What are the Basics Neonatal Care Tips

In order to ensure that your child is healthy and does not develop any health complications, it is important that you are aware of some essential neonatal care tips. Right after childbirth, there are some factors of a newborn's care you should be particularly concerned about.

After childbirth, you should be particularly concerned about keeping the baby's breathing pattern, amount of feed and body temperature within normal level. Some tips given below can help you in this:

• Keep the baby warm right after childbirth. Do so by getting him dry with a cloth and wrapping him from head to toe. Keeping the baby on the mother's chest and even at her abdomen gives the needed warmth. Mother can also keep the baby under a blanket cuddled to her to provide warmth.
• Check for the breathing pattern of the newborn. You should make sure that the mucous and amniotic fluid has been removed from his mouth and nose right after delivery. While this is done after childbirth, you also need to keep on checking for smooth breathing pattern, besides ensuring that the baby's airways are always clear.
• You should keep the baby's navel cleaned and oiled. It is a very sensitive area of the newborn and should be treated in a healthy manner.
• Be careful in breastfeeding a newborn only when he seems to be breathing in comfort. It is very important that you do not feed a baby when his airways are not clear. Force feeding a baby with respiratory complications can be disastrous.
• During the first two days of a newborn life, the stool that he passes is black or dark green and known as meconium. The normal bowels begin in the third day. If you find the baby passing meconium even on the third day, it indicates that the amount of food that he has had is not enough. You should consider increasing his feed.
• When bottle feeding your baby, the risk of constipation rises. Choose a formula that is not rejected by his digestive system. It is important that you change the brand if the baby is constipated after formula feed.
• If your newborn is suffering from constipation, you can relieve it by giving him a special type of bath. It involves placing him on a tub with the water level above the stomach.

By following the above neonatal care tips, you can keep your newborn baby healthy and free from diseases.