The basic knowledge of newborn care includes general care, skin care, umbilical cord care and so on. 1. General care: pay attention to the newborn’s warmth, regular baths for newborns, keep the indoor environment clean, dry, neat, according to the temperature change in a timely manner to the newborn to increase or decrease the clothing, as far as possible to choose loose, soft, skin-friendly clothes. After drinking milk can also burp, help reduce the baby spit up occurs. 2. Skin care: the newborn’s skin is relatively delicate, in the stool, urine and urine to wash in a timely manner, with warm water to wash the folds of the skin, to avoid excessive force damage to the newborn’s skin, and at the same time to observe the skin color and the presence of rashes and other conditions, but also to pay attention to whether the sclera is yellowish stained, and if possible, also to monitor the value of its jaundice is normal. 3. Umbilical cord care: Before the umbilical cord of the newborn does not fall off, we should pay attention to timely disinfection, keep the umbilical cord area dry and clean, and clean up any secretion in time to avoid infection. In addition, we should also pay attention to the observation of the newborn’s mental state, breastfeeding, body temperature, etc., there are abnormalities need to go to a professional hospital in a timely manner, identify the cause of the disease and follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.