Parenting knowledge: the first week of the newborn

1.Physiological indicators: The weight of a newborn baby will drop about 10% in the first week than when he was just born, and after a week his weight will be back to the weight at birth. This is normal because of less milk after birth, urination and defecation, breathing, sweating and other reasons. 2. Milk consumption: Newborn babies drink about 60ml at a time, until the full moon when they can drink 90-120ml of milk every 4 hours. If the mother wants to increase the amount of milk at birth, she can increase it by 5-10 ml each time, but it is not recommended to increase it too much. 3.How often to feed: When your baby needs food, he will cry, at the beginning, the demand will be more frequent, and there is no obvious way to feed, the first three or four days, every two or three hours you need to feed once, eight times during the day, there are many temporary feeding at night, you may need to feed two or three times at night. 4, defecation: when the baby is born 1-2 days, it will excrete fetal stool. Breast-fed babies may have up to nine bowel movements a day, and the bowel movements are relatively thin. While eating milk baby defecation is dry, about five times a day. 5, sleep: this stage of the baby most of the time in a sleep state, to account for more than 60% of the day, about 16 hours. 6, skin care: baby before birth, has been soaked in amniotic fluid, the skin will have peeling after birth, about 10 days later will be eliminated. Can rub some baby lotion, care. In addition, 80%-90% of the baby will appear physiological jaundice, in 10-14 days will also subside, do not worry. 7. Belly button: In the 1st week, you will find that your baby’s umbilical cord will fall off naturally after 5-7 days, until then, wrap it with gauze. After each bath, use a cotton swab dipped in alcohol to gently wipe clean from the inside of the belly button outward to keep it dry.