Young parents often are afraid to touch the child, to take on hands, worry that they can do him harm. But you should not be nervous so, the nature provided all necessary mechanisms of protection. Treat it accurately and gently, bigger from you it is not required. Just study some rules, and soon you will feel confident, holding the child on hands.
Instruction
1. Forget about haste. At treatment of the baby the slowness has to become the main rule. The child will be frightened any sharp movements therefore try not to cause him an excess stress. Lifting the child from a bed, gently pick up him from below. At first put hands under a back and give him couple of seconds to feel a new support. In the same way, putting the kid, do not tear off from him a hand, and give time for feeling of a bed. Do not lift the child for handles or armpits.
2. You hold the child surely. Having taken the kid on hands, adhere to the following position: the body of the child has to be located conveniently on a hand, the head lays down on inside of an elbow of the same hand. Hold with the second hand his legs. Consider that the head needs to be supported constantly. Newborns are not able to hold independently it and also to use muscles for management of the body. Therefore it is important to hold them surely and strong.
3. It is possible to hold the child also with one hand. The main thing that the kid felt comfortable, and you ensured to it full safety. Use a free hand only as necessary (during feeding or cooking), in all other cases try to hold with it the child nevertheless.
4. There are several provisions of the child in hands at mother. Besides described above, it is possible to hold it "column" - vertically, a head on a shoulder. Slowly lift the kid, put the head on the shoulder, hold with one hand it together with a neck, and the second - a lower body. The hand holding a head lies along a body and supports a backbone. One more situation - before a breast face forward. Press a back of the baby to the breast, holding him with a hand under a breast. Bend his legs and you hold other hand him by a hip. Do not put the newborn on a hand - his body is not capable to maintain loading.