How to judge whether a confinement nanny is good or not?

Ask fewer routine questions during interviews

Many new parents today are only children and lack the ability to take care of themselves. As a first-time parent, raising children is even more confusing. Therefore, hiring a professional confinement nanny is very necessary. However, new parents and new mothers have no experience when interviewing confinement nanny. Most of them like to ask "how many children have they seen" and "how many years have they been a confinement nanny" when choosing a confinement nanny.

In fact, this kind of routine question has no reference value. If the confinement nanny lies, she has never been a nanny before and says she has done so; she has seen one child or has never seen one at all, and tells you that she has been doing it for several years and has seen more than a dozen children. New mothers also have these issues. There is absolutely no way to verify it.

Second tip: Don’t rely on “qualification certificates”

Some new mothers think that seeing whether the confinement nanny has a qualification certificate is also a way to distinguish between real and fake confinement nanny.

In fact, in housekeeping companies, there are many confinement sisters who hold high-level confinement nanny certificates but cannot breastfeed their children. Nowadays, the confinement nanny market is very unregulated, and you can get a confinement nanny certificate by spending money.

So, when choosing a confinement nanny, everyone should ask some professional questions and see the answers and actual operations. In terms of theoretical knowledge, expectant fathers and expectant mothers should have learned a lot from various aspects, so let’s examine it from a professional perspective!

Observe the details of nursing care at the first time

In daily work, I saw some confinement sisters introducing themselves as their main specialty: how many dishes they could cook. However, the newborn child in the ward was not fed for eight hours. After a rapid blood sugar test, the child was already in a state of hypoglycemia. I asked her The reason is that the baby is not hungry even when he is asleep, so the confinement nanny who lacks professional knowledge is actually a high-end confinement nanny, and the fee is more than 5,000 yuan. Do young parents with a little common sense dare to use it?

Some confinement nurses are eager to feed their babies with a bottle after the newborn returns to the ward. The reason is that the mother has just given birth and has no milk anyway. This is also a sign of lack of professional knowledge. Professional maternal and infant care has always emphasized early breastfeeding, which has many benefits for the mother and child. Some inexperienced confinement nurses do this, perhaps because they don’t know, or perhaps to save trouble, because helping the baby to breastfeed is sometimes very laborious and time-consuming at first, while bottle feeding only takes a few minutes.

Some confinement sisters-in-law believe that every mother should have breast engorgement, and call it early breastfeeding by kneading the breast after engorgement. From a medical point of view, early breastfeeding refers to allowing the child to drink breast milk within two hours after birth, which is called early breastfeeding. Generally, breastfeeding is better, and one of the benefits is that the probability of breast enlargement is low.

Distinguish the authenticity of the maternal diet

From a scientific point of view, it is enough for the maternal diet to adhere to the following principles. If your confinement nanny arranges the following recipes for new mothers, be wary.

Postpartum bleeding is frequent, eat longan, red dates, and adzuki beans to replenish blood

Longan, red dates, and adzuki beans are foods that promote blood circulation. Eating longan, red dates, and adzuki beans not only does not replenish blood, but increases the amount of bleeding. Moreover, these are high-sugar foods. Some pregnant women eat them in bed and do not brush their teeth in time, which can easily cause tooth decay. Generally, it is suitable to eat 2 weeks after delivery, or after the lochia has cleared up.

You cannot eat fruits during the confinement period

Fruits contain various vitamins and trace elements. Except for 3 to 4 days after delivery, do not eat particularly cold fruits, such as pears, watermelons, etc. , in the following days, you should eat 2 to 3 fruits every day. Some pregnant women will use a microwave oven to heat fruit when eating it. This is actually unscientific. Because the vitamins in fruits are easily oxidized, heating or leaving them for a long time will cause the nutrients to be lost.

Eat more old hens if you are weak after delivery

After delivery, especially after cesarean section, the mother’s gastrointestinal function has not yet recovered, so she cannot eat too greasy food. Foods such as old hens and hooves have high fat content and are not suitable to be eaten immediately after giving birth. Postpartum physical weakness is caused by the mother's excessive physical exertion during delivery and the need to breastfeed after delivery. At this time, the mother can eat some easily digestible liquid or semi-liquid food, such as shrimp stewed noodles, sweet potato porridge, etc.

What should a good confinement nanny look like?

New parents and new mothers must pay attention to the above questions when choosing a confinement nanny. A confinement nanny with real experience and theoretical knowledge can answer relevant questions in an orderly and logical manner. Complete and easy to understand, rather than simply answering with "yes" or "no", "did" or "didn't do".

According to the survey and analysis of the confinement nanny on the site by the Family Work Network, a professional confinement nanny should be able to understand the characteristics of mothers and newborns, distinguish between normal and abnormal situations, and the routine treatment of general abnormal situations.

The specific manifestations are:

Fully understand the characteristics of mothers and newborns, and have certain theoretical knowledge;

Be able to adjust the baby's life patterns and living environment ;

Judgement and treatment of problems prone to newborns (jaundice, eczema, diaper rash, neonatal erythema, abnormal observation of urine and feces, etc.) and general daily care of newborns;

In terms of maternal care, we must pay attention to breastfeeding, be able to grasp the benefits of breastfeeding, and guide breastfeeding correctly;

How to ensure adequate breast milk; how to prevent and relieve milk engorgement;

Special Artificial feeding under normal circumstances;

Management of breast engorgement, observation and general treatment of maternal wounds, observation of uterine involution, hygiene guidance;

General daily care.