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The birth a child is the most beautiful experience felt by a women in hers newborn brings a lot of happiness to the family. But along with this it also brings a lot of responsibilities. Inexperience of mother regarding newborn care can put inmense stress on her.
There area few basic things we need to understand for the care of newborn. The babies can not communicate, but instead only cry for all their problems and we have to interpret this cry appropriately to console the child as well as the mother. Here i am enlisting some basic rules for newborn care
firstly, we should alwags clean our hands properly before touching the baby. We should wash our hands with a good soap and then dry the hands properly before touching. Also we should warm our hands by rubbing them so that baby does not feel cold. We should limit the number of visitors in our home especially during first six months. by this we help in preventing infections in the child.
The child should be given breast feeding possibly within first half hour of life and exclusive breast feeding should be continued for first 4 to 6 months and total for about 1-2 years. Mothers milk is adequate in all essential and required nutrients that are needed for the perfect growth of the child. The colostrum, the milk coming in first few days contains immunoglobulins which helps the baby to fight against common infections and a good amount of vitamins to promote adequate growth of child. The mother should give feeding in sitting or semi recline position and never in sleeping position. Also after feeding one should do burping for about 15 to 20 minutes. Bottle feeding and feeding babies with toots milk or other animal milk is harmful to the child. in sitting or semi recline position and never sleeping position. AISO after feeding one should do burping for about 15 to 20 minutes. Bottle feeding and feeding babies with cows milk or other animal milk is harmful to the child.
Nothing should be applied on the umbilical cord. The cord usually falls off by 10 days of life. However if there is bleeding or discharge from the cord site then you should immediately consult the paediatrician. Also nothing like kajal should be applied to the eyes. It is harmful.
The surroundings of the baby should be kept warm. The ambient temperature should be comfortable for the baby. If you are having an AC in gour room, the blower and the air flow should be away from the child. The temperature should be set at around 25 so that the infant does not feel cold, this is especially very important for Preterm or low birth weight infants.
All the babies should be properly vaccinated. At birth they are given hepatitis b, bog and polio vaccines. Then the rest of vaccines are started at one and half month of age. The pediatrician can design the immunization chart for the child.
There are many principles to take care of the newborn baby, one should always consult a paediatrician for any kind of queries rather than doing what the people say.

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