Children's room for a newborn

One of the main questions that worries future parents is how to prepare a room for a newborn. Solve it is not so easy, especially if you are waiting for the first child, and you do not have a parent experience. In order to facilitate this task for future moms and dads, in this article we list the main points that should be taken into consideration when preparing a room for a newborn.

Immediately make a reservation: a separate children's room for a newborn, as the experience of many parents, it's simply inconvenient. Surely you will hear the advice from the first days of settling crumbs into a separate room. But judge for yourself: nature ordered that the first weeks and months of life the child should spend almost all the time with his mother. A toddler often needs to be taken in his arms, for feeding or to soothe, to languish; At night, the first time will wake up several times. So, if your newborn baby lives in a separate room, then you will spend a lot of time running around and back, and you can forget about the night dream at all. A separate children's room will become relevant no sooner than a year later, that is, when the child is already able to sleep all night, and in the daytime starts moving independently around the house. In the first weeks of the child's life it is much more convenient to place everything necessary for the baby in the parents' room. However, it's up to you. Anyway, we are talking about how to equip a separate children's room for a newborn or a room for a newborn and parents, you need to remember the common important points that are relevant in either case.

How to prepare a room for a newborn?

1. The temperature in the room for a newborn should be comfortable: 18-20 ° at night and 20-22 ° in the afternoon. At this temperature, the baby will sleep well, and his skin will be healthy.
2. The humidity in the newborn's room is also important, especially for the normal operation of the respiratory system and the condition of the mucous membranes. The optimum humidity for children is not less than 50-70%.
3. Lighting . Take care of the curtains, providing sufficient darkening for the baby's sleeping. Electric light should be sufficient, but not beating into the eyes. Give up the ceiling chandeliers with the openings from the bottom - bright bulbs will blind the eyes of the child lying in the crib. It is necessary to provide additional light sources: a lamp for the swaddling place, so that it was comfortable to conduct hygienic procedures, as well as a light night light.
4. Furniture for the room of the newborn . If you place a child in your room, in the first weeks of the furniture you do not need anything except a baby crib and a chest or locker for children's things. Changing table is better to prefer a swaddling board: it is compact and mobile, which allows you to choose almost any place for swaddling. Table - the thing is pretty insidious and unsafe, with seeming convenience: modern children start to actively move early, push off their legs and turn over, which can lead to a fall. Moreover, it is not necessary, as some do, to adapt for the changing table the usual tables, half-laid out book tables, etc. The usual furniture does not have the necessary rims, so that the kid can fall off the table even at the most attentive mom, making an unexpectedly sharp movement. If the baby is placed in a separate room from the birth, it is absolutely necessary to put a comfortable sofa for the mother there, on which she can feed the baby, repaint him or lie down while the baby sleeps in the crib.
5. Necessary little things . In the children's room must be a trash container for used diapers, wet napkins, cotton buds, etc. A useful thing - a basket or portable container in which you can add all the necessary hygiene products for the baby. You can adapt for this large cosmetic bag with a rigid skeleton - such a portable "first aid kit" will allow you to carry out the necessary hygienic procedures anywhere in the house, as well as quickly gather, for example, on a visit to grandparents.
6. The design of the room of the newborn - it would seem, it's only your taste. But even here you can not escape from some purely practical nuances. Firstly, in the design of a child's room for a newborn, the abundance of textiles should be avoided, since any fabric is known to collect dust. For the same reason, at first it's better to give up fluffy carpets (later, when the child learns to walk, they will be useful: they will protect the crumb from cones from falling) and the abundance of soft toys. Secondly, also for reasons of cleanliness and ease of cleaning, it is better to give preference to smooth smooth, easily washable surfaces and to abandon the architectural delights. But this does not mean that the room should be a box with bare walls. This space is a new world for the baby, which he will study, so try to make it interesting. Let there be bright details in the room (a pattern on the wallpaper, a bright plafond on a lamp, etc.), on which the crumb will learn to concentrate, but the general background should be calm enough that the child's nervous system does not overextend and the child can calmly fall asleep.

And finally, let's remind the young daddy what he should do right before mom's return with the baby from the maternity home: always thoroughly vacuum, wash and air the children's room so that it breathes freshness and purity. That's all, the house is ready to meet a new man!