Baby Care Intimate Care for babies
Freshly Baked parents are unsure how they clean the private parts of their little boy or girl’s best and maintain.
Here you will find lots of tips for the intimate care of your baby.
Everything so small, all tender like that – and everything is new!
When parents of newborns at home wrap the first time, many questions arise suddenly.
Wipe in which direction?
How clean is the best butt of stubborn stool remains?
And as usual to the small penis from the newly-born son of man?
We have the answers for you!
For a delicate Pfirsichpopo Wrap is a marathon!
During the day it must happen five to seven times, and in any case after each bowel movement.
Clean up the best Po with clear, lukewarm water – and then let it dry.
Every baby is happy when it can kick a few minutes, naked.
If you must use cream: Please apply only thin, can be covered by a thick fat layer is wound-maker bacteria multiply very well.
And if you want to use cleaning cloths, you should opt for towels and perfume without unnecessary additives.
Here we’ll tell you some tricks around the wound!
To maintain the intimate areas of your daughter
Clean the outer (ie large) labia gently with a damp washcloth – always from front to rear.
So no germs from the intestine into the sensitive vagina.
See also remains between the labia to remove this way.
If the chair remains stubbornly stuck, you can also use a few drops of baby oil.
The vagina itself, you do not need extra clean, it cleans itself, so to speak “by itself”.
Incidentally, the white mucus that is secreted in girls sometimes is not a cause for concern.
Here is a secretion, which arises because the hormones of the mother still reverberate.
To maintain the intimate areas of your son
Penis and testicle sack you clean up with water as the best or a few drops of baby oil.
The folds in the groin and the area under the testicles should always be cleaned completely.
Foreskin: Please do not withdraw
The foreskin should pull back your little boy is not you.
For in the first years of life there is a natural bonding of glans and foreskin.
If you pull the foreskin back, it can lead to cracks and inflammation – and there is the risk of phimosis (tight foreskin) .
Usually the foreskin until kindergarten age solves itself off from the glans, which happens in some children until puberty.
What to do if Po is sore and red?
Gently dry the sore bum under the heat lamp, a little faster it goes with a hairdryer.
If you blow-dry: look at long range, the lowest level – and little boys lay on his stomach, Anpinkelgefahr!
If you’re breastfeeding, you can treat red spots (like all external infections in infants) with a few drops of breast milk.
Lotion after washing your butt with calendula ointment or Comfrey ointment.
A more rapid effect of zinc ointment: The solid, white paste reduces inflammation and seals off the area.
Red spots after a few days to respond to non-treatment, yeast may be to blame, then the pediatrician to prescribe a drug.