After discharge from maternity hospital as soon as the umbilical wound heals, the child should suit everyday evening bathtubs before going to bed. The first bathing is connected with nervousness and numerous questions of parents as to make it correctly and with benefit.
It is required to you
- - assistant;
- - children's bathtub;
- - broth of a camomile or solution of manganese;
- - thermometer;
- - warm, big towel;
- - detergent for bathing of babies;
- - gauze rag or terry mitten;
- - jug with boiled water in 35-36 degrees for douche.
Instruction
1. Put a bath on 2-3 stools in the bathing room if you have no more reliable adaptation. Of course, at big need it is possible will put a bath on a bottom of a bathtub or even to expiate in it the child. But it is very inconvenient since there will be big load of your back and hands that can lead to a situation, injury-causing for the baby.
2. Prepare detergent for a body and for hair (use only special means for bathing of babies), a big, warm, terry towel in which you will wrap then the baby. In the room at a crib put in advance clean diapers and a cap, powder, cream.
3. Pour the boiled water cooled up to 37 degrees into a bath (check the thermometer, but not an elbow!). It is possible to add broth of a camomile or solution of manganese till pink color.
4. Undress the child in a bed or on a changing table (in the bathroom it will not be safe!) and in one diaper bring to the swimming bath. Surely wash the baby with the assistant. It is the best of all if it is more skilled woman, but also you should not neglect the help of the husband at all.
5. Bathe the kid no more than 7-8 minutes. Before the procedure wash out genitalia, and then slowly lower in water, holding on an elbow of a halfbent left hand. Ship the child to the top part of a breast. The head, a neck and clavicles have to remain over water. Support to the kid a head and a back.
6. Let's the baby get used to water. Then begin to wash him. For the first time it is necessary to wash up the child with detergent, and then no more than 2 times a week at daily water procedures apply it.
7. Wash the child with a gauze rag or a terry mitten. It is easy to erase and boil them, they soft and will not damage gentle to the code of the kid. Wash the child in the following sequence: hair from a forehead to a nape, behind ears, a neck, armpits, palms, a trunk, inguinal area, buttocks, legs. Then turn the child and wash up a back and a neck behind.
8. You watch closely during the procedure position of the child. Water should not get to it to ears and the more so in a mouth. Therefore the baby has to be on the left forearm of bathing.
9. In conclusion pour over the child from a jug boiled water which temperature has to be 1-2 degrees lower, than in a bath. Wrap the kid in a towel with the head.