With the discharge from the maternity home, the newly-made parents are taking care of the baby. The main goals of the child's hygiene are maintaining the skin's purity, sufficient moisturizing. Due to this, the skin is cleansed of contaminants and waste products of the sebaceous and sweat glands. With special care it is necessary to follow the folds of the skin of the baby and process them. But inexperienced moms and dads may have a question than how to wipe the folds of a newborn and how to do it right.
Care of folds in babies
Need to groin and knee folds of the crumbs. Daily morning and evening bathing in boiled water is compulsory. Once a week, the baby is washed with baby soap. After washing, the delicate skin of the baby should be dried with neat blotting movements with a diaper or a soft cloth towel. Then the treatment of the folds in newborns follows.
Than to process folds of the newborn?
Earlier, our mothers and grandmothers sprinkled wrinkles of children with talc or starch. But the baby is better suited moisturizer, because its delicate and fragile skin in a state of dryness is easily damaged and is open for infection. How to lubricate the folds of a newborn? This is suitable for boiling refined oil, vaseline oil, in general, any baby oil. The main thing is that the product does not cause an allergic reaction. Moisten the important disc with oil and gently treat the knee and inguinal folds of the newborn.
Symmetry of folds in newborns
Each mother should carefully examine how much the folds on the thighs and buttocks of the baby are evenly located. The fact is that asymmetrical folds in the child may indicate dysplasia - congenital hypoplasia of the hip joints. To reveal this, put the baby on the stomach and straighten his legs.