Having for the first time seen the kid after the delivery, mom can pay attention to his concentrated look. He is still absolutely small, but already with a serious look looks at the face of the dearest and loved one. Its task is to depict mom. The woman, in turn, tries to remember lines of the kid.
As the newborn child looks
The head of the newborn child has the large sizes in comparison with other parts of a body. Because of pressure in patrimonial ways it can be flattened or peaked. Also flattening of a nose, indistinctly expressed chin is allowed. You should not be frightened it, over time bones will reach the position, and the skull will take the habitual form. Eyes only of the been born kid often are swelled up. He tries to open them more widely to have an opportunity to examine the world, new to itself.
At the normal course of childbirth, skin of the newborn has a red or pink shade. If in the course of the birth the medical intervention was required, on a body of the baby there can be bruises. Extremities against the background of the big head seem small, can be shelled. The upper body is sometimes covered with a down or a white raid. All this will disappear in the next few days.
Most often the first days after the delivery the child is in an embryo pose. Periodically he can show the discontent with sharp chaotic movements. At the same time palms remain compressed in fists, and legs are not unbent completely.
Reflexes of the newborn child
The newborn baby is born with a big set of congenital reflexes. At primary survey the doctor carefully estimates them to make the conclusion about a condition of nervous system of the child. The main is the sosatelny reflex. At contact of lips or language of the kid, he begins to make sosatelny movements. If to touch a cheek, the child will turn the head and will slightly open a mouth, trying to find a breast. The blink reflex is expressed in blinking by eyes in response to bright flash of light or whiff of a breeze. If to press on a palm of the kid in the field of the eminence of a thumb, it will open a mouth and will incline the head forward. This reflex is called palmar and oral or Babkin's reflex. Having enclosed a finger in the newborn's palm, you will feel how the kid will strong seize him. In response to pressing of foot in the center the child will squeeze toes. And if to carry out on outer side of foot from a heel to fingers, the baby will straighten at first a thumb, and then all others, having made the fanlike movement. It is Babinsky's reflex. Also exist Gallant's reflex (the child is bent in the form of an arch if to run a finger on the one side of a backbone), a basic reflex (the kid will bend legs if to raise it for armpits, and will straighten them if feels a support). The step reflex can be observed if to give to the child the chance to concern a support and to incline it a little forward. Having estimated appearance, heartbeat and expressiveness of reflexes of the child, the doctor-neonatolog gives a mark from 1 to 10. This system is called a scale Apgar. Normal the kid has to get 7-9 points. If the result is worse, medical care will be provided to the newborn.