In the diet should be more dairy and sour-milk products: 3-4 glasses of milk a day, yogurt, yogurt, cottage cheese. We must not forget that you have to drink about two liters of liquid per day ...
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.
Undoubtedly, natural feeding (that is, breast-feeding) is much better than artificial feeding. The tremendous advantage of breastfeeding is the absolute sterility of breast milk. In addition, breastfeeding is a huge saving of money.
You can begin to bathe the baby after healing of the umbilical wound. Usually, it completely heals about two weeks after birth.
After feeding, children often experience regurgitation. Regurgitation is the ejection from the stomach of milk, fresh or already curdled, for a short distance.
The first problem is the form of the nipples that is uncomfortable for the child. If the nipples are flat or retracted, this greatly complicates breastfeeding, especially when the baby is easily aroused.
The child by the end of the first month of life has already well adjusted the processes of blood circulation, breathing, digestion. He has a whole set of reflexes: sucking, defensive, indicative, grasping and some others.
In the first two months the weight of the child is increased by 750-900 g per month, and the growth is increased by 2 cm every month. But if your child "retreats" somewhat from these average indicators, do not worry.
The game is the process of learning, learning, fixing what the child has learned. Playing, children learn the world around them. The game includes everything that contributes to the development of the child's physical abilities, senses, thinking, and reason.
If the child is on artificial feeding, then feed it six times a day at intervals of three and a half hours in the afternoon and a six-hour break at night. Since the introduction of complementary foods, children are transferred to five meals every four hours with an eight-hour break at night.