The Baby’s Nervous System
The first few weeks with the baby is not easy, everything is new and it seems that you lack time. Soon learn how to recognize their basic needs and organize so that everything is easier.
With these tips try to clarify some doubts, but remember that the doctor and hospital staff are best able to help you resolve your concerns regarding your child
General appearance of the newborn
The newly born after a pregnancy of 37 to 42 weeks between 2500 and weighs 4000 grams, is about 48-53 cm.y head circumference between 33-35 cm.
It is normal in the first week of life to lose some weight, which will recover in the next. Monthly weight gain during the first 3 months of life is usually about 600-900 gr. This rate is indicative and for reference, since not all babies grow at the same pace.
The baby’s nervous system is still immature. Born with a set of innate reflexes such as sucking (through which he can suck from day one), search and pressure (to bring you face an object moves its head and looking with his mouth and if we put in the hand, gripped tightly.)
During the first 24-48 hours of life of the baby, the stools are black and mushy (meconium). After you become more liquid and less pasty, greenish-black (transition) and at the end of the first week of life are the final dregs of a yellow (sometimes green) of the ointment-like consistency or semi-liquid, lumpy and breast-fed children, and practically odorless.
The number of stools per day is very variable. You can go from one with every shot, to one every two or three days. In general, breastfed children are more times a day and more tender than those fed formula.
As the skin is common and normal scaling. You can apply a little petroleum jelly or oil. It is also normal appearance, Milium: These are small fatty cysts that can appear singly or in groups on the forehead, cheeks, nose and chin. Resolve spontaneously over several weeks (between 4 and 12 weeks). Do not pick or manipulate. Some children are born with red spots on the nose, eyelids or neck which disappear by 6 months. The newborn’s eyes are blue or gray. Until 6 months does not show the final color. It is also normal transient appearance of strabismus.
Are normal hiccups and sneezing in the newborn. Require no treatment.
Sometimes girls appears in a small whitish discharge or vaginal bleeding. This is caused by maternal hormones during pregnancy and disappear in a few days without any treatment.
May appear as swelling of the breasts in girls and children. Also due to the passage of maternal hormones through the placenta. Sometimes they can secrete a few drops of milk. Do not touch or squeeze them, they can become infected. Visit your doctor if you notice that increase in size, there are signs of inflammation (redness and heat) or produce secretions.