All the care for your newborn

Did you know? Infants have still immature skin. Very fragile, it dries up and gets irritated easily. In question ? The friction of clothes, stool and urine but also bath water or air pollution. This is why it is recommended to use products specifically formulated for the care of your baby, from birth. In addition, certain “general public” hygiene and cosmetic products contain toxic ingredients, in particular endocrine disruptors, which must be avoided for babies, a particularly vulnerable population.

Seat toilet: what soap for the baby’s change?

On average, in the first few months, a toddler’s diaper is changed 6-8 times a day. To prevent seat inflammation, it is advisable to regularly use oleo-limestone liniment, or an olive oil-based diaper milk, which respects and nourishes your baby’s skin. But most of the time, a simple cleaning with water is sufficient. Soap and liniment are best reserved for very dirty buttocks, or when the stools have “dried out” a little and the residue on the skin is difficult to remove.

Baby bath: what products and how often?

To bathe your newborn baby, it is not mandatory to give him a daily bath. The right rhythm: every other day to prevent dryness of the skin. For this, preferably use a special surgras baby soap, or a real Marseille or Aleppo soap. Some foaming cleansing gels do double duty. They are used to wash the body and the hair. Practice ! In any case, remember to dry your baby well after getting out of the bath. How? ‘Or’ What ? By dabbing all areas where moisture could lodge and stagnate, especially at the folds.

Can we put moisturizer on baby’s skin?

After bathing or washing, you can occasionally apply a special baby moisturizer on your child’s small cheekbones and forehead. Keep in mind, however, that apart from skin dryness or a particular pathology (eczema…), it is not essential, far from it. When it comes to baby cosmetics, the watchword is absolute moderation.

For the body, one can use a vegetable oil or a hypoallergenic nourishing treatment. Prefer them without perfume. You can take the opportunity to gently massage the baby. Know that for this, nothing beats a simple vegetable oil, like olive oil.

Caring for the baby’s cord

The small end of the umbilical cord that remains attached to the baby’s navel will take 8 to 15 days to fall! During this period, after the daily bath, pass a compress soaked in antiseptic solution on the base of his navel. A gesture that the maternity staff will show you from the first day of the newborn’s life.

How to wash the corner of baby’s eye?

His eyes are crying? Don’t panic, it’s common. It is enough to pass a compress, slightly soaked in physiological serum, from the corner of the eye outwards. Same thing if your baby has little “eye droppings” in the corner of his eyes when he wakes up.

How to wash baby’s ears?

In babies, the use of a cotton swab is strongly discouraged. Faced with a slightly dirty ear, with earwax coming out of the auricle, simply remove what you see with a gas compress, possibly rolled into a point. Going to find what is at the bottom of the baby’s ear risks at most a plug of earwax, which then increases the risk of otitis and other infections of the ENT sphere.

How to clean baby’s nose?

As for the hygiene of the nose, same thing: nothing beats physiological serum and the compress of gas, rolled in point. We soak the compress and insert it in one nostril, worse in the other. The real washing of the nose is rather to be carried out in winter, where the viruses of the ENT sphere (flu, cold …) are legion. If the nose is very busy or blocked, the use of a baby nose device may be useful, but it is better to avoid using it too often so as not to risk irritating the baby’s nasal mucous membranes.