Home furnishings and the necessary procedures

You just bring the baby home from the hospital and did not know what to do with it? A newborn baby needs special care, which depends largely on his health. We'll teach you how to care for your baby. Raise a child - is a long and hard work, get down to it.

Room and furniture for the newborn

The room should be clean and well ventilated. To do this, wet cleaning is carried out daily, and during the airing of the child take out in another room. Space for crib should be away from the window and the front door. Mattress and pillow for a bed you need to choose a flat, rigid enough.

It is better to have a separate changing table, which will be composed of warm and thin diapers and undershirts, hats and nappies or diapers. But if such a table is not, we can accommodate any table, even written, only need to cover it with a special kiddies oilcloth, which then need to be carefully processed.

Clothes for newborn

A set of underwear that you need to have to be discharged from the hospital: 8-12 raspashonok and sliders, 24 thin diapers and as many diapers (if you do not use diapers) 12 flannel diapers, 2 thin blankets and warm one. All linen before putting on a child should be washed (dried better in the air) and proglazheno two sides iron.

Morning toilet newborn

Carefully wash our face with warm boiled water or a 2% aqueous solution of boric acid (1 teaspoon without slides boric acid in a glass of boiled water). Then, with the same solution gently wipe the ears (make sure that no liquid penetrates into the ear canal). Eyes better handle sterile cotton balls soaked in a solution of potassium permanganate or furatsillina (separate ball for each eye), wiping them from the outer to the inner corner of the eye .. The solution furatsillina better buy ready at the pharmacy (1: 5000), and potassium permanganate can be prepared by , spreading the crystals boiled water to slightly pink Pink: Symphony of tenderness . Here, too, there is a nuance: first, make a strong, dark-red solution, and then add it to the boiling water, leading to a slightly pink color. Be sure to watch out for, so that was not the solution of manganese crystals!

Clean nose better cotton flagella soaked with sterile liquid paraffin. And do not forget to cut the nails on the hands and feet, because the child can claw his face.

Care of the newborn

Newborn skin is very delicate and vulnerable. Improper care of the skin is the gate for infection, and it is very dangerous. Bathe your baby need daily in boiled water. The first bathing water can be added in a little potassium permanganate (to pink), and then simply bathing water. From soap to bathe the newborn baby should be no more than once a week. While bathing mother left hand supports the baby's head, not to get water in the ears, and the right for 1-2 minutes, the child pours water. Bathing with soap and ends pouring baby clean boiled water. After bathing, it is covered and transferred to a clean diaper on the changing table. There blot it dry diaper and shift to another dry, pre-cooked. All skin folds (neck, armpit, groin) after bathing smeared baby cream or oil. Cream selected individually, if you see that after lubrication appeared irritation to the skin, it is best to change it. It is not necessary to use expensive imported oils and creams, you can simply take a clean bottle, boil it for 30 minutes, pour the vegetable oil to the cleaned and put on half an hour in a water bath. The oil is ready.

Caring for the umbilical wound

After discharge from the hospital pupochek most often dry, sometimes it is the crust, which then itself disappears. But it so happens that there Moisture navel, then sear it with an alcoholic solution of brilliant green. If you notice that from the umbilical wound pus, it is required to show the doctor.

Swaddled newborn baby

Swaddling should be free, and freedom of movement to the legs of the child. Put the baby on the diaper double (thick - bottom, slim - from the top, to the body). First put on the diaper Pampers - what parents need to know for beginners   or diaper folded triangle, then a thin baby's undershirt (better hand sewn holes), on top of warm baby's undershirt. Now we wrap the baby in the first one, then another diaper: put it back on the diaper so that its upper edge is at the level of the child's chest, and then from right to left inside a folded the back of a top edge from left to right - the other top edge. Then straighten the lower edge of the diaper, raise it up to his chest and wrapped around their child, forming the bottom of the bag as if to free movement of the legs. Do not forget to carefully spread the two diapers, so as not to injure the skin once again.

If you use diapers, they need to change something before each feeding, and if you instead of diapers diapers, then wait from feeding to feeding should not be, should immediately perepelenat child, otherwise he will have diaper rash on the skin, which immediately join the infection.

Well, you got a virtual consultation and the pediatrician about how to properly care for a newborn baby. And if you forget something, you can always go back and read again. Virtual pediatrician will always be with you.

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