The first baby care

30 tips for new parents

  

Understanding a newborn takes time. You have to know if you're hungry or just wants her pacifier, if the position is uncomfortable or just does not sleep ... By four months the parents know and handle with ease but our baby, while we will not aid poor . For that reason we have designed this report, prepared with the assistance of our experts and the experience of writing "Parenting" and its readers.

 

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Food

1. Newborns have very small stomach, so much milk that they bear is also small. The intervals between doses should be that your body requires. All pediatricians recommend breastfeeding on demand (with exceptions due to illness).

2 Many babies spit up after nursing or taking the bottle. This is normal. No reason to worry, as there is usually lots of it. Generally, single throw milk taken over.

3 Occasionally, small is not satisfied after nursing a long time. This can happen either because no breast: if only sucks the nipple not get much. Ensuring that the breast areola is still within his mouth.

4 If you have twins, it is quite normal that at first cry more than other babies when they are hungry because they have to wait their turn. We can place each one in a chest, both at once, and in the next shot, swap them. If you take a bottle, put them in front, on a cushion and give it at the same time.

5 Ideally, each twin has its own rhythm of food, ie, when requested. If your brother is sleeping, leave him until he wakes up. Gradually they be approaching schedules.

6 Some babies fall asleep nursing. You probably do not have too hungry or were still half asleep. In this case, just move a little nipple to wake up and keep sucking.

7 If you do not give them chest, newborns have to learn to take a bottle. It is best that the principle is always the same person who feeds it, because we each have a different way of giving. Some babies are easily embarrassed.

8 It is not advisable to give anything other than milk or tea or any preparation that we have said that helps you take gas.

9 To prevent swallow air, if we give the bottle, you have to verify that you are inclined enough milk to fill the nipple and no air bubbles can swallow accidentally.

10 For five or ten minutes after feeding, infants show a special interest in their surroundings. If you cry after eating, it's probably because they want spree and we are not doing to them. It may also be because they are gases.

11 Belching is not mandatory, but most babies feel better having thrown the air. To help, we can incorporate supporting them over our shoulder, or put them face down on our knees and give them a pat on the back. Sometimes gas can cause severe pain. If so, we should consult your pediatrician.

12 Proper positioning the baby to bed after eating is face up. It is safer and make the gas to be disturbed to a lesser extent. This position is to always keep in the crib to prevent sudden death.

13. milk stains on clothes stink. They can be removed witha mixture of water and yeast (one teaspoon to a cup of water). Not only odor is removed, also the stain.

14 Guidelines for weight gain: in the first five months, most children double their weight and by the end of the first year, typically weigh three times more than he weighed at birth.

15 Weigh the baby daily has no meaning and can become a source of unnecessary stress. If you are happy, active and growing well, you are well fed. The doctor takes a comprehensive monitoring, if it detects something wrong, take some action.

16 Children who are raised to the chest make more stools than those who take formula. Generally tend to from one to four feces daily.

17 From the about three months, children need a certain routine in your life. Therefore, care must be taken at the same time acostarles and following the same ritual. This should be continued during the following years.

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 Care

18 The smaller, more easily startled if we move too hastily without notice. First you have to make eye contact and talk. Then, placing one hand under her head and another under the trunk, got them gently. They are not as fragile as they seem, so you cojámosles gently but firmly.

19 One of the finer points of babies are breech. Therefore, we need to change his diaper often and thus prevent irritated. Although modern superpañales kept dry during the long hours, the wet warmth in the belly is not good for the skin.

Rename you 20 diapers on a changing table or is more comfortable for the back of the adult does not suffer, but we must take extreme care to avoid accidents. Babies are able to turn your body and shoot a few weeks.

21 Before placing a new diaper, you have to wipe and gently wipe well and making sure no moisture remains in the folds.

During the first 22 weeks you can bathe in the sink. Should place a guard to not accidentally hit against the faucet. One bañerita may also be used.

23. asearle suffice in principle with warm water. If you use soap, which is neutral. Talcum powder are advised against: could inhale.

24 If the baby was afraid of the tub, we can sit you naked without any water, give a toy and then go fill the tub slowly.

25. bathe, first close the hot water tap and then the cold. Thus, we avoid that if the tap drips, drops will fall very hot water.

26. cord injury does not need a special bandage while healing. You can bathe the little dry it well then if the navel area. That part will wash with a towel soaked in warm water, then dry it and place it over a clean gauze. If the wound is bleeding or oozing, you should consult your pediatrician.

27 Most newborns take too many clothes. If they are excessively warm, they may suffer a sofocón: sweat and feel bad.

In the first 28 months is normal to have small hands and cold feet. But if the skin at the shoulder blades or gut is hot and dry, then you have no cold.

During the first 29 months of the child's head needs support. When we have him in my arms, you must hold at all times gently but firmly. Newborns are very frightened when they drop to the side or back.

30 babies nails grow very fast. The best time to cut them is when they sleep deeply. We must use special baby scissors with blunt (round).



Author: Martina Rao.