FIRST DAY OF A NEWBORN BABY LIFE

After a great experience in the hospital, delivering your baby, now is time for you and your baby go home. This is might be a confusing moment for you, since you have no experience how to take good care of a newborn baby. Even if you have already seeking some information about how to taking care of your newborn but doing it is another thing. You have to learn and doing it at the same time.

I have some tips for first time parents which took from the experience that I have, maybe it can help you to feel confident enough caring your newborn baby.

Don't shy to ask for help

While in the hospital, you should ask the expertise so many question and help regarding to caring your baby in the right way. They can show you how to hold, burp, feeding and nursing according to medical and science proof.
For in home help, you have to consider asking for help from friends and family who have experience caring a newborn baby, after all they have done it before so you have step by step guide about how to take care of your newborn such as how to handle/carry your newborn baby, how to feeding or nursing, how to change newborn diaper, how to understand baby cry and so on. Although sometime their way to help you is different from the literature that you have read. You don't have to argued about their experience because sometimes there is a slice different between caring newborn traditionally which pass from our ancestor and caring newborn baby in modern way which you have read from the magazine and internet.

Handling her/him with gentle and tender

There are a few things to know about handling your newborn baby:

1. A newborn's head and neck is fragile, you should cradled the head when you are carrying, support the head when you are taking the baby upright or when you're laying the baby to the bed.
2. Remember that almost all your newborn baby organs are still developed, so some of them are not ready for some rough activity. I'm warning you not to jiggled on the knee or thrown in the air like you did to your nephew. Rough activity like that can cause bleeding in the brain and it can be end with disablement or even death. Therefore you should be careful when you take the baby on the car, just make sure that your baby has had securely fastened into the baby car seat, in order to limited the activity that would be too bouncy or shaky.

Time will bring you a nice experience ahead, so don’t worry too much about your first time parent skill. Just take your time learn and doing your first day doing it. You’ll pass the phase with an overwhelming knowledge.