How to take care of a newborn baby? Start with these 8 aspects!

Many young parents do not have the professional knowledge to take care of newborn babies. Newborn babies need careful care from the moment they are born. In order to ensure the health of newborn babies, new parents still need to know various skills to care for newborn babies. So what aspects should they pay attention to?

1. Babies have the basic abilities to find food, suck and swallow as soon as they are born, so it is best to feed the baby once within 30 minutes after birth, preferably with breast milk. Normally, the baby should be fed once every 3 hours. The baby's consciousness is just emerging at this time, and his memory is the strongest. He will remember who his mother is.

2. The baby should be vaccinated with BCG and hepatitis B vaccine on the second day after birth to prevent tuberculosis and hepatitis B; he should also undergo thyroid function and phenylketonuria examinations to ensure the baby's healthy growth. Parents should keep their babies away from crowded public places to avoid contact with sources of disease. If there are patients at home, they should be isolated. The ambient temperature should be suitable, preferably maintained at 20℃~25℃.

3. It is very common for newborn babies to spit up milk. This situation will continue until the baby is 3-4 months old. When the contraction function of the cardia matures, the frequency of spitting up milk will gradually decrease. To prevent the baby from spitting up milk, you should hold the baby upright after each feeding, let the baby's little head rest on the mother's shoulder, and then gently pat the baby's back until you hear the baby burp. If the baby does not burp, you can also massage the baby's back. In addition, if your baby is fed from a bottle, be sure to choose a nipple of the right size to prevent your baby from inhaling too much air. Nowadays, many new baby bottles have designs that reduce air inhalation, which can also help babies reduce spitting up to a certain extent.

4. Babies born in summer can go out to bask in the sun half a month after birth. Choose a windless time to take it outdoors, and the time you take it outside can be a little shorter at the beginning. Try to expose your baby's skin as much as possible, but be careful not to let direct sunlight hit your baby's body. Babies born in other seasons can also go out after the full moon if the weather is good. Sunbathing can promote calcium absorption.

5. In order to promote the baby's visual development, you can hang some colorful bed hangings around the baby's crib. Newborn babies are more sensitive to the colors black, white and red. Some regular patterns with strong contrast can attract the baby's attention. For example, black and white grids, black and white stripes, and concentric circles can promote the baby's visual resolution ability. Babies also like red balls. You can train your baby to do tracking training every day. The method is to put the ball about 20 cm away from the baby for the baby to look at, and then move it slowly so that the baby's eyes follow the movement of the ball.

6. Make full use of the rare time when your baby is awake. You can play some soft music for your baby, or talk to your baby softly to help your baby adapt to this new world as quickly as possible. You can also use toys that make sounds, such as rattles, rattles, and various hanging toys that make sounds to tease your baby and guide him to turn his head to find the source of the sound. However, please note that newborn babies have very sensitive hearing, so the voice used to tease the baby must be gentle so as not to affect the baby's hearing.

7. The baby’s nails may be very long when he is born. Some mothers are afraid that the baby may scratch himself, so they put small gloves on the baby. This is wrong. You should prepare a special pair of baby nail scissors for your baby so that you can carefully cut your baby's nails while he or she is sleeping. After cutting, check whether there are any corners or sharp places. If there are any, trim and polish them smooth so that the baby will not scratch himself when waving his hands again. New mothers should also pay attention to trimming their baby’s toenails regularly.

8. Keep massaging your baby. After 2 months, the mother can do passive gymnastics for the baby. Touching can promote the baby's nervous development system, enhance the baby's body immunity, reduce the baby's anxiety, and is very helpful for the baby to form an independent and confident character. Regularly doing passive gymnastics for babies under one year old who have less activity can help them strengthen their muscles and bone development, promote blood circulation and metabolism, increase appetite, and prevent diseases. Touching and passive gymnastics can be done regularly after bathing your baby every day, for 10-15 minutes each time. In winter, you should pay attention to maintaining the indoor temperature and don’t let your baby catch a cold. Mothers should be careful to use gentle techniques when doing touch and passive gymnastics, and not to have long nails to avoid hurting the baby.