With the birth of a baby, every mother should properly care for her baby. And this is natural, because the health of children from the moment of conception to a conscious age depends entirely on the parents.
Of course, proper care for a newborn child from birth will require certain knowledge and skills. All care activities can be divided into daily and weekly. But, of course, any procedures that the baby needs can be carried out more often.
Daily baby care
Wash the face of the baby every morning with warm boiled water. You can wipe with your hand, but it is better to use ordinary cotton wool.
Eye care
Treat your baby’s eyes with a cotton pad soaked in boiled water. If you notice that your eyes become more dirty than usual, then use a solution of furatsilina. Washing is carried out strictly from the outer corner of the eye to the inside. Be sure to use a new cotton pad for each eye.
Take care of your baby’s organs of vision from an early age. Avoid exposure to very bright light, do not allow to look at the sun, be careful with the flash. Do not expose the baby's eyes to sharp changes in light, and at night use a table lamp or a floor lamp under a green lampshade.
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Washing and bathing
Newborns should be washed after each bowel movement in running water, and not in the basin or in the bath. Otherwise, an infection can get into the genitourinary tract.
Girls are always washed with their hands from front to back under a warm stream. Before starting this procedure, be sure to check the temperature of the water. After washing on a changing table with a clean diaper, use blotting movements to dry the baby's skin. Fold folds with a cotton swab dipped in sterile vegetable oil or baby cream.
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Daily care for a child up to a year is carried out in the morning.
Weekly care
Nose care
The nasal passages of the newborn are very small, so even a slight blockage causes difficulty breathing. Movements can be blocked by hairs from a blanket and clothes, dust, irritated by cigarette smoke. Clean them with a sterile cotton wool flagellum.
Soak in sterile liquid paraffin or vegetable oil and enter into the nasal inlet by no more than one centimeter with rotational movements. Use different flagella for the left and right nasal passages. Sometimes the child himself can cope with such a problem by frequent sneezing.You must monitor the cleanliness of the air and prevent its pollution.
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Ear care
Be careful with your hearing and clean your auricles. If sulfur emission is visible - do not panic, this is a normal process. Together with it, microorganisms are removed from the outer ear and
dust, that is, undergoes a self-cleaning process. In order to avoid sulfur plugs, remove excess sulfur from the outside of the ear canal with a clean cotton swab. But at the same time, do not penetrate deep into it, so as not to injure the delicate skin and not injure the eardrum.
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Nail care
Trim your baby's nails. Some newborns are born already with such a "manicure" that with active movements they can scratch themselves. In infants, nails grow quickly, so they should be often trimmed, otherwise they will break and bend. But you do not need to cut very short, it will hurt the child. Use safe scissors or small baby tweezers. When cropping, press the fingertip to prevent accidentally touching the skin. If a wound does occur, attach a sterile bandage to the wound and hold until the bleeding stops. It is convenient to cut the nails of the baby when he is sleeping and completely relaxed.
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Do not forget
Caring for a child from birth to one year is a very important moment, where hygiene and cleanliness come first. From the very first days, pay attention to the umbilical wound, treat it daily and prevent microbes from entering it.
The room where the baby lives should be bright, warm and clean. Every day, wet cleaning and airing of the premises are carried out. A clean and ventilated room is the key to the good development of your child!
Examine your child’s skin daily. If redness is noticeable in the area of the buttocks, groin, cervical folds or armpits, it may be diaper rash due to overheating of the skin. In this case, use special creams or cosmetics, do the childair baths 15-20 minutes after changing the diaper.
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Caring for a baby is responsible and difficult. Child care is individual and different for different babies at the same age.
Remember that the most important thing that he needs is the care and love of his parents and then everything will be fine.
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great article for young mothers. To me, the mother of 2 children, caring for the baby does not seem difficult, although problems arose, especially with the nails. My grandmothers and friends helped me.
The article is good, the information is presented in full. I doubt only whether furatsilin will be used correctly for eye care? I know that they use a solution of soda or tea, but it is probably best to find out about furatsilin from your doctor.
Thanks for the helpful article, but ...
Everything is described very beautifully and clearly. But in any case, caring for a small child is very difficult. After all, if he does not like something, then he will not let anything be done. Therefore, good luck to all young mothers!
I liked everything that I read, even very instructive, I made my conclusions thanks
Thanks so much for the article.
Yes, the article is comprehensive, it seems they have not forgotten anything. But washing under running water is convenient only the first couple of months, while the child fits on the handle. In my experience and the advice of our pediatricians, it’s better not to get into the nose again, the mucous membrane itself must fulfill its functions (ours does it, we don’t climb with cotton wool), if pollen, dust and so on accumulate, then a protective reflex will be sneezing, and all that is superfluous will fly out)
Yes, and daily wet cleaning is too much. It’s worth cleaning as always, a couple of times a week, so the child will work out the immunity faster. Forgot to talk about the fresh cool air - no rhinitis is not terrible if the baby breathes cool from birth.