Acceptance of a bathtub – useful and fascinating occupation for children. Bathing, the child not only becomes clean, but also learns the world, becomes tempered, loaded with positive emotions, pleskayas in water. For this reason this procedure is so important for development of kids.
Instruction
1. Pediatricians recommend to bathe newborn children from the first days of life. With soap or a skin – 1-2 times a week are not more often. And without detergents – daily. For bathing it is possible to add broths of grass collecting or aromatic oils to water. For example, for sound sleep coniferous infusion, a camomile, a lavender, hop well helps. Will remove irritation of skin, mint, bark of an oak, a bud of a birch will cope with a potnitsa and an intertrigo of a turn.
2. When to the child half a year is executed, the doctor or the nurse in policlinic "allows" young mom to bathe the son or the daughter in a day or two. And is closer by a year – at all 1-2 times a week.
3. However, this opinion can be scorned and to continue to take a bath every day. After the water procedures the tot eats better, stronger sleeps, is capricious less. And daily cool bathtubs promote hardening of an organism of the little man.
4. Ideally, it is necessary to bathe the child at the same time. As a rule, parents choose time before going to bed. It is not recommended to take a bath right after food, but also too hungry the kid should not be. The first water procedures for newborns have to last no more than 3-5 minutes. Over time acceptance of a bathtub is gradually prolonged up to 10-15 minutes.
5. When bathing with soap, it is worth preparing a jug or a big mug of pure warm water in advance later to rinse the kid. First of all soap a body, hands and the tot's legs. And leave the head finally.
6. As a rule, children do not love when soap or water get into eyes. From it they begin to be capricious, ask to leave a bathtub. That foam did not get into eyes, the head to the child recommend to soap and wash away from the face to a nape.
7. For hardening of the child by means of bathing it is possible to begin this procedure with water temperature +34os. And then day after day gradually to reduce it to +23os.
8. For receiving a bigger pleasure and delight from water procedures, it is possible to the kid in a bathtub to lower special toys. For example, rubber and plastic ducks, ships, small fishes, turtles, the special developing books with pictures which in water change color.
9. Also babies can be bathed in a big bathtub with a circle on a neck. With its help the kid will receive the mass of new impressions. Besides, he will help to normalize a muscular tone, to strengthen a musculoskeletal system, to develop a vestibular mechanism.