The child's birth — a long-awaited and joyful event. What the new person will grow up, in many respects depends on how treat him in the first weeks of life. It only seems that the kid generally sleeps. Actually the newborn gradually adapts to an environment, new to it, masters a surrounding situation and methods of its study.
It is required to you
- - complete set of children's linen;
- - first-aid kit with conditioning agents for newborns;
- - personal hygiene means;
- - bath;
- - plastic and rubber toys;
- - bed;
- - carriage.
Instruction
1. Be prepared for appearance of the newborn before it with mom is discharged from maternity hospital. In the first few days kid, of course, can sleep in a carriage or even a basket. But it is better at once to begin to accustom him to a bed. Choose equal and moderately rigid mattress. Height of walls has to be such that mom could take with little effort the child from a bed.
2. Take care that the kid had enough linen. Usually in clinic for women and in maternity hospital there is a list that is required to the newborn in the first weeks of life. Nothing terrible happens if diapers and baby's undershirts appear more. It is necessary to erase them often therefore near at hand always there has to be a stock. Consult to the pediatrician that has to be in a house first-aid kit. Try to avoid surprises when at the most inappropriate moment suddenly it becomes clear that you have no thermometer or children's cream.
3. The kid in the first days of life endures several stressful situations in a row. At first he gets from a warm and cozy organism of mother to the world unfamiliar to it in which conditions constantly change. Without having managed to get used to maternity hospital, it goes home, that is besides to a new situation. Try to arrange so that the child felt in the world, new to it, surely and quietly.
4. Learn to take the baby correctly. He has still quite soft bones, and muscles are badly developed. When you take him on hands, your palm has to hold his shoulders, a neck and a nape. He cannot squeeze a breast and in general strongly to squeeze. In the period of a neonatality which proceeds about one month the kid is mainly in horizontal position. He cannot be imprisoned neither in an armchair, nor in pillows.
5. Even just born little man has to have an opportunity to move. Meanwhile he moves only with hands and legs, but does it quite intensively. If you after all decided to swaddle him even at home, do not turn too hardly. The child who received freedom of movement develops quicker.
6. From the very first days talk to the newborn. He will remember your voice which is connected for it with comfort and protection. You speak quiet tender tone when you change diapers, you feed or you bathe. Sing songs even if you consider that you are not able to sing. Remember that at you on hands the most grateful listener in the world.
7. Even with the child of several days from a sort it is possible to play a little bit. The wakefulness periods meanwhile absolutely short, but find several seconds and take at the kid before eyes a bright rattle. He gradually learns to react to objects, new to it, it broadens its horizons and life experience which is for the present very small.
8. Bathing — one of the most pleasant procedures. Concerning the first bathing it is the best of all to consult to the local pediatrician who for certain will come to visit you in the first day after an extract. First it is better to bathe the kid in boiled water as the umbilical cord did not grow yet. Do not forget to control temperature. The child should have no negative emotions.
9. Even at so early age the child some things are able to be solved. You should consider his opinion. For example, he knows how many to it to sleep and eat. In medical and pedagogical literature average values are given. They, of course, need to be considered. But be not frightened if your child has to sleep slightly more or slightly less, than to his average peer. Observe its vital rhythm and try to follow it.