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Last reviewed: 19.10.2021
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Every parent wants his baby to grow up healthy and strong. And the sooner the father and mother begin the hardening procedures of newborns, the better the child will develop. Neonatologists advise for an absolutely healthy child to begin a complex of procedures from the second week after birth. And if the baby was born full-term as a result of uncomplicated births; The physiological loss of weight in the first days after birth is no more than 10%; at home, the child is calm and well gaining weight; pediatrician and children's neurologist found no abnormalities in development - parents are given a "green light" to start classes.
How can you temper such a crumb? With the help of natural elements - water and air:
- Observance of the optimal temperature regime in the children's room - 20-22 C. It should not be at the same time to bury the child, and you can remember the cap only for a short time after bathing. During the night sleep the permissible temperature of the air is also within the limits of 18-20 ° C.
- "Air baths" with each change of diapers. To do this, you should first ventilate the empty room, then - close the windows, bring the baby, undress to the waist, leaving naked legs and ass, and leave it as it is for 5 minutes.
- Regularly ventilate the room. In the summer, the window can not be closed at all, and it is possible to open the window regularly 5 times a day for 15 minutes each time in cold winters.
- Walking in the open air as often as possible and longer. Modern pediatricians advise it to do in any weather. An exception can only become air temperature below -10 C or strong wind combined with high air humidity. The first walk can be done already on the second or third day after discharge from the maternity hospital. Its duration is 15-20 minutes. Next - daily gradually increase the duration of air procedures, bringing the stay on the street in the winter to 1-1.5 hours each time twice a day, and in the summer - you can walk the whole daylight hours. One should only remember the correct choice of a place for a promenade: the clean air of the square will undoubtedly be more useful than walking along the gassed street on the way to the supermarket or to the bazaar.
- Pour baby legs with cool water. This procedure can be carried out before night sleep: the stems of the crumb are watered, then well rubbed with a towel and covered with a blanket. The initial water temperature for such procedures is +34 C and gradually decreases to +20 C.
- Daily to bathe the baby, completing water procedures by pouring more cool water. To do this, prepare a bath with water with an ordinary temperature of +37 C, then - a ladle of this water is collected and set aside. During the time the baby takes water procedures, it is slightly cooler in the scoop. After the bathing is over begin to pour the baby from the dipper: first the heels, then the spine and at the end the head.
The next stage of "water hardening" can be cool baths: every day the temperature of the collected water is reduced by 1C.
And the most important factor for maintaining strong immunity of the baby can become breastfeeding. Indeed, as one well-known pediatrician says: "Every child is born with a natural strong immune system. And the main task of all relatives is not to interfere. " But here to help in its preservation - on forces to each of them.