What are the baby growth indicators?

Every parent hopes that their children can grow up healthy and happy. However, each stage of a child's growth has different developmental indicators. However, many parents often lack experience and do not know how to take better care of their babies to ensure their babies' better growth and development. This allows parents to have a better grasp of their children's development. Let's understand what the baby growth indicators are.

What are the baby growth indicators?

Baby size

Weight: The normal weight range for a newborn is 2.5 kg to 4.0 kg.

Developmental characteristics

The skin of a one-month-old baby is much more sensitive than that of an adult. Sometimes parents are not careful and get a strand of hair or other things on the baby's body, irritating the skin. The baby will then move around or cry to express that he is very uncomfortable. Children at this age are more sensitive to excessive cold or heat. Express dissatisfaction to adults by crying. The movements of the two eyes are not yet coordinated enough to respond to both light and dark environments. A one-month-old baby doesn't like bitter or sour foods and will refuse them if you give them to him.

Nutritious diet

It is best for a one-month-old baby to be breastfed. When he is a little older, you can also give him some vitamin-rich fruit and vegetable juice. Take a little fresh vegetables, such as spinach, rapeseed, carrots, cabbage, etc., wash and chop them, put them in a small pot, add a small amount of water to boil, and cook for another 3-5 minutes. Spinach can be cooked for a while, carrots and cabbage can be cooked for a while longer. When it is no longer hot to the touch, pour out the juice, add a small amount of sugar, and put it in a bottle for your child to eat.

Daily care

The umbilical cord is the bond between the fetus and the mother. After the baby is born, it is tied off through sterile operation, and then gradually dries up and usually falls off between 3-7 days after birth.

It is very important for newborns before it heals and falls off. Because the umbilical cord stump is an open wound with rich blood, it is a good place for pathogens to grow. If not handled properly, the pathogens will take the opportunity to enter and cause systemic infection, leading to neonatal sepsis.

Before the umbilical cord falls off, keep it dry. After the newborn returns home from the hospital, unless there are special circumstances, such as no umbilical infection, there is no need to cover the cord with gauze. This will help the umbilical cord dry and fall off faster. Never cover the navel with wet clothes or diapers. If the covering gauze is wet or accompanied by exudation or bleeding, it must be re-tightened. Use a 75% alcohol cotton ball to gently scrub from the base of the umbilical cord to the surrounding skin. Do not rub back and forth randomly to avoid bringing germs from the surrounding skin into the base of the navel and causing infection.

After the umbilical cord falls off, be sure to keep it dry. If the navel is wet or there is a little liquid oozing out, use a sterilized cotton swab dipped in 75% alcohol to gently wipe it clean, and then apply 75% alcohol to the base of the navel and the surrounding skin.

In addition, avoid feces, urine, etc. on the diaper from soiling the gauze and contaminating the umbilical cord, and do not let dirty water wet the navel when bathing.

Disease prevention

Cretinism is a disease caused by a lack of thyroid hormone in children. Thyroxine is an essential endocrine hormone for human growth and development. If children lack this hormone, it will affect the development of their brain cells and bones. If it is not discovered and treated early between birth and 1 year old, it will cause the child to have lifelong mental retardation and short stature.

How to detect Keting disease early? Mothers should pay attention that during the neonatal period, if the baby's jaundice persists, the baby does not eat well, the baby is slow to react, the baby loves to sleep, rarely cries, is often constipated, cries differently from normal children, and has a hoarse voice, then a doctor should be consulted. If the diagnosis is delayed, more symptoms will be discovered after 2-3 months, such as an enlarged tongue that often sticks out of the mouth, a flat nose, a short neck, dry and yellow hair, and a relatively large belly. At this time, you can no longer delay and must seek medical treatment as soon as possible.

Educational enlightenment

After one month of breastfeeding, the baby becomes very familiar with the voice of his mother. He will be startled when he hears unfamiliar voices. If the voice is loud, he will feel scared and cry. Therefore, let him listen to some soft music and songs, and speak and sing to the child in a pleasant voice. For a newborn baby, apart from the need for breastfeeding, there is no more precious and important spiritual nourishment than maternal love. Especially when his mother holds him in her arms, strokes him and calls him softly to tease him, he will smile at you as if he understands. The earlier a baby learns to laugh, the smarter he is. This action is a comprehensive process in which the baby's visual, auditory, tactile and motor systems establish a neural network connection. It is also a sign of the establishment of conditioned reflexes.

The above is an introduction to the baby's growth indicators. After understanding, we know that the baby's growth indicators have a certain range. Parents will learn more knowledge in the process of taking care of the baby. In addition, when taking care of the baby, you must observe the baby carefully. After all, the baby is relatively young and cannot express some of his emotional needs, so parents need to observe carefully.