How are newborns cared for?

In general, newborn care includes the following aspects: sleep care, dietary care, oral hygiene and skin care to care for newborns.

1. Sleep care

The quality of sleep in newborns is important and affects the growth and development of the newborn's body. Newborn sleep time is about 18-22 hours a day, to ensure that the newborn has sufficient sleep time, you should choose a quiet, temperature between 22-26 degrees of the environment, the surrounding light should not be too bright, it is best to have a separate crib. Before the newborn goes to bed, do not overfeed, change the diaper in time, pay attention to whether there are symptoms of calcium deficiency and vitamin D deficiency, and avoid the newborn sleeping easy to wake up, unstable, crying.

2. Dietary care

Normal term children are prescribed milk half an hour after birth to promote the mother's milk secretion and promote breastfeeding on demand. Breast-free people give formula milk, ratio it to the milk, and pay attention to post-meal disinfection when using bottles. Because the gastrointestinal and digestive tract of newborns is not well developed, it is particularly prone to choking and milk leakage. Parents can pat the baby's back after each feeding, which can usually avoid the occurrence of gastroesophageal reflux, thus playing a role in dietary care for the newborn.

3. Oral hygiene

Newborn mucosal barrier function is poor, pay attention to protect the oral mucosa, do not wipe at will, strictly use disinfectant gauze, bottle, strict hand washing before contact with the newborn, to prevent cross-infection, the surface of the tongue after birth will appear thick tongue moss, if the parent directly with no disinfectant cloth wrapped fingers to wipe the child's tongue, it is easy to scratch the delicate oral mucosa of the newborn, serious even lead to bacteria from the wound into the body, so that the newborn has stomatitis, sepsis and other diseases. Parents should also pay more attention to the hygiene of the newborn's personal belongings in their daily lives, and then give them to the baby after disinfection, so as to avoid the baby from causing pathogen infection in the mouth and prevent the occurrence of thrush.

4. Skin and mucous membrane care

Normal term children can bathe every day after 24 hours of birth, keep the skin clean; newborn skin is very sensitive, and the central nervous system is not mature, the body temperature regulation ability is poor, this time the baby's stratum corneum is very thin, weather changes have a certain impact on the baby's skin, if the temperature is too high, it will lead to excessive sweating in the newborn, and when it is serious, it will lead to the symptoms of eczema in the baby. Wash your buttocks with warm water after each bowel movement to prevent red buttocks or diaper rash. Note that the umbilical cord stump is kept clean and dry. The clothes are made of large and comfortable soft cotton fabric, do not have wrinkles and buttons usually parents clean in time, gently scrub the skin of the newborn, keep the baby's skin clean and hygienic, but also according to the ambient temperature to adjust the thickness of the baby's quilt and clothes.