Helpful Baby Skin Care Hints For New Parents
If you haven’t ever cared for a newborn before, your baby’s skin care can be intimidating.
When you are a new parent, taking good care of your baby’s skin (as well as keeping your baby healthy and alive) quickly becomes one of your top priorities and it can be easy to get overwhelmed in trying to get everything right.
The good news is that proper baby skin care depends mostly on simple common sense. Keeping a baby’s skin clean does not involve expensive products. In fact, you don’t need many products at all! Here are some helpful hints for new parents to use as they develop their baby’s skin care routine.
Believe it or not, your newborn and young infant does not need to have a bath every night. Most of the time young infants and newborns stay pretty clean. This is mostly because babies can’t get around on their own and depend on their parents to get them from place to place. This means that parents can keep an eye out for things that will get the baby dirty or that could harm the baby’s skin. While your baby is still considered a “newborn” he or she only needs to be given a bath twice a week or so (as long as you keep his or her face free of dirt). When babies learn to crawl and walk, however, you need to give them baths more frequent.
Your baby’s umbilical stump is fragile–be careful around it. Don’t pull on it or rub on it. Make sure that you clean it with rubbing alcohol two or three times a day. Other than that, leave it alone. In fact, you don’t want to bathe your baby in a bath until after the umbilical cord stump falls off. Fold down your newborn’s diaper so that the top ridge doesn’t irritate the umbilical cord. The stump is very sensitive so you want to make sure that it does not get irritated. The stump will leave behind a spot on your baby–talk to your pediatrician about how to best care for that spot.
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