Newborn care and safety

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Newborn care and safety are recommended activities and precautions for new parents or caregivers. It is also an educational goal of many hospitals and birth centers when it is time to bring their baby home.

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Newborn care

Taking a newborn care class during pregnancy can prepare a nanny for the real thing. But feeding and changing baby diapers is not the same. During a stay in a hospital or labor center, doctors and nurses help with basic baby care. These healthcare providers will be demonstrating basic baby care. The basics of newborn care include:

• Handling of newborns, including supporting baby's neck
• Change the diaper
• Bath
• Dressing
• Lampin
• Feed and burp
• Cleaning the umbilical cord
• Caring for circumcision circumcision
• Use a spuit bulb to clean the baby's nose channel
• Retrieve the temperature of the newborn
• Tips for calming babies

Before leaving the hospital, ask about home visits by nurses or health workers. Many new parents appreciate someone who visits them and their baby a few days after coming home. If breastfeeding, a mother may ask whether the lactation consultant visits at home to provide follow-up support, as well as providing other resources in the community, such as peer support groups.

Many of the first-time parents also welcome the help of a family member or friend who has "been there." Having a person who supports living with a newborn for a few days can give mom's confidence to do it alone in the coming weeks. This can be arranged before delivery.

The first doctor's visit is a good time to ask about baby care questions. Parents can ask the reason for calling the doctor and about what is needed and when the baby needs the vaccine. Young children need a vaccine because the disease they protect can strike at an early age and can be very dangerous in childhood. These include rare and more common diseases, such as flu.

Caring for a newborn also includes a newborn's health check, most of this time in a hospital or pediatrician soon after birth. Each baby country screen for more than two dozen distractions. Early detection can help treat the disorder.

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Nutrition is safe

Hand washing helps prevent the spread of foodborne illness to children. Pathogenic microorganisms can be transmitted from other children and their diapers, and from raw meat, seafood, eggs, dogs, cats, turtles, snakes, birds, lizards, and soil.

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Sudden infant death syndrome

Since 1992, the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that babies be placed to sleep on their backs to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), also called box death. SIDS is a sudden and unexplained death of infants under 1 year of age. Although there is no way to know which infant may die of SIDS, the recommendations include:

• Always place the baby on his back to sleep, even for a nap. This is the safest sleeping position for a healthy baby to reduce the risk of SIDS.
• Place the baby on a hard mattress, like in a safe bed. Research shows that putting babies to sleep on soft mattresses, sofas, sofa cushions, water mattresses, sheepskin, or other soft surfaces increases the risk of SIDS.
• Take out the soft, soft, loose bed and the stuffed toy from the baby's sleeping area. Make sure all the pillows, blankets, stuffed toys, and other soft items are kept away from the baby's sleeping area.
• Do not use baby sleep positioner. Using a positioner to hold the baby on his back or side because sleep is dangerous and unnecessary.
• Make sure everyone who cares about the baby knows to put the baby on his back to sleep and about the danger of soft bedding. Talk with child care providers, grandparents, nannies, and all caregivers about the risks of SIDS. Remember, every sleep time means.
• Make sure your baby's face and head stay open during sleep. Keep blankets and other covers from baby's mouth and nose. The best way to do this is by dressing up the baby in nightwear so there is no need to use another cover on the baby. If using a blanket or other cover, make sure that the baby's feet are under the bed, the blanket is no higher than the baby's chest, and the blanket is tucked around the bottom of the bed mattress.
• Do not allow to smoke around babies. Do not smoke before or after childbirth and make sure no one smokes around the baby.
• Do not let your baby get too warm during sleep. Keep the baby warm while sleeping, but do not get too warm. The baby's room should be at a comfortable temperature for adults. Too many layers of clothes or blankets can make the baby overheat.

Some mothers worry if her baby rolls over at night. However, by the time the baby is able to roll over on its own, the risk of SIDS is much lower. During times of greatest risk, ages 2 to 4 months, most infants can not turn from back to stomach.

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Car seats

Newborns and older infants should use car seats facing back. This is required until the age of 2 years or when they reach the upper or higher limit of the chair. After this, the front-facing car seat is used. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for children in the US. Crouching is the best way to save lives and reduce injuries. Children's passenger restriction laws result in more children being bent. Only 2 out of every 100 children living in the state need a car seat or booster seat for newborns and babies. A third of the children who died in an accident in 2011 were not bent. Family members promote the safety of their babies by: Knowing how to use a car seat, booster seat, and seat belt and using it on every trip, no matter how short.

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See also

• Bathe the baby
• Infant nutrition

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References

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External links

• Newborn Transition Born from NICU to Family Home Information Package
• Promoting Security and Injury Prevention, A Bright Future, American Academy of Pediatrics

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