1, keep your skin clean.

Baby's skin is delicate, with poor resistance, and it is easily stimulated by urine, sweat and vomit, causing infection. Taking a bath often can remove the dirt on your baby and keep your baby's skin clean.

2. Promote growth and development

Bathing can produce benign stimulation to the baby's skin, on the one hand, it can promote the whole body blood circulation, on the other hand, it can enhance the skin's perception of temperature and pressure and improve the baby's environmental adaptability. At the same time, bathing can enhance the baby's appetite, which is conducive to the baby's sleep and growth.

3, timely detection of skin lesions

In the process of bathing, parents can find the changes of baby's whole body skin in time. If skin damage occurs, parents can find it early and treat it early, which is very important for the baby's health.

4. Improve the relationship between mother and child.

Parents must communicate with their baby with their eyes, language and touch when bathing their baby. Although the baby can't speak, he can fully feel the deep love of his parents through his words and deeds. Therefore, bathing the baby is also a good opportunity to increase the affection between mother and child.

Several problems that must be paid attention to when bathing the baby.

1, the number of baths depends on the child's own situation.

The number of baths depends on whether the baby is full-term, weight and ambient temperature:

Full-term baby: If the baby has no disease and is completely healthy, it is no problem to take a bath every day as long as the ambient temperature and water temperature are suitable.

Premature baby: After weighing 2000g, if the room temperature can be maintained at 26-28 degrees, it is recommended to take a bath every day. If the ambient temperature can't reach, you can wash it once every half month.

2, master the best bath time

Best time:10am-3pm, which is the warmest time of the day and can avoid catching a cold.

Before feeding: you can take a bath, touch the baby after bathing, and then feed after touching;

After breast-feeding: take a bath every 1 hour, so as not to cause the baby's gastrointestinal discomfort and vomit milk.

Before going to bed: it is not suitable for bathing the baby, which may cause excitement and affect sleep.

Parents also need to pay attention to the fact that the time for bathing the baby should not be too long. General 10 minutes is the most comfortable. If the baby stays in the water for too long, it is easy to catch a cold.

3, different parts should be treated differently.

1) Don't let the baby's umbilical cord get wet before it falls off or when it is red, swollen and oozing.

2) Male babies should pay attention to cleaning the lower part of scrotum, and female babies should pay attention to cleaning from front to back when cleaning perineum.

3) Skin wrinkles, the neck, behind the ears, armpits and groin are prone to redness, so it is necessary to strengthen nursing.

4) It is forbidden to use the lamp-heated bathroom heater for the baby, so as not to burn the baby's eyes with strong light. Parents can also turn on the Yuba before taking a bath and turn it off when the room temperature reaches 26-28 degrees.

Tips: The coordination ability and physical support ability of infants and young children are still very weak. Therefore, when parents bathe their baby, they should spend more time with the baby to prevent drowning.

4. Don't bathe your baby under these circumstances.

1) If the baby is sick, such as severe nasal congestion or frequent vomiting and diarrhea, bathing may aggravate the child's condition.

2) Infants vaccinated or with skin injury should not take a bath. If the damaged skin comes into contact with water, it is easy to cause infection and increase the difficulty of recovery.

3) Parents should not choose to bathe their baby when it is emotional and crying. Compulsory bathing will not only cause the baby's disgust and uncooperative, but also aggravate the fear and difficulty of taking a bath next time.

Mother Kangaroo has something to say:

Although it seems like a trivial matter to bathe the baby, there are many hidden problems. Only by mastering the knowledge essentials and precautions of bathing your baby can you make your child comfortable and not catch a cold when bathing, which will help your child grow up healthily.