How a newborn baby looks
If your baby is the first newborn you have seen you may be surprised.
A newborn usually does not look like a model baby.
however, within a few days, his features will soften.
In a few weeks he will look much more like the baby you expected.
Newborns Appearance Peculiarities
Head
The newborns baby's skull is made
up of a number of seperate bones which are not firmly
joined together for future growth and allowing head to
mould to the shape of the birth canal.
With in 48 hours head will be rounder and in a week or
two in a normal shape.
Eyes
Your new borns eyes may look
puffy swollen or red streaked. This is mainly result
of the pressure during birth.Eyes that do not move together
will begin to move together in few weeks or months
Skin
White Coating(vernix): Protective
coating in the uterus, which will wash off or soon disappear.
Birthmarks: Virtuallly all babies
have some kind of birth marks and in most cases it vanishes
on its own. Doctors can tell you more about the nature
of your newborns birthmark.
Bluish hands or feet: Baby's circulation is not yet
efficient at getting the blood around to the extremities.
They turn pink again when baby is moved.
Ears
Any other discharge produced by
ears than wax needs doctors attention. Hearing can now
be tested very accurately from the birth onwards.Many
hospitals perform hearing screening on babies before they
leave for home.
Breasts
Swollen breasts are perfectly normal
for babies of both the sexes. It may leak a few drops
of milk.The swelling happens because preparing the mother's
body for breatfeeding also circulates through baby. If
it turns sore or red consukt your doctor.
Genitals
In both baby boy and girl genital appear larger than normal
due to hormonal stimulation, which eventually settles
down.
Baby girl may have vaginal discharge or sots of blood
for few days.
A boy's testicles develop in the abdomen .They descend
into scortum just before a full term birth.Occasionally,
one or both testes may not have descended, in that particular
situation a doctor needs to be consulted.
Understanding newborns behaviour
While the baby was inside you your
body took care of his needs, now that he is seperated
from you his body must take care of itself. Your newborn
baby's has instincts and reflexes and working senses
but he has no knowledge and experience of changes happening
to him.
Your newborn has to cope with
light and darkness,
Things coming into focus and blurring away,
Feeeling of hunger and emptiness,
sucking and burping,
Low and high sounds
Smells and tastes,
His sleep before it develops into a reasonable pattern.
While he remains a newborn, rather than a baby who
has settled down into a life outside the womb, his behaviour
will be random and unpredictable.You have to make continual
assesments and adjustments while you learn your baby
and he learns life.
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