The birth of a child greatly changes the life of the family in all aspects. Even the usual household chores that each housewife performs “on the machine” have to be revised taking into account the needs and characteristics of the baby. Today we will talk about washing, because it is a very important point in caring for the baby.
Young mothers have to wash a lot: a newborn baby can stain several diapers per hour. In this regard, usually a lot of questions arise: what to wash, in a typewriter or on hands, together with adult clothes or separately. The answers to all questions are in the rules for washing things for a newborn.
10 rules
- Things of a newborn baby must be washed separately from everything. Especially carefully you need to filter things that go on the street. Such clothes should not even lie in the same basket with the newborn’s underwear. The clothes of an adult contain a huge number of potentially dangerous microorganisms, because he happens to be at work, in transport, in a store. Even washing at high temperatures, repeated rinsing and ironing are not able to cope with some of them. The immunity of an adult is able to actively deal with such "neighbors", but for a newborn baby, encountering harmful bacteria can be dangerous.
- For washing, use a special baby powder. The main active component of such powders is ordinary soap, which is completely harmless to the crumbs. Unlike synthetic powders, baby powder rinses better, cleans organic dirt well and does not cause allergies. By the way, some manufacturers in the product line also have liquid detergents for children's things. They surpass dry powders in their properties.
- You can wash your baby in the washing machine. Some models of washing machines have a special “children's” washing mode. If there is no such mode, you can wash it on any other, setting the temperature to 80-90 degrees. Such washing is similar to boiling.
- Some mothers do not trust washing machines and believe that automatic washing deforms things. In this case, the clothes of the newborn can be washed on hands. You can protect your hands from hot water with two layers of gloves: cotton is worn directly on the hands, rubber - over the cotton.
- Regardless of the method of washing, baby clothes need to be rinsed very well. On the washing machine, you can turn on additional rinse cycles, when washing manually, rinse until the water is completely clean and clear. With each new “rinse” rinse you need to lower the temperature of the water, after rinsing is carried out in cold water. This method allows you to remove the particles of detergent from the fibers of the fabric.
- A newborn baby can burp a little and leave a small speck on the diaper or blouse. Sometimes mom is tempted to wash only the soiled area of clothing. Do not do this. Baby items are completely washed.
- If the baby crap one's pants, feces particles must be removed from things before washing. It is best to do this right away with soap and water. The fact is that some bacteria are safe only in the intestines, and getting to other parts of the body cause problems. When the stool particles get into the general wash, they are spread throughout the laundry, which is not safe.
- When washing things of a newborn, you can not use chlorine bleaches, fragrant conditioners, anti-scale agents. It is possible to remove “complex” spots with the help of bleaches based on hydrogen peroxide. Emollients are not needed when washing with baby powder, and descaling agents are best used outside of washing.
- Launched items must be well smoothed out when hanging so that they are well ventilated and dry quickly. Drying things newborn is best on the street or on the balcony, and if indoors - then it should be dry and well ventilated. This prevents the acidification of moisture and the growth of molds.
- Before the umbilical wound heals, the baby's things need to be ironed on both sides so that the newborn baby does not receive any infection. After the navel heals, ironing things once again you can not do.
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At first it may seem to a young mother that washing the clothes of a newborn is a difficult task. In fact, the family quickly enters the rhythm, sorts clothes without any problems, and not rarely does it completely switch to children's washing powder. For the sake of saving time and energy, it is better to use a washing machine and diapers to reduce the amount of dirty diapers. Each mother selects a means of washing empirically.
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Opinion of Dr. Komarovsky:
yeah, washing for newborns is a whole ritual. Now there are washing machines and the life of mothers just got easier, but when they washed it on their hands, or in babies? !!! from the first days I washed the diapers in a typewriter, but not with powder, but rubbed the baby soap on the grater and poured a little water with it, until the consistency of sour cream. somewhere around 3-4 months I began to use baby powders, but I did not use conditioners (although they say that they are children's).
After the birth of a child, every mom has to remodel the mountains of diapers, blouses, and romper suits.And the question arises: how to clean and not harm the baby? I chose a baby powder, but no matter how expensive it is, without prior curing, it will not cope. There is still an opinion that the powder is not completely rinsed out. So, we wash the thing with any laundry soap (there is a children's laundry), wash it in a machine with powder and put an additional rinse. Even the smell does not remain, and little things, like new.
The baby has very delicate skin, which is easy to damage, to say nothing of aggressive household chemicals. I preferred to wash my hands with a special baby soap for washing, but my hands became very rough and cracks appeared. I had to machine wash. I counted the reviews, chose a baby powder. Machine wash at 50 degrees. Everything was ironed up to 3 months, now those that come in contact with the skin.