Child 3 days - how is it developing?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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[The height and weight of the child in 3 days
Depending on when and how the delivery was, how the mother ate, what is the heredity, the weight of a full-term newborn baby can vary from 2600 to 4500 grams. And growth can vary from 45 to 55 cm. Therefore, all healthy children who have growth and weight within these limits will normally develop with good and proper care.
In the first three days a child can have a temperature, he can eat and lose weight badly. This is because all the child's systems adapt to the new world around them. Then the child will begin to recover and grow and catch up with the lost weight.
The touch of a child in 3 days
Touch for a child in 3 days gives him 80% of information about the environment. In an adult, this process will gradually be replaced by another - he perceives most of the information through vision.
Therefore, for a child in 3 days are very important:
- Temperature conditions
- Changes in cold and heat
- Softness of clothes (diapers)
- Dry or wet diapers
- Tactile Contact
Because of the special sensitivity of the skin of a newborn baby, it is necessary to initially select only natural fabrics for the child, as soft as possible.
Emotions of the child in 3 days
Little children in 3 days from birth very well feel the emotions of adults. In particular, my mother, with whom he has a very close relationship. If the child feels that the mother is crying, upset, angry or ill, he immediately feels it and begins to cry, empathize.
Therefore, it is necessary as often as possible to iron the child, do a massage to him, kiss him. Then the baby calms down and feels safe.
Smelling of the child in 3 days
In the first three days the child very sharply smells. This ability is especially aggravated throughout the first three months of a child's life. A child who is only 3 days old after birth is able to turn the head away from the smell that he does not like. And this despite the fact that he still can not even hold the head. Therefore, you should avoid the sharp smells in the apartment, especially the smell of household chemicals.
But the smell of the mother's mother in 3 days immediately feels and immediately reacts to it, calming down. It is necessary for mum only to approach to a crib of the kid who cried, and he calms down.
The hearing of the child in 3 days
The hearing of a child is a unique gift that is given to him before birth. He hears everything that happens, still in his mother's belly. Therefore, parents are advised to talk with a small child before giving birth, include classical music, good good cartoons. Already in the seventh month of the mother's pregnancy, the child begins to distinguish and recognize the voices, he even has the property of being scared because of sharp sounds. And this is even considering that the amniotic fluid extinguishes the sound and distorts it.
When a child is 3 days old, he responds best to the familiar mother's voice, especially if this voice is melodic, soothing. To calm the baby in 3 days, you can just sing some simple melody that you sang during pregnancy.
Vision of a child in 3 days
When the baby is just born, his vision is still not clear. For several months the child will be able to distinguish faces only at a distance of 20-25 cm (the distance from the mother's breast when feeding to her face). And in the first three days, according to many theories, the kid sees the environment in an inverted form, since he has not yet developed optic nerves. The child is more likely to look at the black and white pattern than on the color one. And only in the second-third month of life the child will be more interested to see colored pictures.
Sensations of the child in 3 days
Previously, the child was in the mother's abdomen, surrounded by amniotic fluid. Now the situation has changed dramatically: there is no protection, the body seems heavy and awkward, because it can not easily slide in the water. These inconveniences of getting used to the new world the kid will feel for 2-3 weeks.
The process of emptying, which previously was not, can also be very painful, so the baby can cry and suffer from constipation and pain in the tummy. The doctor's consultation, dill water and easy tummy massage clockwise will help.
Taste of a child in 3 days
Mother's milk for a child at 3 days old is the most beautiful taste on earth. Not only because it is nice for the tongue, but also because the milk smells strongly of the mother. It is a taste of security and safety. Other tastes for the baby are unpleasant and incomprehensible.
The child in 3 days has not yet fully accustomed to this world. Therefore, you need to show him the utmost care and care. It will continue to grow and develop intensively for a whole year, and then it will slow down the growth and weight gain a little.