Daily care for a newborn baby

After the appearance of a baby in the house, a number of questions arise. What should be the correct, competent care for a newborn child? Among the daily procedures can be called bathing, baby skin care, massage, etc.

The child's room must be periodically ventilated. Every day you need to do a wet cleaning. The child during these procedures should be in the next room. It is undesirable to put a cot under a window or at an entrance door - in these places drafts are walking.

It is advisable to have a special changing table. If this is not the case, an ordinary table is covered with a baby oilcloth, which is carefully processed.

Morning procedures

Begins to care for a newborn baby with washing. The baby's face is washed with boiled water, you can make a weak solution of boric acid. They can wipe not only the face, but also the ears. Eyes are treated with a solution of furacilin or potassium permanganate. In one of these solutions moisten the cotton ball (separately for each eye) and wipe the eyes from the outer edge to the inside. Dissolve the Manganese pottery in a separate vessel, and then prepare a weak basic solution of light pink color. Ensure that all the crystals of potassium permanganate are dissolved in the water. They can burn the child's skin badly.

Bathing

Until the umbilical cord disappeared and the umbilical wound did not heal, the baby can not be bathed. It should only wipe his body with a wet towel, which is dipped in a specially prepared basin with warm water. It is advisable first to wipe the head, then dry it with a dry towel. After this, you can continue rubbing.

When the cord begins to heal, the care of the newborn baby changes. It can already be bathed in a special bath. If the fabric does not provide a fabric cover, lay the diaper on the bottom. Buy a thermometer for water, you need to bathe the baby at a temperature above 37.2 degrees. In the absence of a thermometer, check the water with the skin of your wrist or elbow.

The head of the child during bathing should be maintained. The body and head should be washed with baby soap or shampoo. Do not soap your face, just rinse with clean water. Ears should be cleaned with cotton buds, the outer part - with a corner of the towel. The girl's genitals should be washed from front to back. At boys it is obligatory to wash under a scrotum. Care for the baby includes the hygiene of the foreskin. It should be slightly delayed and washed, removing the accumulated smegma.

Massage

Newborns often have colic. Proper care for a newborn child will help to facilitate this process. To do this, it is desirable to do a light massage of the abdomen. With warm hands perform light stroking massage movements on the stomach in a clockwise direction. You should not push hard - you can hurt internal organs.

Massage helps the child to develop properly. In a warm room, put the child on a table covered with a diaper or blanket and start gently stroking his hands, legs, tummy. After that, turn it upside down and start gently massaging the back, buttocks, feet, legs, shoulders.

Such a massage will not only improve the baby's well-being, but also create the ground for understanding between parents and the child.

Carrying out these tips for caring for newborns, you can protect him from possible infections, as well as learn to enjoy communicating with the baby.