Doctors recommend to iron diapers until the navel, on average the first two weeks of life of the child, in avoidance of infection of an open wound of the kid heals.
For what iron diapers
In many countries of the world to iron clothes it is considered unhealthy. Americans consider that glazheny fabric badly absorbs evaporations which are allocated by the sleeping child in a night. However in the first days of the life the child more has to be careful of bacteria and viruses, his immunity is not created properly yet.
If in maternity hospital did to the kid BCZh inoculation, then by the end of the first month of life it sometimes inflames. For this period it is desirable to resume ironing of diapers.
The got to hostile environment, newborn baby should be preserved against contacts with strangers and the polluted places. Will pass only a few months, and need to boil dummies, to disinfect water for bathing and to iron all children's things will disappear. Moreover, many pediatricians consider that the excessive cleanliness can do much harm to the child, preventing to form by him natural protective mechanisms of an organism.
Do not forget to disinfect water for bathing of the kid weak solution of potassium permanganate.
As iron diapers
If you do not wash a diaper in the automatic washing machine at 90 OS, it is necessary to stroke them for additional disinfection of fabric. Besides, popular belief that diapers which iron after washing serve longer. After ironing the children's diapers become softer and get a pleasant smell. Cotton and flannel diapers iron from two parties most warmed iron, and diapers from calico iron from the face. It is worth meaning that the dried-up calico during ironing can be moistened with water.
As it is long necessary to iron diapers
It is useless to iron diapers in advance. It is better to ask the family to iron all diapers, you in maternity hospital with the kid so far. Swaddling the kid in the first days of his life, pay attention that on an umbilical wound there were no fabric folds that the diaper was well straightened. If the kid soiled a diaper, it needs to be changed immediately, not so much because of a possibility of irritation on skin how many because of a possibility of infection of an open wound of the healing umbilical cord. In 10-14 days after the birth the umbilical wound will heal. Since this time, ironing of diapers as from two parties, and on the one hand, it is possible to exclude. From three to six months complex vaccination against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and poliomyelitis will be done to your child. In day of an inoculation track purity of clothes and bed linen. They will need to be ironed from two parties, in case of pollution immediately to change.