The birth of the child gives joy, happiness and also the sea of cares and one thousand new duties. With daily efforts there is a set of questions: how to decant milk how to calm the baby if cries what pampers will not cause allergies, and, perhaps, most important question – how to bathe the newborn baby after an extract.
The small, defenseless live lump requires permanent care 24 hours a day. Young mom should adjust to the new mode, to change for years the established habits and to forget about a full-fledged dream, thinking only of health of the baby. The kid learns the first bathing in maternity hospital. Experienced midwifes wash the newborn, process a navel, ears and a nose obezorazhivayushchy solution. The next days of the child wipe with antimicrobial napkins therefore the question of a full-fledged bathtub arises already at home.
Rules of bathing of the newborn child
Water for just been born little man is the most comfortable environment, the whole 9 months the kid stayed in an amniotic bubble. If gastric gripes disturb, and the child cannot stop crying, put him in a bath, and he immediately will calm down, tight muscles will relax. If the dried-up umbilical cord did not disappear, try not to touch a shoot, do not soap soap. External microbes which will bring an infection can get to an open wound and will provoke suppuration. It is the best of all to wait to a full otkhozhdeniye of an umbilical cord and to purify skin with napkins. Completely the shoot withers in 14 days.
It is undesirable to bathe the child in an adult bathtub. Get the plastic hill or a small bath. If the baby fits the hill like a glove, then in a bath it is necessary to hold a head that liquid did not get into a mouth or did not flow into ears. The children's bathtub has oblong shape, but it is possible to find round, with handles on each side. In round baths the kids best of all learn to work legs and handles. Such bathtub is convenient that it can be put on a table in any room.
Do not forget about important details:
- Do not stack the kid on the hill with scope. The first bathing has to remind acquaintance: ship in water at first legs and look at reaction;
- At the first signs of a fright pull out the child and calm, otherwise he will be afraid of water;
- Prepare all necessary in advance: a soft sponge, a clean diaper, the thermometer for measurement of water temperature, a towel. If mom is not brought together, haste which can not be pleasant to the newborn will begin;
- To create visibility of protection, wrap up a little body in a thin diaper or a gauze. As soon as you understand that the danger passed, develop the kid, let's it popleskatsya in water;
- Use soap accessories not always: the head with shampoo is washed once in seven days, and the little body is washed with soap by two times;
- Optimum time for bathing – evening, at once before going to bed.
Add 1-2 drops of manganese to in advance boiled water, for an obezorazhivaniye. It is obligatory to boil water at least the first two weeks. Especially, if the umbilical wound did not heal. Do not go too far in manganese, skin of the kid very gentle, it is possible to cause a burn or dryness. It is very useful to add medicative herbs infusions – a camomile, a plantain, coltsfoot, a train, a melissa. Even the most whimsical baby will calm down from such travny set. But, for the first time bathing the kid, it is better to do without any additives and to wait for accustoming. Many herbs can cause allergies therefore do not mix many plants for once.
Check water the thermometer – temperature has to be 37 degrees. If there is no thermometer, lower an elbow in water – if burns down, it is necessary to wait. Some mummies temper the child, gradually cooling water to 30 degrees. Be not frightened if the child does a poo in water – it means that all muscles relaxed.
What to begin bathing with
First of all wash out folds behind ears, axillary hollows, a neck. Genitals at girls need to be washed out accurately, using a cotton pad. If to touch fingers, it is possible to damage a gentle thin skin. Wash a head right at the end. Try that water did not get to eyes or a mouth – the baby will remember an uncomfortable state and next time will begin to cry. For babies is more senior get rubber rings – in such a way it is possible quickly to learn to float. Having finished bathing, wrap up the child in a towel, cover the head. It is not necessary to pound a body at once – allow moisture to be absorbed independently.
When skin dries, process all folds children's cream, remove the softened crusts from a head, clean ears cotton zhgutika. If your child breaks into tears at the sight of the bathroom, do bathing procedures together. Before it mummy needs to take a shower.
Important not only the nobility as it is correct to bathe the newborn child but also not to forget about communication. Talk to the kid, turn bathing into a cheerful game, and your baby with pleasure will adopt water procedures.