Care of newborns. Children and care for them

Babies who just appeared, have not enough strong immunity. For this reason, especially careful care for newborns is important . Children really need parental care and attention.

Nutrition of the newborn

Nutrition is, of course, the most important item included in caring for newborns. Children Previously fed strictly on the clock (1 time in three hours). Now the pediatricians have changed their views on the feeding of children and recommend feeding the baby on demand. Thus, the process of feeding occurs in each child individually. Some are capricious and open their mouth in order to give them food more often, others do it less often. Any mother knows that breast milk is preferable for her child and is much more useful. To date, many doctors recommend that mothers do not decant the milk left after feeding. If the baby eats on demand, soon the milk will be produced in exactly the quantity that is needed.

Handle the navel

When discharging from the hospital, the remainder of the umbilical cord disappears from all babies, but the umbilical wound remains. It requires constant treatment until complete healing. Treatment of the navel should be done twice a day (in the evening and in the morning), as well as other hygiene procedures that ensure proper care for newborns. Children are very delicate skin, therefore, treating wound with hydrogen peroxide, and then alcohol solution of chlorophyllipt or zelenok, you should try not to get on the skin around the navel. For a faster healing of the umbilical wound, the child needs to make air baths more often, use diapers with a special cutout under the navel, control that the clothes do not "rub", gently iron all the diapers and clothes of the baby.

Hygienic procedures

Like any person, your baby needs daily hygienic procedures. Washing, nasal and ear care, nail care, washing and bathing - all this is part of the hygienic care for newborns. Children should be washed, as a rule, twice a day with a cotton swab dipped in ordinary boiled water. For wiping the eye, it is necessary to change the swab. Wipe the eyes from the inner edge to the outer. This approach will not allow infection in them. The spout of young children is cleaned with cotton swabs soaked in water as needed. Do this procedure several times a week, when you can see that the nozzle needs to be cleaned or heard that the baby is not breathing freely. Ears of newborns require special care. Parents can carefully remove the yellow discharge with a cotton flag. Do not attempt to clean the ear deeply. Nails should be cut off with sharp manicure scissors with rounded ends. On the legs, the nails are cut straight, and on the hands - rounded.

Wash the kids after each emptying. You need to do this immediately. Perform this procedure can be water from a tap with a temperature of 36-37 degrees. Washing is the only procedure that distinguishes the care of a newborn child by a girl from caring for a boy. Girls are important to wash from front to back, because they are too close to the vagina and anus. As for bathing, it is the same for both the boy and the girl. The water temperature should also be 36-37 degrees, adding something absolutely unnecessary. In the first days of life, while the umbilical cord is healing, water should be boiled.

The first walks with the baby can be done 2 weeks after it was born. The first time the baby should be carried out on the street for just a couple of minutes. Every day, the time for walks should be gradually increased and gradually brought to an hour (if you want you can walk and a few hours a day). First walks and first books

Another important detail that includes caring for a newborn baby is a book. It may seem ridiculous and stupid to read books to a newborn, but in fact it is very useful. Reading kids is from a very young age, this contributes to their development. Love your children and take good care of them from the very first days!