How to care for a newborn baby

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-02 02:31

Caring for a newborn baby is very important, especially in the first days of his life, so parents must know how to swaddle, bathe and feed their baby correctly.

There are some simple tips that will help every mother to properly care for her child, while these rules should be followed not only at home, but also within the walls of the hospital. Basic care can be given by a pediatrician or a health visitor, but there are some nuances that every mother should know.

Basic principles

When organizing the care of a newborn child, you will have to follow some rules that are especially relevant in the first days of a baby's life.

These should include:

• carrying out daily hygiene procedures;
• cleaning the room where the baby is, as well as using only clean toys;
• wet cleaning should be carried out in the child's room every day;
• when parents are walking with the baby, the nursery should be ventilated;
• baby's clothes should be changed several times a day, bed linen should be changed every day;
• baby clothes should be washed with a special baby powder that does not cause an allergic reaction;
• after washing, things are rinsed well and ironed with a steam iron;
• there are no items in the child's room that can collect dust, for example, soft toys or carpets;
• if there are pets in the house, you should exclude the child's contact with them in the first few months of the baby's life.

Daily morning care

In the first days of life, it is very important to take care of a newborn child correctly, so one should not forget about the procedures that are performed in the morning. Even such a baby needs to be washed, for this a cotton pad is used, it is dipped in boiled warm water, and then lightly squeezed and wiped on the face of the child.

You should also carry out additional hygiene procedures, for this, the same cotton pad and warm water are used:

1. Eyes. When washing your face, special care should be taken when in contact with the eyes of the child. Movements should be gentle and gentle. A separate cotton pad should be used to wash each eye.
2. Ears … It is very important to wipe well the skin behind the ears, as well as the auricles themselves.
3. Neck. Milk can get on the skin of the neck during the feeding process, and dirt and sweat accumulate in the folds of the skin, so the newborn's neck should be gently wiped with a damp cotton pad.

The baby's skin is very delicate, so it is easy to irritate. The mother should inspect the child's skin every day in order to pay attention to the developing prickly heat in time.

If redness is found, then the child should stay in the fresh air without diapers and clothes, and in addition, cosmetics are used.

Basic procedures

In the first days of life and later, caring for a newborn baby includes several main points:

1. Washing away. Soap for such a procedure is used only if the child went to the toilet for a long time. In other cases, it is better to refuse to use a hygiene product, as it dries out the skin. When flushing, the water temperature should be no more than 36 degrees. According to experts, it is better to use running water for washing, since sanitary napkins do not give a good cleaning result and can lead to allergies.
2. Wrinkle care. Baby's skin is very delicate, and diaper rash or redness can form in the folds if the baby is not properly cared for. For this reason, folds in the area under the booty, as well as behind the ears and in the armpits, must be wiped with a cotton pad moistened with warm water. Powders and creams are suitable for care if diaper rash or redness has already occurred.

3. Nails. To take care of the newborn's nails, parents can take manicure scissors with rounded ends, and a nail file is also suitable. The procedure is easier when the child is asleep.

   

4. Cleaning the nose. In the first days of life, dry crusts may remain in the baby's nose, they do not allow full breathing, which worries the child. To remove them, it is enough to moisten a cotton flagellum in petroleum jelly and unclog the nasal passages of the baby.

   

5. Ear cleaning. You can clean the ears in the same way as the nasal passages of a baby. Deep cleaning should not be carried out; it is also not recommended to moisten the harnesses with petroleum jelly or oil.

Umbilical wound treatment

It is not difficult to carry out this treatment, it is best to do it after bathing. Parents wash their hands and then soak a cotton swab in hydrogen peroxide solution. Next, the wound is treated, and the remnants of the peroxide are removed with a dry stick.

After that, you should take an antiseptic and lubricate the baby's navel with a product.

Brilliant green is usually used, but iodine solution can also be used. When processing, you should be careful not to touch healthy areas of the skin.