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As far as baby care is concerned there are almost as many tips as babies, and as we have said more than once, first-time parents can get advice from so many people, often so contradictory, they end up almost crazy without knowing what road to take.
With the intention of helping first-time parents (and not-so-first-time parents) with brief and concise advice, we have chosen to take the best six, perhaps a little unusual, that surely will be very useful.
1. If they have cold hands and feet
It is common for babies to have cold hands and feet, and this is something that worries mothers a lot, but especially grandmothers. The usual thing is to say: "Put a blanket, which is cold." However, there is a better way to avoid the cold in these areas: baby's butt cream.
Do you know that cream that is white and sticky? It is known as "pasta al agua". Well, you can have a protective film on the hands and feet with said cream and there will be no cold to disturb the baby.
In reality, most babies have cold hands and feet and that does not always mean they are cold. You have to touch their backs to verify that they are well, and if they seem to be cold add one more layer. Putting cream on the hands and feet will not help.
2. Bite your nails
The usual tips are to file the baby's fingernails or cut them with round-pointed scissors. However, filing them is heavy for parents because it takes a long time, and there is a risk of ending up filing the fingertip; and with the scissors there are tips without cutting and increases the risk that the nail is stuck in the finger and ends up producing a nail.
That's why the best method is bite their nails. With the teeth we control all the tips and edges perfectly and also the children will find it more fun than if they see us arrive with cold scissors or a strange lime (most cry a lot in this process).
The best method to cut nails is with scissors. They can be filed if we are afraid, but with patience, holding the fingers well and with the scissors, it is achieved. Biting the baby's nails would be dangerous.
3. Follow everyone's advice (but not)
This advice is for you, parents. As people are going to approach to give you their advice and when they see you again they will ask you how they worked, to avoid that of "I have not tried it", "it did not go well", etc., you can simulate that you are paying attention, take a picture with the method, send it to the "expert" and quickly stop doing that so strange that they have suggested.
"Thank you, it was great to take your feet with one hand for tooth ache" So, everyone will be happy believing that they have been key in raising your child and you will avoid a lot of problems and discussions that lead nowhere.
This could be useful advice, depending on the environment of each couple. But the ideal is to let the opinion experts know that the advice is best accepted when needed, and not when they come without asking.
4. Behave without back pain
Using a portababés and scarves is a great way for the baby to go more upright, have less cramping and for his hip to form better thanks to the ergonomic posture that babies take when they are carried.
But nevertheless, many mothers end up with their backs turned to dust, so to avoid this there is an intermediate solution: tie the scarf or backpack to the baby carriage. In this way you have the best of both methods: the baby is ported, your back does not suffer, your mother is happy because she sees that you are using the stroller she gave you and you can continue using the stroller to carry the shopping bags ... With so much porting, people are very charged.
Porting is beneficial for the baby, and to a large extent it is because that's how it goes close to mom or dad and feels safe. Carrying in a stroller, as well as impossible (to see how you tie a stroller with a baby in a stroller), moves the baby away from his parents.
5. Achieve the perfect dream with oil or butter
Babies are born covered in a fatty layer called vernix caseosa. For a while now it has been avoided removing it at birth so that the skin is better nourished and because it protects from the cold.
A good solution for the baby to sleep better is to avoid the cold moments when passing it from the arms to the crib, and this is done by covering it with a substance that resembles the vernix: oil or butter (better butter). For this, the ideal thing is to cover the pijamita with butter and also put a little on the head and face. Having the fat capita again will keep the temperature better, and at the same time it will have a kind of memory of when it was in the uterus, which will make you feel more calm and relaxed.
If it is not enough, you can also smear the diaper with oil before putting it on, so that all of it feels coated with grease and the calming and thermoregulatory effect is greater.
A diaper full of oil? A pijamita full of butter? And the baby too? Puajjj ... How disgusting!
6. Easy and fast sphincter control
One of the reasons why children wear diapers for longer is that they are too comfortable and absorbent. Thus, they have no problem with them or hurry to leave them. This can be a problem for some children who already run, jump and move a lot, because they end up suffering from stings.
Well, the best advice in these cases is put the diaper upside down. From 18 months on, the ideal is to put the diaper upside down, with the drawing inside and the absorbent part on the outside, so that the pee bounce and wet them and the poop comes out from the sides and stains their legs. They will find it so awkward and dirty that they themselves will ask you to take them to the toilet before peeing or pooping.
It could work, but it would surely be long term, and we would spend the day cleaning pants, skirts, flooring, etc., and the child could have a hard time. It is better to wait until they are able to begin to warn and not force the situation like this: they might hate to stain and suffer for wanting to do so in the toilet without even being able to control sphincters.
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