When the baby is born, he still does not know how and does not know, therefore he cannot do without his mother’s help. After childbirth, the woman’s life begins to move in a crazy rhythm, and it’s not only the changed time period of wakefulness and sleep. A newborn baby needs parental care and care, a delicious mother's milk, healthy sleep, daily walks in the fresh air and regular water procedures.
How to give the baby everything you need, and at the same time not harm? Every mother thinks about it, she has a lot of questions that, fortunately, quickly find the answer, shaping the maternal experience.
A huge part of the questions arises in connection with bathing the baby. When should I start bathing my baby? How often do you need to do this? What should be the temperature for bathing the newborn? These and many other questions concern the newly mummy, which, in general, is not surprising.
Hygienic procedures (including bathing) play an important role in human life. For the baby, bathing is a necessary daily procedure that protects the baby from infections and bacteria that constantly attack the baby’s delicate skin. The fact is that children's skin is very vulnerable and quickly contaminated, which makes it an ideal target for bacteria, so bathing, which kids usually love, is a necessary step in caring for a child.
Newborn babies can be bathed immediately upon returning from the maternity hospital. Moreover, it is best to do this in the morning one hour before feeding. Necessary things - a bath, warm water, baby soap, a towel or a swaddle for wiping.
Up to six months from the birth of the baby, you need to bathe the child daily.
A separate issue is the temperature of the water for bathing newborns. The skin of the baby is very thin and delicate, bathing should not cause discomfort to the baby, since hot water can burn the baby, and in the cold it will simply freeze. The unpleasant sensations that arose during his first (and subsequent) bathing, the baby remembers, this can lead to refusal to bathe, the child will cry and scream.
Therefore, it is important that the child was bathed in warm, but not hot water. The optimal water temperature for bathing newborns is a temperature of 36-37 degrees. Warm water reminds the baby of his time in his mother’s tummy, where he felt comfortable, in complete safety. Therefore, it is recommended to bathe the kids in warm water.
In addition, warm water is a kind of barrier that prevents infections from infecting the baby's body. In addition, warm water contributes to the rapid healing of the umbilical wound.
It is quite difficult to determine the water temperature without a thermometer, so the purchase of this accessory will greatly facilitate the life of a young mother. However, there is an alternative method used by our mothers and grandmothers. To make sure that the temperature of the water for bathing newborns is optimal, you need to lower your elbow in the bath. If you do not feel that the water nibbles the elbow and does not cool it, then the temperature is suitable.
As for the question of which water to use, doctors do not insist on the use of boiled water, a few drops of potassium permanganate solution can be added to disinfect.
The question of what should be the temperature of the water for bathing newborns has been resolved, but it is equally important to monitor the temperature of the room in which the baby is bathing. Agree, even if you bathe the child in 36-degree water, and then drag him through the draft into another room, you can harm the baby. Therefore, the temperature of the room in which the baby is bathing, as well as the temperature of bathing the newborn, is really an important point. Usually a baby bath is placed in a warm room where it is convenient to buy a baby, get it out of the water, wipe it and let it lie naked. The temperature in such a room should be at least 26 degrees.
The bathing procedure itself should last about seven minutes on average. Then the baby needs to be washed (the temperature of the rinsing water can be one or two degrees lower), wrapped in a towel (it is convenient to use a towel with a hood) and get the baby's body wet. It is important not to rub, but to soak the skin, paying special attention to the folds on the child's body. Then you can make a karapuzu massage.
Here are the basic questions related to bathing your baby.