In many films, you can observe the process of giving birth to a child. Desperate screams of the mother, the stern look of the doctor and, finally, the baby in the arms of the midwife! Probably, every mommy smiled in her heart at the sight of a chubby, cheeky toddler, which weighs at best 5 kilograms … In fact, everything is far from the case.
Newborn child
At home, all relatives imagine exactly the angel at the moment of their acquaintance and are slightly disappointed when they see something that looks like a frog - just as small and helpless. If we talk about the appearance of a newborn in the first seconds of life, then it does not at all look like the child from the picture, and many mothers, especially if this is the first birth, experience fear and slight bewilderment, because they think that something is wrong with their child. In order to initially prepare mothers, there is a school for young mothers, where a gynecologist will tell about this and many other things and psychologically adjust them to an adequate reaction at the sight of their own child.
Ugliness or norm?
Having been born into this world, the baby has a large head, a small body, and this is normal until some time. The head has an ovoid shape, so it becomes during the passage through the birth canal, this is due to the fact that the bones of the skull are very soft, and they will regain their normal shape after a few days. The vegetation on the head can be very diverse - you can see both the complete absence of hair and long hair … The color of the eyes is about all the same, reminiscent of a sea wave, during the first year of life it will become clear whose eye color was borrowed by the heir or heiress. It happens that in the presence of birth edema, the baby cannot fully open his eyes. You should not sound the alarm in advance, already on the 5-10th day of life, the baby will delight the parents with his big eyes. Parents react especially sharply to the squint of their children. The thing is that the muscles of the eyes will get stronger over time, and by half a year this symptom will disappear.
More often babies are born with fluff all over their body and generic lubricant, similar to white cream. With the help of this lubricant, it was much easier for the baby to move along the birth canal, the fluff is also intended to provide some protection for delicate skin and will disappear imperceptibly over time. The red color of the skin suggests that the layer of subcutaneous fat is quite thin and all the vascular cobwebs are simply very noticeable. Already on the second day after birth, after several doses of breast milk, the skin color changes forever to pale pink.
Because of the hypertonicity of the muscles of babies, many mothers in the first days and even the clock sound the alarm - why is the baby all so twisted, hands clenched into a fist, legs bent under the tummy? This fact should not worry adults until about 3-4 months of a child's life, because this is the norm and does not pose any threat to the health of the newborn.
Mom always falls in love with her baby at first sight, she is not repulsed by his appearance, by no means. On the contrary, she thinks - how small, defenseless and the most beautiful you are! This is facilitated by a change in the hormonal background immediately after childbirth, the maternal instinct begins its eternal restless work.
