1 week infant growth

When a doctor for your baby to cut umbilical cord, proper, holding his (her) lie on the Volt in the warmth of you naked, chest, and when your skin on skin, do you have temporarily forgotten just go through the long and painful process of childbirth. That wonderful feeling whether you never forget: joy, surprise, love, like a dream medium interwoven with all kinds of feelings, there is something of a stranger, a few minutes out of their wits. That did a mother\'s experience becomes a true and solid, because you are related by blood and the baby in front of you, in your arms, palpable.

Just-born baby skin red, cool, wetting with his hair on the scalp, limbs as if afraid of curled up, small hand tightly, crying loudly. From the moment of the birth to the baby full moon, the small life is no longer called fetal, called newborn. Normal newborn weight usually between 2,500 g to 4,000 g, 46 to 52 cm in length, and head circumference of 34 cm, chest slightly smaller than the head circumference 1 to 2 cm.

Newborn head is relatively large, due to the birth canal squeezing may be some deformation. Head Fontanelle is a diamond, is approximately 2x2 cm, you can see the pulsation of the soft tissue under the skin clear, is the formation of the skull has not been completely closed, to prevent collisions, you can touch. Baby\'s face looked swollen, thick an eyelid, nose flat, each baby has some similar. When the baby cries is not large, respiratory 40 to 50 times per minute, within 8 hours after birth body temperature of about 36.8 per cent.

More than half of the 2-3 days after the baby was born jaundice, mostly dissipated on the 7th day, pathological jaundice of the required medical attention. General 4-7 days of umbilical cord falls off, pay particular attention to the umbilical cord care, so as to avoid infection. If 48 hours of birth has not been discharged tires, also a doctor. A limited range of vision of the newborn can only see objects about 15 cm, so want to get the baby to see you, it is necessary to his baby face.

Newborn infants for the first time called \"open milk\" doctors in about half an hour to 1 hour after delivery you just have your baby feed, most generally do not exceed 6 hours a night, so as soon as possible to stimulate breast milk secretion, accelerated uterine contraction restoration, row of tires to avoid jaundice helps babies soon as possible, and so on, are very good.

Now you and your husband needs to adapt to their new role and new responsibilities, newborn first task was to adapt to the outside world facing this new living environment, compared with the intrauterine environment, outside the world of strange, cold, bright light, sound, noise noise and suddenly become so open four weeks. Babies prefer being with a quilt or blanket wrapped up, it would give him (her) feel warmer, safer, just like in mothers womb.