You are now prepared to return home and start a new life with your baby after a successful pregnancy, labour, and delivery. On the other hand, after you get home, you can feel completely lost!
Even the most anxious new parents can soon feel comfortable taking care of a baby if they read this advice provided by experts at super active kids.
Handling a New-born
The fragility of infants might be frightening if you haven’t spent much time with them. Observe the following fundamentals:
- Keep your hands clean:
Before touching your child, wash your hands or sterilise them with a hand sanitizer. Because they don’t yet have a robust immune system, new-borns are vulnerable to illness. Make sure everyone who comes in contact with your kid has clean hands. - Support head and neck:
Support the head and neck of your infant. When you are carrying your infant, support the head and cradle it. When you are laying your baby down, support the head. - Handle with care:
Never, under any circumstances, whether anger or play, shake your baby. Brain haemorrhage and possibly death might result from shaking. If you need to wake your baby, tickle their feet rather than shaking them. - Wake your baby up gently:
In case you need to wake your baby, don’t shake them as shaking may cause their fragile nerves and bones to rupture or crack. Instead Of shaking, tickle their feet or softly blow on one of their cheeks. - Always Buckle up your infant:
Before you take your baby on a ride, ensure that your child is safely buckled into the car seat, stroller, or carrier. Any activity that could be overly rough or bouncy should also be limited. - Don’t throw babies them in the air:
Keep in mind that physical play, such as being jiggled on the knee or thrown in the air, is not appropriate for your infant.
- Bonding and Soothing
One of the most enjoyable aspects of caring for a newborn is certainly bonding, which takes place during the delicate period in the first few days and hours following delivery when parents form a close bond with their child. An emotional connection can be facilitated by physical proximity.
Infants’ attachment influences their emotional development, which influences other aspects of their development, such as their physical development. Bonding may also be thought of as “falling in love” with your child. The presence of a parent or other responsible adult in a child’s life is essential for their development.
Start your bonding process by cuddling your infant and giving him or her gentle strokes in various patterns.
The vocal noises that babies often like are talking, chattering, singing, and cooing. It’s likely that your infant will likewise enjoy music. Other effective techniques to boost your baby’s hearing include baby rattles and musical mobiles. Try singing, reciting poetry and nursery rhymes, or reading aloud while gently swaying or rocking your baby in a chair if they are being fussy.
Some infants may be extremely sensitive to touch, light, or sound; they may also scream more frequently than normal, sleep for shorter periods of time than typical, or turn their faces away when spoken or sung to. Keep noise and light levels low to moderate if it applies to your infant.
- Swaddling
Another calming method first-time parents should learn is swaddling, which some newborns respond favourably to during their first few weeks of life. When done correctly, swaddling prevents a baby’s legs from moving too much while keeping their arms tight to their bodies. Swaddling a baby seems to provide most babies a sense of security and comfort in addition to keeping them warm. Additionally, swaddling may lessen the startle reaction, which might awaken a newborn.
How to swaddle a baby is as follows:
# The receiving blanket should be spread out with one corner softly tucked in.
# Ahead of the folded corner, place the infant face-up on the blanket.
# The left corner should be wrapped around the torso and tucked under the baby’s back, passing under the right arm.
# Wrap the left corner around the baby’s torso, tucking it under the baby’s back and under the right arm.
#Fold the fabric down if it comes close to the baby’s face. Bring the bottom corner up over the baby’s feet and draw it toward the head. Make cautious not to wrap the hips too tightly.
# Only the baby’s head and neck are exposed once the right corner has been wrapped around the infant and tucked under the infant’s back on the left side. Make sure you can fit a hand between the blanket and your baby’s chest to ensure that they are not wrapped too tightly; this will allow for easy breathing. But watch out that the blanket isn’t too loose or it could fall undone.
After two months of age, babies shouldn’t be swaddled.
