Baby Care

Going home with a new baby is exciting, but it can be scary, too. Newborns need much care involves all types of care and serious attention. Always be careful to support your newborn’s head and neck when you pick them up, or lay them down. Baby has skin rashes like cheek or diaper, so important to keep a baby clean, whole day. The baby will feel happy and sleeps soundly.

Bath care is also of great importance, difference in temperature of room and water can make a baby to catch cold or other diseases, easily.

Apply only those lotions, oil, soap and shampoo that are recommended by doctor, adult shampoos are really harmful to him. Be attentive while change baby cloth as baby is too soft and flexible to hand. It is not necessary to change baby cloth repeatedly as baby does not get dirty soon.

At different stages baby needs different attention and care and in all massage baby with soft hands.

Mostly, a child starts solid food at the age of 4 months and this is the stage where baby catch stomach disease rapidly if food or mother’s hands is not clean. Not only mother but baby hand should be clean because baby often put his hands directly into the mouth.

The more baby grows the more he needs security. Baby starts to crawl at six months, he move here and there throughout the home and if find a way reach to porch, garden or road which is quite dangerous, keep the main door shut and especially bathroom door.

So keep an eye on baby will be drawn to stairs as baby is fond of stairs. Teething is the most painful stage of a child give teething ring to chew on. The teething rings are made of soft plastic and are full of liquid so they are smooth and soft.

Soon baby learn to walk, be sure to remove sharp items from your kitchen’s floor-level cupboards, install safety locks and electrical outlet covers and secure any unsteady furniture. Be careful of hanging tablecloths – your baby could pull a corner of it and spill hot coffee or tea on her.

While playing with a baby never shake as neck muscles are very immature. Never pull baby arms or legs rashly while playing games with baby or changing dress, baby joints are very sensitive as compared to adult. Cut baby nails at day time or in proper light, cutting nails in a dark room can be harmful and keep the nail cutter away from a child or elder siblings. As it is natural that baby try to do the same as parents do in front.

So parents keep medicines, cotton buds, scissors and pins at shelf’s or away from the reach of child. Always keep an eye on your baby, carelessness sometimes pays a lot because baby often put bean or dies or anything else in their nose or ear.