Just like pregnancy, it should make women's hygiene habits partially modified and more specific, as well. the arrival of the baby at home will make it necessary to adopt some new hygiene habits, both to take care of the child's body directly as well as, as we will see in an upcoming article, to properly maintain his clothes and his environment.
We will therefore make a small support for hygiene habits essential for the baby, so that we avoid infections but also do not isolate your immune system.
Essential hygiene habits for the baby
When the baby comes home it is important to be attentive to the evolution, above all, of the umbilical cord, and clean it properly. But apart from that the true hygiene needs of the child They do not require many complications.
Later, as the child grows, we must instill proper hygiene habits that must be internalized and practiced during his childhood. In fact, the hygiene habits that the child acquires during his early childhood will accompany him throughout his life.
But let's go back to the baby, for now. For clean the intimate parts well Care must be taken to prevent feces from coming into contact with the genitals, the procedure being somewhat different in boys and girls.
It is important to change diapers frequently so that irritations do not occur and clean the child with appropriate products, as aggressive as possible, preferably without chemicals. In addition to an indispensable hygiene habit, diaper change It is an ideal time to share games and pampering with the baby, which, in large part, is also part of his hygiene, of the emotional.
If it is important to prevent the child from having wet clothes, either by a pee leak or by the milk that spills. In that case you have to change it so that it does not irritate your delicate skin.
Bathroom Every day is not necessary, much less with soap, nor should we put talcum powder later. That said it will depend on whether the child relaxes but of course it is not necessary to obsess or rub it to clean it thoroughly. It's a baby, don't go down to the mine.
The baby's ears, nose and eyes may also require a specific cleaning but above all, you have to be careful and not damage them because you want to clean too thoroughly.
Babies with excessive hygiene
I hope I have learned something if I have another child, because I confess that I was one of those mothers obsessed with hygiene to an already worrying point that they spent a year sterilizing everything and did not put the house to boil because they did not have a fairly large pot.
Having a mother who is armed with ammonia for life and the very logic of attention at home a premature baby, made me lose a little control and become obsessive of hygiene.
When my son came home he weighed less than two kilos and we were receiving visits from the newborn nurse for a month, in a formula called home hospitalization. The recommendations for caring for a premature baby were strict both in handwashing, contact with people, actions in case someone caught a cold and the hygiene and sterilization of the bottles that he took during that time.
I do not know if we exaggerate but I think that, in this case, I would repeat what was done: poor contact with other people, not going outside for a month, frequent hand washing, sterilization, all that combined, of course, with skin contact with 24 hour skin and an effort to achieve complete relactation.
But then it was hard for me to leave the obsession with hygiene and I was washing and sterilizing everything too much. Today I know that excessive hygiene is not good for healthy children and that it can even weaken the immune system.
We hope these advice on the essential hygiene of the baby Serve you and you can relax and enjoy your little one when I get home. We will see, later, that hygiene habits will be essential to keep the baby's environment properly clean, both in terms of clothes, toys, house, pets and what we find when we go out.
