What are the benefits of the full-term checkups at the maternity hospital? It is to find out earlier if the baby is feeding properly through physical measurements, to determine if the baby’s digestion and absorption are normal based on the weight gain over the month, and to tell the mother what to do if the weight gain is not satisfactory or if the jaundice has not completely subsided to ensure that she gets normal growth in the second month after birth. The pediatrician will also check for normal intellectual development by examining gross motor and hand skills, such as symmetrical, uncoordinated movements of the whole body and clenching of the hands in a fist; eyes that can briefly gaze at faces or brightly colored toys; and ringing a bell 10 cm behind the baby’s ear and frowning or blinking to indicate hearing.
Whether artificial or breastfeeding the pediatrician will remind whether to take vitamin D in time after half a month of life, many babies have not yet taken it at full term. If the amount of milk is sufficient there is no need for additional calcium supplementation, but breastfeeding mothers should take 400 units of vitamin D and calcium preparations (containing at least 600 mg of calcium). In the first month, newborns do not distinguish between circadian rhythms, they sleep when they are full and eat when they have enough sleep, and they eat milk once every 2-3 hours on average. After the first month, mothers should consciously train their babies to distinguish between day and night and to establish a normal sleep cycle and routine. For their own baby’s personality characteristics, should gradually develop a regular feeding, sleep and bowel habits of the baby. For example, the time to eat milk during the day gradually regular for basically every 3 hours, with the growth of the age of months, sleep time gradually reduced. The quality of sleep at night depends to a large extent on the number of feedings.
Newborns born 1 to 2 days old will look at you intently, look at your mouth, look at your eyes, listen to you intently, with bright eyes and quiet wit. Although the newborn’s vision has not yet developed, the beginning can only distinguish between light and dark, feel the light, and gradually began to like the face, like the outline and shades of color contrasting round, such as the face of black and white wall chart, concentric circle pattern, stripes, curved chart, can be hung on the wall to hold the child to watch, or lying down to the child, the distance of 19 to 20 cm. Rotate every 3 to 4 days, and add colorful pictures after 3 months. These visual stimuli promote the baby’s intellectual development. The position in which a mother holds her baby for breastfeeding is the most natural and natural condition provided by the mother’s eye contact with her baby while breastfeeding.
Newborns like to hear their mother’s voice. Crying babies often become quiet when they hear their mother’s voice. Newborns also show a preference for hearing the same melodies and beats similar to those heard in the womb, and these melodies or sounds are more likely to make the child quiet and concentrate on listening, so good music fetal tapes for newborns not only choose beautiful music, but also increase the mother’s blood flow and heartbeat, which has a very good stabilizing and educational effect on the child. You can choose soft, harmonious and soothing classical music within 6 months. Newborns have the ability to orient themselves to sound from birth. When the child wakes up quietly with a plastic locket containing a small amount of soybeans at a distance of 10 to 15 cm from the child’s ears, gently shaking, soft grunting sound, the baby will turn his eyes and head towards the direction of the sound source, looking for the object that makes the sound, a visual auditory synergistic activities, regular training of such synergistic activities for the baby to better feel the external stimuli, promote the development of the nervous system has a great role.
In the care of children’s daily activities, be sure to cooperate with the language voice, so that children can often hear the soft, sweet voice of the mother and the father’s low, strong voice, and at the same time with the child often have eye contact, the development of the child’s visual and auditory coordination function. Do not make the child’s environment silent, but also should avoid noisy, noisy poor auditory environment in.