A lot of literature has been written and read about how to bathe newborn children, but when it comes to practice, young parents have a fear of doing something wrong with their little and helpless crumbs. Bathing a child is the basis of his health and hygiene, therefore, the implementation of certain actions for the preparation and conduct of water procedures can become a special tradition of your family, which will give pleasure to both the baby and parents.
When to start bathing?
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The first bath of a newborn child, if there are no other recommendations of a pediatrician, can be carried out the day after returning home.
Water procedures are carried out daily, at the same time, convenient for parents. If the baby is tired or naughty, it is better to postpone swimming.
Preparation for water procedures
All necessary accessories should be prepared for bathing in advance:
- Baby bath (how to choose a bath (types of baths)).
Before bathing, the bath must be thoroughly cleaned with soda, thoroughly rinsed with water and rinsed with boiling water - such a disinfection is carried out before each bath.
- Baby soap and shampoo.
It is recommended to bathe a newborn baby with soap 1-2 times, wash with shampoo - 1 time per week.
- Special baby washcloth (you can use a soft, clean cloth, a piece of cotton wool or just wash it with your hands).
- Infusions of herbs.
Water infusions have antiseptic, antiallergic, soothing and restorative effects on the delicate skin of the baby.
For the preparation of herbal decoctions, use chamomile, sage, calendula, a series of (details about swimming in turn), coltsfoot, plantain. If the child is restless, you can use decoctions of fragrant hay, needles, lavender, peppermint or lemon balm. Related article: Baby bathing in the grass
- Water thermometer
- Prepared rinse bucket
- Towel or diaper for wiping the baby
- Clothes for baby
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Temperature conditions
The optimum temperature for bathing is 20-22 ° C.
Recommended water temperature for starting bathing is 34-37 ° С. Within a few days, you can reduce the starting temperature by 1 ° C, gradually approaching 30-32 ° C.
Details on the optimal temperature for bathing a newborn baby – https://kid.htgetrid.com/en/uhod-za-rebenkom/optimalnaya-temperatura-vodyi-dlya-kupaniya-novorozhdennogo-rebenka.html
Before healing the umbilical wound, the baby needs to be bathed in water previously boiled and cooled to the required temperature.
Bathing
When the preparatory procedures are completed, the baby should be undressed and given the opportunity take air baths - additional hardening procedure.
Gradually lower the child into the water on the shoulders, while the head and neck should be above the water. It is more convenient to hold the baby with his left hand, gently supporting his head on a bent elbow, while the thumb lies above the baby's left shoulder, the rest in the left armpit. You can use a special slide - it supports the child’s head, while facilitating the procedure for parents.
Properly bathe a newborn baby from top to bottom:
- First, wash your baby with clean water. Then you can soap a piece of soft tissue or a hand and wash the baby’s head from the forehead to the back of the head.
- Wash the baby's skin behind the ears, neck, then arms and under the arms, then the chest and sides, the inguinal region, paying particular attention to the folds. The perineum is gently washed with a cotton swab for the girls, and the fold under the foreskin for the boys.
- Rinse the bathed baby out of the bucket with clean water.
The duration of the first bathing can be 5-8 minutes, subsequently the time of water procedures can be gradually increased - up to a month to 15, then up to 30-40 minutes (provided that the process itself gives pleasure to all participants).
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After swimming
The washed baby is put on a towel and blotting, without intense friction, the hairs are first dried, then the chest and back, then all the folds.
When the baby’s skin is completely dry, you can grease the creases with baby skin care products.
In general, the care of a newborn child must be approached very responsibly in order to avoid various complications in the future!
Now you can dress the baby and feed him - tired, well-fed and happy, he should sleep soundly.
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Bathing should be a pleasant ritual. The main thing is not to overdo it, since an overly pedantic approach to following instructions on how to bathe children can turn water procedures into torture for a newborn.
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Nursery Rhymes
Infants often protest and are capricious when they are carried to the bathtub and lowered into the water, and to calm the baby, in a quiet gentle voice, sing to him special rhymes, nursery rhymes that have long been used when bathing newborn babies.
Who will be the coupe,
Squelch-Squelch?
In the bath, quickly jump, jump, jump,
in the bath with the foot of a jerk, jerk, jerk!
Soap will foam
And the dirt is missing somewhere.
***
We swim, we splash
And we have fun in the water!
Leg up, leg down!
Knob up, knob down!
Twist the legs
And we swim like a whale!
Pooh Pooh! Bang bang!
Let's get out!
***
Gently and carefully lather the baby with a soft bathing mitten or sponge, singing a song or talking to a nursery rhyme:
We will go swimming
And splashing in the water
Squirting, frolic,
It will be a tiny wash.
We wash the legs
To our sweet baby
Wash hands
Lovely boy
The back and tummy,
Face and mouth -
That's clean
My dear son!
***
Aw, frets, frets
We are not afraid of water,
Wash your face
Mom is smiling.
Flowing water
The child is growing
With goose water -
From a child of thinness.
Water down
And the child is up.
***
Vodichka, vodichka,
Wash my face
So that the eyes look
To cheeks blush
To laugh mouth
To bite a tooth.
***
The fish lived in the lake,
Sailed to us with you. (At the same time, move your hand under the water, as if a fish were swimming).
Baby we will wash
We will catch a fish.
Water is not cold for us.
Where is the fish? There she is! (quietly spray some water on the baby)
Great article! It would only be interesting from you to listen to more tips on which shampoos to buy !!! And then I know only a few - I take the baby Johnsons baby and greenlab little. Maybe something else advise?
And in addition to shampoos, I always use extracts of the Country of Health in bathing. There are several different for sale. In principle, everyone is good in his own way. We have already tried coniferous and a series of. The extracts include natural herbs. If you use them. then there is no need to brew medicinal plants.