Here he was going to a happy moment and you have to hand her newborn son. And then the question arises: how to take care of a little boy and not to harm the child's health and development?
Experienced moms say that the newborn boy care is different from caring for a baby. The first thing you need to pay attention to my mother, if the testicles have descended son. What else is different caring for a newborn gentleman?
Children urologists argue that in most cases problems with boy male health up to five years is the improper care for the sexual organs kid.
How to care for a newborn gentleman / istockphoto.com
Daily hygiene of a newborn baby boy
For example, boys born with a completely covering the glans penis skin crease - foreskin. In newborns it narrowed - a physiological phimosis, which disappears in 3-5 years. Especially trying to head can not be opened. If you have any problems, such as redness or itching of the foreskin, consult a pediatric urologist, but they do not touch the foreskin.Inside the foreskin has sebaceous glands that produce a special lubricant. If the boy's mother rarely tempted to baby, the skin fold under him may begin to appear bad bacteria cause inflammation of the glans penis - balanoposthitis. Therefore it is necessary to wash away the baby every time you change the diaper, but not less frequently than every three hours. Wash the boy's sexual organ is necessary to very carefully, effortlessly exposing head. If hygiene boys carried out correctly, the risk of inflammatory diseases of the male (including those that lead to male infertility) will be minimal.
Boy diapers need to be changed as often as every 3 hours / istockphoto.com
What should be the newborn boy urinating normally
Urination must be free and painless, and the baby is crying and is not concerned before pee. urine evacuation takes place at a time, that is, began to urinate and finished, not by a few "spraying with" urine. A stream of urine should be thin, and its length should not exceed the length of the third body newborn - 15 cm. Of the external opening of the penis should not be any discharge other than the urine.But this is not always the case. Up to six weeks in a child can be a small selection whitish fragments smegma (lubricant) having a curd structure. But the presence of such discharge, it is desirable to consult a doctor, as parents it is difficult to distinguish between the allocation of probable purulent inflammations, balanitis or balanoposthitis.
What should be clothes newborn baby boy
So, we all know, the clothes should fit the growth of the child, never squeeze and, if possible, from natural materials. However, in the case of boys it is still very important to dress him for the season. It must be remembered that overheating genitals boy is no less dangerous than the chill, so dress her son for the weather: it's better he's a bit freeze than overheat. Overheating genitals leads to a lot of problems with the sexual organs as a boy in a children's and an adult.
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