Immediate Newborn Baby Care Tips

If you want to take care of your baby’s healthy immediately after he is born, some factors are particularly important. These include the baby’s temperature, amount of food taken by him, and others. These are some essential health factors of your baby. Mothers of newly born kids should be particularly careful in following the tips given below:

1. Keep your child warm just after he is born. You need to get him dry with a cloth and ensure that he is completely covered. He needs to be covered from head to toe. You can also place your child on your abdomen or chest to give him the much needed warmth. You may also cover the child and the mother with a blanket.

2. The newborn should be able to breathe properly. This can be achieved by clearing his mucous and amniotic fluid that can jam his nose and mouth. This is done usually after the birth of the child. With a suctioning device, one can clear the airways in the mouth and nose of the

3. Take care to breastfeed a newborn baby only when he breathes comfortably. If the baby faces problems even after his airways have been cleared, he should still not be forced to feed. Feeding the babies who have respiratory problems is fraught with danger and you are advised to avoid it.

4. As the baby is separated from his mother after the umbilical cord has been removed, it is important that sterilised instruments are used for it. You need to clean the cord and dry it very carefully. You should use only those instruments for cleaning the umbilical cord that are sterilised regularly with alcohol.

5. The doctor has to check the pulse of baby just after he is born. 100 BPM is considered as the normal heart rate of a newborn. If you find your baby’s pulse to be lesser than that, the baby may need to be put on artificial ventilation on the advice of the doctor. You can judge the newborn’s heartbeat even if you are not using a paediatric stethoscope.

6. A newborn lacks vitamin K. So, it is important that an injection of natural vitamin K of the dose of 0.5 to 1.0 mg is given a few hours after birth. This helps to prevent hemorrhagic disease. This disease affects on in ten thousand babies.

Follow these tips to keep your baby safe just after he is born.