What you need to know about newborn

Even if during pregnancy you have read all the books about children who were able to reach, it is still on return from the hospital, you probably will feel as if in an apartment suddenly settled alien. Today, few who have experience with babies until their own children. The main thing - remember that All difficulties are temporary, You will soon learn to understand the child a little better. Rest when you can, watch your diet and allow yourself to treat this strange creature as a normal, strong and healthy person with very little experience. Do not be nervous over nothing!

Neonates are not like children to greeting cards

Good hesitating in the birth canal, the children are swollen with bruises, with red eyes; skinny, with thin and long arms and legs; with scaly red skin, a scattering of pimples or black silky hair on the ears. Do not worry, in a couple of months baby smoothed, eat fat, excess hair fall out. By three months of age, most children like the last model infant photos. However, some fine immediately, but be ready for anything.

Newborns sleep much

The first 2-3 weeks of life baby spends in his sleep 16-20 hours, stopping for food, spotting diapers and trying to understand what is happening around. in preparation for sleepless nights with your child, you may be surprised. Use this opportunity to recover from childbirth, sleep yourself! By the third week, many begin colic, which all struggle with varying degrees of success, and that's when all the fun begins.

Infants All emit some sounds

They sneeze, wheeze, squeak, crawl. The most common cause of sneezing is too dry air in the apartment, causing the drying up of mucus in the nose and the appearance of all of us familiar kozyavok. The child with the bugs can become a tyrant, because the nasal passages are narrow and tortuous newborn, and without nose Breathing becomes difficult to eat and sleep, what to tell the child reported the only available means in this period - cry. Exit - humidifiers and instillation of saline into the nose or its analogues "of water of any sea", of which at any pharmacy darkness.

Hiccups rarely caused by hypothermia

The most obvious reason newborn hiccups - air into the stomach or feeding binge eating. Full stomach presses on the diaphragm, which irritates nerve endings are sent to the brain and a pulse immediately obtained back a response - the diaphragm starts to frequently-often reduced, while light enough air, producing a specific sound. You can hold the baby, "column", so he belched. The very same child is not suffering from the hiccups, but sometimes it takes a very long time, and prevent him from falling asleep.

Bathe your newborn does not necessarily

Of course, baby bathing - the process enjoyable for everyone, but it is in the neonatal period, it is complicated by the umbilical wound, which is not recommended to wet. Here you can get out: to bathe in a small children's bath, boiled in water, but you can just wash away it after defecation under the tap or wipe with a damp baby wipes until the umbilical zarastot wound. Then - complete freedom, bathe as much as necessary.

Newborn swim

Catcher floating in the bath the baby can completely turn your ideas about the fitness of the child to the outside world. It's really impressive. Unfortunately, the umbilical wound complicates the child's familiarity with water. However, after 3-5 weeks, he will still be able to swim later be lost without the ability to exercise. If you take the trouble to teach a child to a rubber ring or a free-floating, it will be possible to indulge in a large bath and sit by and be touched. Leave the child unattended in the bath can not be categorically no to the terms of, or even the whole inflatable suit.

Breast milk is the way to be

All necessary at this point trace a child will receive, even if you eat poorly and irregularly. Resources of your body enough to compensate for the shortcomings of your diet during the first 2-3 months. Calcium is required to get the child, you have to choose from: from your teeth or eaten you curds.

Sterile cleanliness around the newborn does not need

Of course, you should wash your hands with soap and water and, if possible to limit communication with snotty child's relatives. But the boil every day, wash and sterilize all around with bleach - it's too much. With basic household bacteria body of a child has to learn to cope alone.

Do not lick baby pacifier

It can be easy to rinse, wipe with a damp cloth, pour over boiling water, if very much afraid of germs, but Is someone really comes to mind is that your saliva is able to neutralize something besides the visible garbage? If you are absolutely sure of the health of their teeth and your partner, do not smoke, drink plenty of fluids - Come on, lick (I'm still against it!).

Do not attempt to make breast milk fatter

No need to have the cream instead of yogurt during breastfeeding. Most of the calories are likely to settle on your hips, and fat milk baby will suck harder and much more difficult to digest. In the first month of the child must earn a total of 600 grams. Despite the fact that we have traditionally taken boast well-fed infants, as you yourself will be difficult for him to carry, and the entire motor activity chubby child is given with great difficulty.

Children are born with a certain set of reflexes

A total of about 75, it is not necessary to know everything, but these are pretty funny:

• Sucking reflex - the child begins to rhythmically suck any subject, who turned in his mouth: your nose, chin, collarbone, knee. Hungry babies furious and picky.
• Reflex embrace - when sudden noise such as loud clap their hands near the baby, he removes the handle in the first part, while opening the jaws, and then as it covers itself handles.
• Reflex bearings, straightening and automatic walk - if supported by the mouse put on the child support, he straightens the torso and bent legs standing on a full stop; if it is slightly tilted forward, then it makes stepping movements on the surface.
• Babinski reflex - if you hold the tip of your finger on the outer edge of the foot of a baby in a direction from the heel to the toes, then they spray straighten.
• Grasping reflex (monkey) - with pressure on the palm of a newborn and he grasps firmly holds fingers enclosed in his hand. Even a child can be lifted above the support in this way.

Healthy skin does not need to smear

If your child has no irritation, ladder diagram diaper change (remove, wash ass, dry, sprinkle powder, spread with cream, put on a new diaper) can and should be simplified. Indeed it is only necessary to rinse the ass or wipe with a damp cloth and dry. If there is irritation, the reasons can be a great variety: too much clothing, under which the child is banal sweat too much baby cream, diaper that clog pores and prevents the rapid absorption of secretions, poor-quality diaper, errors in diet Mom. The easiest way to soothe slight irritation - often leave the child naked ventilated with pure booty. If the child's skin under the armpits and diaper noticeably redder than the rest of the body, the problem of overheating. No need to cease to use the diapers, it is better to reduce the temperature in the apartment or wear less clothes.

Baby poop poop very different from adults

This fact you just need to take. While the child is eating, sleeping, and growing (ie doing everything that is necessary to do the newborn), the contents of diapers can be anything. Any color and consistency. If you are breastfeeding, the chair can not be generally 2-4 days, and it is also the norm: fully digest milk. Maternal "I do not like our shit", perhaps the bread and butter for probiotics producers. Do not like - do not eat.

The same children do not exist

Compare their child with a stranger - not the best occupation. Compare it with the standards of this age, this is quite enough. A child is born with character, this is usually the nature of the next of kin. Perhaps you finally will be able in some way to look at ourselves. Relax and.