How to help the baby wash his face?

How to wash your baby's face? Babies can't do anything in infancy, and adults are responsible for washing their faces. Because the baby's skin is tender, mothers should pay attention to skills when washing their baby's face, and how to help the baby wash his face.

How to help our baby wash his face 1 How to wash our baby's face correctly?

Mother should wash her hands before giving the baby a bath. Six months ago, the baby needed to wash his eyes, ears and face with boiling warm or cold water. When cleaning your nose or ears, only clean what you can see, wipe off the visible mucus or earwax, and don't try to clean inside. If you clean the inside of your ears or nose, you may send dirty things in.

1, clean

Use a small washbasin for babies to hold cold water or warm water, and put in a small towel or clean gauze.

Step 2 wash your eyes

Mother holds the baby's head with her left hand and tells him not to turn left and right; Pick up the wet towel in your right hand and wring it out. Eye washing should start from the inside out, from the outside of the nose and the inside of the eye, because the lacrimal passage is located in the inner corner of the eye, so as to avoid the chance of dirt entering the lacrimal passage. After washing one eye, put on a clean wet towel and wipe the other eye in the same way.

Step 3 wash your ears

Wipe the outside and back of your baby's ears with a wet towel, and then dry them with a dry towel. Be careful not to let water drop into the external auditory canal when cleaning. Don't pull out the earwax to prevent infection.

Step 4 wash your nose

You can use a sterile cotton swab dipped in warm water to wipe off the snot blocked in the nasal cavity, which is conducive to smooth breathing.

Step 5 dry it

Finally, scrub the baby's forehead, cheeks, nose, mouth and jaw with a clean wet towel, and then scrub the front and back of the neck.

Don't wash your baby's face with breast milk: There is a popular saying that washing your baby's face with breast milk will make your baby's facial skin white and tender. However, this is unscientific, because breast milk will accelerate the proliferation of bacteria on the baby's skin and make the baby's skin blush or pustule.

How to help your baby wash his face 2 How to prepare for basic cleaning?

Nail clippers, cotton swabs, baby oil and other care products are put into the basket first. In addition to not always missing small things, you can also take them out immediately when you need them, which is also very convenient to carry.

Nail clippers: Help your baby prepare scissors-type nail clippers with curved tips. A mother who is afraid of cutting her baby's nails can use it with confidence.

Cotton swabs: First, prepare two kinds of cotton swabs, one is used by adults to stimulate the hepatic portal, and the other is used by slim babies to disinfect their navel and clean their ears and nose.

Note: the hand-held cotton swab is close to the front end for easy control. Just like holding a pencil, hold it near the front end with your thumb, forefinger and middle finger. If the part is far away from the baby, it is difficult to control, and when the baby suddenly moves, it may be too late to respond.

Baby oil: mainly used on cotton swabs to promote lubrication when the baby is constipated, so as to stimulate the hepatic hilum. You can also use olive oil sold by the drug administration instead.

Thermometer: Get into the habit of measuring your temperature every morning or before taking a bath, so that you won't panic in an emergency. At present, there are various types of thermometers, such as ear thermometer and underarm measurement.

Gauze handkerchief: In addition to wiping or cleaning, it can also prevent it from getting dirty when drinking breast milk or milk powder. Since you need to use several articles a day, you might as well prepare more.

Others: Prepare medicinal materials for disinfecting navel, and wipe clean cotton swabs on baby's eyes. Most of the medicinal alcohol will be obtained from the hospital when leaving the hospital.

skill

(1) Support to prevent the baby from moving: Sometimes the baby will suddenly move or cry. At this time, you can gently press the baby's body with one hand to prevent him from moving, so as not to poke the baby with a cotton swab.

(2) First remember the basic cleaning process: clean the eyes, ears, nose and mouth in order. If you want to take a bath, you can start with navel maintenance. When bacterial infection occurs, the basic cleaning method is to start from the place where symptoms are easy to aggravate.

When is it suitable to wash the baby?

(1) Get into the habit of cleaning after bathing;

(2) When the baby is in a good mood or sleeping.

It is recommended to wash easily after taking a shower. Earwax will become very big, and nasal mucus will become very soft and easy to remove. In addition, after bathing, the nails will become soft, and it will be easy for novice mothers to get started.

Cleaning of baby's eyes

Eyes are easily infected by bacteria. When washing your face, you can wash your eyes first. A weak baby is prone to gums, so always pay attention to wiping him. If you don't get dirty with chewing gum, you can clean it once a day.

(1) Wrap the gauze soaked in warm water and wrung out on your index finger and wipe it from the end of your eyes to your head. Some hospitals will also guide wiping from head to eye.

(2) the other side is also rubbed from the end of the eye to the head of the eye. To prevent infection, you can change the other gauze, or soak it in warm water and then dry it.

Tip: Gently wipe the whole eye. The baby's eyes are still small and the surrounding skin is very sensitive. The cleaning method is to gently wipe the whole eye, don't care too much.

Cleaning of baby's ears

Because of its self-purification function, earwax will be excreted by itself, so it is not necessary to clean it every time. However, newborn babies sometimes hoard wet earwax. And because there are many secretions, it is best to clean the baby frequently.

(1) Back: It can also be cleaned when taking a shower. Sometimes mother's milk or milk will flow over, so in fact, it is easy to accumulate dirt behind the ear. Sometimes it can cause eczema or redness, so don't forget to wring it out with gauze dipped in warm water and wipe it clean.

(2) Ear hole: Clean only the vicinity of ear hole with a cotton swab. Turn the baby's face to one side, press the head with one hand to prevent the baby from moving, and then start cleaning. Gently clean the vicinity of the ear hole with a baby cotton swab, and be careful not to put the cotton swab too far inside.

(3) Ear groove: put gauze into the ear groove for cleaning. The ear canal is also a place where dirt can easily accumulate. Wrap the gauze soaked in warm water and wring it out around your index finger and wipe it! It doesn't matter if you can wake up in the shower. You can use cotton swabs to remove dirt from fine parts.

Tips: the cleaning range is the outside of the ear and the ear hole. In order to avoid hurting the inner ear, only clean near the ear hole, behind the ear and outside the ear. Earwax also needs to know what the eyes can see.

Cleaning of baby's nose

Because the baby's nose is easily blocked, it is not necessary to limit maintenance to breastfeeding time. If your nose is blocked, you can't drink breast milk, and you can't sleep well, you can clean it with a cotton swab or a commercially available nasal aspirator. Wipe the nose or around the nose with wringed gauze.

(1) Nose cleaning is limited to the vicinity of nostrils: the nose is very sensitive. If the cotton swab is too deep, it will sometimes hurt mucosa or blood vessels, leading to bleeding. Remember that the only area that can be cleaned is near the nostrils.

(2) Remove the booger near the nostril with a cotton swab: wrap the booger seen near the nostril around the baby cotton swab, slowly rotate it and take it out. The sticky booger will be connected with the internal dirt and removed together.

Cleaning of baby's mouth

Baby's mouth will get milk or vomit, which is easy to get dirty. Not only the time for bathing or cleaning, but also the time for cleaning if dirty things are found at other times.

Wipe the dirt gently with a wringing gauze: wrap the gauze soaked in warm water around your index finger and wring it out, then wipe it around your mouth, or use cotton cloth. Wipe your lips after drinking milk.

Tip: Don't rub hard, just rub gently. If you rub your mouth hard, it will become red and swollen. Just wipe it gently. Because lips are also mucosal tissues, they are very sensitive, so be careful to suck dirty with gauze.

How to help the baby wash his face 3 How to teach the baby to learn to wash his face?

1, learn to wash your face when taking a shower.

Under normal circumstances, the baby still washes in the bath basin. At this time, you can put some toys in the bath, such as little yellow ducks and puppies, so that the baby can learn to wash his face with toys and tell him to keep washing his face every day, so that his little face will become fragrant and let him form the consciousness of washing his face.

2. Parents demonstrate in person

If you want your baby to have a better awareness of washing his face, you need to make a correct demonstration and must insist on washing his face in the morning and evening. Also be sure to wash your face and explain to your baby the steps of washing your face: first, gently pour water on your face with both hands from bottom to top, then rub it in circles for a few times, then rinse it with water for a few times, and finally dry it with a towel. Note that the action can be slower, so that the baby can remember that washing his face is very comfortable and can make the baby interested in washing his face.

3. Teach your baby a song about washing your face.

You can find some children's songs about washing your face to teach your baby, preferably catchy and easy to remember and operate. When washing your baby's face every day, you can talk and do it, which can increase your interest in washing your face. For example, pick up a small towel with both hands, relax, wash your eyes, nose, mouth, neck and finally wipe your ears. Your face is really clean. Washing children's songs can improve your baby's language thinking ability and coordination of actions while learning washing skills!

4. Wash your face with your baby.

Make full use of your baby's love of competition and games, and you can have a face-washing competition with your baby, which can not only be used as a demonstration of your baby's face washing, but also speed up your baby's face washing. When the baby's washing steps are better, then you have to give the baby a chance to win. If you find a mistake in your baby's face washing, tell him the reason of the mistake and teach him how to correct it.