Newborn care

We sometimes comment that if babies don't see you, don't smell you, don't hear you, and don't feel you, they don't know you exist. They need to receive inputs continuously to feel safe with our presence and, at the level of touch and contact, they also need to seek the bodily limits to feel like in the womb.

Sooner or later, all mothers end up going through the difficult step of going out for the first time one night (or one afternoon) without our baby, the center of our lives since birth, accompanying us.

Becoming parents is a new path to explore that we all want to be as well prepared as possible. To achieve this, it is necessary to change to adapt to the needs of our children and help them initiate the bond even before birth and, above all, in the very first moments of life.

Breast bulging is normal in newborns, both boys and girls, and is due to the passage of hormones from the mother. Although it may generate doubts or concerns, it is temporary, although sometimes it takes time to disappear.

At birth, the baby's head is the widest part of the body (proportionally), with a diameter equal to that of the thorax. As the child grows, as is logical, the head does so at a slower rate (imagine with a few years with the head as wide as the thorax) and the rest of the body advances more quickly.

A newborn looks very delicate and tiny, that is why there is always some qualm about how to hold the baby in your arms.

To many new parents it seems impossible, difficult and even a surgeon's task, but in reality cutting the baby's nails does not require higher education. It is true that it may take us a few tries to find the "trick", but with patience and gentleness it is solved and we will be experts in baby manicures and pedicures. Here we give you some keys so that everything goes well, a guide to cut the baby's nails and not die trying.

Who was going to tell us a few months ago that we were going to wear a mask to work, walk down the street or play sports. But it is our reality today and it seems that it will be for a long time, although we are all wanting to say goodbye, because that will mean that we have defeated the coronavirus.