Smarts Tips for Your Family

For working mothers, if you know the tips to clean the baby's body properly, then the limited time you have can be effectively utilized.

Here are some practical tips to clean the baby's body from head to toe, complete with estimated time required.

Scalp
Frequency: 1 time a week.
In the first months of the baby's scalp usually still covered by a crust cap (cradle cap) that looks like oily thick scales. When you want to clean it, make sure the night before you have applied baby oil on the surface of the skin affected by the crust, then let stand all night, for easy cleaning the next day.

How to clean:
- Comb your little hair slowly by using a soft brush comb. Lift the crust peel carefully.
- Wash your baby's hair and scalp with warm wate,  using a special baby shampoo. Rinse thoroughly, then dry with a soft towel.

Eye
Frequency: Once a day during morning or afternoon bath.
Duration: 5 minutes.

Baby eyes that are less than 48 hours sometimes look like a white coat covered a bit murky. This is the result of contamination of amniotic fluid or blood after delivery. In addition, there is also caused by a blockage in the tear ducts that tears in his eyes and a medium for the dust that flew to stick and cause the formation of dirt.

How to clean:
- Wash your hands first with an antiseptic soap. Dip a clean round cotton into warm water.
- Apply the cotton slowly at the corners of the baby's eye to remove the dirt.
- Replace cotton every time you finish lifting and cleaning the dirt so that the dirt that has been picked up does not stick anymore when you clean the other corners of the eye.

Ear
Frequency: 1 time a week.
Duration: About 3 minutes.

The inner ear does not need to be cleaned because it already has its own cleaning mechanism naturally. The important thing you keep clean is the earlobe.

How to clean:
- Dampen the cotton round with warm water, then use to clean the front and back of the ear of the child.
- Dampen cotton buds with warm water or baby oil, then clean the inside of the earlobes of the baby and the parts that have indentations. Usually in the indentation there is a lot of dirt.
- After cleaning, dry with a small soft towel.

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Nose
Frequency: 1 time a week.
Duration: 10 minutes.

Nose is one of the "tools" for your little one to recognize the environment. If the child's nostrils are clogged with mucus and dirt, then it will be difficult to explore the environment.

How to clean:
- Dip the cotton bud into warm water, then slowly insert into the nostrils of the baby.
- Clean the dirt on the inner wall by rotating the stalk to the right and left, until the dirt lifted. If the dirt stays strong, keep applying wet cotton until the dirt softens.
- Use a special pipette to suck up the mucus when the nostrils are covered by many lenders, for example when he has a cold.


Mouth
Frequency: 2 times a week.
Duration: 10 minutes.

The mouth is one of the "windows" for babies to explore the world. Inside the mouth there are many sensory nerve endings that when received stimulation will trigger brain development. Clean the lips and the area around the baby's mouth each time after breastfeeding (breastfeeding).

How to clean:
- Dip the gauze into warm water that is ripe. Wrap your index finger with the gauze. You can also use a special brush.
- Clean the baby's mouth, starting from the outside, the lips and around the mouth. Afterwards, rinse the gauze clean.
- Then insert the index finger wrapped in a wet clean cloth into the mouth. Wipe gums gently from the top back up to the front of the top. Then proceed with rubbing the lower gums in the same direction.
- Clean his tongue also by rubbing slowly starting from the base of the tongue, towards the front.

The umbilical cord
Frequency: Every 2-3 days.
Duration: 5 minutes.

The umbilical cord is usually released naturally about a week after birth.

How to clean:
Do not expose the cord to the feces or baby urine. Keep the umbilical cord to keep it dry. Simply clean the skin around the umbilical cord using a clean washcloth dyed with warm water.

Nail
Frequency: 2 weeks if the nails are long.
Duration: 7 minutes.

Nails can be "carriers" of germs if they are not kept clean

Do not underestimate children routinely care for ear if don’t want you baby get hearing impaired or dirt accumulate.

You should make a schedule to clean the child's ear periodically. Because if not, might sound conduction in the child's ear could be disrupted. In addition, the dirt would be more difficult to harden and removed.

So how do you order the child's ear kept clean and clear hearing? Consider the following tips.

Clean up while bathing

the bath time is the best time to clean your baby's ears. Because of the wet conditions, greatly facilitates the process of cleaning the ears. Use a damp cloth to clean the outer ear. After that, clean the inside folds of the ear gently to dry.

Use warm cloth

Use a cloth that has been soaked in warm water to clean your child's ear. If this done on a regular basis , this method can eliminate dead skin cells around the child's ear and ear hygiene course

Do not use cotton

Do not insert cotton buds into the baby's ear , but just use the tip of a cotton swab to clean the outer ear . Because if you put all the cotton buds into the ear, when the risk can be left in the ear , can eventually damage the ear drum which will result in further complications .

Ear Drops

if there is some dirt in your baby's ears that cannot be cleaned, try using ear drops. However, before using it better consult a doctor first.


Do not experiment with own drug concoction

There are some parents who often entrust hereditary in the family herb to treat their children , but when the baby is still a baby , you should not try to take action , before knowing the side effects first. In baby care, should live what is suggested by the doctor, because relatively safe and has been proven to be effective.

Do not clean when it is dry

Do not try to clean the baby's ears when it is dry. This will cause skin irritation and scratching.

Caution

Babies may feel uncomfortable when you clean his ears. So, if the baby starts acting, you have to be extra careful and patient in the face. That keeping him could cause some serious injuries.
 

Quality sleep is an important prerequisite for the baby's health. The experts also said that the bed will stimulate the baby's brain growth. Therefore, parents should make sure babies sleep needs are met.

But most babies did not have a consistent sleep schedule because they do not know the difference between day and night. This condition often leave parents exhausted because must accompany child who is actually awake at night and sleep during the day.

Even so infants can adapt to its environment. You can set the sleep patterns of babies so they can adjust when the time to sleep and when to wake up.




- Create a consistent schedule.

This method can be started with reduced activity at night and make the environment calm. Dim the lights in the room, set the soft music, or sing your own songs to lull your baby. Always repeat this schedule every night so that children are accustomed.

- Create a comfortable

So hours before sleep, place your baby in the basket and let them sleep. May occasionally calm them when they was awake and crying, but do not directly lifted from the bed. It's to get back to sleep so they could by it. This method may take several weeks before your baby accustomed and soundly through the night.

- Play time

at the age of several months is usually when children are awake during the day more. Use this time to ask him to play so that children know that day is a long time.