A child is born with a certain set of reflexes, which gradually fade away, replaced by an arbitrary motion. Some reflexes disappear within the first month of life. This month is one of the most important and crucial in a child's life.

Newborn Baby

A child is born with a weight of from 3100 to 3800 g and 2970 boys and 3710 g in girls and 50-53 cm in the growth of boys and girls of 49-52 cm and a specific set of innate unconditioned reflexes, which gradually fade away - some earlier, some later. In this fading reflexes judge the correctness of the neuropsychological development of the child.

A newborn baby is well developed zevatelny, sucking, swallowing, cough and some other reflections. From the first days of life are found endangered in the future reflections:

• Proboscis - pulling lip tube when effleurage cheek near the corner of the mouth;
• positive Babinski - dorsiflexion and plantar thumb rest toes skin irritation at the inner surface of the foot;
• Moro reflex setting - encompassing bilateral hand movements during a pat on the buttocks, and when you hit the surface, which has a child;
• tonic reflex hand Robinson - setting and strong retention of the subject by touching it to the inside surface of the palm of your hand;
• Kernig - the impossibility of complete extension of the lower limbs in the knee joint at a time when it is bent at the hip;
• crawling phenomenon - the child lying on his tummy reflex repelled by the legs put to the bottom of the palm.

Eye movements of a newborn child are coordinated enough, often a physiological strabismus and nystagmus (involuntary eye movement). Muscle tone the arms and legs of the child raised (hypertension muscles), so the arms and legs had bent and pressed to the body.

A child under the age of one month

Immediately after birth the baby loses some weight, as gradually adapting to extrauterine life, and then it starts to dial. During the first month of life overall weight gain of 600-700 g

Develop senses:

• organs of vision - a child disappears nystagmus, eye movements are coordinated, the child fixes his eyes bright objects;
• hearing - bing causes flinching and blinking; child is trying to focus on certain sounds;
• organs of smell - pungent smells he perceives as unpleasant;
• sense of taste - the child clearly distinguishes between sweet, bitter and sour taste;
• touch - enhanced sensitivity of the skin of palms, soles and face.

The child begins to emit some sounds, sometimes he smiles, shouts more emotionally. He already can keep your head when standing for a few seconds and with support under the mouse rests on the legs. When he is lying on his stomach, trying to raise the head and on the back - stretches.

Kernig syndrome, the phenomenon of tonic reflex crawling and hands remain positive.

Mode and feeding of children aged 1 month

Sleeping child in the age of one month is about 20 hours per day, the remaining 4:00 wake spent on feeding and caring for a child. For months, the child breastfed Breastfeeding: notes   fed on demand, but since each time he sucks more milk, and the interruptions in feeding becoming more - 3 - 3 5 hours from six o'clock night break.

If the baby is bottle-fed, it is fed by the hour, calculated on the amount of milk a day - usually 1/7 of the weight of his body. For example, a child who weighs 4 to month, 2 kg, per day requires 600 ml milk formula Infant formula for your baby: an alternative food . The number of feedings per day - 7 6 (3 or 3, 5 hours), respectively, in each feeding it should receive 85 to 100 ml. When seven-time feeding the baby receives 85 mL of 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 and 24 hours, from 24 to 6 hours - night break. When a six-feeding a child gets 100 ml at 6, 9.30, 13, 16.30, 20 and 23.30 with a break for sleep from 23.30 to 6 hours. Between feedings the baby sleeps.

Caring for a child under the age of 1 month

Proper physical and psychomotor development of the child is directly dependent on care. This is because it obstructs the proper care of the infection, which occurs when a child's development is stalled.

Child need to bathe daily, soap or a special foam bath using no more than once a week. After a swim, all the folds carefully blot with a clean towel or diaper and smeared baby cream or boiled vegetable oil.

If child care is used diapers, they changed before each feeding, if conventional diapers, then as they get wet. Be careful not to overheat the baby - overheating does more harm than hypothermia.

The daily walk to a month should be a mandatory outdoor children sleep well. Depending on the time of year baby outdoors should be from 30 minutes to an hour several times a day.

A child under the age of 1 month is already significantly different from a newborn.

Galina Romanenko

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