When in family there is a newborn, at mom, especially which gave birth to the firstborn, there is a set of questions. How to look after the newborn as the child about one month develops that it has to be able to do is not a full list of everything what careful parents want to know about.
Development of the child: the first week of life
How many does the newborn sleep? Cumulative daily time of a dream at the baby in the first week of life normal is 20 hours, and each 2-3 hours of a dream are replaced by small intervals of wakefulness. The child wakes up only for feeding. Breath of the newborn can be during sleep equal and quiet if his deep sleep and if the kid in a dream pulls handles and legs, breathes irregularly, then a dream superficial.
By the end of the first week of life the child from all smells surrounding it can already mark out aroma of milk and turn the head in that party from where it proceeds. It can be either a maternal breast, or a small bottle with mix.
The baby understands, sweet or bitter taste at the milk offered it or dairy mix.
The newborn can detain the look on the objects surrounding it close, but only for a while.
During sleep the child can smile and involuntarily move with legs or hands.
Not to be frightened, parents have to mean that breath of the newborn is three times more often, than at the adult, besides it is irregular and superficial.
Development of the child: the second week of life
When to the child the second week goes, he has to restore completely that weight with which he was born. The weekly increase in weight has to make 150–200 g.
How to develop the child in a month? It is possible to teach the kid to hold a head, spreading him for this purpose on a tummy, but it is possible to do it only in case the umbilical wound healed.
Within several seconds the kid can watch a bright rattle or a moving subject.
The sharp sound will force the child to shudder and blink, he will listen and will cease to cry.
Until the end of the second week of life of the child the physiological jaundice can remain.
Development of the child: the third week of life
What does the child have to be able to do at this time? On the third week of life the kid can already take a small subject or the parent's finger in a hand. He is also capable to consider the face of the adult, looking in eyes.
Lying on a stomach, the child tries to raise a head and to tear off a chin from a surface.
Now quite consciously he turns the head in different directions while lies on a back and examines the world surrounding it.
Development of the child on the third week is obvious: he quickens in response to the tender speech turned to it, moves legs and handles, looks for speaking.
The dream of the three-week child in total makes 15–18 hours, for one feeding he is capable to exhaust to 80–100 ml of maternal milk or dairy mix.
Development of the child: the fourth week of life
The increase in weight at newborns for the first month of life has to make about 600-800 g, and in growth – 3 cm.
What can the child at this age do? It holds several seconds a head while lies on a stomach. The kid already accurately knows a mother's voice, learns taste and a smell of breast milk or dairy mix.
At this particular time the child begins to smile at the tender address to it, he is able to focus the look on the face of the talking person and also learns to distinguish intonations of the speech turned to it. In reply it makes sounds.
The child in 1 month can watch a subject, only if that moves to horizontals.
During the first month of life of the child it is necessary not to forget to receive his birth certificate which is issued in the REGISTRY OFFICE or in MFC. For this purpose at itself it is necessary to have passports of both parents, the certificate of the child's birth which was issued in maternity hospital and also the certificate on marriage.