Newborn

The five senses of the baby are activated in the womb, therefore at birth they are already fully operational. It is through them that they begin to receive stimuli from the outside and to relate to people and the environment.

The image of a baby covered in a yellow pasty substance may not be the ideal image of a newborn baby that we all have in mind. In many hospitals, the first thing that is done right after the baby is born is to bathe it, so that it is clean and presentable for visits, but babies are not born dirty and that first bath can wait.

Nía was born on March 11 earlier than expected, with just 32 weeks of gestation and 1.8 kilos of weight. It came to the world at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital (Barcelona) a few days before the State of Alarm for the coronavirus was decreed in Spain, and no one imagined the battle it would have to fight being so small. It is possible that it is the first premature baby with Covid in Spain.

One of the most common concerns of parents in the first months of life has to do with the breathing of their newborn baby. Many have come while you sleep to check if you breathe properly. It is normal and expected that this is the case, a manifestation of the protective instinct that mammals have towards our young.

The world is experiencing difficult times due to the mandatory confinement that we must all maintain to reduce the spread of coronavirus. Yet amid all the chaos, thousands of women around the world continue to give birth.

What we know so far about COVID-19 infection is that it affects the little ones to a lesser extent, and if we talk about newborn babies with coronavirus, the symptoms they experience are mild, according to recent research published in the European Respiratory Journal .

Thanks to the various studies that have been carried out over the years, we know that when babies are born they are capable of seeing, but in reality they see practically nothing, since their vision evolves during their first months of life.

It is not an easy time for parents who are expecting a baby around this time during the coronavirus crisis. The situation we are experiencing is exceptional and surely you never imagined that the birth of your baby would be so different.