6. The first time of bathing babies
Babies are too small and you fear that they
will be slippery when you hold them and which temperature of water is
appropriate. These are normal worries in the first time when you bath babies.
Before bathing babies, you can get
experience or watch video/clip that teaches how to bath babies. At present,
there are a lot of videos/clips on Internet.
You should prepare clothes, towel, talcum
powder, umbilical tape, cover of hands and legs of babies before you bath them.
You don’t need to bath in a long time, but movements are smooth and definitive.
You should keep hygiene in navel if it doesn’t fall yet.
Mothers shouldn’t fear or worry because in
reality, babies like your body to be cleaned. The time that you bath babies
will be funny time for both mothers and babies.
Bathing
baby is funny time for both mother and baby.
If pregnant women have condition and
demand, you can hire service that can bath newborn babies at home or you can
ask people that have experience to bath babies in the first days.
7. Restore body after giving birth
A woman remembers the first day when she
gave birth: “I can’t imagine that giving birth is painful like that. When I
left delivery room, I told my mother-in-law: I won’t give birth any more, I
feel painful. She smiled and told me: You will forget pain quickly. When my son
was 6 months old, I forgot pain in that day”.
Pain, tiredness, unpleasant feelings that
you spend are very normal because carrying a child in your womb is like that.
Gradually, your body will restore again
when there is the combination of resting and a suitable diet. In the time of
lying in childbirth, pregnant women need people to take care or look after of both
mothers and children.
8. Depression after giving birth
This phenomenon becomes popular in modern
society. Depression after giving birth has other name: baby-blue phenomenon. It
often takes place to pregnant women that have high knowledge and have weak and
sensitive nerve.
It often takes place in the first weeks
after giving birth with some symptoms such as losing appetite, thinking
positively, crying baselessly, sad emotion, discouraged feeling and fearing to
contacting with everyone…
You
should interact and share with other mothers about the first days when you take
care of your baby.
The reason is that change about endocrine
in women’s body will affect center of nerve. In addition, it also combines with
surrounding elements such as caring of husbands and relatives in family. Events
that take place in family before and after giving birth can make women think
negatively.
This phenomenon can take place in some
weeks after giving birth or it can even last longer. Families and husbands need
to have correct thinking about this disease to share and help women overcome
this period of difficulty and crisis about psychology.
In some special cases, they can need
intervention of psychological experts, combine with psychological therapy and
take medicine to pregnant women.
9. Dirty diaper
To newborn babies: a regular rotation will
be: eating/sleeping/having bowel movement/ urinating. Maybe mothers can be
surprised why they must spend a lot of money to buy diapers, but in reality, in
the first month, babies can pee continuously.
In the first 1-2 days after giving birth,
babies will have meconium. When babies eat more, their feces will change to
brown, green yellow of fireworks sparkle.
Following color of excrement and the number
of times for changing diaper of babies will be a way to evaluate their health. Feces
isn’t solid, its color is normal, babies have bowel movement from 3-6
times/day, urinate 4-5 times/day and begin to gain weight. If excrement has red
color or babies rarely urinate are the things that mothers need to pay
attention to in order to refer idea of pediatricians to handle on time.
10. Take
care of pregnant women’s body
Wash
up
Many mothers worry whether they should
abstain bathing early or they can bath normally. In reality, although living
condition is improved and hygiene is better than before, after giving birth,
body of every pregnant woman is different.
This thing depends on health, weather of
regions and condition of families. Pregnant women can calculate the time for
bathing after giving birth. You shouldn’t bath too early, but you shouldn’t
abstain bathing to be insanitary.
Make
hygiene of enclose area or incision
Pregnant women need to keep hygiene of
perineum every day, wash it 1-2days/time. You should change tampon once for
3-4hours because blood flows in the first week after giving birth.
Take care of incision carefully to avoid
infection.
Go to check gynecology 3 months after
giving birth.
Nipple
and breast
You should make hygiene clean when you give
babies the breast.
If your nipple is cracked and painful, you
should apply specific remedy.
Full breast: The reason is inflammation of
milk gland, obstructed milk, so you should go to medical stations to cure on
time. You can handle at home with some folk remedies. In addition, you can
combine it with applying warm compresses and messaging nipple continuously.
Other
notes
You should keep body, head, ears, hands and
feet warm when you go out.
Use specialized pillow: Pillows that you
used to use in pregnancy are necessary in the first weeks after giving birth.
They can make you lie and sit more comfortably when your whole body is painful.
Especially, it helps women reduce pressure on sacrum.
Although you are tired, you should try to move
in room or go out to breathe natural air instead of lying on bed or staying in a
closed room for a long time.
Using
specialized pillow will help you lie and sit more comfortably.
