Infant age is the most important period on the path of becoming a little person. The entire burden of responsibility that is entrusted to parents is inexorable: feeding, hygiene, attention to the emotional and physical health of the baby.
Feeding
In the first three months of a baby's life, you should be especially sensitive to what exactly gets into your baby's stomach with breast milk. Indeed, if the baby is breastfed, the health of his still fragile intestine directly depends on the food that the mother eats. The main products that pediatricians do not recommend to include in the diet of a nursing woman are well-known: carbonated drinks, condensed milk, grapes and chocolate. Everything else is permissible, but within reasonable limits. Otherwise, the appearance of bloating and colic in a child cannot be avoided, which is a rather painful consequence of improper nutrition in an infant. If it was not possible to avoid pain, the reason for this may be an individual intolerance to certain foods. In this case, it is necessary to give the child special medications in the form of a syrup or suspension, their variety in modern pharmacies allows you to make a choice based on the price, and with the characteristics of the baby's body. But it is best to seek the advice of a doctor so that he can recommend the most suitable remedy for your baby. A light massage of the lower abdomen, as well as the application of a warm heating pad, can alleviate the situation.
If breastfeeding is impossible for objective reasons, you should not be upset, because in the modern world there is a variety of milk formulas adapted specifically for the intestinal microflora of your baby. All that remains is to choose the one that is right for you.
Hygiene
I would especially like to highlight the topic of hygiene. Little members of our society are born completely unadapted to the environment and require careful care. From the first days of life, bathing of the child is already allowed, the optimal water temperature is 37-38 degrees. Do not be afraid to wash your baby, you just have to control the safety of this pleasant and useful process. Doctors recommend that in the first month of life, children swaddle them while bathing - a child who does not yet control his movements will not be afraid of a sharp wave of his hand, and this ritual will pass calmly. In the water itself, you can add herbal infusions or diluted manganese, which will soothe the baby's skin, dry diaper rash in the folds. Remembering the past, some doctors recommend lubricating the groin area of babies with boiled sunflower oil, but now a huge variety of ointments, creams and powders can easily solve this problem. As for changing a diaper, it is worth changing it as it gets dirty, without relying on the time indicated on the package.
Physical development
Exercise is important for the complex development of a baby. His arms and legs are tense and require a certain impact on them - massage, which is often recommended up to three times a year. You can do a set of exercises on your own, after consulting the doctor who is taking care of the child. Such a complex includes rubbing the limbs with fingers or a massage ball, exercises "Frog", "Bicycle" and much more. Do not forget about the five-minute air baths, which are a way to lightly temper the baby, strengthening his immunity.
If it happens that the baby is sick, do not listen to anyone's advice and call a doctor immediately - this will save you from irreparable consequences. Very often, the temperature can appear suddenly, the reasons can be of all kinds: infection, flu, or a reaction to the teeth (the pain from teething can also be relieved with medication by smearing the gums with a special cream or gel that relieves pain).
Mental development
Nothing influences the full development of a child more than the realization that he is loved. Therefore, communicate with the baby as much as possible: he needs tactile contact (stroking, kissing), emotional support (encouraging notes in his voice, reading fairy tales, singing, learning rhymes). Do not be afraid to often carry the child in your arms, fearing that he will get used to it - in fact, the baby needs to feel you, smell your smell, hear the heartbeat, this makes the baby more calm and balanced.
