You just crossed the threshold of the maternity hospital. In the hands - a small and long-awaited lump, a new family member, whom not only to love, but also take care. Guests diverged, time is nearing evening, it's time to start water procedures. Many young parents do not know where to start what to cook for swimming and how to keep a newborn.
What to prepare for the first bathing of a newborn baby for the first time
So that there were no many questions, immediately to the case:
- On the bed in the bedroom you need to lay a disposable diaper, and on top of it put another flannel soft diaper. It's all useful to you after bathing to put the crumb and immediately put on the diaper and the boding.
- Immediately alongside, so that you can immediately reach one hand, prepare everything you need. In a small plastic container, place: cotton wands, ordinary cotton wool, diaper cream, greenfly or other antiseptic for handling umbilical wound.
- Immediately spread things and prepare diapers.
- Now go to the bathroom to prepare everything you need for swimming. And you will need soap or bathing for babes, diaper, towels, clean water tank, water temperature temperature thermometer, bath, special liner for bathing babies.
- Path preparation: It is desirable to fulfill the dad in advance because the young mom after childbirth needs to relax more. The bath must be washed with warm water with soda, similarly - and insert. You can make these baying items for swimming.
- In the bank you need to prepare a manganese solution, because the Pupovina has not yet healed. Bathing baby is needed in barely rose water. And to breed a manganese - in a separate container, then strain the solution through a four-layered gauze.
- Pour warm water in the bath right from the tap. If earlier grandmothers recommended to boil water, then it is not necessary to spend time on it.
- Pour a prepared manganese solution into the bath (be sure to determine that there are no dissolved crystals, otherwise the burn is not avoided!).
- The temperature of the water - within 37 degrees is a maximum, at least 34 degrees. Measure the water temperature for bathing with a special thermometer!
- In a separate container (high jug with a narrow throat, so that the water does not cooled quickly), you need to prepare a clean warm water of the same temperature or degree or two above. If you want to immediately temper the crumb, then the water temperature should be the same as in the bath. After bathing, you need to rinse the baby with this driver.
How to bathe newborn for the first time at home
It is not necessary to bathe your crumb, gathering around my grandparents, you can make it together with my husband. Itself for the first time to bathe the crumb is undesirable, because you need to restore the young mom after childbirth, so you do not need to refuse to help.
How to bathe baby:
- first you need to split the crumb, remove the diaper. Naturally, before proceeding to swimming a baby, it needs to be washed;
- it is necessary to keep the newborn correctly so that it does not fall and have slipped when bathing. So placing the baby on your hand so that the head fit in the elbow bend;
- lower the baby in the bath, keep it with the second hand, let the dad helps to lay the baby and wash off the soap;
- kids love to swim very much and behave well. If the crumb shouts - nothing terrible, because for him everything happens for the first time and you need to get used to daily procedures.
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