How to celebrate New Year with a baby

The appearance of the baby in the family makes its own adjustments to the usual life, and most often parents have to give up fun parties. But the New Year is a special celebration and I want to spend it in such a way that it is good for everyone, and especially the baby. This is not difficult to achieve - compliance with the most simple recommendations of children's psychologists and pediatricians will allow the New Year and baby to be held so that the holiday does not leave sad memories.

New Year photo session

The first New Year in the life of your crumbs is an event, one might say, a landmark, worth it to be captured in the family annals. If possible, order a festive photo shoot from a professional photographer. But you can completely do it yourself. In order not to frighten the baby, turn off the flash and use natural light. If it is cloudy outside, turn on all possible light in the room, bring lamps and floor lamps. Come up with a fairy tale story, pick up funny costumes for the toddler - fairy or spider-man, pirate or little red riding hood. A variety of holiday attributes - Santa Claus hat, deer horns, wig and decorative snowflakes will be very welcome here. Think through every frame to the smallest detail, because the success of shooting depends entirely on your imagination.

Decorate the apartment

The symbol of the New Year is an elegant Christmas tree decorated with balls, tinsel and garlands. But if a small crumb has appeared in the house, then it should not:

• Buy a live Christmas tree. The needles from their branches will certainly fall to the floor and the falling needles will be easily spread throughout the house with slippers and pets, which means that it can quickly appear on your and children's clothes, as well as in the baby’s bed and on his toys. Agree, it will be extremely unpleasant if the baby pricks or, what good, decides to bite with fir needles;
• Install the tree on the floor, especially this rule should be observed if the baby is already creeping. A kid can grab a tree and drop it on himself, smash toys;
• To use glass Christmas-tree decorations, they can fall, break, and it is extremely difficult to collect fragments then;
• Hang tinsel and garlands at the bottom of the Christmas tree. A crawling baby can easily pull on them and drop the tree;
• Sprinkle the tree with sparkles, artificial snow and other small accessories.Very often, such products provoke an allergy in a child, in addition, shines easily fall into the respiratory system, causing cough and other troubles.

When decorating the house for the holiday, for safety reasons, do not hang tinsel on the baby's crib, and wreaths and other accessories above it. And, of course, electric garlands and burning candles should be located as far as possible from the baby.

The intense blinking of a bright garland does not very beneficially affect the eyesight and nervous system of babies, so it should not be turned on too often or you need to buy the model where the glow of the flashlights is soft, muffled.

The safest Christmas tree for a family with an infant is an artificial tree mounted on a raised platform. Of jewelry, preference should be given to plastic or soft toys, sweets. Hang wreaths and tinsel on the walls, doors or on furniture so high that the baby cannot reach. Decorate windows and a balcony with electric garlands.

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Choose a menu

If the baby has already abandoned the breast and is completely on artificial nutrition, then the mother can afford any, even the most exotic dish and a little alcohol. A properly selected menu will be required if the baby continues to eat breast milk. Naturally, my mother wants to relax and treat herself to something tasty and not too useful. But you need to remember that part of such food will certainly enter the child’s body, and this can lead to a banal disorder of the stool, as well as to severe intoxication and allergies. Naturally, a sick baby is not the best start to any New Year. To prevent this, a breast-feeding woman should not eat:

• Seafood;
• Exotic fruits and citrus fruits;
• Fatty and fried foods;
• Salads with mayonnaise;
• Semi-finished products and canned foods;
• Shop cakes;
• Alcohol.

However, even without these traditional dishes of the New Year's table, there are many useful and at the same time safe dishes. A nursing woman can cook baked or steamed meat and fish, vegetable salads with vegetable oil. It is allowed to eat cheese and not sharp side dishes, bananas, pears and apples will not bring harm, and you can drink all this with compote, fruit drink or juice.

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Guests on holiday

Even if it seems to you that the baby is constantly sleeping and still sees poorly, so he does not care about the guests, this is not so. Infants are able to feel people on a physical level, to distinguish them by smell, voice and with the help of tactile sensations. For this reason, you should not invite too many guests to the celebration, especially those people who are not familiar with the crumbs. Loud voices and laughter, as well as walking around the hands (they still want to hold the baby) can bring to hysteria both the newborn and the one-year-old peanut. By the way, the most traumatic for the psyche of the baby company - preschoolers. Noisy kids trying to play with the baby on an equal footing are unlikely to set him up for a restful sleep. Well, a nervous mother, who rushes from one guest to another, trying to manage to change dishes on the table, is unlikely to find the time and energy to calm a crying child.

Not the best idea would be to hold the New Year at someone's party: with a high degree of probability in an unfamiliar environment, the baby will behave differently - it’s worse to sleep and eat, to be naughty.

Instead, celebrate the New Year with your family and your closest adult friends. A relaxed atmosphere, easy conversations and a quiet pastime are what not only the crumbs need, but also his parents.

Possible entertainment

We all remember from childhood that “you must not violate the diet.” And sleep - even more so. For this reason, you should not plan a cultural program without taking into account the schedule of the baby. No matter how you want to have fun and relax, the baby should eat, swim and go to bed at the usual time for him. This is a holiday for parents and a day off, and a baby is unlikely to be tuned to sing songs and dance all night.

Mode is holy

The first New Year with a child is an important event.But we will be honest and admit: a holiday with a baby is not fun, but rather quiet family gatherings, during which it is important to observe the sleep and feeding crumbs. This adults can walk until morning and eat and drink a weekly rate of food in one night. And this is strictly contraindicated for children.

The topic of prohibitions, of course, is unpleasant, but let’s recall a couple of “no.”

1. If you are a nursing mother, forget about alcohol. Doctors assure that even one glass of champagne will certainly get into milk, and if this is fun for you, then the baby is unlikely.
2. It is not necessary to give new products on New Year's Eve crumbs and even more so delicacies from the general table. You do not want the first day in a panic to look for a doctor for a child who has a rash?
3. And the last - do not take the baby out to watch the fireworks, this can frighten him greatly.

If you plan to invite guests, try to arrange everything so that the little one does not sit at the table with you all evening: even if he manages to fall asleep in a child's chair or chaise lounge, this dream will be shallow and restless.

In order not to be scared and overexcited, give up noisy entertainments: karaoke, dances, active games, start of fireworks. Watching the militants, New Year's Eve on Red Square and midnight skiing on the tubing should also be postponed until better times.

Instead, give preference to New Year's comedies and melodramas, board games, quiet music and slow dancing (if they do not interfere with the baby's sleep). It is better if the baby spends most of the evening not in the center of events, but in a quiet nursery. This is not so difficult to arrange: for example, mom and grandmother can take turns sitting with the crumbs, occasionally returning to the table.

If this is not possible, the best place for a newborn at the holiday table is in the hands of her mother or in a sling. And an older child will be comfortable in a cozy playpen with his favorite toys.

We are going to visit ...

If, nevertheless, the parents decided to go on a visit, then you need to think not only about mom’s food, but also about everything necessary to care for the baby. If the baby is breastfeeding, then you can not worry about his diet, but if the newborn is on artificial nutrition, then you need to stock up with the necessary amount of the mixture and baby drinking water. In addition, it is imperative to bring along several diapers, a bodysuit or blouse, sliders, several diapers, and wet wipes. It is better to bring a couple of baby toys with you so that he does not feel the changes in the situation so painfully. It is also necessary to provide the child with the usual comfort for him so that he does not show anxiety. To do this, you can take with you a portable cradle bed in which the baby sleeps.

If you decide to go on a visit, you need to remember that the child needs the previous daily routine, as well as the usual diet, despite the large number of new entertainments that have appeared.

Do you think that New Year with a baby is boring? Relax, the kids are growing fast! Do not have time to blink an eye, as your child will run away to celebrate a holiday with friends. So enjoy every moment, and tangerines and champagne will wait until next year.

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Inessa Shevchik's consultation: How to celebrate the new year with a child

How to spend the New Year holidays with young children, the head of the AiF told readers. department of the 4th pediatric department of the 8th city children's polyclinic of Minsk Inessa Shevchik.

From the forums

Marina: The first NG sonnyka was 3 months old. We celebrated it together with my husband, and after 00-00 a friend came with her husband. Everything was bathed, fed, laid down according to the regimen. But at night he “walked” with his ancestors anyway, woke up from explosions of fireworks and fireworks.

That year it was 1.3. Grandmother and grandfather arrived. As usual, we bathed and laid us down.I woke up until one in the morning somewhere, and then I didn’t go one step from my grandfather (this is our holy thing), he looked at the fireworks with him in the window, checked his glass with compote :)) and went three-cheyir.

This year we will also be at home with the whole family :)) Already prepared gifts, at night we will put it under the Christmas tree, and on the first we will open)))

We did not decorate the Christmas tree for the first year. But we decorated the apartment, hung garlands and bought live branches of the Christmas tree. In that year, we bought a new artificial Christmas tree, but put it so that the child wasn’t enough :))) And this year it was on the floor. Helped dress her up)))

Lena: We will celebrate the 2nd year with a baby.

And in pregnancy, and last year, and this will be at home.

In the past there was a tree, garlands throughout the apartment and balconies)). The kid only learned to walk to the Christmas tree could not reach and was not particularly interested in posting.

12/31. it was a normal day for him (we didn’t want to knock down his biorhythms and strain his nervous system by going on a visit to relatives, and even more so to restaurants). We bathed, fed, and put us to bed, as always. They themselves celebrated in the next room.

This year, it seems, you can’t put the tree - The boy was afraid I was afraid, either heaped it up, or chopped up toys, or yanks / gnaws wires))).

I take him to a matinee in an elegant Mickey Mouse costume in a nursery adjacent to the house, and to a matinee for kids at my work. We will receive gifts, try to “drive” new small brains (if possible) into all this festive tinsel with Santa Claus and, as last year, 31.12. - swam, sucked, fell asleep. And mom and dad and sister will quietly meet another NG at the festive table in the home.

Sveta: The child will be two months old, the guests are coming to us. I don’t bother with cooking, they carry with them. We only have a drink. It’s violet to me, I feed the baby. Children sleep, celebrate. I’m already used to not sleeping at night. So, I think the holiday will succeed.

Zhenya: In our first new year, 3 months was ours. We were so glad that the child fell asleep during the chiming clock and gave my husband and me at least NG to meet. So they quietly listened to the president, congratulated each other in almost a whisper, and presented gifts. When they went to bed, the baby woke up. So I had to get up again and entertain him. And as luck would have it, that night he did not want to sleep at midnight. So I was exhausted then.

Liza: Fu, what are you all boring !!! Or is it that you gave birth to your first child for all 50 ?? What is 12 to meet and sleep faster. We sit at least three. I have a daughter of 2 years old, if she is not put to sleep as usual, she will fall asleep by 23.00 . And you will not sleep with a gun, not like a salute. And you sleep, sleep like dibs ((((((

RESULTS: How to celebrate a holiday with a baby, the main tips for parents

• Decorated with bright toys and garlands, the Christmas tree will cause a baby a storm of positive emotions that can affect the further attitude to this winter holiday.
• The guest of the forest must be set up so that the baby cannot reach it and drop it on itself.
• Do not hang breaking toys on the lower branches, so that the baby does not break them and get hurt.
• The regimen of the baby should not be violated. This is especially true of the child’s nutrition and sleep. It is very important that the child is comfortable.
• Give your child a gift that matches his age - a toy, a developing book or a rattle.
• Santa Claus up to 1.5 years is not worth inviting. The child may be scared.
• If the baby is barely six months old, it is better to invite guests to her.
• It is important that the holiday is celebrated quietly and without alcohol.
• The menu should be formed taking into account breastfeeding.
• If the baby is only a few months old, then it is best to refuse the presence of strangers and celebrate quietly, in a family setting. In winter, there is always an increase in all sorts of colds, and this is absolutely not necessary for the child. In addition, up to 6 months the baby’s regime is becoming established; he still does not have a specific “schedule” of wakefulness and sleep. If you do not want to get a "night owl", it is better not to break the already developed habits.
• If you vaccinated your child a few days before the holidays, you should also refuse the presence of strangers.
• If you are going to visit with a baby, it is best to visit close relatives, for example, a grandmother. This will provide you and your baby with a cozy home atmosphere and help your mom not to feel constrained and uncomfortable.

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If you still decide to celebrate the New Year in the company of friends and want to go on a visit with a crumb, be sure to check out several important points.

1. Find out how many guests will be there, whether they are healthy or not, and whether there are smokers in the company. Remember that tobacco smoke is not allowed in the room where the child is.
2. Take with you not only the necessary things for the baby, but also the “travel” first-aid kit with the most necessary medicines.
3. It is important that for the child it is possible to allocate a room where mom can feed him, put him to bed.
4. Provide a comfortable sleeping place for the baby. Best of all, if it is a familiar cradle from his stroller, where the baby is comfortable and he feels safe.
5. Be sure to bring your favorite toy with you so that the baby feels calm.
6. Grab a pair of sets of clothes and diapers, as well as wipes.
7. If your child is an artificial, do not forget the mixture, as well as the breeding water that the child is used to, as well as his favorite bottle.
8. Do not forget about safety rules, especially if your friends do not have small children. In a strange apartment, the baby needs to be watched more carefully.