Life with a newborn baby can be quite exciting and challenging. When you have a baby your life changes and you might have lots of questions about what you can do to give the best life for your baby.
Below. Let us see how you can help if you are a new parent. Let’s look at some of the most common questions you might have as a new parent below.
How Can I Get Help When My Baby Arrives?
An important part of taking care of a newborn is to also take care of your needs simultaneously. You might want to consider getting help during this time of great change when life can feel hectic than you have ever felt.
Now let us look at how you can go about forming a strong bond with your little bundle of joy.
How Can I Form a Good Bond with My Baby?
Bonding with your baby can be a great experience. Bonding usually happens during the first few weeks and days after a baby is born when parents make a connection that is deep and profound with their baby. Close physical proximity is important and can help create an emotional bond and help your baby’s growth and development process. One way to look at bonding is falling in love with your young one. Kids have a great experience by forming a close bond with a parent or another adult in their life who loves them unconditionally.
You can take the first steps towards bonding by cradling and gently stroking your baby in different patterns. You can also use skin to skin contact which is also called kangaroo care, where you hold the baby against your chest. Holding your baby against your chest will help them calm down and soothe them and also regulate their heartbeat.
It is important to avoid using scented perfumes or lotions and try to stay away from cigarette smoke before you go about this. Remember the din a comfortable seat in a simply lit room. Wear a shirt or dress that opens in the front and lay your baby in just a diaper on your bare chest. Sit quietly, talk, sing or hum and allow your baby to fall asleep.
Now let’s look at another commonly asked question about how you can bathe your baby.
How Should I Bathe My Baby?
If your baby is only a few weeks old then you can give them sponge baths. Once the umbilical cord stump falls off you can bathe your baby in a sink or a tub designed for babies.
Once your baby is reading for bath tubes, the first sessions should be mild and short. If your baby gets upset, then you might want to consider switching to sponge baths again for a few weeks and try a tub bath later. A bath two or three times a week is alright in the first year. Frequent bathing may dry your little one’s skin.
