First month: large needs

"What should we do with our newborn?" - that's the question that worries young parents. Wearing more in his arms and doing more with him is the answer. The first month is the period when parents adjust, and the child's systems are being debugged. Toys save for later. The motor development of the child does not go in this period of ten-league steps, and the child does not need a lot of things - except for the hands of loving parents.

First movements

Watch your tiny bundle curled in a cradle. So serene, so calm. It's hard to believe that this is the same child who was spinning and throwing a knee in your stomach. So he woke up - turn him over and look at him.

The newborn was put to sleep in a fetal position.

face to face. His arms and legs are stretched out to the sides, as if he stretches after a deep sleep. It was these blows that you felt inside yourself in recent months. Now you can see what you felt.

When newborns sleep or are in a relaxed state, they occupy the position of the embryo, so familiar to them. Since the uterus does not have an extra place, the children get used to press the handles and legs closer to their bodies and bend their feet downward. When the newborn lies on the tummy, he is able to lift and turn his head just enough to take away the nose from the surface and get a chance to breathe.

Playing with your newborn baby, look at how his muscles spring. If you take his pens or legs off of his torso or try to open his palms, they quickly return to the original bent position, like a spring. Enjoy this feeling of the spring as long as it is, as the whole body of the

Muscles in the newborn as a spring:

the limbs tend to return to the original

bent position.

child in the next few months will relax. Rebending the leg or the handle of the child, you will often hear and feel a crunch in the knee and elbow joint area. These are normal articular sounds produced by rubber-like ligaments and freely moving bones. These sounds also disappear.

The physiological state in which your newborn baby is located, usually determines how it moves. Although most of the time the child's movements seem chaotic and harsh, recent research has shown that when the newborns are in a relaxed state and in a state of calm alertness, their movements take a more harmonious character and are produced in the rhythm of periodic jerks and pauses. The more time a child spends in a state of calm vigilance, the more organized and rhythmic these abrupt movements become. This is one of the reasons why we focus on the approach to caring for a child, which causes a state of calm vigilance. If your child is easily frightened, his chin is trembling violently, and his hands and feet are shaking, swaddle his baby in a warm diaper that will restrain his twitching muscle movements and organize them. This normal for a newborn shiver usually passes by the end of the first month.