Some professional advice will help you get
your balance back after giving birth.
The first week after being through labor is
the hardest one when the mother’s body is still in the recovery and she’s under
pressure of taking care of the baby.
The following professional advice will help
you to overcome the rough time.
1. Sleep as much as possible
Infants spend lots of time sleeping, they
can sleep for 20 hours a day but their sleeps don’t last long.
Survival
skill
You should sleep in any place, at any time;
sleep while the baby sleeps.
But, what should be done if your baby is so
annoying and you can’t sleep even a bit? The tip is to ask for the help of the
grandparents, husband and relatives… Nearly all the first week, there must be
someone besides you, helping you.
You
should sleep in any place, at any time; sleep while the baby sleeps.
2. Be gentle to your baby
As your baby has just got out of the warm
and confined womb, he/she desires to be carried around and to be canoodled
tenderly…
Advice
Don’t be so nervous that you’ll spoil your
child. Instead of that, you need to make your baby feel as if it was in the
womb by wrapping it up, carrying it around… Those steps should be done at once
or separately to sooth a crying baby.
3. Feed your child with breast milk
Breastfeeding is a natural and favorite way
to raise a child.
Advice
The sooner you feed your baby, the better,
especially right after giving birth. You can ask a doctor or a nurse or someone
having experienced that situation before about the right way to feed baby,
foods that help you to provide enough milk, how to deal with the breast
tenderness and how to milk,…
4. The break time between every time of feeding depends on the baby
The break time is 2-3 hours at some babies.
Otherwise, to other babies, it can be 1 hour or 4 hours… Sometimes, those kinds
of break time happen to the same baby.
Advice
When feeding babies, moms can choose a
suitable position: you can sit on a rocking-chair, or a bench or lie (sit) on
bed.
5. Encourage the father to look after the baby
Dad can change the diapers and clean baby’s
stool, carry it and talk to it at leisure.
Advice
Don’t judge your husband too much. You can
take a nap or move to the other room to rest while he is taking care of your
child.
6. Bathing
Relax
and slowly clean the baby.
As babies are still small and slippery,
parents found it hard to clean them.
Advice
Relax and slowly clean babies. If you hire
someone to clean your baby in the first week or ask for a help from experienced
grandma, bathing is not a concern. You should clean babies fast but carefully,
avoid wetting their umbilical cords because a dry umbilical cord will soon fall
off. If you still worry about it, you can lay children in a bath towel then
clean them little by little with a warm wet towel.
7. Recovery after birth
By
the help of others, you will overcome the rough first week.
Being hurt, tired, or even stressed and
depressed are the popular symptoms that a women can get after giving birth.
Advice
What you are dealing with now is normal, and
most moms have experienced. By the time, your physical and mental health will
be restored. In confinement, you always need at least a person by your side to
support and prevent you from doing something hard.
8. The “products” in dirty diapers
At the time, baby’s stool is black or has
tar color. When babies have been breastfed for times, their stools turn to
brown, and then green or yellow like the color of quiche. The stool’s state is
often at liquid state. For now, the color or state can’t tell anything about
baby’s health.
To know whether babies have had enough
milk, on the 4th day, it’s about 4-8 times that we have to change
the diapers, including 3 times or more a day and 6 times at night. If you find
red in their stools, you should bring them to hospital because the red thing
could be blood.
