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4 days for the child - poor eyesight, but an excellent scent
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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When the child is 4 days old, he is still in a period of adjustment to the world around him. For example, his skin may not be of a beautiful pink color, as in pictures, but of an incomprehensible yellow. This is postpartum jaundice, which will definitely pass, but after a few weeks. What else is typical for a child 4 days old?
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4 days to the child - touch
Touch is one of the strongest feelings of a child in 4 days from birth. More than 80% of information about what surrounds him, the child gets through these feelings. That's why the baby can not be wrapped in tight diapers, put on a hard surface. He feels good changes in heat and cold, because the temperature in the room should not be spasmodic, but the same, up to about 22 degrees Celsius.
A newborn baby can not stand the cold, because in his mother's stomach he was warm. Therefore, when he was born into the world, he has a very strong manifestation of the so-called thermal dominant - the baby is preferable to warmth than the cold.
Tactile sensations of the child in 4 days
It is very important to stroke the child, touch it, massage him. Pediatricians believe that those children who are much stroked, hug and communicate with them, grow much better than their peers. Massages and all kinds of stroking are useful for the mother. Psychologists believe that in this way it removes postpartum depression.
Maternal love for the first-born also wakes up faster than what they wear, lulling and hugging the baby. If you swing a baby a lot on your hands and keep it near your mother, the baby and mom have a close emotional connection for life. Do not be afraid to hold the child in your arms - so he will grow up with confidence in the world around him, and will think that the world will always support him.
Smell of a child in 4 days
It is very sharp, it is a leading sensation in the child's impressions of the world around him. To think: the scent of the baby in 4 days is so sharp that it can even turn the head away from the unpleasant odor. And, on the contrary, turn it to the smell of my mother. The smell of mom's baby, like a small animal, gives rise to a sense of security. A little later, just a couple of weeks later, the baby has a habit to distinguish and other smells of relatives - fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers. He will know them, how you will recognize people through sight.
Parents should avoid smoking in the house or even basic household chemicals with a pungent odor. Mom does not want to use harsh perfume, papa - cologne. It irritates the baby, makes him nervous. For him it's about like for you an open bucket with paint or acetone in the house.
This ability of the baby can be used. As soon as Mom leaves the house, you can leave your homemade gown in the carriage. Inhaling the smell of my mother, the baby will be able to endure separation much more calmly. That parents knew, this feature to distinguish a smell of mum and to calm down does not vanish at the child before that moment as he will go to school.
The hearing of the child in 4 days
The hearing of the child in 4 days is very acute, because the hearing of the child as such starts very well to work even on the seventh month of pregnancy of the mother. The baby even then begins to distinguish the voice of mother and father, despite the fact that amniotic fluid significantly distorts it.
A child of 4 days old is frightened of unfamiliar sounds. Especially if they are sharp or at low frequencies. Therefore, it is advisable not to include heavy rock in the house, not to frighten the child with sharp strong sounds - this negatively affects his psyche.
To please a child with his favorite sounds for him, it is best to sing a lullaby for him. Mom will do it with pleasure. And her quiet calm voice will be a child, it's very good for his nervous system and development.
4 days to the child - vision
The sight of an adult man serves him well. But the sight of the baby, especially only recently born, is still very unstable. The visual perception of an adult is the leading one. The visual perception of the baby in 4 days from the genus is an additional source of sensations and knowledge of the world, far from leading.
A kid in 4 days of age gets a lot of emotions, so nature has protected his nervous system from a lot of impressions, slightly reducing the ability to see. The kid sees the world only at a distance of 20-25 cm - this is the distance that the mother's face leans towards him during feeding or swaddling. Further the kid does not see also persons does not distinguish. This is because the visual mores of the child in 4 days are still very poorly developed, they will develop throughout the first year of life.
The first improvement and correction of vision will begin only after 1.5 months of development of the child. On the 6th week of his life the baby will begin to see forward by 60 cm. It is quite far, 3 times farther than at birth.
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Self-awareness of a child in 4 days
The baby in the mother's abdomen feels completely different, as it develops in the amniotic fluid. When the baby is born, it feels like we had when we sailed and finally went ashore. The body feels as heavy, the baby can not own hands and feet yet - it feels them as alien objects. The ability to feel the handles will only appear in about 40 days.
The body itself is much harder to feel than when the baby was in the mother's abdomen. Of course: gravity on earth is 2 times stronger than gravity of water.
In addition, the need to emptying, which was not previously, greatly affects the psyche of the baby. It can be hard for him, and from the pain in the tummy little babies often cry.
At this time they also heal the navel, and this, too, can not bring the most pleasant sensations.
Taste of a child in 4 days
The taste of mother's milk is the most pleasant for a baby at 4 days old. Milk has a sweet taste, it's good. But bitter and salty, as well as sour baby can not perceive. If he gets something like this in his mouth, he will cry and curl.
Stomach baby in the first 4 days does not perceive (and for a long time will not perceive anything) except for mother's milk. It is sweet, as already mentioned, and therefore for a lifetime a person has a craving for sweets as an opportunity to relieve stress.
Ability to empathize a child in 4 days
Empathy is the ability to empathize, the talent to feel the same as the other person. The kid instantly feels the mood of mom and dad. And if the mother is upset or tired, if she is not in a better mood, then the baby can cry and be capricious, feeling her mood.
Even if someone with a bad mood has come to the room or one who has grief, the child immediately catches it and may even get sick. The strongest ability for empathy in a baby manifests itself in 2-3 months and 5.6.7 months of his life. Therefore, in order for her baby to feel calm and relaxed, it is necessary for the mother herself to calm down, especially at night, before she puts her baby to bed.
The child in 4 days, as we see, is talented and unique. It is very good if parents perceive him as he is and with understanding treat all the manifestation of a small fragile life.