What needs to be prepared for discharge from the hospital?

Ironically, most of us are in the grip of superstition and prejudice. This concerns the preparation for the birth of a child. Many people think that you do not need to buy anything in advance. To argue with this and prove the opposite is not our task. Even if you do not rush to buy, then you probably have enough time (mom and baby will be in the maternity hospital for about a week) to provide the new family member with everything necessary. With regard to things and items of care that will be needed in the hospital, then almost in all maternity homes there are stalls, where there are necessary goods in these cases. In short, if you have enough money, all the problems associated with buying the necessary things can be solved. The main thing is to weed out what may be absolutely unnecessary or impractical. It is also in your interest to choose products that are benign, but at a reasonable price. Of course, you will have to think about where the baby cot will be, the changing table where the baby's things will lie, his toys, bottles, nipples, first-aid kit, etc., before the trip to the hospital. It is advisable to repair the premise in which it will be before birth children's room.

    Now let's move on to what needs to be purchased for the baby.

• Thermometer.
• A large bath towel.
• Vata and napkins.
• Sterilized sunflower oil (either you can sterilize it yourself, or buy it at the pharmacy.) You can use sea buckthorn instead of sunflower oil).
• Baby powder.
• Scissors with rounded ends for cutting nails.
• Comb for the child. 8. Bandage. 9. Potassium permanganate (manganese). 10. Children's cream. 11. The enema. 12. Gas outlet pipe.

The room for the newborn should be light, well ventilated, the temperature in it should not exceed 25 ° C. Do not worry if you can not give the child a separate room. He may well, but at first he should, stay close to his parents. The child must have his own crib. The design of the crib, in which the child will sleep until three years, can be any. The main condition - it should be easy to wash. The most common design of the crib is a prefabricated structure made of trellised panels with plywood loungers inside. In this case, one or two side panels can be lowered and raised, making it easier to put the baby in the crib. You also need a mattress and a gasket - "book", protecting the child from blows head on the bars of the lattice.

While the child is small, he does not need a pillow in the crib. But in a stroller, it should be, but very small. The stroller itself must be multifunctional. It should have winter and summer options. While the child is small, the stroller must protect it from wind and bad weather. Therefore, it must be closed from all sides, and from the top it must have a folding canopy made of non-wetting material. Later, when the child learns to sit, you can use a summer - sedentary - a version of the stroller, in which also an umbrella from the sun should be provided. When buying a wheelchair, do not forget to take care of yourself. After all, you will not only walk with the stroller, but also go shopping. Therefore, the stroller must have a luggage compartment.

To carry the child now offers a wide selection of backpacks of the "kangaroo" type. They have some advantages over the stroller. First, the child is always nearby, touching you with his own calf. (When you go to the store, the stroller can not always be brought there and the child has to be carried around the store in his arms). Secondly, you have free hands and you do not need to ask for help from strangers to put the wheelchair in the transport or lift to the floor if the house does not have an elevator. Thirdly, the position of the child in the backpack is such that his legs are divorced and hang down. This resembles the movement of African children sitting on their mother's back, who tie them with a wide scarf. You ask: "What is the advantage?". And here's what! In African children, there is almost no congenital dislocation of the hip, which must be treated. This is due to the fact that their legs are constantly in the breeding position. At us, Europeans, children usually swaddle so that the legs were extended and brought one to the other. Usually in maternity hospitals neon-tologs (children's doctors) check newborns for the presence of congenital dislocation of the hip. Congenital dislocation of the hip is a genetically determined disease transmitted by inheritance. And sometimes it can be difficult to diagnose. To be more precise, sometimes there is not a dislocation of the thigh, as such, but simply a failure of the acetabulum (the articular surface of the hip bone, into which the femoral head is inserted - the joint of the hip joint). And if at the same time you will carry a child in a backpack, the joint will quickly take the correct form. If this pathology is identified, then it is necessary to carry out a correction. To do this, a child with a congenital dislocation of the hips is put on special gypsum panties, which give the legs a diluted position. As a result, the hip joint gradually assumes the necessary shape (at birth, it is not yet fully formed).

Thus, by buying such a backpack, you are conducting "preventive treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip." The only caveat: a backpack should be with a rigid back of sufficient height. This is necessary in order to give the child, who is too young and does not know how to sit, such a position that he lay, and not sit, because his spine should not be subjected to a long vertical load.

The child's clothing should only be made of natural materials. No synthetics! As a child grows rapidly, many things do not make sense for one period (about 3 months).

  For a newborn, you need to buy:

• diapers (100 x 100 cm) cotton (thin) - 20 pcs .;
• diapers (150 x 100 cm) flannel, flannel (warm) - 10 pcs .;
• raisins thin from cotton fabric and warm with long sleeves - 6-10 pcs .;
• diapers (60 x 65 cm) from the folded in 2-4 layers of gauze - 20 pcs .;
• bonnets or light kosyachki - 4 pcs .;
• diapers such as Pampers.

What else should you prepare for the arrival of the baby? A chest of drawers or a locker for all those things that we have already listed, and a bath for bathing, a basin for washing children's things.

Now go to the dishes for the child. The baby will need to buy one separate deep and one small plate, separate a spoon, and in the future and a fork, do not forget also about the cup for the baby. Not all these utensils will be needed immediately, but still it should be. And then the hygienic side of the issue is important, and the psychological one: the habit is from the same tableware at the same time. This is a kind of unconditioned reflex to feeding, so that at one kind of dish, the child wants to eat.

You will need bottles with nipples. Now the stores have a wide choice of such dishes. Bottles should be a volume of 100 to 200 ml. You will need no more than three pieces. In one there will be water, in the other you can store the expressed after the previous feeding milk. The bottles can be glass or plastic.

To wash the bottles you will need a brush. The nipples on the bottles either already have a hole, or you have to make it yourself. To do this, you need to take a needle from a syringe, warm it up on fire and gently puncture the nipple in its upper part. From the hole milk or water should flow out not too frequent drops - if they flow with a stream, the child can "grow lazy" and stop sucking the breast (in fact it is much easier to suck from such a nipple).

And, of course, do not forget about the pacifier. You will undoubtedly need it. However, if the child is on natural feeding, hurry with "poking" pacifiers should not be. If after feeding he quietly falls asleep, then it is not needed. The pacifier is a prosthesis that promotes the release of certain hormones that regulate the digestive function. You, apparently, not once noticed that after a hearty dinner you want to sleep. This is due to the fact that the blood flows to the digestive organs and, consequently, flows from the brain, which receives less than a certain amount of oxygen. This is a kind of hypoxia, and the additional action of hormones causes drowsiness. Thus, sucking a baby's pacifier, the baby stimulates the release of hormones and "increases your sleepiness." The pacifier can play a positive role in maintaining a constant level of hormones regulating the activity of the gastrointestinal tract, and provides a normal process of digestion and assimilation of food. Studies have shown that weakened children who did not suck in the full volume of nutrition and were fed through the probe noted a more significant weight gain if they were sucking a pacifier in the intervals between the feedings. However, if you adhere to the regime of free feeding (that is, feed the child when he "asks"), then, perhaps, he will not need a dummy. But if he is restless between feedings, falls asleep badly, then a dummy will only help you.

When choosing a dummy, preference should be given to the latex nipple, which is still better than silicone. Soothers are ordinary and orthopedic - correcting the wrong bite. To pick up a pacifier it is possible a method of selection. Buy 3-4 different latex teats and try which is more suitable and "like" your baby. It should be remembered that nipples should not last longer than three to four months. Keep the pacifier in a cup or cup. You do not need to sterilize it. You can just wash it if it falls to the floor. Do not lick the fallen pacifier! Firstly, why lick the mud attached to the nipple? Secondly, do not give your baby microbes. If you are on the street, then either take a spare nipple with you, or carry a bottle of water (which, by the way, is more reasonable, since the child may want to drink while walking), and then you can wash the fallen pacifier.

Completing the "ode" of the pacifier, it should be said that if your child is not indifferent to the nipple and treats her like a best friend, do not rush to wean him from her even if he is already over a year old. Firstly, if he "nedososal" dummy, he will suck a finger, which is less hygienic, and later - gnaw nails. Secondly, scientific research has shown that premature excommunication from the nipple subsequently adversely affects the sexual behavior of an adult.