If you have a new baby, there are some important things you should know. Even if this isn’t your first child, you should take in this information. There are many challenges new parents face and you will find that each baby is an individual and can bring along unique challenges that you didn’t face before.
As you may already know, babies don’t come with an instruction manual so here are some things you should know. First, you should only sponge bathe your baby until the umbilical cord falls off. This can take one to two weeks after the baby is born. After that, you can bathe your baby in a baby bath, small tub or even the kitchen sink. Just be sure you never leave your baby alone in the water. Even a very small amount of water can drown a baby and they will be very slippery from the water and can also be injured if they slip out of the tub.
If your male baby was circumcised, it should heal quickly and easily on its own. Be sure to follow your pediatrician’s instructions for keeping the area clean and dry.
Be aware of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and the circumstances that can contribute to the risk of it. Male babies are more likely than females to have SIDS as are minority children. Premature babies also carry a higher risk. Statistics also show that babies of young, single mothers also carry a higher risk. Avoid placing blankets, stuffed animals and other items in the crib with your baby.
These are some basic tips for baby care of new parents. Of course this doesn’t even come close to the things you need to learn about your baby or how to care for a new baby but they are some basic starters. You should seek as much information as possible about baby care and always have a good support system to turn to for help with your baby questions.
By: Lisa A Mason
When you have a baby or child with severe eczema, you know that it can sometimes be a challenge to find eczema treatments and cures that work well enough to calm down his itching and inflammation. This article will talk to you about a well respected treatment that can be used when your baby or child has a sever flare up that you need to bring under control right away.
The treatment we are looking at is the wet wrap treatment. You can rely upon it to rehydrate skin that is dry, it will calm any itching that the baby or child has from eczema; it will strengthen his skin so that it does not break and become infected easily, and it will reduce the chances that any of his open sores or blisters will become infected.
The wet wrap treatment is a favorite among people who have trouble finding other eczema treatments that work. However, you should consider making this treatment a treatment that you use only when other treatments have failed. The reason why I say this is because if you have not experienced it yet, you will find that sometimes a reliable treatment for eczema will stop working after a while of working well for you. Now watch this, wet wraps are a strong treatment. If your baby or child’s skin gets use to the treatment you may find that milder treatments do not work for him any longer. You would have made your baby’s skin super resistant to milder treatments and you do not want for that to happen.
A huge mistake that people make when using the wet wrap is to bathe in hot water before applying the wrap. Now the procedures for using the wet wrap does call for you to wash first, but you never want to use hot water in your baby’s bath if he has eczema. Even when you are preparing the wrap you should not use hot water. The procedures for using wet wraps are not covered in this article but the instructions for using them are yours for the asking.
Lastly, make sure that you do not use wet wraps with steroid or prescription medicine. Doing so can easily raise the effects of medicines into side effect proportions. Be careful, the only time you should ignore this last bit of advice is if you have instructions from your doctor who is looking at your case telling you to do otherwise.
By: Broyde McDonald