How to cut nails to the newborn

How to cut nails to the newborn

The child is born with a marigold, but many mothers also do not assume that on small fingers the nails can be such long. Young parents should do from the first days to the kid manicure. If not to cut a marigold, the newborn can scratch to himself a face and to you on nuts will get. A marigold very quickly grows at kids and it is necessary to cut them time in 4-5 days.

It is required to you

  • separate cuticle scissors with the rounded-off ends or tweezers, alcohol, brilliant green, bandage.

Instruction

1. Buy in pharmacy or shop for newborns special scissors with the rounded-off tips or tweezers. It is desirable that other family members did not use them. After purchase it is necessary to sterilize scissors - lower edges for several minutes in boiled water or wipe them with medical alcohol.

2. Be prepared - wash up hands with soap and quietly start the procedure. You should not worry too, and that your concern will be transferred to the kid or so will frighten him that he will be afraid of the subsequent hairstyles. For the first time the kid when he sleeps can cut off a marigold. It will give you time to accurately consider each finger and to overcome the fear.

3. Cut off nails on handles of the child it is rounded off, and on legs in a straight line. Do not do a cut very close to skin. Just remove a fingertip from a nail accidentally not to wound a gentle thin skin.

4. If so it happened that you wounded to the kid a finger, press for a couple of minutes to a wound sterile bandage to stop the bleeding. Process a wound brilliant green or solution of potassium permanganate.

5. When you do manicure to the awake kid, try to distract it something. The book, the cartoon jumping around dad - anything that the kid did not spin. Even if you did not manage to process all marigold, and the child was tired, it is always possible to return to the procedure a bit later.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


Print