Baby Care
How To Hold Baby
The first thing to note is that your baby has not been able to control the movement of his head. The baby's head should always be held so as not to hard to shift left to right or forward backward. At the time of pick up the baby, use both hands so you can prop up his head. At the time of carrying a baby, prop head and neck with your hands, especially when he is being held in an upright position.
Babies need touch. From the first moment with your baby, start to form an inner bond that depends on the touches that you provide. Babies are always reacting to the way you touch it. Softness and warmth make her comfortable, but cry when touched roughly. Do not hesitate to hold, rock, and hug him. You can not spoil a child, but your baby understands love.
Baby Sleep Patterns
Infant sleeping habits would affect parents' lifestyle, therefore, you might want to do something that could affect sleep patterns. Remember, the newborn has not been able to distinguish between day and night, and eating because of hunger every 3 or 4 hours. This means feeding throughout the day will take place at least for a few weeks. However, you can teach it that night is the time to sleep, by practicing some of the following guidelines:
1. Applying Night Sleep Patterns
Most babies will sleep anywhere when feeling tired, so try your best to avoid bright light and the sound of frenzied around a sleeping baby.
When the baby wakes at night, do not give excessive stimulation. Leave the lights dim when breastfeeding and / or change his diaper and then immediately put to sleep back after completion. Do not ask her jokingly.
If the baby tends to wake up too early, close the curtains shut to block sunlight.
Keep your baby awake as long as possible during the day. If the baby's nap for more than 3 or 4 hours, wake up and take a few moments he was joking.
When the baby is breast fed, feed him for longer hours of sleep before waking to prevent hunger.
When the baby is older and able to eat more, maybe he'll sleep through the night.
If the baby is 3 months old and still does not sleep at night, ask him to play actively in the afternoon and evening.
2. Helping Baby Sleep Back
Gentle continuous stimulation is often able to persuade your baby to sleep again. Try patting, rocking, or hold him while walking.
If the baby is squirming or mumble, do not be mistaken that he is still awake. This activity may be a sign that the baby started to fall asleep.
When the baby was awake and started to cry, remember that the cry for 15 to 20 minutes is not dangerous. Just make sure that she was not crying because of hunger, illness, or wet.
Remember, the first few weeks are the hardest. As already mentioned, many babies start sleeping through the night at the age of 3 months. Are also common in babies is that they have a good sleep periods followed by periods of poor sleep. It may be that this is caused by a pacemaker that increases rapidly growing nutritional needs or, in larger babies, teething. More information about baby sleep habits, talk to your health care professional.
3. When Sleeping Baby Safety
Child care experts recommend that babies sleep better in a supine position or at an angle rather than face down.
These recommendations may not apply when the baby is born prematurely, tends to throw up, or health condition allowed him to experience airway obstruction. Check with your health care professional if your child falls into one of these categories.
Cry
Baby crying due to various reasons. The closer to the baby, you're familiar with that other cries for any reason is different: different hunger cries tears of fear. During the first few months babies should be approached at the time crying. You can not spoil a baby, but when you respond to the cry for help, he will not often cry.
You almost always can figure out why the baby cries. As soon as his diaper changed, fed, patted his back, or body warm, maybe he immediately stopped crying. If this effort does not stop crying, try the following ways:
Rocked, either while sitting in the rocking chair or with your arm.
Rubbed his back.
block it with a thin blanket.
Sing, talk, radio or TV set.
Took him a walk while being held or with strollers.
Traveled by car or gently rocked in the cradle.
Take him to observe a moving object.
Warm bath with him.
If none of that works, sometimes it can be managed to let him alone. When he was tired, crying will stop itself. Sometimes baby noises while sleeping; interrupt to wake it. If you suspect your baby is sick, check his temperature. If necessary, take him to the doctor or clinic.
Baby Care - Baby Body Parts
IS the duty of a mother to care for her baby. However, many mothers 'senior' who do not know for certain the correct ways to care for her baby. Knowledge is only obtained from the grandmother. Matters relating to how to bathe, why red ass, should clean the baby's tongue is whitish and so often asked. Caring for babies is not an easy task. And if not treated with right and cleanliness is not maintained, the body would be susceptible to many diseases. Which body part being treated and kept clean is important?
ROPE CENTERS
Umbilical cord care in newborns should be considered correct, because this area is easy to become infected. Involve the base of the umbilical cord with sterile gauze soaked in alcohol 70 per cent. Remember, the base of the umbilical cord should be tightly closed. Do twice a day. Keep constantly moist sterile gauze.
If the umbilical cord that has not been broken accidentally exposed to water when the baby is washed, dried with sterile cotton buds or gauze, then give 70 percent alcohol.
Do not season the ingredients of any kind on the base of the umbilical cord. Enough alcohol 70 percent, because it did not contain toxic substances that can be absorbed by the baby's body. In addition, alcohol can kill germs and dry the base of the umbilical cord, so that the base of the umbilical cord to shrink and eventually crowbar or broken. Commonly, the umbilical cord will break up between 1-2 weeks after birth, but can also occur earlier or later.
EYE
Here are located the source of tears over the eyes. Every 3 seconds, the source of the tears shed tears, which then flows into the channel at the end of the middle of the eye near the nose. In newborns, because the content has not been crying, then the source of tears yet in production. Thus, the channel is still closed. It could also, at times open but then close again, so the tears that should have flowed so stagnant.
"Tears are the 'odd'. He kills germs for a few minutes, but after a few minutes, he did not kill again, even a germ food. Thus, if water is not flowing or stagnant eyes, grows the germs which enter into the eye poo . It can harm the cornea, "said a pediatrician who practices in this Bintaro International Hospital.
Because it is necessary to massage the area with a corner of your eye using a long-nailed fingers not or cotton buds moistened with boiled water. Gentle massage of the corner of your eye down and toward the nose, for 5-10 times. Perform approximately two weeks, because after that, generally tear ducts have remained open and functioning. To clean the eye droppings, use a sterile cotton swab moistened with boiled water. Always use a sterile cotton swab for each eye.
SKIN
Human skin should be cleaned, because it is a "soft food" for the skin germs. Newborns bathed at least once a day because he has not stand the cold. Either way the bath or wipe with a wet washcloth that has been given a baby soap. "Select a Pro contains Vitamin B5. This is useful for health care for the skin, giving a sense of comfort, and keep skin smooth," said Rini Budiyanti, Senior Brand Manager PT Cussons Indonesia,
To keep skin moist and protected from dryness, Rini recommend using baby oil containing Vitamin E. "This vitamin is also useful to keep your skin soft, smooth, and protected from blisters," he explained in the event Mother, Baby & Toddler in SCTV, Nakita cooperation with PT Endrass Prime.
To prevent prickly heat, adjust the temperature of the room / nursery as comfortable as possible. Do not let baby overheat. If you do not have air conditioning, room must be well ventilated.
To overcome the prickly heat, is given a special baby powder. "Use a baby powder that contains Pro Vitamin B5, so little skin stays smooth and soft," Rini suggestion anyway.
Then, during the hours of sweat as much during the day, wipe the body that a lot of sweat with cotton wool soaked in warm water or non-alcohol wipes. Do it as often as possible in infants who are many prickly heat, especially in areas of the folds.
SKIN HEAD
The most annoying but harmless is cradle crap, or the crust on the scalp. Partly due to the scalp and dust polluted air. Wash with boiled water after being given drugs from a doctor. But do not be hard because after being given the drug, in fact will be peel own.
May also use baby oil, let sit about 10-15 minutes, then massage gently, followed by washing. But remember, do not do massage or cleansing with harsh. If the scalp to bleed and infection, can be dangerous. Therefore, there is a blood circulation in the head that connects to the brain.
Try to keep your scalp cool and dry, because the crust is even worse if the scalp sweating. Do not wear a hat on a baby unless it is necessary and remove the cap after your baby is in the home or vehicle.
HAIR
Adi said Tagor, to grow hair was no need to baby shampoo. He further advocated the use of celery as a stimulant. But, one should not use special baby shampoo twice a week and pretty.
Rini suggested that the use of baby shampoo contains Pro Vitamin B5, to keep hair healthy, manageable, and more radiant. "To help hair growth, hair lotion can be used which also contains Pro Vitamin B5 and Vitamin E to provide extra moisture on baby's sensitive skin," he said.
For small babies, wet hair with a fine spray or pour a cup of water. Add one or two drops of shampoo and rub gently until frothy. Avoid not to shampoo the eye. Rinse thoroughly with a soft spray or a few cups of water.
For babies who are able to stand alone, using a special tool that can protect the eyes from the flow of water and washed his hair shampoo time.
NOSE
The inside of the nose has its own cleaning power and do not need special care. If liquid or dirt that comes out, clean the outside. Do not use cotton buds, small rolled-up tissue or your finger to remove dirt from the nose. You will only push the dirt deeper into the barrier membrane, or even scratch the sensitive nose.
If the baby had a lot of mucus from a cold thus inhibiting respiration, suction out a way to gently suck the mother or the baby's nose aspirator. Close the right nostril with your finger, then the suction side. So alternately. Never smoked both holes at once, because it is dangerous. Mucus can be up to the middle ear, causing middle ear infections.
EAR
Like the nose, inner ear also should not be cleaned. You should clean the dirt if it has reached the "door" out or after a "bend" in the outer ear canal. Use cotton buds that were given warm water to dirt to be more malleable, so easily removed. Ask your doctor for help to clean the dirt inside the ear and loud.
While the ear can be cleaned each time the bath. Use cotton buds or cotton wool soaked in warm water. Do it gently.
MOUTH
Actually, the baby's mouth does not need special care. Moreover, to use a sterile gauze soaked in boiled water for cleaning milk deposits on the surface of the tongue. A-one even make the tongue sore. "Sediment milk need not be cleaned. After 3 months of age, milk deposits no longer, because the baby has started eating solid foods. So, given enough water only to clean the mouth," said Adi Tagor. After the baby is teething, around the age of 6 months, the gums and teeth should be cleaned once a day with sterile gauze soaked in boiled water.
Important note, Adi Tagor, until the age of one month, the baby's mouth and lips easily overgrown fungus candida. This fungus belongs to an adult, found in the mucous membranes and is more frequently found in the vagina. If the mother does not clean hands after handling the vagina, then holding the baby and the baby's hand reached into his mouth, then "settled" is the fungus candida in the mouth. Symptoms appear from the emergence of white foam on the lips and mouth area. Candida fungus can be treated with medication from a doctor.
NAIL
Since the newborn, the nails should be clipped. (Some believe must wait 40 days.), But do be careful, do not let the skin go cut. Once cut, the nails must also be filed. If not, the nails will remain sharp and can be dangerous if it gets on the cornea of the eye. Remember, babies are always using his hands to touch anything, including parts of his face.
To prevent the baby's fingernails scraping a dangerous sections, cover with gloves when the baby was not supervised. As long as he is in control, not have given his glove. Therefore, the hand is part of the senses that have been developed, namely the sense of touch which is precisely the main senses in infants. Moreover, the newborn began to know their world through touch. Just hold my hand gently when going to scratch or touch something dangerous.
The cutting baby's nails can be done while he is sleeping or when awake. Have someone hold it while you cut his nails. Always use baby nail clippers that led to the rounded / blunt. To avoid skin come cut, press the "bearing" down the finger away from the scissors. If there is "little accidents", press the cut with sterile bandages until the blood stops and provide antiseptic.
Buttocks
This area is easy to get into trouble, they often come into contact with a wet diaper and exposed to all sorts of irritating chemicals and microorganisms that cause infections of urine / feces, as well as friction with the diaper or clothes. Usually there will be red and itchy around the buttocks.
Although not all babies have, but in some infants, itching and red at the bottom tend to occur repeatedly. Important precaution is to maintain this area remain dry and clean. If prevention efforts do not succeed, you can do is:
Do not use diapers all day. Enough sleep at night or traveling.
Do not change brands of diapers changed. Use only one brand that is suitable for your baby.
Better to use cloth diapers. If forced to wear diapers, loosen the thigh for the vent and replace it frequently (every time he finished urinating / large).
Nothing wrong with occasionally letting her ass open. If necessary, let him sleep with an open bottom. Make sure the room temperature is warm enough so it does not freeze.
If inflammation of the skin due to diaper your baby does not improve within 1-2 days or when arising rash blisters or small, call your pediatrician.
Is also important to consider dietary factors. The mothers who breastfeed their babies with breast milk should avoid foods that contain fat, sour and spicy as it can make the baby frequent bowel movements so that his butt so sore. This should be treated with medication prescribed by a doctor.
