sleep:
At the beginning of the month, your baby may sleep 16-18 hours a day, and almost no baby can sleep until dawn. By the end of the month, your baby has to take two or three naps a day, and the waking time is about 10 hours a day.
Physiological excretion:
Breastfeeding: The stool of this type of feeding is golden yellow, mostly uniform paste, occasionally small milk clots, sour taste, 2-3 times a day. Even if the stool reaches 3-5 times a day, the stool does not contain too much water and is mushy, which can be considered normal.
Artificial feeding (with cow's milk, goat's milk, including milk powder, etc.): The feces of such feeding children are pale yellow, mostly formed, contain more milk curds, alkaline or neutral, more and more odorous, 1-2 times a day.
Mixed feeding (breast milk plus bovine milk): The stool of this type of feeding is similar to that of artificially fed infants, but is yellower and softer. After adding complementary foods such as cereals, eggs, meat, and vegetables, the stool traits are close to those of adults, once a day.
weight:
Weight gain is about 1 kg from birth, height is about 3 cm.
Vaccination for 2 months
Preventive shots
Get (administer) your first polio vaccine.
Side effects of vaccination: some infants have mild fever, irritability or mild diarrhea (polio sugar pills) a few hours after vaccination, and there may be local redness, swelling and pain, which generally resolve spontaneously without treatment. If fever is above 38.5 C, a pediatrician should be sought. BCG reaction and treatment 1 to 3 weeks after BCG vaccination, local skin redness, swelling and induration, about 1X1 cm in diameter, 3 to 4 weeks of purulent, the formation of small white pustules in the middle, to protect the local skin, to prevent scratching, causing secondary infection. If the pustules rupture on their own, antibiotic ointment can be applied, covered with gauze, and waited for the crust to break. The scab falls off in 1 to 2 months, leaving a permanent scar.
2 months potential development
Big Sport:
· Prone head up - choose to carry out 1 hour after feeding, the bed surface is flat and comfortable, the child is flipped from supine to prone, parents can use sounds and toys to attract children, causing head-up movements. Each practice is gradually extended for 30 seconds, practicing several times a day. You can also have your baby lying on your mother's chest, so that your baby can look up and communicate with your mother face to face.
· Straight head - Take the baby's back against the mother's chest and abdomen, so that the child actively moves the head and straightens the head. The time can be slightly longer, when the baby is tired, the head is reliable in the mother's arms. This kind of holding position of the baby has a wide field of vision, which can guide the baby to look at the picture and see different people and things, which is conducive to the development of cognitive ability. You can also hold your mother for a short time and look at your mother face to face. Several times a day (not less than 3 times) for 1 to 2 minutes, gradually extended.
· Limb movement - tie the toy on the baby's wrist and lower leg, when moving, the baby can see the brightly colored toys, you can also hear a good sound, and gradually the baby learns to actively wave the small hand, kick the small foot in order to see the activity of the hanging toy. When lying still, you can move your body position with your own strength to make larger dances, often lifting and lowering high. This is the first manifestation of operational thinking activity.
Small muscle group exercise:
· Do not restrict your child from eating and staring at his hands.
· Put various textures and shapes of toys in the child's hands to enrich the grasp stimulation of the child's hands.
· Hang some toys where your baby's vision hand can reach. He waved his small hand and accidentally touched the toy, learning hand-eye coordination in this repeated contact, intentionally touching the toy.
cognition:
· Vision - children's visual activities are more active, in addition to the general stimulation of the surrounding environment to implement some special visual exercises, hanging toys at the head of the child's bed 20-30 cm, such as: rings, bells, balls and other brightly colored, can make a sound toy, put one piece at a time, often change the position to attract children's attention. After the child can concentrate on the attention, move the toy horizontally so that the child chases after the moving object.
· Hearing - Special hearing training, parents in different directions with different intonations of speech, toy sounds, music and other stimulation of hearing to make children turn their heads to find. Pay attention to the soft and pleasant tone of speech, and the stimulation time should not be too long.
Language Proficiency:
· Phenomenon: Newborn children have the ability to perceive language, to give children a rich language environment to take advantage of various opportunities to talk to children. Mothers should often communicate with their children face-to-face, issuing single tones such as: ah, oh, whining, etc. When the child takes the initiative to imitate, parents should use praise expressions, strokes, hugs to give encouragement. Music can make the baby smart, and it is necessary to often listen to beautiful, cheerful music for the baby, such as Mozart's music, and parents can sing to the baby themselves. If parents can speak a foreign language, they can also give the baby some foreign language edification, so that the child feels different phonemes.
· Pronunciation: In the simple pronunciation stage, babies will occasionally spit out ei, ou and other sounds within 1 month, and make m~ma sounds in the 2nd month.
Life & Social Emotions:
· Interaction: Parents should talk to their children in a kind tone, gaze at the child with loving eyes to attract the attention of the child, meet the child's needs in time, and often touch and hold him (her).
· The establishment of parent-child feelings: laugh more baby, more than 1 month baby will make a sweet smile when teased, although there is no sound, but it is very attractive. It is necessary to communicate with the baby face-to-face often and cultivate the intimate feelings between parents and children from the eye contact.
· Emotions and communication: Carefully observe the needs of the baby, so that the needs of the baby are often met, so that the baby will often maintain a pleasant mood, smile often, not only make the baby healthy, but also cultivate the attachment feelings between parents and children, and lay a good foundation for the future healthy personality development.
· Life: Gradually cultivate the habit of eating, drinking, and sleeping on time, and should prevent falling asleep with nipples so as not to develop bad habits. Parents should grasp the rules of their children's urination as soon as possible, regularly urinate and urinate, and help children establish a conditioned reflex of defecation. Choose an appropriate time every day to take your child outdoors to receive various sensory stimuli, and gradually extend the daily time to reach 39 minutes to 1 hour.
2 months feeding instructions
Diet of nursing mothers:
Nursing mothers often feel thirsty while breastfeeding, which is normal. Mothers should pay attention to replenishing water when breastfeeding, or drink more soy milk, almond flour tea (this party is recommended by the International Breast Milk Association), fruit juice, original vegetable soup, etc. It is sufficient to replenish the water in moderation so that the milk supply will be both sufficient and nutritious. Drinking the original vegetable soup is to cook all kinds of vegetables mainly rhizomes and flowers without any spices, the taste is fragrant, can be drunk as tea, and drink it on the day after the birth (the day after caesarean section). Make sure to drink no less than twice a day.
· Recipes with vegetable soup:
Ingredients: soybean sprouts, broccoli, pepper (green pepper, yellow pepper, red pepper can be), purple cabbage, loofah, edamame, zucchini, celery, each time choose more than 4 kinds of can be.
Preparation: Put a variety of vegetables into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil and take the soup water to drink.
DHA is very important for the development of the cranial nerve and optic nerve in infants, and infants with higher levels of DHA in the body have good vision and intellectual development. Nursing mothers should eat more foods containing high DHA content, tuna, bonito, salmon, mackerel, sardines, horse mackerel, sailfish, tuna and other fish with higher DHA content, walnuts, almonds, peanuts, sesame seeds, algae, which contains α - linolenic acid can be converted into DHA in the human body.
· The preparation of the red date beef exhibition soup
Ingredients: red dates, cattle exhibition
Preparation Method:
1: Wash the dates with water and pit them for later.
2. Wash and slice the cattle exhibition and set aside.
3: Pour an appropriate amount of water into the clay pot, boil over high heat, add all the ingredients, continue to simmer on medium heat for about 2 hours, and then add a little salt to taste, you can drink.
· Sea rice fried bean sprouts
Ingredients: mung bean sprouts, water hair sea rice
1: Remove the mung bean sprouts from the watercress and root whiskers, wash and drain.
2: Heat the oil to 40% in the pot, add the peppercorns to fry out the aroma, remove the peppercorns, sauté the green onion, ginger shreds, water hair sea rice, add salt, rice wine, monosodium glutamate, mung bean sprouts and stir-fry to maturity.
· The practice of stir-frying turnips with artemisia
Ingredients: white radish, artemisia annua
1: Wash and cut the white radish into strips, wash and cut the artemisia into sections.
2: Put the wok on the fire, put the oil on the heat, add the peppercorns to fry the black and discard, add the white radish strips and stir-fry, add a small amount of chicken broth, stir-fry until seven ripe, add the artemisia annua section and stir-fry, add fine salt and MONOSG to taste.
3. After cooking thoroughly, hook with water starch, and then pour sesame oil after the soup is bright.
Love tip: After the baby's full moon, you can use some fruits and vegetables to boil into juice (juice, vegetable juice) to feed the baby to drink. But don't give your baby some artificially formulated drinks, which contain artificial additives that can irritate your baby's intestines. If your child's stool is slightly thin, apple juice and tomato juice can be added, and citrus, watermelon, peach and other juices can be fed during constipation. Because fruit juice can make the stool sour, so after eating the juice will turn green, these are not diseases, do not worry.
2 months focus
Baby 42 days medical examination!
When your baby is 42 days old, he should go to the hospital for a physical examination. The 42-day physical examination is of great significance to the newborn baby, because it is his first physical examination in the hospital after he was discharged home from the hospital, and it is also the beginning of his growth and development monitoring.
· Weight: An important indicator of your baby's physical development and nutritional status.
· Height: A major indicator of your baby's skeletal development.
· Head circumference: Reflects the baby's brain development, the size of brain volume, and is also an important indicator of the baby's physical development.
· Bust Circumference: Evaluates the development of your baby's chest, including lung development, thoracic development, and the degree of development of the muscles and subcutaneous fat in the chest and back.
· Evaluate developmental intelligence: Find out if your baby's intelligence is at a normal level.
After 42 days of physical examination, it is also necessary to regularly give the baby a physical examination, systematically understand the physical growth and dynamic changes of the baby at all ages, so that growth abnormalities can be found in time, so that some diseases with insignificant symptoms can be detected early, early diagnosis, early intervention, and early treatment.
2 months Dad Academy
Get back to the state of life you were in before you had your baby as soon as possible
Many new parents who have just had a baby will panic and even dare not go out for two years, for fear of what will happen to the baby, so in the weeks after the wife gives birth, you and your wife should start to return to the state before the baby as soon as possible. You can take your baby out for breakfast, travel, shopping, etc., and you may find that although these activities are different, you can still do a lot of what you used to do, which can also reduce the stress for both of you.
Dad helped his wife when she got up in the middle of the night to feed
The baby is very eager to eat milk in the middle of the night, if the baby is eating breast milk, the wife will need to get up at this time to feed the baby, if you can also get up together at this time to help the wife take care of the baby, the wife will feel your care and love, and this can also enhance the feelings of the husband and wife!
Love tip: Sometimes the baby will "fall asleep" situation, the mother will be tired because of the baby's non-stop crying; if the father gets up to help the mother to comfort the baby, it will not only strengthen the intimate relationship with the baby, but also promote the feelings of husband and wife.
2 Month Old Baby Health Tips
Help your baby clean thoroughly from start to finish
Newborn babies have delicate skin, so how to clean it is even more important. The parts of the face are smaller than the body, so you may be nervous at first, but during the daily progression, the gestures can also become neat. As for body cleansing, there are also its own customary steps and techniques. Especially the easily overlooked private area care! Whether it is a baby boy or a baby girl, as a new parent, you may always not know how to take care of your baby's private parts, and you often rush to finish things during nursing. When something goes wrong in your baby's delicate sensitive area, you may be so anxious that you don't know what to do. In fact, many problems with pp for babies can be avoided as long as they are properly cared for. It is important to note that in order to make your baby cleaner more comfortable, it is best to make a series of preparations before cleaning. Nail clippers, cotton swabs, baby oil and other care products are first placed in the basket. In addition to not missing small things from time to time, you can also take them out immediately when you need them, and it is also convenient to carry.
Massage babies can promote their intellectual development
Baby touch is not a fashionable activity, it is a medical method. Because touch is associated with medical exploration from the beginning. In the first week of the baby's birth, the tactile sensitivity has been greatly developed, and the baby is very sensitive to physical contact, especially the contact between the palm of the hand and the center of the foot. Parents can find a professional guide, follow certain steps to massage the baby, do touch exercises.
How to breastfeed a 1-2 months baby?
If breast milk is plentiful, the period from 1 month to 2 months will be a very peaceful period. The number of feedings will be determined gradually in line with the baby's personality. Babies who don't need to breastfeed at night are only an exception during this period. Babies with small amounts of food are not hungry even after 3 hours of the day, and they can not breastfeed at night, so that children have fewer times to defecate at night. Try adding milk once when breast milk production is minimal (usually between 4 and 6 p.m. for mothers). Do not add milk immediately after eating breast milk.
A solution for your baby to get eczema
If your baby's skin begins with redness, rash, and then roughness and desquamation, and caresses your child's skin as if touching it on sandpaper, you may be suffering from pediatric eczema. The disease is common in obese infants and usually begins the day after birth. At this time, you should find out the cause of your baby's eczema and treat it symptomatically. Causes pediatric eczema has a family history of allergic factors, food environment and other precipitating factors and internal factors of the baby, etc., can be treated with appropriate drugs, food environment should reduce the increase of allergens or pathogens to prevent the aggravation of the disease.
Diseases and symptoms to be aware of: pediatric eczema, infantile eczema scabs, neonatal eczema, antibody immunodeficiency disease
How can I keep my baby away from red buttocks (diaper rash)?
Babies' skin is extremely delicate, if soaked in urine for a long time or damp due to the tight airtight diaper, there will often be small red rashes on the buttocks or the skin becomes rougher, called "diaper rash" or "red ass". Babies are often irritable and restless due to red buttocks. In fact, as long as the care is proper, buttock red is completely preventable. The best way to prevent diaper rash is to keep your baby's butt dry, so change it as soon as possible after the diaper gets wet or dirty. Wash your baby's genital area thoroughly with each diaper change. After washing, remember to dry the water with a soft towel or paper towel, and never rub it back and forth.
Heart tip: In order to prevent the baby's small ass from becoming a "red ass", it is best for the new mother to wash the baby's "little ass" every time she changes the diaper - especially when changing the diaper after the baby's stool. Pay attention to keeping your baby warm when washing your baby's butt, and if necessary, you can use an electric heater to maintain room temperature. The oil to apply to your baby's butt can be selected: 5% tannic acid oil, clear cod liver oil or cooked vegetable oil, if the skin of your baby's little ass is broken, you can apply cod liver oil or neomycin sulfate oil paste.
How to deal with a baby who cries at night?
Some babies always cry and cry at night, making young parents tired. There are many reasons why babies often cry at night, such as pain during the teething period, crying and crying with urine, nasal congestion in small babies, inappropriate temperature at night, irritants in the air, noise and so on. Certain diseases can also affect children's nighttime sleep, such as babies with rickets are often restless at night, and parental coaxing is useless.
The right way to hold a newborn
The growth and development of newborns is characterized by large heads, heavy heads, many gums of bones, underdeveloped muscles, and weak muscle strength. Therefore, the position of holding the newborn is very exquisite, and the key is to support the baby's head. As a new mother and new father, we must learn how to hold the newborn as soon as possible, you should not think that the baby is still small, do not know anything, usually hold more baby, this is the only magic weapon to increase the feelings between you.
Artificially fed babies should be properly fed water
Exclusively breastfed babies do not need to replenish water, minerals and vitamins, because the proportion of fat, protein, water and sugar in breast milk is perfect, which is enough to meet the various nutrients needed for the baby's growth, and is easy to digest and absorb; on the contrary, if it is too early and too much water, it will inhibit the sucking ability of newborns, so that the amount of milk they absorb is reduced, which is not conducive to growth and development. Artificially fed babies will need to be fed water once between milks. More than 80% of the protein in milk is casein, which has a large molecular weight and is not easy to digest; the lactose content in milk is also less than that of human milk, which is easy to cause constipation in the baby, and adding water to the baby is conducive to alleviating constipation.
How to artificially feed a 1-2 month old baby?
When a baby 1 month of age is fed milk, it is most important not to over-feed so as not to increase the burden on the baby's digestive organs. If you think that this sucking is not enough milk and gradually increase the milk, you will unconsciously feed more. The resulting criteria are: Babies weighing 3 to 3.5 kg at birth drink about 700 ml of milk per day by 1 month. During 1 month to 2 months, drink about 800 ml just right, if it is fed in 7 batches, 120 ml each time, if it is fed in 6 times, 140 ml each time. However, this is only one criterion, because babies who cry a lot will eat more, while babies who often sleep quietly eat very little.
What should I do if my baby has congenital heart disease?
When your baby is 2 months and 3 weeks old, check for congenital heart disease. If your baby has congenital heart disease, he should be treated immediately and actively cooperate with the treatment. Nowadays, the age of pediatric congenital heart disease surgery is getting younger and younger, the disease is becoming more and more complex, and many children have problems with home care after surgery and discharge, and correct home health care is particularly important. You need to provide a reasonable living system, a fresh air environment and physical and mental adjustment for the baby, so that the baby can recover and enhance his physical fitness. Diseases and symptoms that require attention: sputum accumulation in the baby, acute bronchitis in children, congenital heart disease, heart malformations
2 months of security protection
Prevents breast leakage in newborns
Galactorrhea is when a newborn baby spills milk from the mouth after feeding. This condition is generally physiological. Therefore, after each feeding, pick up the child and put it on the mother's shoulder, gently pat the back, and then put it on the bed after hiccups, so that the child lies on the right side of the position, and do not turn the baby too much. More importantly, the lateral recumbent position prevents the milk from being inhaled into the respiratory tract by mistake and causing choking.