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Sing a lullaby to a crumb or just talk to it. Stroke your head or tummy or make a gentle body massage. Leave for a while on the street. Fresh air and new impressions will help achieve the goal - the baby will stop crying.
Comfort zone
Can not you calm the crying? First, swaddle the baby so that it is comfortable. Secondly, put it on a barrel or tummy to your arms and swing back and forth. Try to isolate unnecessary noise. You can also give the baby a breast or offer to suck your finger.
Caring for the umbilical cord
While the belly button does not heal completely, use diapers, diapers for newborns with specially treated edges. With regard to the method of care for the newborn baby and his umbilical region, then it should be treated 1-3 times a day (depending on the condition of the wound). Eat with your ear sticks and carefully treat the navel. Which solution should be used for this (hydrogen peroxide, brilliant greens, potassium permanganate or miramistin) and how much time, individually, the pediatrician of the baby should decide.
Puzzled?
The navel does not heal all, and you do not know if it's worth to bathe the baby? Of course, consult a doctor. In the meantime, instead of night swimming, wipe the crumbs with damp baby napkins.
First bathing
It used to be that a newborn baby should be washed every day. While your baby does not crawl or run to sweat, you can limit yourself to rubbing and bathe it 2-3 times a week. In winter, when the skin becomes drier, you can wash the crumb even less. Before you put the baby in the tub, make sure that the water is the "right" temperature.
Within reach, there must be a towel and all the means that you will need during the first "swim". Gently lower the child into the bath. Surround it with your own hand and hold it tightly under your arms. Talk with the child, dipping into the water. Use reliable methods of caring for a newborn baby.
Rinse the face of the crumbs, filling the palm with water. Then wipe the tummy tummy, pens, legs, back. Pay special attention to the folds around the neck, in the armpits, the elbows and knees.
Keep in mind
Another method of caring for newborn babies: massage after a bath. Is he needed for a baby? It turns out that not every child should do it before bedtime. On some, the massage has a soothing effect, and on others - an exciting action.
We wash the boy. This can be done with the use of a baby shower gel.
Cut nails
Tiny, but very sharp marigolds of your child should be sheared in the hospital. Try using a nail scissors with rounded tips designed for babies. They are safer than nail scissors. Babies love to put their hands in the fists, so it's better to cut the nails when the baby sleeps.
Dress it warmer
You can not be sure whether it is cold to him or warm, only by touching the handles and legs. They can be cool because the newborn's circulatory system is still developing. Instead, touch the crumbs, his spout, up to the shoulders. Cold? So it freezes. And vice versa: a wet neck can signal that the baby is hot. Rapid breathing can also be a sign of overheating.
Do not overdo with different methods of caring for a newborn baby. Do not wear your baby too warm. Frequent "warming" of the child can lead to the so-called syndrome of sudden death of the child.
Measure the temperature
Use the readings of a rectal or axillary thermometer to diagnose a fever in a newborn; Avoid ear thermometers that are not very accurate. For rectal measurement, lubricate the end of the thermometer with petroleum jelly, gently insert the tip approximately 2-2.5 cm into the baby's rectum and wait until the beep sounds.
It is important
The temperature in the rectum is always 1 degree higher than in the armpit. Call an ambulance if the newborn has a temperature above 38.7 ° C.
Baby starving?
How do you know if a child has enough food? If a baby leaves at least six diapers wet on the day, it means he gets enough food. As for the chair, "children eating a formula can have two to three bowel movements a day. Or in general, once every four days. Both can be considered normal, until the chair of the child is difficult and the crumb does not show concern. Otherwise, it's constipation. As for babies, one is peculiar to walk "big" after each feeding, others do it once a day or every other day. Be on call when the baby has diarrhea. He can quickly dehydrate the newborn.
Read on the chair
The color of the stool of a baby eating mother's milk is usually yellow. If the baby feeds on the milk mixture, the color of his stool can be yellowish brown, yellow or green.