Preparing to become a mother, it is best to buy children’s goods in advance, because upon returning from the hospital you will no longer have a single free minute, moreover, a lot will be needed immediately. First of all, you will need cosmetics for baby care: bathing gel, children’s cream, cotton wool, potassium permanganate, cleaning napkins and so on. When you return from the hospital, you will need to bathe the baby on the first evening before going to bed. To do this, it is recommended to fill the bath with boiled water, adding a little potion of potassium permanganate to it. All these precautions are necessary in order to completely exclude the ingress of microbes and bacteria on the skin and mucous membrane, moreover, the umbilical wound has not yet healed. After bathing, it must be wiped and processed dry.
If you bathe the baby for the first time in his life, it is recommended to immerse it in the bath, having previously wrapped it in a diaper so that it is not afraid of water. Take some unnecessary diaper, since it will darken from potassium permanganate and will not behed. When the umbilical wound heals, you can no longer add potassium permanganate to water when bathing. Before immersing the child in water, you must definitely measure its temperature with a special thermometer, suddenly it will be too hot or cold? You can add a few drops of children’s oil to the water so that children’s skin does not dry out after bathing. After the baby has been redeemed, you need to lubricate the skin folds with children’s cream or petroleum jelly.
In the morning after the baby woke up, he needs to be washed. Wipe the eyes and face of the child with cotton balls moistened in boiled water. The ears can be cleaned with cotton sticks, the first time it is better to use cotton flagella, they also need to clean the nose and nose. From time to time, be sure to trim the child’s nails, because if they are too long, he can accidentally scratch himself