What are the precautions for baby confinement care?

After giving birth, there will be a recovery period, and there will be a recovery process. This is what we often call confinement. There are many things to pay attention to when taking care of your baby during the confinement period. Children's bodies are more fragile, and they will be affected to a certain extent by some diets and the external environment such as sound, temperature, etc. Next, we will explain what are the precautions for postpartum care of babies.

Pay attention to the living environment

When living in an environment, we should pay special attention to two factors: the first is ventilation. The living environment of a newborn requires proper ventilation, while avoiding the through-drafts that occur in traditional houses facing south and north. The second is the noise factor. Pay attention to isolating high-decibel and harsh noises to avoid causing damage to the baby's auditory organs.

Pay attention to hot and cold care

Because newborns have poor temperature regulation function, they need to keep warm in winter and prevent heatstroke in summer. They also need to add or remove clothes in time according to changes in temperature.

Pay attention to skin care

The skin of a newborn is delicate and easily hurt, so you should be gentle when handling it and wear loose, soft clothes. Do not button or use pins. Use warm water to scrub the skin folds, clean them after each urination and defecation, and dry them with a towel.

Pay attention to umbilical cord care

When the new umbilical cord has not fallen off, scrub the navel once a day with 0.5% polyvinyl alcohol ether iodine solution, then cover it with sterile gauze. Do not put the baby in a basin for bathing. After the umbilical cord falls off, gauze is no longer needed, but the navel must be kept dry and clean. If the navel is found to be red or has purulent secretions, anti-inflammatory treatment should be performed.

Get enough sleep

Change the newborn's sleeping position frequently to prevent head deformation.

Dealing with special physiological phenomena

Such as the so-called "milk teeth" of newborns, mucus or bloody secretions in the vagina of baby girls within a few days after birth, red urine, swollen breasts, erythema, pigmentation spots and physiological jaundice (appearing 2-3 days after birth), etc. These will disappear naturally after a few days and do not require special treatment. If the duration is long or there are other adverse reactions, you should go to the hospital for examination.

The above are the precautions that need to be taken during the baby care process. In addition to paying attention to the baby’s dietary precautions, you must also pay attention to the mother’s dietary precautions. Because every child needs to eat the mother’s milk, the mother’s physical condition will also affect the child’s health.