Tips to ensure a healthy development of your baby
Babies are always welcomed in the family. To groom new born baby, there are many special things to keep in mind. This would be little difficult for the first time parents who are dealing with their first born child. New born babies are given antibodies from breastfeeding which protects baby from every germ which would encounter at their very young age.
It is very important for you to practice good health around your house in order to keep babies healthy and happy. You need to give a special attention and care to particular areas like umbilical cord, also giving baby good hygiene care towards infections. There are few things which I would like to bring to your notice.
- Baby’s Hair and Body: It is not necessary for a new born baby to bath daily. In winter, continuous washing of the baby’s skin can make it dry. As per experts advice, bathe your baby only two or three times per week and till the umbilical cord does not completely heal, give a sponge bath to your baby. Diaper area and face are very important and need to have frequent washing. By this time your baby would start crawling so it is necessary to keep their hand and feet clean from hygiene point of view. Gentle shampoos are the best for washing baby’s hair especially which comes as tear free shampoo.
- Babies’ skin: You need not to worry if you see your babies skin peel in first few days. This happens not because of dryness but because of change in the surrounding. You need to use mild soap when cleaning your baby’s skin which would not cause any skin irritation to your baby.
- Babies face: You would have noticed that your babies suffer from acne when there small pimple on your babies face. I would advice you to use mild lotion for your baby as their skin is very sensitive.
- Your Baby’s nails: Till now you would have compared to yours and your baby’s nails are very soft but they are not to be ignored. They are soft but are very sharp to scratch their sensitive skin so it is better to trim their nails when they are fast asleep.
