Your baby is already born: before announcing it, this is what you should know

When your baby is finally born, which you waited for for so many months, you return to the room with your baby in your arms, look at your partner and ask yourself and now that?. You want to share your happiness with everyone, but Before announcing it, keep these useful tips in mind. You will appreciate it.

Jose María Lloreda Garcia, pediatrician and neonatologist, author of the 'Manual for first-time parents', of the Arcopress publishing house, gives ten tips for first-time parents about the first moments after the baby is born, to prevent a sweet event from becoming everything otherwise.

Control visits after delivery

  • 1. Do not tell them that you are already born. In any case, it is advisable to send a message, through broadcast lists or WhatsApp groups where you say how well everything has gone, how much it has weighed, what looks like your mother (less bad) and the necessary that is that you both rest, suggesting that You will be notified at home when it is the best time to visit the baby.

  • 2. Visits must be limited., regulating the couple the flow of people.

  • 3. It is not necessary that family members be passing without stopping the baby from one arm to another, or kissing or squeezing. They don't have to catch each and every one of those who go. To the baby it is necessary to leave everything that can be done on top of his mother, or of his father.

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  • 4. They should not take advantage of the visit to tell you how to do it all, neither bad or good that you do it (if it is good, yes).

  • 5. Value who you trust when asking questions. Not all the advice you receive from your family members is beneficial. They have the experience of a very limited number of newborns, even if they say that this is done for a lifetime.

  • 6. You will also have to advise the visitors that leave if any professional wants to examine the mother or the baby, or wants to ask you intimate questions, out of respect for him, your baby and yourselves.

  • 7. Do not separate the baby from the tit if you are eating, or sucking for other reasons.

  • 8. Visits always they have a schedule and it is necessary to demand to the relatives that they come in him, and that at a certain time they go to his houses, because it is already the hour.

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  • 9. If family members or friends are cramped or have symptoms of illness, they shouldn't visit the baby and wait to see it when they were not a source of infection.

  • 10. It is not advisable to wake the baby for visitors to see him interact. It's not a toy.

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