How to save time and effort in the first year of a child's life

In today's new parents are usually quite a bit of experience with infants and the closest experienced people are newly minted grandmother, confident that in the first year of a child's life all young parents do not sleep, do not eat as much as possible and exhausted. Not to say that one article all parents can make happy and have a good sleep, but you will certainly be a little easier.

Sleep when the baby sleeps

No cleaning and cooking does not get enough sleep is more important than the wife and mother. Not to mention the fact that you are rested are capable of more. If I were asked to choose the most important in the first months of a child's life, I would have called the mother's sleep. Of course, you can do it without sleep, manage almost everything. But, believe me, once you realize that the dream was the most important thing.

After delivery, you can drop a lot of hair

Do not panic! During pregnancy, estrogen in women increases, because this prolongs the life of hair. Many notice that the hair stopped falling out. Rejoice gorgeous head of hair, but do not panic if a couple of months after childbirth, when estrogen levels return to normal, the hair will start to fall out beams. Soon, in their place the new grow. Drink vitamins, especially if you are breast-feeding a child, vows, if long hair look too rare, but remain calm. You can start to panic if one month is not seen in the parting down new hair, but it is quite rare.

Replace walks dream on the balcony

In the first months of the children during their walks asleep, so why not on the balcony? We'll have a little tough to teach a child to sleep without the constant movement and motion sickness, but it's worth it. This is especially useful advice for moms who continue to work on maternity leave remotely. But do not forget that you also need fresh air and sunshine. Get too carried away by the balcony walks - turn into a vampire with a black eye. Walk outside in the good weather is sunny and the balcony - in inclement.

Remember that you can teach a child anything

Write command in a pot, cover with no pacifiers, no motion sickness, sleep in his crib without your participation morzhevatsya - a list of things that could surprise the average parent, you can continue infinitely. You can everything, but not all at once. Each ability will require certain moral and physical resources and firm discipline especially from you. You must decide what is more important, especially if you during the day, no one can help with household chores. If you have important climate within the family and their own health, choose a few basic points and work on them, the others will have to sacrifice. Do not envy those who could more - you are unlikely to know what they sacrificed.

No need to boil water for bathing

In the context of urban water supply better buy a filter on the faucet to delay at least part of the chlorine, which dries the baby skin. Foam bath, congee series - these are just ways to turn a bath with the child in a colorful soup (and optionally further dry the skin, and without having exhausted the heating system). Daily bathing the child is not hygienic procedure. Where would he get dirty in a day? Hygiene caused only by washing away after a bowel movement, and swimming is best seen as a way to tire the child to sleep at night. Allow it to actively splash in the water.

Cold feet and hands of a child - the norm

Vessels on the feet and the palms are narrowed to retard heat within the body. Children's bodies are perfectly adapted to their inactive role. If the child's hot hands and feet, so it is very hot and he is trying to cool off. The principle of dressing a child for a walk "as an adult, plus one bed" - a myth. Thermoregulation of children is such that it would be better to put on one layer less. A great way to understand what you are too warm dress child - pay attention to the skin of the armpits and the diaper. If it is redder than the rest of the body, the baby is too hot. And by the way, maybe that's why he was crying, even if dry and well-fed.

Your child is sure to fall off the couch

It falls, banging with poor sound and will cry. Remember the signs of concussion:

• fainting any length;
• cry for 15-20 minutes longer;
• dilated pupils not reacting to light;
• vomiting, frequent regurgitation (compared with personal norm);
• drowsiness;
• lack of appetite (again, compared to the individual norm);
• pallor, sweating;
• limbs twitching.

There is at least one of the signs - immediately call an ambulance. None of that - the child calm and continue to live. At the same time, make sure that it does not fall to something higher, for example, changing table. On the table to leave the child unattended impossible. Never. You can not guess in what happens second leap in development, allowing it to cross the rim.

No need to decant, if you have enough milk

Your body is now responsive to all requests. If a child begins to eat more milk is produced more. Decanting after feeding, you send a request to increase the amount of milk. The child eats as much as he should, the rest you have to express to avoid stagnation. You feel like yourself in a vicious circle? Expressing can be useful if you have a little milk, or do you plan to frequently absent from the child, leaving the milk in the bottle.

Very short life hacking

• Once healed umbilical wound, iron children's clothes is not necessary.
• Do not buy shoes, until the child has not learned to walk.
• If a child does not eat a healthy, feed it less.
• 37-37,3 ° C - normal body temperature of the child during the first year.
• Best of all child sleeps warmly dressed in a cold room. In this way, he is no different from adults.

For men

If your wife was the eldest in a large family, or if at least not nursed for several months for kids (to sit with a neighbor's child, while he sleeps, does not count), she knows the children just as much as you do. Look for answers together, talk with experienced moms at work, select the option that you think is more logical.

If you want your sex life quickly returned to normal, and just - back, let your woman sometimes a break from the baby. Decreased libido is quite rare due to hormonal changes, but the fatigue and lack of sleep provoke him even in nulliparous. Take at least part of the evening the procedures for child care themselves. For example, bathe it themselves. Let your woman to hold the 20-30 minutes alone with him.

If you do not recognize his wife, it is normal. It also does not recognize himself. Hormones and tired return to the basic modern woman needs a mother with a cub, which a friend of mine aptly designated as the "kill for food, defending the territory." This mechanism is intended to ensure that the child survived. He has worked for thousands of years to treat these rearrangements loyal. Some mothers at a very definite hungry children cry organism responds to immediate milk production. For a child with his primitive instincts everything is fine, but the parents may be shocked. Gradually, hormonal and emotional background will return to normal.

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The main thing - remember that the difficulties are temporary. Perhaps your first year of the child will be all consist of a series of problems, but try to reassure themselves that today's problems quite soon run out - children grow up very quickly. Try to maintain and understand each other and, quite possibly, it is this difficult year will make you truly loved ones.