How to dress a baby
Of course, for the season. The main principle - the child should be warm, but not hot.
You can not in any case to knit a kid, pile blankets and blankets on him. From overheating, he will sweat, the skin will appear on the skin, in addition, the body of the baby will not learn to adapt to temperature changes and such a child will soon catch a cold.
When the baby is healthy and nourished, it is warm in the room and under a light blanket. Good woolen or synthetic blankets: they are warm and light. It is not recommended to cover the baby with heavy blankets, for example quilted wadded. For winter walks better suits down - it is very warm and light. The blanket should be large enough to be able to fill it under the mattress. The mattress in the crib or in the stroller must be flat and not soft, so that the child does not lie in a curved position. Pillow baby is not needed. You can put under the head folded four times a diaper. Using a pillow from an early age leads to a curvature of the cervical spine.
How to change a child. Almost all newborns are very irritated by the process of changing clothes. A rare baby during this procedure is not indignant. He is uncomfortable with the sensation of air on bare skin, he does not like that he is turned and lifts his hands. At first, this process seems to be difficult for all parents: it is necessary to support the swinging head and pull on the baby clothes or remove it. Some experts advise pre-practice on the doll. This, of course, is not useless, but the doll does not move the hands and legs convulsively, does not break away with screams and does not slip out. Here you need a certain skill.
It is necessary to change the child on a hard surface;it is best and most convenient to do this on a special swaddling table. It is much more convenient than on your knees or on an adult bed, because the table has the right height and, especially,
It is not recommended to accustom the child from the first days without special need for arms, to rock, lull, as he quickly gets used to such treatmentand will be capricious. If parents start to give him often, then this is not just caress and care, but a sure way to ensure that the child will grow spoiled. You can not be nervous and panic at the first cry of a child: after all, in the first months of his life he screams quite often. But this is not always due to discontent or illness. Crying is a natural gymnastics for cervical, thoracic, abdominal muscles and lungs, and therefore in some doses it is simply necessary for the normal development of the child.
When changing clothes, you have to pull for clothes, not for the handles or legs of the baby.
is important for a mother who has just given birth, you do not have to bend over. It is necessary to prepare all the child's clothes before changing clothes so that it is convenient to take. In the first weeks of life, only ryoshonki, blouses, light bonnets and diapers will be required. First put on a cotton undershirt and blouse. They can be worn at the same time, having previously inserted one into the other. Then swaddle, and not tightly tighten the legs, but freely, before putting gauze or paper diapers. You can not wear a bonnet if the room is warm.
If the baby becomes cold, his face turns pale, he can even cry from the cold. Experienced mothers usually touch the nose, neck, legs or arms of the child. If they are warm, then the baby is quite comfortable.
But sometimes the experienced mom is wrong with the clothes, and the child starts to get nervous, because he is hot. Litsenko blushes, the kid grunting, turns out of his cocoon, trying to free himself, often screaming and crying.
Dressing a baby in a baby's undershirts and blouses is one problem. Another is to contrive and put a sweater or shirt over his head on him. To do this, first collect the sweater in the hands near the neck and then quickly pull it over the head on the
nape and forward.
When removing a sweater, first take the child's hand out of the sleeves, then pull it off the face, and the opposite side of the hole is held from behind.
What things are necessary for the kid. Many young parents, if not most, because of superstitions prefer not to buy anything in advance for their unborn first-born. In this case, a flurry of worries immediately upon the birth of a child will fall upon the father, and within a few days it is necessary to have time to buy everything at least the most necessary for the first time. Yes, and after discharge from the hospital you will have to run more than once for one necessary thing, then for some trifle.
Well, the question of the preliminary purchase of the most necessary for the baby, each parent couple decides itself. But by the time of discharge from the hospital, the happy father with the help of relatives must carefully prepare. It is better to make a list of everything that is needed and in what quantity in advance.
It is accepted to take a newborn from the hospital and his mother not only with a bouquet of flowers, but also with a complete set of infant clothes. This set necessarily includes: two diapers - cotton and flannel, cap or thin kosyachka, a rasp, a blouse, two baby blankets( in the cold season one should be warm, for example, a quilted down with a duvet cover).Many parents take children in beautiful envelopes for newborns tied over a blue or pink ribbon, depending on the sex of the child.
Do not muffle much of the child, it is better to put on him less clothes than a lot.