Female Infant Care

Female infant care has general care and special care, general care includes daily diet, rest, cleaning, etc., and special care includes the care of the chest and perineum. 1. General care 1. diet: when breastfeeding, if breast milk is fed, you need to pay attention to the cleanliness of the nipple to avoid pathogenic bacteria from the baby’s mouth into the body leading to disease; if milk powder solution is fed, pay attention to the temperature not to burn the baby, pay attention to a small number of times to feed, do not directly feed fresh milk; 2. rest: when the baby sleeps, do not always keep the side lying position to avoid the phenomenon of crooked neck. Also pay attention to the infant’s sleep length should not be less than 18 hours; 3, clean: when cleaning the baby, the action should be gentle, try not to bathe. After the cleaning is completed, the baby should be dried, and the badly wiped places can be coated with a little talcum powder. In addition, you need to pay attention to the nostrils, external ear canal parts of the clean, but do not force digging, so as not to hurt the baby’s delicate skin and organs. Second, special care 1, breast care: affected by the mother’s hormones, baby girls may have milk out of the breast after birth, generally two weeks later can disappear on its own, no special treatment. Baby girls can have mild nipple invagination, is a normal phenomenon, try not to dig, to prevent inflammation; 2, perineal care: female infants’ perineum should be cleaned in a timely manner, to keep the vulva clean and dry. It is not recommended to use disposable diapers, you can use cotton diapers. Be careful not to apply talcum powder near the perineum to prevent it from falling into the baby’s vagina. Some secretions at the infant’s perineum are self-protective substances produced by the infant’s own body, so parents should try not to clean it.