'CRIES''
If you are a new parent it can be stressful on how to look after your newborn, I know been there done that 4 times and
well I learned to master it, so the more you have kids there more you know how to take care of them. It is important to be close to your baby so you will know more about him/her, the baby can’t talk yet but he will give you signs for you to know if he or she is uncomfortable.
So when it was my first baby I used to cry a lot when baby cries, I didn't know what to do all I knew was that babies cry a lot and I really didn't understand the whole process of taking care of a baby until I realized they cry when they feel uncomfortable.
Don't be discouraged, all babies cry that how they communicate with you, watch your baby closely and you will be able to deal with those cries easily.
SO BABYS CRIE WHEN THEY:
DIAPER IS DIRTY
NEED TO BE FEED
THEY NEED A BATH
NEED TO BE BURPED
THEY NEED TO BE HELD
DIAPERS
When the baby diaper is dirty, the baby is going to give you a sign by crying a lot, so make sure you check if it is clean when the baby is crying, and when changing the baby diaper always wipe the baby even if he or she just peed at least 2 times a day, and please wipe it properly it is very important otherwise the baby is going to feel itchy and cry, you won't understand and you'll be talking to yourself why you crying I just changed your diaper, if it not done properly the baby will definitely tell you and well if you cant get him to stop you definitely going to be both crying so make sure you wipe baby correctly so he feels fresh as if he had a bath. It is very important to monitor this because the baby can only give you a sigh by crying he cant tell you that it is itchy.
NEED TO BE FEED
Babies cry when they are hungry, the crying is just a sign of communicating with you that the baby needs to be feed, so if your baby cries try the breast or bottle into his mouth and see if his sucking, sometimes when you feed your baby make sure he is eating because the newborn sleep a lot, but he just ate what does he want only to find out he slept and didn't eat properly, so if you see that he's hungry but too sleepy just try touching his cheeks so he can continue with the feeding, remember baby doesn't know he's hungry, so try and feed him little by little until his mount is not opening up when you wake him up. Closing his mount is a sign that the baby is full not when sleeping, so you don't want a baby to be hungry because he's going to cry a lot, to help you with this follow your, baby nap time and jot them down and once you see that the baby is always waking up by this time, set an alarm so you'll get the food ready when you are bottle feeding but when you breastfeeding you don't need to worry just feed the baby.
THEY NEED A BATH
Babies also cry when they need a bath but with a newborn you don't need to do full baths, it is all about wiping your baby with a very soft cloth but when the belly button is healed and you feel comfortable then you can start giving the baby full baths but before the healing will recommend starting bathing baby, the most important areas to wipe is the neck and the bum, if his big and have and has layers on the arms and thighs (Shelves) in the arms and the legs you will have to also wipe them, I had big babies so that what I did with my big bundles, I call those areas to shelves because I had to open and wipe them don't ignore those shelves, wipe them properly. I also put the powder on those shelves they sweat a lot so you will want to monitor them because the baby will sweat a lot in those areas, and in the neck milk sometimes goes in there when you are feeding the baby which leads to being itchy. You can just click here to see what product I used to bathe my babies. so areas to focus on.
BABIES BUM
NECK
THE FRONT OF THE ELBOW AREA AND BACK OF THE KNEE AREA AND THE LAYERS ON THE ARMS AND LEGS
THEY NEED TO BE BURPED
To make sure you don't have a problem with this burp your baby after every feed, it going to save you a lot of cries. when the baby is not burped she will feel uncomfortable and is just going to cry because of the air craped inside of him taking care of that after the feed is really important, make sure you do it properly just rub his/her back gently and the wind will come out.
THEY NEED TO BE HELD
Babies also cry when they want to behold, so moms hold your babies when they want you to hold them, holding your baby more builds trust in such a way that when he cries and you take him he just stop crying. Holding your baby is very important he still needs to be cuddled and be close to you, so to avoid a lot of cries hold your baby believe me it is not a bad habit, it is just your 1 on 1 with your baby, and it the most Amazing moments because they going to grow up and learn how to walk they won't want you to hold them anymore, they will want to do a thing on their own. So enjoy it while it lasts.
Love and Joy to your family.......
by Polite.K
