroom - all this traumatizes the child's psyche. In order to overcome your own fear, call for helpers - a husband, a mother, a familiar nurse. If they are not, and you are forced to bathe your baby alone, "talk" your fear to the only person - the very little one. Gradually you will distract yourself and do not notice how you will find the necessary calmness and confidence. The kid keeps begging outside. The reason may be not in fear, but in that the water for it is too hot or cold; in fatigue, in hunger. It is enough to find the cause of discomfort - and peace will be restored. Now you know if a child's daily bathing is useful in the early days of his life.