Health Care for Children

New baby to sleep on, always crying, skin wrinkles, and so on. It’s a new baby’s natural condition. Moreover, the conditions of the other new baby?

Naturally, if the new mothers still feel confused about what happened to the new baby a week old. It’s the facts:

Sleep

18 to 22 hours a day, it was time to sleep a newborn. Uniquely, he had more sleep during the day, while in the middle of the night he often woke up. Tip: set so that the baby did not sleep too long in the morning and afternoon, so he had a long night’s sleep.

New baby small stomach, so only able to accommodate approximately 100 ml of milk. That’s why he has a schedule to eat almost every 2-3 hours. Signs that your baby is already full when he no longer wants to be fed.

Weight down

Do not be surprised or afraid. Although drinking milk all day, baby’s weight in the first week will drop from 5 to 10 percent of birth weight. The decline occurred because the baby out of the liquid and the dirt first. In the second week of weight usually will rise gradually as you age.

Crying. Naturally, because crying is a baby language when stating his feelings. Try to learn to understand what he wanted to ’say’ the baby through the crying. Is he hungry, sick, wet, tired, or something else?

Wrinkles

Week old baby’s skin does look ‘weird’. Her skin was wrinkled and contain a layer. In fact, the condition of the structure and components of the new baby’s skin is complete, it’s just not working perfectly. In the early weeks, will see changes in the baby’s skin, the peeling layer that protects the skin.

Cold hands and feet. This is normal. Despite cold hands and feet, not that he was cold, over the chest and stomach was warm, and the surface of the skin does not look bluish. This happens because the blood stream priority to the internal organs that are important in metabolic processes. You can help warm it by putting on socks or covered her body.

Longing caress

New baby usually ‘thirsty’ touch and caress. Of the five senses of the baby, the sense of touch is the earliest developed. The touch is sensory stimulation for the development. Touch that you give also make your baby comfortable.