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BEAUTY: Baby Skin Care

September 8, 2008 – 12:17 pm

Skin requires special care no matter what your age. However, the pure skin of your baby requires more attention. It is thin, weak and sensitive. After giving birth to a child, you are confused about dealing with the baby. You are inexperienced. You do not know what to do, how to feed, how to take care, what to do for skin care. If you do not take care of the baby’s sensitive skin, it can cause undesired results.

For baby skin care, moistening is an important process. The light skin of the baby requires moisture. Dryness is a common problem. However, you should know when and how you should do it. Moistening after bathing is recommended. But after every shower, you should not use cream. Excessive moistening prevents the perspiration of baby skin. This brings little acnes and rash.

Dryness can give pain to your newborn. In order to keep moisture balance, if you see a dryness problem, use a lotion or cream twice in a day. In addition to that, do not give bath very frequently. Adding baby oil to the bathing water is recommended for oil balance.

The best way for bathing is using only water. The skin of the baby absorbs chemicals more than our skins. Be careful about that. Use the least soap, shampoo or other cleaning materials. The fewer things you use for your baby, the better it is.

Protecting the baby and the delicate skin of her/him is very important. In sunny days, choose clothes that will cover the body. Do not forget the hat. Besides that, try to be in shady places as much as possible.

Keeping clean your baby is good for her/his. A baby is in contact with every object around herself/himself. People like keeping contact with babies. All these bring cleaning problems. In order to keep your infant away from microbes and bacteria, regularly wash her/his hands, feet and face.

Bathing Baby
For the first days of the baby, you can clean the baby with a wet towel or you can give a shower. After shower, dry the baby. In summer, daily shower is recommended. However, if it is cold winter days, bathing twice in a week is much more suitable. In addition to bathing, cleaning the mouth, chin and genital organs with wet towel is important.

Using water after boiling and cooling is the most appropriate way for baby bathing. The temperature of the water should be suitable for the delicate skin of your newborn. Control the water before bathing. Te best way for controlling the heat of the water is looking with inside of your arm. If it is not hot or cold for your arm, it is not hot or cold for your baby.

Trimming Baby’s Nail
Sharp nails of the baby are very dangerous for the baby. S/he can scratch her or his face. Scratching even the cornea of the eye is possible. So trimming the nails of the baby regularly is essential. Use a special nail trimmer for it. There are special trimmers for babies. After cutting nails, use a nail file for nails. While trimming, you can need help of someone. If you do not have such a chance, try to cut baby’s nails while s/he is sleeping. Especially nails of the babies grow fast. Cut them whenever the nails are long. These can be even three times in a week.