To walk with the baby is necessary from the first days of returning home from the hospital. No matter how you air the apartment, no matter how many times a day you do not do wet cleaning, nothing will replace the baby with saturation with outdoor oxygen and sunbathing. Of course, the baby's body is not yet strong, so the first walks should not be long, especially for children born in the cold season.
How much and can you walk with the newborn?
Walking is necessary daily. At the first week of the baby's life, you can go out for a walk on the balcony. Take the kid on the handles, wrap in a warm blanket, in summer you can put on a bodik and a light cap. If the dimensions of the balcony allow, take out the baby in the stroller. Be sure to open the baby's face so that it is exposed to direct sunlight. They enrich the body with vitamin D.
The duration of the first walk according to the season:
- in the summer - 30-45 minutes;
- in the autumn - 25-30 minutes;
- in winter - 15-20 minutes;
- in the spring - 25-35 minutes.
How to dress a baby and what to take for a walk?
Never wrap up a baby, excessive overheating is very harmful to a small organism, and leads to colds more often than hypothermia. But too easy to wear, too, not necessary.
All clothes should be sewn from natural fabrics, all seams should be external. Do not forget that even in the warmer periods of the year, the newborn needs to close the limbs (pens, legs, head).
To be fully armed, take with you for a walk:
- a bottle of clean water;
- a removable diaper;
- replacement panties and blouse warmer than on the baby;
- napkins;
- diaper.
How many times to walk with a newborn?
If the child feels well, then in the warm season you can go out twice a day. In cold weather - once.
Try to get out at 10 o'clock in the morning or at 14, 15 o'clock.
Up to six months the baby will sleep throughout the walk. And only by seven months the dream will start to be replaced by wakefulness.
While walking, check the tip of the baby's lips, it should not be cold, but can be slightly cool. Feel the back and neck of the crumb, it should not be wet.
How many to walk with a newborn in the winter?
Winter walks are much more inconvenient than summer ones. Harder to pick up clothes, so that it was not cold, and not hot. But walks all the same
Do not walk with the baby at temperatures below 10 degrees. Go out only once, for no more than 20 minutes. Do not tie the nose with a scarf. You can cover your mouth, but the spout should remain free.
When it's too windy on the street, put the protection on the stroller, if it's not there, lower the stroller's roof, put a blanket in it and cover the baby under the neck. You can put the baby in an envelope, it is easily fastened up to the top, so that it is possible to leave a small gap for oxygen, and the child will not swallow cold air.