Babycare, hygiene of the baby and other recommendations

Mints your baby is growing in your belly the anxiety and doubts also are still growing, especially if you are inexperienced and it without being, since every baby is the only and unrepeatable and the experience of raising it also.

The mother's milk is the best food for your baby. It makes it grow appropriately, protects it from many illnesses as: diarrhea, respiratory illnesses, and infections in general. It is a very digestible food and of absolute use.

Also the breast-feeding establishes a solid tie between mother and son that the whole life will last. During the first days, and until it lowers the milk, you must place your baby to the breast whenever this one needs it (feeding to demand).

The maternal milk can be at first small, watery or thick, but NEVER BAD OR INADEQUATE. In fact it is named a colostrum, and is rich in fats, what a newborn baby needs at the beginning of his life to be able to offer to him the mielina for his early cerebral development.

In this first stage the mammary glands segregate colostrum, yellowish milk of good quality and sufficiently for the newborn baby. In addition to nourishing, it provides antibodies that it protects to the infections newborn baby.

The baby usually happens the milk descent between the third and fifth day of born approximately. It is possible that it gives to you a little of fever. It is normal, but it consults with your obstetra. It can happen that the nipples crack you, they even can go so far as to bleed, and even become infected if they do not recover on time. What to do in this case?:

If you have only one nipple injured offer him first the healthy nipple and then the injured person. Or to give only a breast in every capture and to empty the injured person manually.
It treats that the nipples are always dry. You can dry them with the cold air of the hairdryer.
In the schedules in which the sun is not dangerous, it takes in the nipples a moment of the sun, from 10 until 15 minutes per day.
There are creams by means of purified lanolin that will help you to cicatrizar. And damage will not provoke him your baby.
There is pezoneras, and protective shields with ventilation with that your baby will be able to take the breast without having contact with the nipple, at least until these cicatricen.
Sometimes it usually relieves to place a few drops of your own milk on the injured nipple.

Why do motives crack the nipples?: Generally they take place why the baby, on having sucked, takes only the top of the nipple. It is important that the baby catches fire well to the nipple, or that almost quite between in the boquita of the baby, this way it will be avoided that they crack.

Hygiene:

lactation - amamantamiento-leche Fruit tarts of touching your baby you must wash well your hands. If there come visits to know bundle bundle also that they should wash their them. And that neither are sick, do not even smoke in the ambience in which your baby is. The umbilical cord must be higienizado with gauze and thin alcohol whenever you change the nappies of him. Do not be afraid of touching it since the drawstring does not hurt. Generally it falls down about the seventh day, being able to appear small blood drops in the gauze in the first hours and days following of the birth. This is normal. You must only worry and consult with your pediatrician, if about the bellybutton has a red aureole, or if you notice bad smell and suppuration.
Before the fall of the drawstring, you it can higienizar with a cotton absorbed in lukewarm water and neutral soap or of glycerin without perfume.

Two days after fallen down the drawstring, you will be able to bathe it with the soap earlier mentioned. Preferably to the dusk, to favor a better predisposition to the sleep. For higienizar the tail of the baby is suitable the use of liniment calcareous oil, which is of good quality, and notice the due date of the same one. It is advisable neither the use of perfumes, nor perfumed humid towels, nor starches or talcs. (We always speak about the new-born baby).

Support his short fingernails, since it is possible to scratch the face solito. cut them with a special fork for babies, previously higienizada with thin alcohol. That the cut is to the evenness of the fleshy part. Do not use hyssops to clean the ears of your baby. The ears are cleaned only in his external part. There is no need to introduce anything in the auditory conduit.

Vaccination:

During the permanence of your son in the internment in general no vaccine is applied to him. But it is advisable that for his first month you make him apply the BCG, vaccine against the tuberculosis. This vaccine does not produce reactions the day of his application, but if sometimes between 21 and 60 days. There appears a nodule that sometimes presents whitish creamy secretion that suppurates during enough time and leaves a small scar. The calendar of vaccination of every country is different. Take advice from your pediatrician, and do not forget to vaccinate it, Have a vaccination notebook for your child, free not certificates that can get mislaid you. And do not forget that the prevention is the most important weapon with which a mother is provided to keep his children healthy.

Recommendations:

It is not suitable to shelter too much the newborn baby. The baby regulates the temperature just as an adult. Also the clothing must allow him wide movements. To never put strip strips or exact pledges.
The normal temperature of the newborn baby is between 36,2 � and 36,8�c. The thermometer must be placed in the area axilar. It is necessary to leave it between 3 and 5 minutes and then to read it. Which quier alteration of the temperature will have to be consulted with the pediatrician of head of immediate form.

Alarm signs:

The signs to be born in mind in a newborn baby, that they become necessary that you consult with his pediatrician are:

Purple, greyish or yellow skin
Make difficult on having breathed (fatigue)
Abundant and frequent vomiting
Fever (temperature axilar major than 37 �)
Cooling (temperature axilar minor than 36 �)
Persistent cough
Rejection of the food or weak sucking
Liquid and frequent depositions, which do not keep relation with the ingestion previous to maternal milk
Weak crying
Drowsiness
Bad smell, suppuration or reddening about the bellybutton.

To end I want to say to you mom, that you should always trust in your maternal instinct, to breed a baby look like a colossal task, but if you relax and lower the anxiety, you will be able to enjoy the most wonderful thing that we are prove�do the nature. The MATERNITY.
A lot of luck, from one mom to other one.