Expecting the child, most of future mothers want to prepare the house for appearance of the new family member. It concerns both situations, and pets. There is a question: what to do, for example, with a cat.
Cat and an allergy at the newborn
Many mothers are afraid that the kid will have an allergy to a cat. Actually it is very controversial issue. Nobody will be able to define with confidence in advance whether existence in the house of such pet will affect badly health of the kid.
Some doctors consider that the risk of developing of an allergy is even less at those children who houses always had animals. Explain it with the fact that the immunity of the newborn initially struggles with the external agent (microbes from hair of a cat, for example), what it also is intended for. It is such peculiar training of immunity. If the child gets to too clean environment, then his organism begins to look for "strangers" in itself that, in fact, and is an allergy.
Therefore you should not get rid of a cat because of such fears till the child's birth. It is better to look how the organism of the kid will react to presence of an animal. If there are suspicions later that after all the kid has an allergy to a cat, then it will be possible to pass the allergens test and to find out it precisely.
To prepare a cat for the child's birth
It is necessary to prepare an animal in a certain way for emergence in the house of the kid after all. Especially, it concerns those cats who walk on the street. Before the birth of the baby it is better to cease to release it on such walks. Also a cat it is necessary to wash up well from dirt and to process from fleas and skin parasites if those are available. Two times a year (in the spring and in the fall) a cat need to be treated from worms. If the kid is expected in family in the winter or in the summer, then even during these seasons it is necessary to give to a cat glistogonny medicine for prevention.
Attitude of a cat towards the newborn
Some future mothers worry that the cat will offend the small child. But most often such fears are not confirmed at appearance of the baby at all. Even those fluffy pets who not especially loved children earlier at the birth of the kid take to it care and caress. Many lay down in a bed to the kid and when he begins to cry, run and call young mom. They sometimes even begin to protect the child if someone offends the kid. Cats treat the newborn in the house more calmly. But it is rare when show aggression. They accurately distinguish the children who just came on a visit and those which were born and grow on their eyes. They can scratch or be afraid of the first. With the second usually they do not act this way. Cats begin to scratch usually not the newborn baby, and already grown up. Then it is more often protection against it, than attack.
When it is better to give a cat
Appearance of an allergy in the newborn to a cat – at all not the fact. But if the cat very old, constantly is ill something, then it is better to give after all her to someone who will be able to care for it properly. Besides often very old cats have problems with teeth because of which of a mouth of a cat blood or pus can flow. Such allocations on a floor are not useful to health of the small child at all. Thus, if a cat young and healthy, then she needs to be prepared for the birth of the kid. There is no urgent need to get rid of it. Through some time it will become clear how the organism of the kid transfers existence of a pet and as the cat behaves with it. And here in case of sick or very old cat it is possible to think of search of the person who will be able to take care of her.