Baby Care Basics

I looked at my baby. She gave me a confidence with her big, brown eyes. She was small and helpless and totally dependent on me and my ability to care for them. As in perpetual panic, I grabbed a couple of parenting books and trust began to read.

At the time I had my second child, two years later, I was already a pro. Here are my tips for the care of your child's basic needs:

Enjoy your baby!

Before I delve intotechnical, that's really the key to properly caring for your baby. If you allow yourself to enjoy it, take care of your baby will come naturally. Finally, there is so much to enjoy. Babies are small and soft and sweet. They smell if their large and small fist closed around the finger, feels good!

Yes, the care of a baby is a lot of hard work, and you are under sleep deprivation makes things even more difficult, butRemember to enjoy the good aspects of parenting a baby.

Touching

Do not touch your baby a lot and keep it as often as they want instead. Babies thrive on touch and on human attention. Use skin-to-skin contact often, and keep your baby in your area. Remember: you can not spoil a baby. Unlike older children, babies, you are not able to manipulate. The rare exception is that some babies get more than slightly irritated and will not be touched. This is too fine.Just follow your baby's signals.

Holding and Head of Support

When you lift your newborn baby from his crib, and when you hold him, always support the head and neck. Infants can not keep their heads by themselves and need your support.

Care of the umbilical cord

The umbilical cord should fall within one to three weeks after birth. If you change your baby's diaper, gently clean the cord with a cotton ball soaked with alcohol was.

Crying

Alwaysto respond to your baby's cries. Yes cry, a lot of babies - it's the only way they communicate to their needs at this point. As I mentioned earlier, children can not use tears to manipulate you, so do not worry about you spoil your baby in a response to his cries. Click here to learn more about why children cry, and what you can do to calm her.

Feeding

Newborns usually eat every three to four hours. You should keep your child's hearing signals, though - some are hungryevery two hours, especially infants, since breast milk is easily digestible.

Let your baby tell you when he did eat - it will usually signal that the complete departure from the nipple or the bottle. Healthy babies do not need solid food to the east rarely water in addition to milk.

Belching

Babies tend to swallow air while feeding and need to be burped after every meal. Getting there could burp your baby to be a challenge, though! There areBelching several techniques. The one that worked best for us to maintain the child, with her head against his shoulder, and gently pat her back.

Sleep

You can expect your baby to sleep too much - 16 to 20 hours a day. However, one should also expect them to wake up a lot during the night. Waking up every 2-3 hours during the night is perfectly normal for very young children.

To prevent suffocation, put your baby to sleep on a firm, flat mattressavoid soft, fluffy article in the crib while baby is sleeping. To minimize the risk of SIDS, they should be introduced healthy infants to sleep on their backs.

Baden

Until the umbilical cord falls off, you avoid a bath - just sponge bathe your baby. Once the cord falls off, there's no need for a daily bath - every other day is enough. I used to wash my baby in the sink. I've never bothered with buying a baby bath. If you are alone in the house, remember,Collect everything you need in your area. You must never leave baby unattended in the bathtub.

Diapers

It is important to change wet or soiled diapers immediately. Although a good argument that with today's highly absorbent disposable diapers can take a little longer between changing wet diapers, I always felt better when my babies, changing diapers to "often.

When changing a baby girl's soiled diaper, it is important to wipe from front to rear.It is a good idea, gentle, fragrance and alcohol-use baby wipes.

Nail trimming

To prevent baby from scratching himself, cut nails, often with blunt edges of small scissors, cut the nails across.

Taking care of your baby's basic needs is a hard piece of work. In fact, it is an endless job. But it's not a thankless task. On the contrary, your baby will reward you by blossoming into a wonderful, happy, safe humanBeing.

Taking care of your baby feel awkward at first, but before they stamp, they will be easily and naturally. Very soon you'll be a pro too!